So really, all he needed to do was word his threat differently....
Dear Sir or Madam,
I run an independent security consulting firm. I've noticed that your system has many vulnerabilities, leaving you open to serious attacks and potential loss of intellectual property. For a mere $2 million, I can assist you in securing your system.
Please contact me immediately, before anyone else learns of your security issues.
People looking for electronic archives should check out Bluemud.org. We have what I believe is the largest online archive of electronic documents. 25,000 documents online right now and another 225,000 waiting to be sorted by our librarians. As a warning, though, it's a mish-mash of stuff. A lot of full books, but a lot of other crap too: Old hacker 'zines, random usenet archives, and other more esoteric things.
Plus, it's an open community. Anyone can become a librarian on the site and help sort documents.
Public docs... It's already been done.
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NARA Goes Online
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I'm involved in a project called bluemud.org, and we already have most of these documents available. Plus on bluemud.org they're searchable by topic, keyword, and publication date.
We have over a quarter million documents waiting to get filtered into the directory, of which about 1100 have already been processed and are available to the general public. The rest of them are being filtered as quickly as possible and for impatient people, they can be viewed by registering on the site.
I run an online event guide called EventNation.com. I would love to see more of these kinds of events listed on the site. We have a swap meet section on the site here. If you know about events like these, post 'em! If we start getting more computer related swap meets listed, I'll add a subcategory for them.
since you lose content (mind you, only at the extreme frequencies)
At the risk of picking nits, you lose sound quality across the entire spectrum with MP3s. For a project I was working on, I had to conduct tests comparing the sound quality of MP3 and CD Audio. In all but the rarest circumstances, the sound quality of MP3s was noticably worse than the originals. The only times that the sound quality wasn't worse were when the original recording was not of top quality, such as the live recording of a concert.
The tests we conducted showed sound degredation not only in spectral analysis type tests, but also in the human perception of the audio files. Though the sound quality of MP3s is still high enough to be acceptable for everyday use.
Scott EventNation.com - Find, post, and discuss upcoming events of all kinds.
Those of us living in the US are fortunate enough to have the option of choosing from many different ISPs. If the one you're with now is jerking you around and deleting your files, there's nothing stopping you from switching to a new one. If enough people are concerned about their ISPs deleting their files, a mass migration to ISPs that don't care about your MP3 collections will certainly get the message across.
I personally think that the Yahoo! submission fee is one step away from being a scam. For a while now, the only real way to get a site reviewed for Yahoo! has been to pay their fee of $199, which I've done for two sites. Both of these sites have been rejected for ambiguous reasons, with a note suggesting that I try resubmitting the site the next month. Granted, neither of these were the greatest websites online, but they were certainly better than a lot of the garbage that Yahoo! has listed.
I could understand an initial fee for listing a site, or even a recurring fee, but paying to submit a site feels like a bit of a set up to me.
In addition to not including Perl, I find the exclusion of TCL disappointing. Being a TCL proponent, I am constantly surprised to see how seldom this amazing language is included in tests like this. With the rapid rise in use of AOLserver, however, which makes extensive use of TCL, I hope this trend will change.
Our website, EventNation.com, was originally written in Perl and ran on Apache. By porting it over to TCL on AOLserver, we were able to quadruple our peak load. Still, I am always curious to see how TCL compares to the some of the trendy languages, such as PHP and JSP.
Scott
Re:Search engines will answer your question.
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"e-mail" vs "email"
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The proper way to spell a word is the way most people spell it.
If that were the case, "a lot" would be spelled "alot" or "allot". *Shudder*
>Linux 6.2 Apache based machine only supports 20k-100k
I guess I've been spoiled by using AOLserver. On an old, used $500 HP machine running AOLserver we can handle close to 250k hits a day, and that's with every page hitting the database.
I haven't had my coffee yet, so I may not be processing this as clearly as I should, but as I see it, there are two main problems with this method. First, every Joe Schmoe can vote for/moderate a message. This will give every message a much more neutral rating, because you will have a large number of beginners who don't understand the system and will vote the same way for every message. For example, if you have a truly insightful message that has earned 100 legitimate "+" votes, using this system it would have a score of 1 (100 "+" votes / 100 total votes). Now assume that you have an additional 400 people, half of whom think that every message is great and deserves a "+" vote and half of whom think that every message sucks and deserves a "-" vote. Now you have a message with 300 "+" votes out of 500 total for a score of.6. You will end up seeing most messages in the.4 to.6 range.
The second problem I see is a more abstract one, and that is that the system is too complex for the average person. If people can't understand the system quickly, they won't connect with it. And the way I see it, having a moderation system like this serves two purposes: to control the flow of messages and to entice people to use the system. This system will definitely attract D&D players, with it's somewhat complex number system, but the average person staring at this setup will have their eyes glaze over and will quickly click elsewhere.
I believe that the two elements that are key to a successful mod system are ease of use, and requirement that a person be familiar with the system before he or she uses it. Slashdot does this, as does my site EventNation.com. People respond to it well.
Slashdot Mirror
...can we call it "phlogging"?
So really, all he needed to do was word his threat differently....
Dear Sir or Madam,
I run an independent security consulting firm. I've noticed that your system has many vulnerabilities, leaving you open to serious attacks and potential loss of intellectual property. For a mere $2 million, I can assist you in securing your system.
Please contact me immediately, before anyone else learns of your security issues.
Sincerely,
Bob Jones
People looking for electronic archives should check out Bluemud.org. We have what I believe is the largest online archive of electronic documents. 25,000 documents online right now and another 225,000 waiting to be sorted by our librarians. As a warning, though, it's a mish-mash of stuff. A lot of full books, but a lot of other crap too: Old hacker 'zines, random usenet archives, and other more esoteric things.
Plus, it's an open community. Anyone can become a librarian on the site and help sort documents.
I'm involved in a project called bluemud.org, and we already have most of these documents available. Plus on bluemud.org they're searchable by topic, keyword, and publication date.
We have over a quarter million documents waiting to get filtered into the directory, of which about 1100 have already been processed and are available to the general public. The rest of them are being filtered as quickly as possible and for impatient people, they can be viewed by registering on the site.
I run an online event guide called EventNation.com. I would love to see more of these kinds of events listed on the site. We have a swap meet section on the site here. If you know about events like these, post 'em! If we start getting more computer related swap meets listed, I'll add a subcategory for them.
Scott EventNation.com
...this can be solved with bigger fans.
Scott
Find, post, and discuss upcoming events of all kinds at EventNation.com
There are a bunch of similarly amusing translations at http://www.engrish.com.
Scott
EventNation.com
since you lose content (mind you, only at the extreme frequencies)
At the risk of picking nits, you lose sound quality across the entire spectrum with MP3s. For a project I was working on, I had to conduct tests comparing the sound quality of MP3 and CD Audio. In all but the rarest circumstances, the sound quality of MP3s was noticably worse than the originals. The only times that the sound quality wasn't worse were when the original recording was not of top quality, such as the live recording of a concert.
The tests we conducted showed sound degredation not only in spectral analysis type tests, but also in the human perception of the audio files. Though the sound quality of MP3s is still high enough to be acceptable for everyday use.
Scott
EventNation.com - Find, post, and discuss upcoming events of all kinds.
Those of us living in the US are fortunate enough to have the option of choosing from many different ISPs. If the one you're with now is jerking you around and deleting your files, there's nothing stopping you from switching to a new one. If enough people are concerned about their ISPs deleting their files, a mass migration to ISPs that don't care about your MP3 collections will certainly get the message across.
Free Beer. Free Speech. Free Market. Use it.
Scott
EventNation.com
I personally think that the Yahoo! submission fee is one step away from being a scam. For a while now, the only real way to get a site reviewed for Yahoo! has been to pay their fee of $199, which I've done for two sites. Both of these sites have been rejected for ambiguous reasons, with a note suggesting that I try resubmitting the site the next month. Granted, neither of these were the greatest websites online, but they were certainly better than a lot of the garbage that Yahoo! has listed.
I could understand an initial fee for listing a site, or even a recurring fee, but paying to submit a site feels like a bit of a set up to me.
Scott
EventNation.com - A site that you won't see on Yahoo!
Now if I can just get a Commodore 64 with every game to fit inside of a Palm, I'll be set.
Scott
EventNation.com to find, post, and discuss upcoming events of all kinds.
In addition to not including Perl, I find the exclusion of TCL disappointing. Being a TCL proponent, I am constantly surprised to see how seldom this amazing language is included in tests like this. With the rapid rise in use of AOLserver, however, which makes extensive use of TCL, I hope this trend will change.
Our website, EventNation.com, was originally written in Perl and ran on Apache. By porting it over to TCL on AOLserver, we were able to quadruple our peak load. Still, I am always curious to see how TCL compares to the some of the trendy languages, such as PHP and JSP.
Scott
The proper way to spell a word is the way most people spell it.
If that were the case, "a lot" would be spelled "alot" or "allot". *Shudder*
That's why God invented filters. It might not win the war, but it gets the job done.
>Linux 6.2 Apache based machine only supports 20k-100k
I guess I've been spoiled by using AOLserver. On an old, used $500 HP machine running AOLserver we can handle close to 250k hits a day, and that's with every page hitting the database.
Scott
EventNation.com
I haven't had my coffee yet, so I may not be processing this as clearly as I should, but as I see it, there are two main problems with this method. First, every Joe Schmoe can vote for/moderate a message. This will give every message a much more neutral rating, because you will have a large number of beginners who don't understand the system and will vote the same way for every message. For example, if you have a truly insightful message that has earned 100 legitimate "+" votes, using this system it would have a score of 1 (100 "+" votes / 100 total votes). Now assume that you have an additional 400 people, half of whom think that every message is great and deserves a "+" vote and half of whom think that every message sucks and deserves a "-" vote. Now you have a message with 300 "+" votes out of 500 total for a score of .6. You will end up seeing most messages in the .4 to .6 range.
The second problem I see is a more abstract one, and that is that the system is too complex for the average person. If people can't understand the system quickly, they won't connect with it. And the way I see it, having a moderation system like this serves two purposes: to control the flow of messages and to entice people to use the system. This system will definitely attract D&D players, with it's somewhat complex number system, but the average person staring at this setup will have their eyes glaze over and will quickly click elsewhere.
I believe that the two elements that are key to a successful mod system are ease of use, and requirement that a person be familiar with the system before he or she uses it. Slashdot does this, as does my site EventNation.com. People respond to it well.
Scott
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