If you provide public transportation which is cheaper than driving, people will use it...
No, if you provide public transporation which is cheaper and/or better than driving. We have public transportation in my town. But almost no one uses it, because it is so poorly designed. It's all busses, there aren't enough routes, there aren't enough busses per route, and the times always seem to be supremely inconvenient. I will admit it's cheap, but that's just not enough.
I've seen GTA3, but probably won't give it much of a try. I want multiplayer games. I want that engine (or even the whole game) to be multiplayer. I'd love to have either "teams" or just multiple players. I think it'd be great to either have two people gang up on the police or have one team be the police.
It just seems that almost all games are more fun when there are multiple people playing them.
This may be a little late for those of us who don't read/. on the weekend, but...
I think that's an excellent point you make. I've always felt that what differentiates between a decent teacher and a really good teacher is their ability to not only keep the students' attention, but also actually teach them something useful in the process.
It could be like my chemestry teacher, who would often times start the class with some sort of pyrotechnic display, then explain the chemistry behind it. Or, it could be like my history teacher who would tell a funny story that was at least tangentially related to the topic, creating a kind of "inside joke" that would help use remember the important stuff.
If you just stick to the facts, anyone could get bored. And if it's all flash and no info, then no one has anything to learn.
It happens with e-mail, too. I bought a license for something (Pocket Quicken) and they sent the registration code via email. Since this was the license for my wife's PIM, I had it sent to her. Too bad I didn't warn her that she'd be getting e-mail from LanWare. She assumed it was more spam and deleted her registration code.
They re-sent it, of course, but it still got deleted because it was lost in the fray.
Depending on which MTA you're using, you can do this with address extensions too. Sendmail uses + as it's address extension, and postfix/qmail use - for address extensions. So for my email, for example, mark-foobar@hornclan.com will get delivered to the same mailbox as mark@hornclan.com. The MTA simply ingores everything after and including the extension delimiter.
Quick note: for qmail, you have to have a.qmail-default in place (either blank, which goes to your default delivery destination, or sent to somewhere specific) for this to work for an arbitrary address. Otherwise, it won't get delivered unless you specify the "extension" (ie..qmail-foobar will allow email to mark-foobar@hornclan.com in the example above).
This also allows you to send specific addresses elsewhere automatically. If you know that mark-foobar is always crapola, then you can setup rules for just that address, leaving all of the still good ones alone.
So what is exactly keeping these mines from getting cleaned up?
Two things. There are a lot of them. A staggering amount of landmines are already in place in many countries. The other problem is that people are still continuing to bury them at an equally staggering rate.
You can try clearing them out, but I'll bet that if you clear one area, not only will someone be following you to replace them, but another field will get filled up while you're doing it.
No. You still get 100+ per day. You just don't see them in your mailbox. But the bandwidth and storage space have already been eaten, and that's really what's evil about spam.
Right. As the person in charge of all of the domains, I have an advantage. Instead of ever accepting most spam, I stop it before it ever finishes its smtp connection. I run qmail in both places and make use of the realtime blackhole list feature.
Not only do I reference the Open Relay Database, but I also maintain my own blackhole list, created by piping my spam to some perl and shell scripts that figure out what system sent the spam to me, then add it to the blackhole list.
There's only one other problem. There's a reason why so many Verizon customers DESPISE the recent "Can you here me now?" ads: the coverage isn't quite that great. I can't use my cell phone inside my house. There's no coverage. I'd have to go outside and get into one of my vehicles and put the phone in the handsfree kit, which has an external (gain) antenna.
If I could use my cell phone in the house, I probably would stop using the landline for all long-distance calls. Until then, I have to give people both my cell phone and my home phone.
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Bricks? Don't you think it'd be more appropriate to hurl tins of processed meat products?
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. This is what people don't understand. (And probably still don't.) They want to be warned about every attack. Not every possible attack, every attack. Like ANYONE can limit it to just the ones that are actually going to happen. (If they could, they'd be too busy preventing them to tell you about them--which would become unnecessry, anyway.)
One of my friends in high school put together a level in Duke Nukem 3D that was based on our high school. It was pretty accurate. This was pre-columbine, so nobody was thrown in jail for it.
I wonder if it'd be okay to do that now as long as you were "rescuing your school from terrorists.":-) (Just don't make the terrorists look like anyone in the administration or the football team.)
I'm pretty sure they don't "sell the spammers an anonymous account." The way the telemarketters work is they are large enough (big call centers) that they have their own system. Caller Id information is generated by the system of origin. For you, it's your local phone company. But for a big call center, they are the local phone company. So, they decide what information to give out. If any at all. Or, they can lie.
The local university decided to set up their own phone system. Now, every single call that comes out of there looks like it comes from the same number.
For once, this really isn't something for which to blame the phone companies. It's just the nature of how phone companies (and people who are acting like phone compies) interact.
I've been debugging, enhancing, and writing COBOL programs for the last six years. The code is originally from 1983 (did I mention that years have always been stored as four digits?) and we have no intention of using a different programming language. For our continuing purposes, COBOL is pretty much perfect.
Almost all university profs like to tell their students that COBOL is dead and that only legacy systems too convoluted to re-code are in it, but there may be a reason they're a prof and not actively coding.
I know this is a little late (I'm a bit behind in my reading), but an even better solution is to use a zinc-air battery. They have an almost indefinite shelf life. When you want to use it, you remove a "cover" that then allows the battery to function. Before then, no chemical reactions can occur, so there's no "bleeding" of the battery.
Hear hear! I thought that the "Printer On Fire Error" was removed from Linux because of moronic corporate workers who actually thought that a printer fire could be detected by the computer. But I found it in a 2.4 kernel, so I guess Fun hasn't lost the War yet...
You and I seem to have the same basic idea for our houses.:-) I want to pick my meals from a recipe database at the beginning of the week. Then, just before I go shopping, my computer looks at the planned meals and checks to make sure I have everything (plus a generic check of "do I have the minimum I want of everything") and prints me out a shopping list (actually, ideally, it'd upload it to my palm device). Then, when I get hope, it updates the inventory with all the things I bought. When I cook, it figures out what I've used.
And I want it all contained on my own, trusted network, so I don't have to worry about corporations figuring out what spam I should receive.
Anyone who thinks that a "tradesman" is "non-confrontational" hasn't been paying attention to the news. Between the antitrust allegations, the attempted enforcement of ridiculous patents, and the corporate coverups, I'd say that "tradesman" is one of the most confrontational types. At least, in the Real World...
At current gas prices, $5000 = 650000 miles before you break even going with the hybrid. No.
For you. And that's fine. The early adopters of any new technology get boned in the pocketbook. For most of us, we have to wait until people who have a reason to pay that extra $5k prove that the technology is viable. Then, when production increases and effiencies go up, more and more people consider it an option.
Disclaimer: I didn't read the article. However, I can talk about entrapment.
A good example of what is and is not entrapment can be explained by what happens at drug busts. If the officer is acting as the "dealer" and says "You want to buy some heroin?" that's entrapment. But, if the officer says "You want some good shit?" that isn't. "Good shit" isn't necessarily something illegal, so the other person generally fills in the illegal part ("What kind of crack you got?").
The car is parked legally and someone decides to take it. No one enticed the person to take the car. No one stood around and said "I'll bet you can steal that car and not get caught."
I seem to recall an old story on/. about (I think) unconfirmed rumors that some U.S. govenrment TLA organizations were considering using virii to further their surveilance. Are they going to be specifically exempt from these laws, specifically not exempt, or de facto exempt because there will be no one to enforce against them?
Personally, I think they should specifically be not exempt. But I'm fairly jaded and will expect them to not be liable in any way.
By random I don't think they mean JoeRandomUser@RandomDomain.com. I think they mean random like [output of crypt]@[output of crypt].com. It's pretty unlikely that a legitimate address is going to look like kjd73i3h@3hvcfh93.com (which was just me pushing keys). Spambots probably don't care that an address doesn't "look" like a legitimate address; they're just there to harvest everything.
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If you provide public transportation which is cheaper than driving, people will use it...
No, if you provide public transporation which is cheaper and/or better than driving. We have public transportation in my town. But almost no one uses it, because it is so poorly designed. It's all busses, there aren't enough routes, there aren't enough busses per route, and the times always seem to be supremely inconvenient. I will admit it's cheap, but that's just not enough.
I've seen GTA3, but probably won't give it much of a try. I want multiplayer games. I want that engine (or even the whole game) to be multiplayer. I'd love to have either "teams" or just multiple players. I think it'd be great to either have two people gang up on the police or have one team be the police.
It just seems that almost all games are more fun when there are multiple people playing them.
This may be a little late for those of us who don't read /. on the weekend, but...
I think that's an excellent point you make. I've always felt that what differentiates between a decent teacher and a really good teacher is their ability to not only keep the students' attention, but also actually teach them something useful in the process.
It could be like my chemestry teacher, who would often times start the class with some sort of pyrotechnic display, then explain the chemistry behind it. Or, it could be like my history teacher who would tell a funny story that was at least tangentially related to the topic, creating a kind of "inside joke" that would help use remember the important stuff.
If you just stick to the facts, anyone could get bored. And if it's all flash and no info, then no one has anything to learn.
Slashdot cut off my comment!
Awww, and here I thought you were trying to give an example of what the ReiserFS did to your data during a hash collision.
It happens with e-mail, too. I bought a license for something (Pocket Quicken) and they sent the registration code via email. Since this was the license for my wife's PIM, I had it sent to her. Too bad I didn't warn her that she'd be getting e-mail from LanWare. She assumed it was more spam and deleted her registration code.
They re-sent it, of course, but it still got deleted because it was lost in the fray.
Depending on which MTA you're using, you can do this with address extensions too. Sendmail uses + as it's address extension, and postfix/qmail use - for address extensions. So for my email, for example, mark-foobar@hornclan.com will get delivered to the same mailbox as mark@hornclan.com. The MTA simply ingores everything after and including the extension delimiter.
.qmail-default in place (either blank, which goes to your default delivery destination, or sent to somewhere specific) for this to work for an arbitrary address. Otherwise, it won't get delivered unless you specify the "extension" (ie. .qmail-foobar will allow email to mark-foobar@hornclan.com in the example above).
Quick note: for qmail, you have to have a
This also allows you to send specific addresses elsewhere automatically. If you know that mark-foobar is always crapola, then you can setup rules for just that address, leaving all of the still good ones alone.
For more info, check out Life With qmail.
So what is exactly keeping these mines from getting cleaned up?
Two things. There are a lot of them. A staggering amount of landmines are already in place in many countries. The other problem is that people are still continuing to bury them at an equally staggering rate.
You can try clearing them out, but I'll bet that if you clear one area, not only will someone be following you to replace them, but another field will get filled up while you're doing it.
No. You still get 100+ per day. You just don't see them in your mailbox. But the bandwidth and storage space have already been eaten, and that's really what's evil about spam.
Right. As the person in charge of all of the domains, I have an advantage. Instead of ever accepting most spam, I stop it before it ever finishes its smtp connection. I run qmail in both places and make use of the realtime blackhole list feature.
Not only do I reference the Open Relay Database, but I also maintain my own blackhole list, created by piping my spam to some perl and shell scripts that figure out what system sent the spam to me, then add it to the blackhole list.
Of course we will! He was mocked in an episode of South Park. ;-)
There's only one other problem. There's a reason why so many Verizon customers DESPISE the recent "Can you here me now?" ads: the coverage isn't quite that great. I can't use my cell phone inside my house. There's no coverage. I'd have to go outside and get into one of my vehicles and put the phone in the handsfree kit, which has an external (gain) antenna.
If I could use my cell phone in the house, I probably would stop using the landline for all long-distance calls. Until then, I have to give people both my cell phone and my home phone.
Bricks? Don't you think it'd be more appropriate to hurl tins of processed meat products?
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. This is what people don't understand. (And probably still don't.) They want to be warned about every attack. Not every possible attack, every attack. Like ANYONE can limit it to just the ones that are actually going to happen. (If they could, they'd be too busy preventing them to tell you about them--which would become unnecessry, anyway.)
;-)
Unfortunately, "nobody listen to Zathrus."
I wonder if it'd be okay to do that now as long as you were "rescuing your school from terrorists."
I think it's somewhere in the Big Blue Room. Perhaps it's near a large bathtub, or something...
I'm pretty sure they don't "sell the spammers an anonymous account." The way the telemarketters work is they are large enough (big call centers) that they have their own system. Caller Id information is generated by the system of origin. For you, it's your local phone company. But for a big call center, they are the local phone company. So, they decide what information to give out. If any at all. Or, they can lie.
The local university decided to set up their own phone system. Now, every single call that comes out of there looks like it comes from the same number.
For once, this really isn't something for which to blame the phone companies. It's just the nature of how phone companies (and people who are acting like phone compies) interact.
I've been debugging, enhancing, and writing COBOL programs for the last six years. The code is originally from 1983 (did I mention that years have always been stored as four digits?) and we have no intention of using a different programming language. For our continuing purposes, COBOL is pretty much perfect.
Almost all university profs like to tell their students that COBOL is dead and that only legacy systems too convoluted to re-code are in it, but there may be a reason they're a prof and not actively coding.
I know this is a little late (I'm a bit behind in my reading), but an even better solution is to use a zinc-air battery. They have an almost indefinite shelf life. When you want to use it, you remove a "cover" that then allows the battery to function. Before then, no chemical reactions can occur, so there's no "bleeding" of the battery.
Hear hear! I thought that the "Printer On Fire Error" was removed from Linux because of moronic corporate workers who actually thought that a printer fire could be detected by the computer. But I found it in a 2.4 kernel, so I guess Fun hasn't lost the War yet...
Excuse me, but that's just "HA". The Tick already handled the "C", rememeber?
You and I seem to have the same basic idea for our houses. :-) I want to pick my meals from a recipe database at the beginning of the week. Then, just before I go shopping, my computer looks at the planned meals and checks to make sure I have everything (plus a generic check of "do I have the minimum I want of everything") and prints me out a shopping list (actually, ideally, it'd upload it to my palm device). Then, when I get hope, it updates the inventory with all the things I bought. When I cook, it figures out what I've used.
And I want it all contained on my own, trusted network, so I don't have to worry about corporations figuring out what spam I should receive.
Anyone who thinks that a "tradesman" is "non-confrontational" hasn't been paying attention to the news. Between the antitrust allegations, the attempted enforcement of ridiculous patents, and the corporate coverups, I'd say that "tradesman" is one of the most confrontational types. At least, in the Real World...
At current gas prices, $5000 = 650000 miles before you break even going with the hybrid. No.
For you. And that's fine. The early adopters of any new technology get boned in the pocketbook. For most of us, we have to wait until people who have a reason to pay that extra $5k prove that the technology is viable. Then, when production increases and effiencies go up, more and more people consider it an option.
Disclaimer: I didn't read the article. However, I can talk about entrapment.
A good example of what is and is not entrapment can be explained by what happens at drug busts. If the officer is acting as the "dealer" and says "You want to buy some heroin?" that's entrapment. But, if the officer says "You want some good shit?" that isn't. "Good shit" isn't necessarily something illegal, so the other person generally fills in the illegal part ("What kind of crack you got?").
The car is parked legally and someone decides to take it. No one enticed the person to take the car. No one stood around and said "I'll bet you can steal that car and not get caught."
I seem to recall an old story on /. about (I think) unconfirmed rumors that some U.S. govenrment TLA organizations were considering using virii to further their surveilance. Are they going to be specifically exempt from these laws, specifically not exempt, or de facto exempt because there will be no one to enforce against them?
Personally, I think they should specifically be not exempt. But I'm fairly jaded and will expect them to not be liable in any way.
By random I don't think they mean JoeRandomUser@RandomDomain.com. I think they mean random like [output of crypt]@[output of crypt].com. It's pretty unlikely that a legitimate address is going to look like kjd73i3h@3hvcfh93.com (which was just me pushing keys). Spambots probably don't care that an address doesn't "look" like a legitimate address; they're just there to harvest everything.