Oh wow, that's pretty stupid; but he was speaking from emotions. If your spouse was in peril, would you think about the technicalities first? He's done and said some really stupid things, but I have to give him a pass on this one.
You might feel the need to give him a pass, but I do not. He had time between the incident and when he gave that remark (at a $50k/plate dinner no less). Furthermore he is college educated and should realize the stupidity in that statement (actually there are layers of stupidity in it if you read it carefully).
His fratboy antics
You must be new here. On slashdot you are only allowed to call Obama (or BHO as is preferred) to be a frat boy or party animal. All republicans are serious, Obama is a party animal. Get the mantra straight before you talk politics here...
When you have a fire in an aircraft, there's no place to go, exactly, there's no - and you can't find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don't open. I don't know why they don't do that. It's a real problem. So it's very dangerous.
Clearly, Romney is an expert on these things, so I hope they take his input seriously in the design phase. We wouldn't want future astronauts dying from not being able to open their windows.
(yes, I know I'll be moderated down for this. but I've got karma to burn - even if I can't get oxygen at 30,000 feet to burn it with)
What would stop the spammers from just switching to different processing agencies or new registrars?
There isn't much to stop them from switching, however the number of available companies for both services is limited and controlled by the respective industries. Furthermore doing business with known spammers comes with definite risk that each company needs to evaluate on their own. In both cases the companies could lose their ability to do their job as a result of the business they do with spammers, which obviously is not good for their long-term business strategies in most cases.
Hence, each time they switch, the number of places they can switch to is limited*.
Or if it's difficult enough to set up a payment processor or registrar that playing whac-a-mole for long enough might be enough?
That is one of the main things that play in favor of my proposal. For example, if you want to buy a.com domain, you have to buy it from an approved registrar - not just anyone can sell it to you. Similarly, if you want to accept VISA / MC / AmEx / Discover / etc for payment, you need to select a processing house to handle your transactions (and of course they get a cut). There are a limited number of processors for that, too (generally set by the card itself).
*You may be aware that recently ICANN voted to start selling global TLDs to anyone who is willing to pay the upfront costs. People have pointed out this means that whoever buys a gTLD becomes the ultimate registrar for it, and can sell domains in whatever way they like underneath said TLD. This could change the game significantly...
you can build up your own arsenal to the point that they obviously won't stand a chance (ex: the USA's stockpiles of nuclear weapons and such) -- which is analogous to improving filtering in the hopes that eventually spam will become unprofitable
The problem with that logic is at the end of the statement. No amount of filtering will effectively make spam unprofitable, at least not without consequences for legitimate email. The spammers constantly find new ways to get around filters, and filter have to be retrained to handle it. Eventually, the spammers will win when they manage to get their spam to look enough like regular email that the false positive rate of spam filtering reaches unacceptable levels and filtering has to stop being retrained.
Or you can sabotage/destroy their capacity to defend themselves -- analogous to the approach you propose.
The advantage of my proposal - on top of the fact that a group at Georgia Tech showed some time ago that it actually does work and have real benefits - is that it directly targets the spammers and benefits all the legitimate email (and non-spamming users of the internet). Spam filtering cannot claim that.
I particularly love how he bitches about being some kind of oppressed minority viewpoint here on slashdot, even though no politician in the history of time has received as much free positive slashvertising as his lord ron paul, and he just got multiple comments moderated way above reason where he made shit up out of thin air and was promptly disproven by multiple people.
I believe I outlined the correct solution in my previous message, but I can be more verbose if you prefer. It all comes down to preventing the spammers from getting paid. It has been shown before that the majority of the vendors who pay spammers have their own transactions processed through a very short list of credit card processing agencies. Either shut them down or get them to clean up their acts and the spammers revenue streams dry up rapidly.
Combine that with actually taking action against registrars who knowingly register domains to spammers and you'll change the game rapidly. The spammers still want the classic TLDs for their domains at some point along the way, and will for a while yet.
And how many of those would require extra human effort -- with lighted offices (servers don't need lighting); desktop or laptop PCs that probably use a lot more power than those servers; transportation energy (commute to work); construction costs of their workspace (costs more to house and comfort a human than a server rack) and just the cost of paying the employee?
It could be done with just a handful of employees, telecommuting if they'd like. The investment is minimal. The human networking is the more lengthy part, but requires minimal expenditure of capital.
There's a reason we're just filtering spam -- that's the cheapest effective option.
Don't fool yourself. Filtering is not effective. It is a continual waste of time, power, and other resources. It only encourages the spammers to get more creative in their strategies to get around filters.
You don't win a war by getting bigger guns. You win a war by convincing your opponent that they are better off not fighting the war. The filters only encourage bigger guns.
RIM is doing a terrible job of marketing the bold and torch, which are both really good phones. They don't have them particularly widely available - and perhaps even worse, well advertised - in the US. Ask an average US consumer if they've heard of an iPhone, they'll answer yes. Heard of an android smart phone, they'll answer yes as well. Heard of a blackberry torch, they'll likely say no.
If they want to expand their user base, they should try selling phones directly to users. It works well for Apple, there is no reason why it couldn't work well for RIM as well. They don't even need to open their own stores, they could sell them through best buy, target, walmart, radio shack, etc. Sell unlocked phones with manufacturer warranties, there is a market for that if they can hit a reasonable price point and free consumers from having to sign 2-year contracts to buy a new phone.
The reason people could even start using He in balloons or whatever is because finaly in 1996 US gov't stopped artificially inflating (no pun intended) prices on Helium, because it stopped buying it from natural gas companies and even put it up for sale on the market.
Helium was used in party balloons for children well before 1996. Just because your church meetings tell you otherwise does not make it so. Ask anyone who was alive in the US before 1996 and they will tell you that you are full of hot air.
Think of how many data centers have dedicated appliances for filtering spam. If they want to save on power they should take some actual action against spam instead of just being reactionary.
The data centers (and to a larger extent ISPs) remind us that spam is an economic problem. It is costing everyone money every day, so that a handful of spammers can make a lot of money pushing fake pills, fake watches, etc. If the data centers seriously want to reduce wasted power they should instead invest some human time and effort into making it more difficult for the spammers to make money. Do that, and everyone wins. Keep filtering spam, and nobody wins.
I really figured he'd be busy out campaigning for Mitt Romney. It's getting close to election day and the chance of the GOP not winning the white house has been steadily increasing...
There are none listed in my current state of residence. There are, however, some 10 year parties listed that aren't too far away. Maybe I'll crash one of those and reminisce about back when slashdot was a little less of a dysfunctional disaster (and had a bit less of a conservative slant on the front page).
I have so much sympathy for them. They have a significant majority in the house, so they shouldn't need to write a bill that makes any concessions to anyone who isn't in their party, should they? Clearly it is fine to write a bill just for your own kin and ignore the concerns of everyone else - you can always blame them if it doesn't pass.
After all, your election was all about you, not about the rest of the country.
And thank you, samzenpus, for again providing a pro-conservative bit on the front page. Lets remind the world that slashdot views the democrats as evil, evil, evil.
She got off easy, after a DUI collision she should be in jail for a year or two.
DUIs here are a joke, at least the first 7 or 8 of them. She might serve jail time if she kills a few people doing it again. Hell every town in this country has at least one (if not several small armies of) lawyer who specializes just in getting DUI scum off the hook.
If you were to delete your account, there would still be so many things related to you on other accounts that it would be pretty meaningless. And that is assuming that facebook would actually obey your wishes and get rid of everything you posted....
First of all, that was supposed to be a joke. That said:
Slashdot as ad space for tech audience
I don't know what slashdot you've been reading, but I mostly see ads here for conservative news sites. I can't tell you how many "Repeal teh evol socialistism obamacare now!" ads I've seen with the frowning picture of Obama on it on this site. Conversely, it has been a long, long, time since I last saw a tech ad that wasn't to thinkgeek.com. All the other tech sites just pay for the front-page slashvertisements we call "articles".
If site maintenance costs are not covered by ad revenue, nothing stops them from closing the site
Shh! Don't suggest that already. The deal is only hours old!
getting profits by selling hardware assets.
That's amusing. You don't honestly think they really still buy new hardware for this place, do you? What would be the point of that? If they sold all the hardware they still have running this site, they'd be lucky to recoup enough funds to pay for its removal.
That has never been the motto here. Why would it take hold now?
If it ain't broken, fix it until it is.
And of course once you break it, you are never, under any circumstances, allowed to directly undo that which broke it. Instead you must write new code until the problem is solved, a new problem exists that makes the previous new problem look insignificant, or people just stop complaining.
As we all know by now, "udachny" is a sock puppet for the hard-core ron paul worshipper otherwise known as "roman_mir". Regardless, you started off by saying:
I didn't get a very good response to it (I mean moderation), so it's not a popular thing on/. to think about it maybe?
To which I will point out that taking on a condescending stance on group moderation will not improve your image. You have switched from your first account to this second account because your karma took a hit after you went on a day-long orgy of lies and insults a few weeks ago. Apparently you didn't learn much from that experience?
Let me give you a hint. You're being moderated down not because people dislike you or your viewpoint, but because you are abrasive, arrogant, and a perpetual liar. If you would show some maturity and have a respectful discussion with people, you wouldn't be moderated down so often. There are plenty of people on slashdot who have similar conservative views to your own; you are far from the oppressed minority you try to claim yourself to be. However when you run around here the way that you chose to, you end up irritating even people who have similar viewpoints.
In other words, if you want to be moderated down less, provide more facts and fewer ron paul video clips. Cite yourself less and others more. And for crying out loud don't be such an asshole to everyone who disagrees with you. You do a terrible job of encouraging people to consider your side when you make a point of insulting everyone who does not agree with everything you say.
Epigenetics is not about the DNA sequence itself, but rather about how the DNA is managed and accessed. Generally it refers to the protein that helps to condense the DNA and make some parts more accessible than others. Really the more noticeable change would be in their RNA, which is the sequence of expressed genes.
Basically if your genome is a tape library, RNA is your local hard drive, which is pulling files as needed from the tape library. Your system RAM is, of course, protein.
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Oh wow, that's pretty stupid; but he was speaking from emotions. If your spouse was in peril, would you think about the technicalities first? He's done and said some really stupid things, but I have to give him a pass on this one.
You might feel the need to give him a pass, but I do not. He had time between the incident and when he gave that remark (at a $50k/plate dinner no less). Furthermore he is college educated and should realize the stupidity in that statement (actually there are layers of stupidity in it if you read it carefully).
His fratboy antics
You must be new here. On slashdot you are only allowed to call Obama (or BHO as is preferred) to be a frat boy or party animal. All republicans are serious, Obama is a party animal. Get the mantra straight before you talk politics here...
When you have a fire in an aircraft, there's no place to go, exactly, there's no - and you can't find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don't open. I don't know why they don't do that. It's a real problem. So it's very dangerous.
Clearly, Romney is an expert on these things, so I hope they take his input seriously in the design phase. We wouldn't want future astronauts dying from not being able to open their windows.
(yes, I know I'll be moderated down for this. but I've got karma to burn - even if I can't get oxygen at 30,000 feet to burn it with)
What would stop the spammers from just switching to different processing agencies or new registrars?
There isn't much to stop them from switching, however the number of available companies for both services is limited and controlled by the respective industries. Furthermore doing business with known spammers comes with definite risk that each company needs to evaluate on their own. In both cases the companies could lose their ability to do their job as a result of the business they do with spammers, which obviously is not good for their long-term business strategies in most cases.
Hence, each time they switch, the number of places they can switch to is limited*.
Or if it's difficult enough to set up a payment processor or registrar that playing whac-a-mole for long enough might be enough?
That is one of the main things that play in favor of my proposal. For example, if you want to buy a .com domain, you have to buy it from an approved registrar - not just anyone can sell it to you. Similarly, if you want to accept VISA / MC / AmEx / Discover / etc for payment, you need to select a processing house to handle your transactions (and of course they get a cut). There are a limited number of processors for that, too (generally set by the card itself).
*You may be aware that recently ICANN voted to start selling global TLDs to anyone who is willing to pay the upfront costs. People have pointed out this means that whoever buys a gTLD becomes the ultimate registrar for it, and can sell domains in whatever way they like underneath said TLD. This could change the game significantly...
you can build up your own arsenal to the point that they obviously won't stand a chance (ex: the USA's stockpiles of nuclear weapons and such) -- which is analogous to improving filtering in the hopes that eventually spam will become unprofitable
The problem with that logic is at the end of the statement. No amount of filtering will effectively make spam unprofitable, at least not without consequences for legitimate email. The spammers constantly find new ways to get around filters, and filter have to be retrained to handle it. Eventually, the spammers will win when they manage to get their spam to look enough like regular email that the false positive rate of spam filtering reaches unacceptable levels and filtering has to stop being retrained.
Or you can sabotage/destroy their capacity to defend themselves -- analogous to the approach you propose.
The advantage of my proposal - on top of the fact that a group at Georgia Tech showed some time ago that it actually does work and have real benefits - is that it directly targets the spammers and benefits all the legitimate email (and non-spamming users of the internet). Spam filtering cannot claim that.
He's full of something denser and browner.
I particularly love how he bitches about being some kind of oppressed minority viewpoint here on slashdot, even though no politician in the history of time has received as much free positive slashvertising as his lord ron paul, and he just got multiple comments moderated way above reason where he made shit up out of thin air and was promptly disproven by multiple people.
What kind of solutions do you propose?
I believe I outlined the correct solution in my previous message, but I can be more verbose if you prefer. It all comes down to preventing the spammers from getting paid. It has been shown before that the majority of the vendors who pay spammers have their own transactions processed through a very short list of credit card processing agencies. Either shut them down or get them to clean up their acts and the spammers revenue streams dry up rapidly.
Combine that with actually taking action against registrars who knowingly register domains to spammers and you'll change the game rapidly. The spammers still want the classic TLDs for their domains at some point along the way, and will for a while yet.
And how many of those would require extra human effort -- with lighted offices (servers don't need lighting); desktop or laptop PCs that probably use a lot more power than those servers; transportation energy (commute to work); construction costs of their workspace (costs more to house and comfort a human than a server rack) and just the cost of paying the employee?
It could be done with just a handful of employees, telecommuting if they'd like. The investment is minimal. The human networking is the more lengthy part, but requires minimal expenditure of capital.
There's a reason we're just filtering spam -- that's the cheapest effective option.
Don't fool yourself. Filtering is not effective. It is a continual waste of time, power, and other resources. It only encourages the spammers to get more creative in their strategies to get around filters.
You don't win a war by getting bigger guns. You win a war by convincing your opponent that they are better off not fighting the war. The filters only encourage bigger guns.
RIM is doing a terrible job of marketing the bold and torch, which are both really good phones. They don't have them particularly widely available - and perhaps even worse, well advertised - in the US. Ask an average US consumer if they've heard of an iPhone, they'll answer yes. Heard of an android smart phone, they'll answer yes as well. Heard of a blackberry torch, they'll likely say no.
If they want to expand their user base, they should try selling phones directly to users. It works well for Apple, there is no reason why it couldn't work well for RIM as well. They don't even need to open their own stores, they could sell them through best buy, target, walmart, radio shack, etc. Sell unlocked phones with manufacturer warranties, there is a market for that if they can hit a reasonable price point and free consumers from having to sign 2-year contracts to buy a new phone.
The reason people could even start using He in balloons or whatever is because finaly in 1996 US gov't stopped artificially inflating (no pun intended) prices on Helium, because it stopped buying it from natural gas companies and even put it up for sale on the market.
Helium was used in party balloons for children well before 1996. Just because your church meetings tell you otherwise does not make it so. Ask anyone who was alive in the US before 1996 and they will tell you that you are full of hot air.
Think of how many data centers have dedicated appliances for filtering spam. If they want to save on power they should take some actual action against spam instead of just being reactionary.
The data centers (and to a larger extent ISPs) remind us that spam is an economic problem. It is costing everyone money every day, so that a handful of spammers can make a lot of money pushing fake pills, fake watches, etc. If the data centers seriously want to reduce wasted power they should instead invest some human time and effort into making it more difficult for the spammers to make money. Do that, and everyone wins. Keep filtering spam, and nobody wins.
... are Canadian. But of course, you knew that.
I really figured he'd be busy out campaigning for Mitt Romney. It's getting close to election day and the chance of the GOP not winning the white house has been steadily increasing...
You could have just written "slashdot", but instead to reflect the editorial standpoint of this site, you use a logo including a right-leaning slash.
There are none listed in my current state of residence. There are, however, some 10 year parties listed that aren't too far away. Maybe I'll crash one of those and reminisce about back when slashdot was a little less of a dysfunctional disaster (and had a bit less of a conservative slant on the front page).
I have so much sympathy for them. They have a significant majority in the house, so they shouldn't need to write a bill that makes any concessions to anyone who isn't in their party, should they? Clearly it is fine to write a bill just for your own kin and ignore the concerns of everyone else - you can always blame them if it doesn't pass.
After all, your election was all about you, not about the rest of the country.
And thank you, samzenpus, for again providing a pro-conservative bit on the front page. Lets remind the world that slashdot views the democrats as evil, evil, evil.
I read the headline to say "Neil Young Pushes Porno". Maybe this format should have opted for a different name...
She got off easy, after a DUI collision she should be in jail for a year or two.
DUIs here are a joke, at least the first 7 or 8 of them. She might serve jail time if she kills a few people doing it again. Hell every town in this country has at least one (if not several small armies of) lawyer who specializes just in getting DUI scum off the hook.
If you were to delete your account, there would still be so many things related to you on other accounts that it would be pretty meaningless. And that is assuming that facebook would actually obey your wishes and get rid of everything you posted....
Maybe he's trading bacon for refrigeration to cool his bacon?
I'm going to have to see a birth certificate to validate your UID.
My wikipedia page will do you one better, and link to my death certificate as well. Do I get extra credit for being buried outside the US?
The republican convention wasn't that long ago, and slashdot would have fit right in with the rest of the conservative journalists reporting there.
Slashdot as ad space for tech audience
I don't know what slashdot you've been reading, but I mostly see ads here for conservative news sites. I can't tell you how many "Repeal teh evol socialistism obamacare now!" ads I've seen with the frowning picture of Obama on it on this site. Conversely, it has been a long, long, time since I last saw a tech ad that wasn't to thinkgeek.com. All the other tech sites just pay for the front-page slashvertisements we call "articles".
If site maintenance costs are not covered by ad revenue, nothing stops them from closing the site
Shh! Don't suggest that already. The deal is only hours old!
getting profits by selling hardware assets.
That's amusing. You don't honestly think they really still buy new hardware for this place, do you? What would be the point of that? If they sold all the hardware they still have running this site, they'd be lucky to recoup enough funds to pay for its removal.
To Dice: if it ain't broken, don't "fix it".
That has never been the motto here. Why would it take hold now?
If it ain't broken, fix it until it is.
And of course once you break it, you are never, under any circumstances, allowed to directly undo that which broke it. Instead you must write new code until the problem is solved, a new problem exists that makes the previous new problem look insignificant, or people just stop complaining.
I didn't get a very good response to it (I mean moderation), so it's not a popular thing on /. to think about it maybe?
To which I will point out that taking on a condescending stance on group moderation will not improve your image. You have switched from your first account to this second account because your karma took a hit after you went on a day-long orgy of lies and insults a few weeks ago. Apparently you didn't learn much from that experience?
Let me give you a hint. You're being moderated down not because people dislike you or your viewpoint, but because you are abrasive, arrogant, and a perpetual liar. If you would show some maturity and have a respectful discussion with people, you wouldn't be moderated down so often. There are plenty of people on slashdot who have similar conservative views to your own; you are far from the oppressed minority you try to claim yourself to be. However when you run around here the way that you chose to, you end up irritating even people who have similar viewpoints.
In other words, if you want to be moderated down less, provide more facts and fewer ron paul video clips. Cite yourself less and others more. And for crying out loud don't be such an asshole to everyone who disagrees with you. You do a terrible job of encouraging people to consider your side when you make a point of insulting everyone who does not agree with everything you say.
To Dice: if it ain't broken, don't "fix it".
That has never been the motto here. Why would it take hold now?
I would presume that they would have had to pay more to get the geeknet holdings without slashdot.
Epigenetics is not about the DNA sequence itself, but rather about how the DNA is managed and accessed. Generally it refers to the protein that helps to condense the DNA and make some parts more accessible than others. Really the more noticeable change would be in their RNA, which is the sequence of expressed genes.
Basically if your genome is a tape library, RNA is your local hard drive, which is pulling files as needed from the tape library. Your system RAM is, of course, protein.