Of course they will rejoice that Google is seeking to destroy the democratic power of a million internet voices, cross-linking, meme-propagating. Articles like this one have scared the pants off of media giants. Recently, the New York times blasted "technology" as the real source of "deceptive journalism".
or, maybe you should work for the team of facists at Google that will decide the difference between a "blogs" and "news sources"?
and by the way... kuro5hin and slashdot are technically "blogs"... not "real" news sources.
yep, rather than letting this indy media form mature and learning how to democratically rate the good ones (yours) from the bad (mine).... they will simply crush it and give what little power they have back to corporate mindf*ck behemoths like CNN...
note: my blog is, umm, clearly listed... and it's bad - but not as bad as my slashdot posts...
because they need to improve their ranking system. some sites that *look like* weblogs are contain excellent journalism and real info. who'se to say what an important blog is versus an unimportant one? some nazi's who work at google?
this is the unfair categorization of some people's websites, based on whatever critera, as "less important" or "less relevant"
i have a weblog. i think what i say is every bit as relevant as the corporate-sponsored extended mind-control advertising that CNN calls news.
and who is google to say my ideas aren't as important?
they have a democratic system for rating popularity, it's based on "links as votes". it works well... people try to trick the system - but by and large...it's works.
maybe they can improve the system by actually allowing real voting? or improving the accessibility of the voters?
but not deciding that "some journalism is better than others"...
"a GPS allows the system to calculate weed type densities within the field and the amounts of chemicals dispensed in the area"
Sheesh. Seems like a lot of effort. I'm all about "go with the flow". Would we have to genetically modify ourselves to enjoy weeds instead of arugola, or would it just involve boiling and salt?
Scientists who cracked SARS genetic code credit the media scare as a key: 'Without this massive media scare, we'd probably be busy working on AIDS', jokes Steven Jones. Other contributing factors included the availability of Mountain Dew, the fact that most of the researchers went to college, and Top Ramen.
In summary: There's a bunch of people out there who either were too poor, to cheap or never needed to upgrade their software.
I debugged an DOS/Informix 1.0 system for a shop on Wall Street this year. Did I like it? A bit. But only because it was *new* to me. Teh guy who built it hated it so much that he wouldn't take money from the company to maintain it any more. And with good reason.
Is that really intresting to anyone? Maybe only for nostalgic technophiles with good fashion sense....
Alexa is now selling space in their "related links" pages. Normally the related links are based on DMOZ or category listings. However, if you have enough money, you can buy a listing on your competitor's sites.
For example, when you visit ZoneEdit, a self-funded, but popular website, you get a link to UltraDNS - a well-funded, but less popular company.
Allowing advertising on competitor's sites is more than unfair, it's evil. Why would decent-seeming companies like Google and Amazon would associate themselves with Alexa?
Router vendors are in a unique position to eliminate spoofing, and thereby eliminate the most serious DDOS attacks. All you need is the next version of the firmware in edge routers to have egress filtering enabled by default.
Within a year there would be so few networks that supported spoofing that it would be a forgotten problem.
Sure, this will increase the required CPU speed and cost of manufacture for CISCO and mostly for backbone providers. And, yeah, this is exactly why they don't do it.
But a minor increase in cost (5-10%) is absolutely no excuse for allowing massive uncontrolled and random outages.
One way, or another, the internet community should pressure them to make this change.
problem is microsoft's crap-ass O/S doesn't come with a filter (like ipchains, iptables) that allows you to block traffic based on ip.
so you have to install buggy/crappy firewalls like tiny, blackice, sygate, etc. - all of which crash under very high loads
and their patches often come out too late, as opposed to linux patches - which seem to come out way before....
if you have a busy MS box, there's no way you can put it on the internet without a separate firewall. they should just let people know that, or warn you when the nic card detects that it's on the net.
my solution:
a dirt-cheap linux box with ipchains on it makes a great NAT 1-1 firewall - if you run a bunch of servers. so does the zywall-10.
if you just run workstations or only 1 server there's a lot of super-cheap firewalls from netgear/linkys/etc.
All the best music I hear these days is always way more obscure than anything the RIAA gives a crap about anyway.
It's clear all internet radio needs to do is stop playing RIAA-backed pop bands like Metallica (who started the Napster bashing, remember?) - and start playing smaller labels and independent musicians who play ball with them. Internet radio has it's own power - it should use it, instead of shaking cups at the RIAA.
Internet radio and file-sharing are the only reason I buy CD's anymore. I hear it online, and can only find a few crappy rips on Gnucleus - so I buy the CD.
Pop bands and massively-hyped labels can't compete in this new bottom-upcracy. Good riddance.
- It's not hotmail's fault. VRFY commands and other techniques are used at dense provider domains to troll for emails. Even if you never publish them, there is a sophisticated network of spam hackers attacking the top 100 domains. I know because I ran one of them for over a year. We had a lot of custom software in place to stop this - but they would counter that with viruses and other distributed trolling systems.
- The only real solutions are active relay scanning and active scoring systems - similar to the way slashdot ranks posts.
Some good examples are SpamCop, well-maintained RBL lists like relays.osirusoft.com and ordb.org, supplemental RHSBL lists, and Vipul's Razor. These systems really work *very* well. Note: MAPS is cracked since it isn't fast enough and is run by a biased admin - who will probably blacklist slashdot for posting my comment. Beware of dsbl.org: it's too aggressive to use except for scoring.
- I used to get about 90% spam at some very public addresses, however since we use a couple of the aforementioned scoring systems - 99% of the spam is simply blocked. About 1 mail in 200 "legit" mails is blocked because an ISP hadn't maintained his server - but our policy is: blame the ISP for running a crappy server, not us for blocking him!
- Since we now do this for a large ISP (not as aggressively, but sufficient), we are slowly forcing other mail admins to close open relays, and turn off spammers in a timely manner. Users are also slowly learning that complaining to the "relay ISP" helps get their server delisted - whereas complaining to the "MX ISP" gets them nothing. You have to be willing to sacrifice a few bitchy late-paying, deadbeat clients to get away with this - it's worth it.
- A petition to ISP's everywhere:
SPAM blocking is a "closet" industry practice. We all really *need 1 or 2 more major ISP's* to use these proactive tools, and get tough on spam. It's a risk, I know it - but it's in their own best interests:
1 - Global costs will go down 2 - Users will enjoy their email more, and will use the internet for more important communications 3 - Users will pay more for reliable SPAM-free communications
This is a global problem, and it requires participation from at least 1-2 more of the top 10 ISP's to make it happen.
- Once we reach a certain participation threshold - everyone else will "follow the leader" and SPAM will simply "cease to be an issue". Multitiered scoring systems are very hard to crack, and spamming will no longer be an "inexpensive" solution.
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This move attempts to put power back in the hands of CNN and places like "the register". The register, really is nothing more than a weblog... and poorly written one at that.
Of course they will rejoice that Google is seeking to destroy the democratic power of a million internet voices, cross-linking, meme-propagating. Articles like this one have scared the pants off of media giants. Recently, the New York times blasted "technology" as the real source of "deceptive journalism".
or, maybe you should work for the team of facists at Google that will decide the difference between a "blogs" and "news sources"?
... not "real" news sources.
and by the way... kuro5hin and slashdot are technically "blogs"
yep, rather than letting this indy media form mature and learning how to democratically rate the good ones (yours) from the bad (mine).... they will simply crush it and give what little power they have back to corporate mindf*ck behemoths like CNN...
note: my blog is, umm, clearly listed... and it's bad - but not as bad as my slashdot posts...
umm.. who'se going to decide whether onr not something is a "blog" ... verus a news/journalism website? some authoritarians at google.
because they need to improve their ranking system. some sites that *look like* weblogs are contain excellent journalism and real info. who'se to say what an important blog is versus an unimportant one? some nazi's who work at google?
i have a weblog. i think what i say is every bit as relevant as the corporate-sponsored extended mind-control advertising that CNN calls news.
and who is google to say my ideas aren't as important?
they have a democratic system for rating popularity, it's based on "links as votes". it works well... people try to trick the system - but by and large...it's works.
maybe they can improve the system by actually allowing real voting? or improving the accessibility of the voters?
but not deciding that "some journalism is better than others"...
It's authoritarian, abuse of power, and.... evil
Sheesh. Seems like a lot of effort. I'm all about "go with the flow". Would we have to genetically modify ourselves to enjoy weeds instead of arugola, or would it just involve boiling and salt?
Scientists who cracked SARS genetic code credit the media scare as a key: 'Without this massive media scare, we'd probably be busy working on AIDS', jokes Steven Jones. Other contributing factors included the availability of Mountain Dew, the fact that most of the researchers went to college, and Top Ramen.
I mean, think of all the political manpulation that would have failed if the TV wasn't there to keep the fear alive!
In summary: There's a bunch of people out there who either were too poor, to cheap or never needed to upgrade their software.
I debugged an DOS/Informix 1.0 system for a shop on Wall Street this year. Did I like it? A bit. But only because it was *new* to me. Teh guy who built it hated it so much that he wouldn't take money from the company to maintain it any more. And with good reason.
Is that really intresting to anyone? Maybe only for nostalgic technophiles with good fashion sense....
For example, when you visit ZoneEdit, a self-funded, but popular website, you get a link to UltraDNS - a well-funded, but less popular company.
Allowing advertising on competitor's sites is more than unfair, it's evil. Why would decent-seeming companies like Google and Amazon would associate themselves with Alexa?
Router vendors are in a unique position to eliminate spoofing, and thereby eliminate the most serious DDOS attacks. All you need is the next version of the firmware in edge routers to have egress filtering enabled by
default.
Within a year there would be so few networks that supported spoofing that it would be a forgotten problem.
Sure, this will increase the required CPU speed and cost of manufacture for CISCO and mostly for backbone providers. And, yeah, this is exactly why they don't do it.
But a minor increase in cost (5-10%) is absolutely no excuse for allowing massive uncontrolled and random outages.
One way, or another, the internet community should pressure them to make this change.
Pretty and vapid, like a dream. Just don't try to read too much into those random synaptic firings, lest they haunt you.
The Yellow Times posted pictures of American casualties and POW's. Their ISP shut the site down. They quickly moved the pics to New Zealand.
problem is microsoft's crap-ass O/S doesn't come with a filter (like ipchains, iptables) that allows you to block traffic based on ip.
so you have to install buggy/crappy firewalls like tiny, blackice, sygate, etc. - all of which crash under very high loads
and their patches often come out too late, as opposed to linux patches - which seem to come out way before....
if you have a busy MS box, there's no way you can put it on the internet without a separate firewall. they should just let people know that, or warn you when the nic card detects that it's on the net.
my solution:
a dirt-cheap linux box with ipchains on it makes a great NAT 1-1 firewall - if you run a bunch of servers. so does the zywall-10.
if you just run workstations or only 1 server there's a lot of super-cheap firewalls from netgear/linkys/etc.
All the best music I hear these days is always way more obscure than anything the RIAA gives a crap about anyway.
It's clear all internet radio needs to do is stop playing RIAA-backed pop bands like Metallica (who started the Napster bashing, remember?) - and start playing smaller labels and independent musicians who play ball with them. Internet radio has it's own power - it should use it, instead of shaking cups at the RIAA.
Internet radio and file-sharing are the only reason I buy CD's anymore. I hear it online, and can only find a few crappy rips on Gnucleus - so I buy the CD.
Pop bands and massively-hyped labels can't compete in this new bottom-upcracy. Good riddance.
- It's not hotmail's fault. VRFY commands and other techniques are used at dense provider domains to troll for emails. Even if you never publish them, there is a sophisticated network of spam hackers attacking the top 100 domains. I know because I ran one of them for over a year. We had a lot of custom software in place to stop this - but they would counter that with viruses and other distributed trolling systems.
- The only real solutions are active relay scanning and active scoring systems - similar to the way slashdot ranks posts.
Some good examples are SpamCop, well-maintained RBL lists like relays.osirusoft.com and ordb.org, supplemental RHSBL lists, and Vipul's Razor. These systems really work *very* well. Note: MAPS is cracked since it isn't fast enough and is run by a biased admin - who will probably blacklist slashdot for posting my comment. Beware of dsbl.org: it's too aggressive to use except for scoring.
- I used to get about 90% spam at some very public addresses, however since we use a couple of the aforementioned scoring systems - 99% of the spam is simply blocked. About 1 mail in 200 "legit" mails is blocked because an ISP hadn't maintained his server - but our policy is: blame the ISP for running a crappy server, not us for blocking him!
- Since we now do this for a large ISP (not as aggressively, but sufficient), we are slowly forcing other mail admins to close open relays, and turn off spammers in a timely manner. Users are also slowly learning that complaining to the "relay ISP" helps get their server delisted - whereas complaining to the "MX ISP" gets them nothing. You have to be willing to sacrifice a few bitchy late-paying, deadbeat clients to get away with this - it's worth it.
- A petition to ISP's everywhere:
SPAM blocking is a "closet" industry practice. We all really *need 1 or 2 more major ISP's* to use these proactive tools, and get tough on spam. It's a risk, I know it - but it's in their own best interests:
1 - Global costs will go down
2 - Users will enjoy their email more, and will use the internet for more important communications
3 - Users will pay more for reliable SPAM-free communications
This is a global problem, and it requires participation from at least 1-2 more of the top 10 ISP's to make it happen.
- Once we reach a certain participation threshold - everyone else will "follow the leader" and SPAM will simply "cease to be an issue". Multitiered scoring systems are very hard to crack, and spamming will no longer be an "inexpensive" solution.
Today, the saddest people in the world are the ones who had high hopes for the geriatric scooter. Embarrassed jounalists and technology enthusiasts are in mourning.
Check out this page especially the last paragraph!
http://www.ginger-chat.com/story.html