The most effective spam blocking technique I've found is to route all my personal email addresses through gmail using its "Get Mail From Other Addresses" function. I'm down about 10 spams a day from about 300. And the spam is saved on the gmail server so I can check it now and then for false positives. I have to say, there are very few of them. Thanks, Google....
As to the original topic, won't this recent change in ICANN policy largely eliminate the problems with drop catching
I don't think the policy has actually changed. The change appears to be proposed, but the registrars (who make money off drop tasting) must approve the change. Don't hold your breath.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is looking to effectively end domain tasting with a proposal to start charging the annual ICANN fee on registrar domain registrations.
Domain tasting is the use of the Add Grace Period to test the profitability of a domain name registration. The AGP is a five-day period following the initial registration of a domain name when the registration may be deleted and a credit can be issued to a registrar.
"Domain tasting has been an issue for the Internet community and ICANN is offering this proposal as a way to stop tasting," said Dr Paul Twomey, ICANN's President and CEO. "Charging the ICANN fee as soon as a domain name is registered would close the loophole used by tasters to test a domain name's profitability for free."
AGP was originally introduced by registries so registrars could avoid costs if a domain name was mistyped or misspelled during the registration process. It is part of the.com,.net,.org,.info,.name,.pro, and.biz registry contracts.
Tasting has been a serious challenge for the Internet community and has grown exponentially since 2004. In January 2007 the top 10 domain tasters accounted for 95% of all deleted.com and.net domain names -- or 45,450,897 domain names out of 47,824,131 total deletes.
The proposal will be part of the ICANN budget process for the fiscal year starting 1 July 2008. The early draft version of that budget will be released for and discussed at ICANN's New Delhi meeting later this month. After public discussions of this proposal and other budget issues, the proposed budget will be released for addition discussions by 17 May 2008 and be voted on at the board meeting to be held during the ICANN meeting in Paris in June. ICANN accredited registrars representing two-thirds of fees collected will be asked to approve the proposal.
The chinese government are like most governments in most modern nations - they by and large want to do what is best for the people, or what they think is best.
>>>> Imagine thinking about committing a crime, not talking about but just thinking about it briefly, being considered the same criminal act as the crime itself. Except, you have no way to prove that their machine is wrong, that you were not planning to commit a crime
It happens already, as in the youth who wrote a threatening note which was found in his car, and though no attempt had been made to deliver it, was charged with a terrorism-type crime. Another case was where a youth wrote a short story for a school class eith the same result.
The article says "At high enough rotation speeds, he says, a fluid will always experience some flow instability that creates a symmetrical structure."
But doesn't the resulting symmetry show that what is achieved is a degree of stability? I've always thought it odd that in so called "chaos" theory, "chaos" is said to result in patterns (fractals) -- but doesn't the fact of a pattern belie "chaos"?
Yes, the Sci-Fi channel's "movies made for television," are C grade all right. Not really worth watching. Empty of all the elements you expect from good science fiction -- that is they have nothing to expand the mind, meaning they have no engaging stories or effects.
The reason 1950's B pics are fun to watch is because they're retro, and speak of a different time's view of the subject matter. And of course, the poster above is right--some of them have quite good stories, even though you can see the strings.... Sci-Fi Channels so called "B" pics are nothing -- bad stories, dressed up with a giant shark or bee or whatever.... A waste of time.
OK, I guess I wrote that too fast, screwed it up a bit. My point is that many think RSS can somehow be a superior substitute for html. But in order to make it such, they have to add such layers of complexity that even html is far superior in terms of economy and ease of creation...
I agree. RSS is just an arbitary standard. It IS fine for syndication of headlines, but then again, so is a text file -- remember the old textmode.txt files for syndicating headlines?
I should say that at least RSS was fine for syndicating headlines, in it's 0.91 incarnation, but now, as it "progresses" RSS is becoming increasingly lame as it becomes more and more complex because some fools think it should take the place of html, and so they've added the ability to carry, yes, html, so they can download whole web pages rather than just headlines and links. The folks who have pushed this are mostly owners of RSS Reader software, which they sell, and which they somehow think are substitutes for browsers.
"actually, i'd be careful with comments like this. for people that use their computers every day, the thermal expansion/contraction that comes from cycling power from high-temp devices like modern CPUs can actually physically damage the device over the long run."
I call bullshit
Yes, you might damage the components by constantly turning the machine off and on -- say every 5 seconds (I'm thinking of the hd here), but normal usage? Turn it on in the morning and off at night? Experience tells me that will not cause problems.
"Once you have a good lexicon of terms used by ad-servers you'll kill nearly all ads automatically"
Well, this method doesn't work very well for spam email, does it? Why don't Proxomitron and ad blocker have the same issues as blocking email spam? Like false positives?
I hope the trailer doesn't include all the sickening sentimental goodbye crap that was at the end of the flick. If I were doing a director's cut, I'd squash that crap.
Over the long-haul, mountains of observational data will crush weak, but politically supported, scientific positions.
Maybe over the real long run, like decades, but certainly not in the short run, where politicized fake science gets institutional backing... Like the EPA and the other governal bureacuracies, where the agency's funding and projects depend on their finding the "right" conclusions. Someone mentioned second hand smoke... That's probably a very good example.
Slashdot Mirror
The most effective spam blocking technique I've found is to route all my personal email addresses through gmail using its "Get Mail From Other Addresses" function. I'm down about 10 spams a day from about 300. And the spam is saved on the gmail server so I can check it now and then for false positives. I have to say, there are very few of them. Thanks, Google....
yeah, and how many false positives get blocked?
Can you suggest any other more credible sources for physics news, preferably ones that publish new material on a daily basis?
As to the original topic, won't this recent change in ICANN policy largely eliminate the problems with drop catching
.com, .net, .org, .info, .name, .pro, and .biz registry contracts.
.com and .net domain names -- or 45,450,897 domain names out of 47,824,131 total deletes.
I don't think the policy has actually changed. The change appears to be proposed, but the registrars (who make money off drop tasting) must approve the change. Don't hold your breath.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is looking to effectively end domain tasting with a proposal to start charging the annual ICANN fee on registrar domain registrations.
Domain tasting is the use of the Add Grace Period to test the profitability of a domain name registration. The AGP is a five-day period following the initial registration of a domain name when the registration may be deleted and a credit can be issued to a registrar.
"Domain tasting has been an issue for the Internet community and ICANN is offering this proposal as a way to stop tasting," said Dr Paul Twomey, ICANN's President and CEO. "Charging the ICANN fee as soon as a domain name is registered would close the loophole used by tasters to test a domain name's profitability for free."
AGP was originally introduced by registries so registrars could avoid costs if a domain name was mistyped or misspelled during the registration process. It is part of the
Tasting has been a serious challenge for the Internet community and has grown exponentially since 2004. In January 2007 the top 10 domain tasters accounted for 95% of all deleted
The proposal will be part of the ICANN budget process for the fiscal year starting 1 July 2008. The early draft version of that budget will be released for and discussed at ICANN's New Delhi meeting later this month. After public discussions of this proposal and other budget issues, the proposed budget will be released for addition discussions by 17 May 2008 and be voted on at the board meeting to be held during the ICANN meeting in Paris in June. ICANN accredited registrars representing two-thirds of fees collected will be asked to approve the proposal.
http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-29jan08.htm
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
It's all relative, friend.
The chinese government are like most governments in most modern nations - they by and large want to do what is best for the people, or what they think is best.
You must be new around here.....
>>>> Imagine thinking about committing a crime, not talking about but just thinking about it briefly, being considered the same criminal act as the crime itself. Except, you have no way to prove that their machine is wrong, that you were not planning to commit a crime
It happens already, as in the youth who wrote a threatening note which was found in his car, and though no attempt had been made to deliver it, was charged with a terrorism-type crime. Another case was where a youth wrote a short story for a school class eith the same result.
I'm glad someone's finally calling bullshit on Alexa
no
The article says "At high enough rotation speeds, he says, a fluid will always experience some flow instability that creates a symmetrical structure."
But doesn't the resulting symmetry show that what is achieved is a degree of stability? I've always thought it odd that in so called "chaos" theory, "chaos" is said to result in patterns (fractals) -- but doesn't the fact of a pattern belie "chaos"?
Yes, the Sci-Fi channel's "movies made for television," are C grade all right. Not really worth watching. Empty of all the elements you expect from good science fiction -- that is they have nothing to expand the mind, meaning they have no engaging stories or effects.
The reason 1950's B pics are fun to watch is because they're retro, and speak of a different time's view of the subject matter. And of course, the poster above is right--some of them have quite good stories, even though you can see the strings.... Sci-Fi Channels so called "B" pics are nothing -- bad stories, dressed up with a giant shark or bee or whatever.... A waste of time.
Heh... You might want to google Colonel Klink
The freed up frequences can... even remain unregulated for anybody to use.
Not a chance, Bucko. They'll be sold. That's why the FCC is interested at all. Thar's gold in them thar frequencies.
Aren't you afraid at all that some of the password manager software out there might be phoning home?
OK, I guess I wrote that too fast, screwed it up a bit. My point is that many think RSS can somehow be a superior substitute for html. But in order to make it such, they have to add such layers of complexity that even html is far superior in terms of economy and ease of creation...
I agree. RSS is just an arbitary standard. It IS fine for syndication of headlines, but then again, so is a text file -- remember the old textmode.txt files for syndicating headlines?
I should say that at least RSS was fine for syndicating headlines, in it's 0.91 incarnation, but now, as it "progresses" RSS is becoming increasingly lame as it becomes more and more complex because some fools think it should take the place of html, and so they've added the ability to carry, yes, html, so they can download whole web pages rather than just headlines and links. The folks who have pushed this are mostly owners of RSS Reader software, which they sell, and which they somehow think are substitutes for browsers.
You know nothing, spelling Nazi
Shew, fly
"actually, i'd be careful with comments like this. for people that use their computers every day, the thermal expansion/contraction that comes from cycling power from high-temp devices like modern CPUs can actually physically damage the device over the long run."
I call bullshit
Yes, you might damage the components by constantly turning the machine off and on -- say every 5 seconds (I'm thinking of the hd here), but normal usage? Turn it on in the morning and off at night? Experience tells me that will not cause problems.
"Once you have a good lexicon of terms used by ad-servers you'll kill nearly all ads automatically"
Well, this method doesn't work very well for spam email, does it? Why don't Proxomitron and ad blocker have the same issues as blocking email spam? Like false positives?
Will you spelling Nazis please stop interrupting threads with your irrelevent comments?
You know you can buy these lasers on ThinkGeek, don't you?
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/5a47/
I hope the trailer doesn't include all the sickening sentimental goodbye crap that was at the end of the flick. If I were doing a director's cut, I'd squash that crap.
Over the long-haul, mountains of observational data will crush weak, but politically supported, scientific positions.
Maybe over the real long run, like decades, but certainly not in the short run, where politicized fake science gets institutional backing... Like the EPA and the other governal bureacuracies, where the agency's funding and projects depend on their finding the "right" conclusions. Someone mentioned second hand smoke... That's probably a very good example.
I, for one, welcome our new Republican overlords....
uh.. that's DAILY ROTATION