Someone needs to charge SCO with raqueteering and extortion. SCO has made several claims, but has yet to offer proof, and it's own case has changed so much that it barely resembles the original case presented almost a year ago.
By suing a Linux end users, SCO is in effect trying to use courts to extort money. The definition of extort is "to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power". I cannot see the difference between SCO's actions, press releases and the running a criminal enterprise.
If they (SCO) truly wished to protect their IP, they would proceed with their case and quit stalling. The Linux community would respond, in defference to and in respect to an IP rights. I think that is the crux of SCO's problem, Linux would respond by respectfully removing any proven IP content. If they can extort money from people instead of actually proving their case, then the profit margin goes up. So what if extortion is illegal.
Hurray FyDoR! But nmap is one of many, many open source programs distributed by SCO. Why isn't the entire open source community tell SCO that their software can't be distrubted, things like KDE, Gnome, and the GNU projects tar, make et al? I belive that other open source projects should start demanding that SCO stop distributing them.
What to do with for enforcement? With so many pending legal battles against SCO, it would only be a matter of time before an IBM, Novel/Suse, or Redhat picks up the illegal acticity and uses it in court. Additionally it is an election year. I'm quite sure that if we as a community looked hard enough we could find a hungry DA.
Interesting notes such as "money saved on liscencing will have to be used on training. When will the linux desktop and desktops in general get to the point that they are so intuitive that training won't be requried? Judging by my own experience helping new computer users - not any time soon. While the interface may seem intuitive to you and me, to the complete computer newbie - it is still a challenging jungle.
I find extremely disheartening that our tax dollars go into products, ideas and research that is then turned around and used for the benefeit of ONE company (see big drug companies, defense contractors, and certain university proffesors). That just seems plain "un-american". Here we have a rare exception, our tax dollar going to improve something for ALL americans (and the world too).
Sadly Microsoft is lobbying to shut down the NSA's involvement in free software, claiming that the government is essentially "competing" with them. Somehow our tax dollar going to work securing windows isn't communist according to MS. Just if it also helps someone that ISN'T MS. Lets hope they fail.
In the end, this can only be a good thing for ALL OS designers. It helps them look at how the people that stay awake at night worrying a lot think about security in an operating system.
Spammers used to buy a T1's worth of phone lines and then dial in to several different ISP's all at once and use THEIR mail server to send spam. With the advent of easily hacked broadband connections, this isn't required anymore. I can see it popping back up pretty quickly. While the idea is OK, spammers are adaptable. The ONLY way to make spammers stop, is to make them feel pain and this solution doesn't provide nearly enough pain.
For instance, I ws joe jobbed, I recieved about 2300 bounced messages advertising various web sites. For every bounced message I forwarded a 900k graphic that said "Do not use my return address in your spam campaign, it is illegal". Since I recieved another bounced spam before I had finished responding to these kind people, I decided perhaps another avenue of communication was approriate. I posted an order on each of the three websites I found advertised 2300 times (PERL w/LWP). Since I was unable to get a response via e-mail, I figured that I would get a response via an order form. I posted 2300 times(one for each boucne) with my contact information and a request to not use my e-mail in the shipping information box.
What happened?
1. one of the mail servers stopped responding all together. It didn't come back up for more than a week (qmail queue default lifetime anyone?)
2. During the post to these web sites (ALL on hacked machines running open proxy servers) the web site went down and stopped responding. I guess the concurrency of 2300 was a bad idea.
It appears that my e-mail address is no longer being used, although their websites finally recovered about 8 hours later. These web sites no longer accept orders from my IP address. No imagine if only 1/2 the people that recieved a spam did what I did? Think of the number of bogus orders that have to be sorted to simply get to a legitimate one? Think of the amount of traffic going INTO comcast and RR to these hacked machines (waving flag over here, over here LOOK LOOK security@rr.com!). Of course this would take time, and we alreayd have precious little of this. If enough people took the time, we would also have precious little spam. The cost would be too high.
Many government agencies have been struggling to pay catch up when it comes to the "Information Revolution". Now a decade after the revolution began some are starting to realize the potential. It's been pretty embarassing to sit at your desk in the CIA and not be able to do a Google Search. I believe that the "total information awareness" program is simply a way to try and rectify this.
The tools are only going to get better, and the more laws and policies that allow the "leakage" of personal information will only make "privacy" a state of mind as opposed to something you actually have. If congress was so concerned about privacy perhaps they would rethink the Patriot Act, or other invasive police policies that have been en vogue for the last decade.
This is no suprise for people involved in the anti-spam community. It has been discussed for some time in NANAE. What is REALLY sad is that some networks really don't seem to care, or don't have the time to police against this sort of thing. When I was Joe Jobbed by one of these spam gangs, using infected machines for webservers, I reported it to RR and comcast security. They were hosting their site all-oem.biz on several obviously compromised machines AND using my e-mail address in advertisements about their company. What did I get for my trouble? E-mail after e-mail that said - "To the best of our knowledge, the incident that was the basis of your complaint was neither posted by an individual using the Road Runner (Or Comcast) system, nor is it in any way related to the Road Runner (or Comcast) system or content maintained by Road Runner." What was funny is that if you did a dig on the domain being advertised it ALWAYS contained a road runner cable modem account.
Lets try it again for a test shall we? # host www.all-oem.biz www.all-oem.biz is an alias for all-oem.biz. all-oem.biz has address 217.81.243.206 all-oem.biz has address 24.98.35.54 all-oem.biz has address 212.83.89.135 all-oem.biz has address 213.33.0.67 all-oem.biz has address 24.6.6.196
And again, what do we have, 2 comcast cable modems working away trying to sell software that APPEARS to be pirated, and is advertised via spam with false headers.
Lets check the DNS shall we, the dns servers for the domain are listed as follows
Name Server:NS1.MOROZREG.BIZ Name Server:NS2.MOROZREG.BIZ Name Server:NS3.MOROZREG.BIZ Name Server:NS4.MOROZREG.BIZ Name Server:NS5.MOROZREG.BIZ
Each of these name servers is also hosted on compromised machines, mostly broadband connections. Don't take my word for it, haul out nmap and take a look for yourself. The IP's for these name servers change pretty often. At this time no road runner accounts are showing up. I give it an hour before we get a few more.
In short this is nothing new, and no one should be shocked. Spammers have shown themselves to be an unscrupulous lot. What IS good is that this is starting to get some press. Perhaps this will put pressure on providers to police their networks better. Otherwise more drastic action may be required to be taken by other networks to simply protect themselves.
1. What is the best distro for servers?
a. ease of setup up
b. security
c. ease of upgrade
d. longevity of support
e. remote management ability
2. What is the best distro for the desktop
a. speed of setup
b. has the apps I need
c. ease of upgrade/patches
d. supports my hardware
e. ease of use for newbies
3. What is the best of both worlds (1 plus 2)
Just because something is the fastest growing doesn't mean it's the best. While I've read tons of reviews most have such a bias as to be laughable. I'll keep using my tried and true redhat/debian/mandrake/fedora box for now:)
REAL hacking takes more than replacing a chip
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There are a lot of "open source" fuel injection computers out there (ignition too). If your really interested in making more power and hacking, join on to one of these projects. Perhaps someday someone will make an aftermarket odd fire ignition computer that I can program. In the mean time, check out these projects
This article misses a few key points that are summed up nicely here
(requires a click to accept policy and then REFOLLOW the link) The SpamHaus information includes not only a brief description of his transgressions, but addresses from his domain registry etc. The one thing to remember about this person is that he has been dilligently obeying the first rule of spammers for years.
Rule 1: Spammers lie
Take a look at a few of his quotes here
The article about him from the BBC is what scares me.
"We are very excited [about the new CAN-SPAM law]," said Scott
Richter, the president of OptInRealBig, an e-mail marketing firm in
Westminster, Colo. "All of our clients had been worried about the
California law. In the last two hours we have been booking a lot of
orders for January."
This guy is the kind of guy that would piss in your pool. Now that he's got the internet, he gets to piss on millions of people at a time.
It's simple really, I want to be able to plug into my phone and think the words, and they person calling me can hear them. Thats all I want, no camera, no games, I'd rather think talk than think how many times do I push 4 to get the letter captial 'I'.
I wouldn't bother anyone by needing to speak loudly in public. That is the most important thing of all. A cell phone that allows me to communicate, while extending the courtesy of silence to those around me. THAT is the killer feature I am waiting for.
What would seriously damange their "revenue" is to force their model not to work. If you launched a DOS attack against the hijacked machines then the spamvertizers website and DNS would be down. The end user whose machine was hijacked wouldn't be able to surf the net, alerting them to the fact that there is INDEED a problem. The broadband provider would get a CLUE that there is indeed a problem on their network.
Perhaps this would cause RR to change their stock answer, which is "This spamvertized site doens't apear to be on our network/Please send firewall logs with time stamp if a host on our network is attacking you". Nitwits. Rotating DNS changes constantly, same with the web sites. Usually 5 IP's at a time. Almost alawsy at least 1 rr IP in there.
Of course this is illegal.....then again so is spreading viruses and illegally hosting your website on an infected system.
Classic Trick
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Yes, it's a classic trick, and it's worked for thousands of years. I'ts worked for politicians and armies. It's worked for the con-artist and the cult leader. What is this trick? Miss-direction. If you think that this virus has anything at all to do with the open source community or SCO then your not keeping your eye on the ball sparky!
1. This virus makes a machine an open relay. Considering recent legislation and other anti-spam techniques I smell spammer bovine feces here.
3. The open source community is coming up with various anti-spam measures. Don't you think the spammers would love painting their enemy as petulant child - as they have proven themselves to be?
MyDOOM isn't the open source community pissing on on SCO, it's spammers pissing on all of us.
Webster now says:
Extort: to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power
Scam: a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation
Liar: one that tells lies
Indian giver: a person who gives something to another and then takes it back or expects an equivalent in return
Revised:
Extort: What SCO is trying to do to the Linux community through questionable and possible illegal acts.
Scam: SCO press releases
Liar: Daryl McBride
Indian giver: = SCO + Caldera
Nonsense. I'm a student. If I say something, that's what I mean, because I do not know how to lie and it's glaringly obvious if I try. I trust my lecturers and tutors to tell the truth (which isn't, of course, to say that I don't do additional research etc). I expect the same of them, and act such that such an assumption is correct.
You are the exception, deal with it. More and more students cheat, admit they cheat, and often see cheating as a means to an end (please google any recent studies on the matter). Many students only want to get the degree, and they will deal with the ramifications later. In the end they are cheating themselves.
Being in a posistion to hire people, I have found a large number of people also lie on their job applications (as many as 20% in my experience), and if they had an original thought, it was when they were 5. IMHO it is better to catch them early, so that they can actually learn what they were sent to school for. Even after a canidate passes the vetting process, they still can prove to be incompetent. I've fired people that had degrees that told me they had training in a subject, their work performance told me otherwise.
If you spend time defending yourself against false positives, then it is time well spent. It improves your familiarity with the material, it improves the system and forces interaction with your prof. This will come in handy once your in the labor market - if you are in ANY sort of management posistion, or work in a team you will have to be able to coherently defend your ideas and practices.
Bitch - "What ever happened to student teacher trust?"
Answer - It's being violated so regulary by students cheating that teachers wonder if recent degreed graduates really learned anything. Cheating is an epedemic. A student bitching about "student teacher trust" is akin to a speader bitching about a cop with a RADAR gun. As long as the school pays for the pattern recgonition there shouldn't be a problem. As long as the student submitted original work, there shouldn't be an issue. The teacher still grades the work, but he/she at least has a fighting chance to recgnoize if major portions of that term paper were lifted verbatim from a quick google search.
The people that complain about this technology seem to be just bitter that teachers finally have a tool to help them find cheats. Perhaps too many students have gotten use to skating by?
Clueless Manager: hmmmm..... yeah..... I'm going to need those TPS reports. Yeah, and uhm, no faxes. I don't know where you hide, but I'm going to have to ask you to walk right up here and hand those TPS reports to me. Yeah..
Response: Your willing to pay for me to come to your office, very well sir.
Clueless Manager:
Yeah, and don't park in my spot when you get here.
The idea for solving "Information Pollution" is interesting, but what of the quality of the information that is delivered? In this day and age when you can find web sites devoted to "Proof we never made it to the moon" and hard facts are often replaced with "that sounds about right" isn't the real pollution the content we supposedly want - and not the advertisers?
Find me a system to easily and quickly verify the "facts" with something I can trust.
those supercomputers that rely on the 5-7 year old design, *are* themselves 5-7 years old.
Actually number 2 on the list is barely over a year old.
alpha is a dead end arch, it remains to be seen how long it takes dec to wake up and smell the silicon.
The Alpha has been dead for some time (almost 2 years now). Nobody is saying anything differently. MIPS wasn't nearly as good at floating point as similliar alphas. The current Alpha prices have more to do with volume production and HP wanting to hasten the Alpha platforms exit than with any "inherent expense" of the Alpha design. BTW DEC has been dead and GONE almost 5 years now. What rock have you been hiding under?
Price is an issue with any 64 bit arch. You know twice the number of bits means more wire in your board, usually another layer or 2 as well. There is no current "workstation" alpha. When there was it's price/performance blew a lot of hardware away, especially if you were doing a lot of scientific work with heavy math involved.
The price performance quote is actually not quite right, for super computing applications the price/performance is incredible. That is why Cray uses alphas, and many of the top supercomputers in the world rely on the 5-7 year old design, even today!
Stop faking things like the contents of this post.
Cowards are just that. Why don't you go purchase a clue? Also check out the story here for references on Intel's quality control. You also might want to check out who's designing your new Intel chips (can you spell alpha moron). For a story related to that, check here then of course there is the denial that the alpha design has influenced Intel here
You may also want to check out sources like EEtimes, shannon knows DEC/Compaq/HP and of course the intel web site. BTW VMS is running on IA64 hardware. Do you know what VMS is little girl?
apples and oranges and my favorite alphas
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I know this isn't quite on topic, but I wonder how the latest Alpha design would fair. The alpha was the first mass produced 64 bit chip that had any commercial success. It was introduced in the early nineties. IN fact Linus had one. Basically the curret EV78 is a 6 or 7 year old design, but in most serious tests of processor power it has done quite good. It's amazing that such an "old" design still works so well. The last SPEC numbers I can find are here. Considering the platorm has been ignored and basically orphaned, it's suprising that this chip still powers many of the worlds top rated super computers.
How does all this relate to the G5 and Opteron? Well AMD gets it's bus design from the Alpha lineage. The G5 is built by IBM, who I believe is building the alpha cores as well (I could be wrong, I can't keep up). The irony? Every current intel pentium chip is quality control checked by machines with alpha processors. Funny world huh?
At one time we didn't NEED internet law. It was understood that certain standards of behavior we're required so that we could all "get along". People that refused to follow the rules were "banned", essentially made non citizens of the global eletronic world. It was a brutally effective punishment.
Now we have no real accepted standard of behavior, and no penalty that is effective. Thus we have to create "Internet Laws" and find someway to enforce them. The early system was elegant and egalitarian. The current system is simply a miserable failure. I do not pine for the early days, I do not secretly sit in a dark corner complaining about the unwashed masses. I am vocal and write to my representatives when internet issues come before them, I try to enlighten my friends and family on the issues. Perhaps someday we will have some represntatives with a modicum of internet savvy. Then and only then can we start to write good internet law. Until then, 2003 was merely a stepping stone in a long arduous process.
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Someone needs to charge SCO with raqueteering and extortion. SCO has made several claims, but has yet to offer proof, and it's own case has changed so much that it barely resembles the original case presented almost a year ago.
By suing a Linux end users, SCO is in effect trying to use courts to extort money. The definition of extort is "to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power". I cannot see the difference between SCO's actions, press releases and the running a criminal enterprise.
If they (SCO) truly wished to protect their IP, they would proceed with their case and quit stalling. The Linux community would respond, in defference to and in respect to an IP rights. I think that is the crux of SCO's problem, Linux would respond by respectfully removing any proven IP content. If they can extort money from people instead of actually proving their case, then the profit margin goes up. So what if extortion is illegal.
AngryPeoplePeopleRule
Hurray FyDoR! But nmap is one of many, many open source programs distributed by SCO. Why isn't the entire open source community tell SCO that their software can't be distrubted, things like KDE, Gnome, and the GNU projects tar, make et al? I belive that other open source projects should start demanding that SCO stop distributing them.
What to do with for enforcement? With so many pending legal battles against SCO, it would only be a matter of time before an IBM, Novel/Suse, or Redhat picks up the illegal acticity and uses it in court. Additionally it is an election year. I'm quite sure that if we as a community looked hard enough we could find a hungry DA.
AngryPeopleRule
Interesting notes such as "money saved on liscencing will have to be used on training. When will the linux desktop and desktops in general get to the point that they are so intuitive that training won't be requried? Judging by my own experience helping new computer users - not any time soon. While the interface may seem intuitive to you and me, to the complete computer newbie - it is still a challenging jungle.
I find extremely disheartening that our tax dollars go into products, ideas and research that is then turned around and used for the benefeit of ONE company (see big drug companies, defense contractors, and certain university proffesors). That just seems plain "un-american". Here we have a rare exception, our tax dollar going to improve something for ALL americans (and the world too).
Sadly Microsoft is lobbying to shut down the NSA's involvement in free software, claiming that the government is essentially "competing" with them. Somehow our tax dollar going to work securing windows isn't communist according to MS. Just if it also helps someone that ISN'T MS. Lets hope they fail.
In the end, this can only be a good thing for ALL OS designers. It helps them look at how the people that stay awake at night worrying a lot think about security in an operating system.
AngryPeopleRule
Spammers used to buy a T1's worth of phone lines and then dial in to several different ISP's all at once and use THEIR mail server to send spam. With the advent of easily hacked broadband connections, this isn't required anymore. I can see it popping back up pretty quickly. While the idea is OK, spammers are adaptable. The ONLY way to make spammers stop, is to make them feel pain and this solution doesn't provide nearly enough pain.
For instance, I ws joe jobbed, I recieved about 2300 bounced messages advertising various web sites. For every bounced message I forwarded a 900k graphic that said "Do not use my return address in your spam campaign, it is illegal". Since I recieved another bounced spam before I had finished responding to these kind people, I decided perhaps another avenue of communication was approriate. I posted an order on each of the three websites I found advertised 2300 times (PERL w/LWP). Since I was unable to get a response via e-mail, I figured that I would get a response via an order form. I posted 2300 times(one for each boucne) with my contact information and a request to not use my e-mail in the shipping information box.
What happened?
1. one of the mail servers stopped responding all together. It didn't come back up for more than a week (qmail queue default lifetime anyone?)
2. During the post to these web sites (ALL on hacked machines running open proxy servers) the web site went down and stopped responding. I guess the concurrency of 2300 was a bad idea.
It appears that my e-mail address is no longer being used, although their websites finally recovered about 8 hours later. These web sites no longer accept orders from my IP address. No imagine if only 1/2 the people that recieved a spam did what I did? Think of the number of bogus orders that have to be sorted to simply get to a legitimate one? Think of the amount of traffic going INTO comcast and RR to these hacked machines (waving flag over here, over here LOOK LOOK security@rr.com!). Of course this would take time, and we alreayd have precious little of this. If enough people took the time, we would also have precious little spam. The cost would be too high.
AngryPeopleRule
Many government agencies have been struggling to pay catch up when it comes to the "Information Revolution". Now a decade after the revolution began some are starting to realize the potential. It's been pretty embarassing to sit at your desk in the CIA and not be able to do a Google Search. I believe that the "total information awareness" program is simply a way to try and rectify this.
The tools are only going to get better, and the more laws and policies that allow the "leakage" of personal information will only make "privacy" a state of mind as opposed to something you actually have. If congress was so concerned about privacy perhaps they would rethink the Patriot Act, or other invasive police policies that have been en vogue for the last decade.
This is no suprise for people involved in the anti-spam community. It has been discussed for some time in NANAE. What is REALLY sad is that some networks really don't seem to care, or don't have the time to police against this sort of thing. When I was Joe Jobbed by one of these spam gangs, using infected machines for webservers, I reported it to RR and comcast security. They were hosting their site all-oem.biz on several obviously compromised machines AND using my e-mail address in advertisements about their company. What did I get for my trouble? E-mail after e-mail that said - "To the best of our knowledge, the incident that was the basis of your complaint was neither posted by an individual using the Road Runner (Or Comcast) system, nor is it in any way related to the Road Runner (or Comcast) system or content maintained by Road Runner." What was funny is that if you did a dig on the domain being advertised it ALWAYS contained a road runner cable modem account.
Lets try it again for a test shall we?
# host www.all-oem.biz
www.all-oem.biz is an alias for all-oem.biz.
all-oem.biz has address 217.81.243.206
all-oem.biz has address 24.98.35.54
all-oem.biz has address 212.83.89.135
all-oem.biz has address 213.33.0.67
all-oem.biz has address 24.6.6.196
And again, what do we have, 2 comcast cable modems working away trying to sell software that APPEARS to be pirated, and is advertised via spam with false headers.
Lets check the DNS shall we, the dns servers for the domain are listed as follows
Name Server:NS1.MOROZREG.BIZ
Name Server:NS2.MOROZREG.BIZ
Name Server:NS3.MOROZREG.BIZ
Name Server:NS4.MOROZREG.BIZ
Name Server:NS5.MOROZREG.BIZ
Each of these name servers is also hosted on compromised machines, mostly broadband connections. Don't take my word for it, haul out nmap and take a look for yourself. The IP's for these name servers change pretty often. At this time no road runner accounts are showing up. I give it an hour before we get a few more.
In short this is nothing new, and no one should be shocked. Spammers have shown themselves to be an unscrupulous lot. What IS good is that this is starting to get some press. Perhaps this will put pressure on providers to police their networks better. Otherwise more drastic action may be required to be taken by other networks to simply protect themselves.
AngryPeopleRule
1. What is the best distro for servers?
:)
a. ease of setup up
b. security
c. ease of upgrade
d. longevity of support
e. remote management ability
2. What is the best distro for the desktop
a. speed of setup
b. has the apps I need
c. ease of upgrade/patches
d. supports my hardware
e. ease of use for newbies
3. What is the best of both worlds (1 plus 2)
Just because something is the fastest growing doesn't mean it's the best. While I've read tons of reviews most have such a bias as to be laughable. I'll keep using my tried and true redhat/debian/mandrake/fedora box for now
AngryPeopleRule
There are a lot of "open source" fuel injection computers out there (ignition too). If your really interested in making more power and hacking, join on to one of these projects. Perhaps someday someone will make an aftermarket odd fire ignition computer that I can program. In the mean time, check out these projects
MegaSquirt Electronic Fuel Injection Computer
Electronic fuel injection 11
PowerPC fuel injection
Rule 1: Spammers lie Take a look at a few of his quotes here
The article about him from the BBC is what scares me. "We are very excited [about the new CAN-SPAM law]," said Scott Richter, the president of OptInRealBig, an e-mail marketing firm in Westminster, Colo. "All of our clients had been worried about the California law. In the last two hours we have been booking a lot of orders for January."
This guy is the kind of guy that would piss in your pool. Now that he's got the internet, he gets to piss on millions of people at a time.
AngryPeopleRule
It's simple really, I want to be able to plug into my phone and think the words, and they person calling me can hear them. Thats all I want, no camera, no games, I'd rather think talk than think how many times do I push 4 to get the letter captial 'I'.
I wouldn't bother anyone by needing to speak loudly in public. That is the most important thing of all. A cell phone that allows me to communicate, while extending the courtesy of silence to those around me. THAT is the killer feature I am waiting for.
AngrPeopleRule
What would seriously damange their "revenue" is to force their model not to work. If you launched a DOS attack against the hijacked machines then the spamvertizers website and DNS would be down. The end user whose machine was hijacked wouldn't be able to surf the net, alerting them to the fact that there is INDEED a problem. The broadband provider would get a CLUE that there is indeed a problem on their network.
Perhaps this would cause RR to change their stock answer, which is "This spamvertized site doens't apear to be on our network/Please send firewall logs with time stamp if a host on our network is attacking you". Nitwits. Rotating DNS changes constantly, same with the web sites. Usually 5 IP's at a time. Almost alawsy at least 1 rr IP in there.
Of course this is illegal.....then again so is spreading viruses and illegally hosting your website on an infected system.
1. This virus makes a machine an open relay. Considering recent legislation and other anti-spam techniques I smell spammer bovine feces here.
2. More and more spammers used high jacked machines for DNS, web service as well as relaying their crap. spammers Check out the nanae news group for more examples
3. The open source community is coming up with various anti-spam measures. Don't you think the spammers would love painting their enemy as petulant child - as they have proven themselves to be?
MyDOOM isn't the open source community pissing on on SCO, it's spammers pissing on all of us.
AngryPeopleRule
Webster now says: Extort: to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power Scam: a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation Liar: one that tells lies Indian giver: a person who gives something to another and then takes it back or expects an equivalent in return Revised: Extort: What SCO is trying to do to the Linux community through questionable and possible illegal acts. Scam: SCO press releases Liar: Daryl McBride Indian giver: = SCO + Caldera
Darl: Linux bad, they steal
Linux: No we don't - what did we steal
Darl: You know, now just fess up and tell anyone
Linux: Are you on crack?
Darl: I will get a court order to make you tell me what you stole from me - (I can't seem to find it)
Judge: Are you on Crack?
Novell: You ARE on Crack!
And the saga continues, tune in next week when darl says "Crack isn't good for my big bright smile".
Nonsense. I'm a student. If I say something, that's what I mean, because I do not know how to lie and it's glaringly obvious if I try. I trust my lecturers and tutors to tell the truth (which isn't, of course, to say that I don't do additional research etc). I expect the same of them, and act such that such an assumption is correct.
You are the exception, deal with it. More and more students cheat, admit they cheat, and often see cheating as a means to an end (please google any recent studies on the matter). Many students only want to get the degree, and they will deal with the ramifications later. In the end they are cheating themselves.
Being in a posistion to hire people, I have found a large number of people also lie on their job applications (as many as 20% in my experience), and if they had an original thought, it was when they were 5. IMHO it is better to catch them early, so that they can actually learn what they were sent to school for. Even after a canidate passes the vetting process, they still can prove to be incompetent. I've fired people that had degrees that told me they had training in a subject, their work performance told me otherwise.
If you spend time defending yourself against false positives, then it is time well spent. It improves your familiarity with the material, it improves the system and forces interaction with your prof. This will come in handy once your in the labor market - if you are in ANY sort of management posistion, or work in a team you will have to be able to coherently defend your ideas and practices.
Bitch - "What ever happened to student teacher trust?"
Answer - It's being violated so regulary by students cheating that teachers wonder if recent degreed graduates really learned anything. Cheating is an epedemic. A student bitching about "student teacher trust" is akin to a speader bitching about a cop with a RADAR gun. As long as the school pays for the pattern recgonition there shouldn't be a problem. As long as the student submitted original work, there shouldn't be an issue. The teacher still grades the work, but he/she at least has a fighting chance to recgnoize if major portions of that term paper were lifted verbatim from a quick google search.
The people that complain about this technology seem to be just bitter that teachers finally have a tool to help them find cheats. Perhaps too many students have gotten use to skating by?
Clueless Manager:
hmmmm..... yeah..... I'm going to need those TPS reports. Yeah, and uhm, no faxes. I don't know where you hide, but I'm going to have to ask you to walk right up here and hand those TPS reports to me. Yeah..
Response:
Your willing to pay for me to come to your office, very well sir.
Clueless Manager:
Yeah, and don't park in my spot when you get here.
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The idea for solving "Information Pollution" is interesting, but what of the quality of the information that is delivered? In this day and age when you can find web sites devoted to "Proof we never made it to the moon" and hard facts are often replaced with "that sounds about right" isn't the real pollution the content we supposedly want - and not the advertisers?
Find me a system to easily and quickly verify the "facts" with something I can trust.
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those supercomputers that rely on the 5-7 year old design, *are* themselves 5-7 years old.
Actually number 2 on the list is barely over a year old.
alpha is a dead end arch, it remains to be seen how long it takes dec to wake up and smell the silicon.
The Alpha has been dead for some time (almost 2 years now). Nobody is saying anything differently. MIPS wasn't nearly as good at floating point as similliar alphas. The current Alpha prices have more to do with volume production and HP wanting to hasten the Alpha platforms exit than with any "inherent expense" of the Alpha design. BTW DEC has been dead and GONE almost 5 years now. What rock have you been hiding under?
Slashdot editors have had this happen to them! That is why they we have repeat stories, sometimes one right after the other!
Price is an issue with any 64 bit arch. You know twice the number of bits means more wire in your board, usually another layer or 2 as well. There is no current "workstation" alpha. When there was it's price/performance blew a lot of hardware away, especially if you were doing a lot of scientific work with heavy math involved.
The price performance quote is actually not quite right, for super computing applications the price/performance is incredible. That is why Cray uses alphas, and many of the top supercomputers in the world rely on the 5-7 year old design, even today!
Stop faking things like the contents of this post.
Cowards are just that. Why don't you go purchase a clue? Also check out the story here for references on Intel's quality control. You also might want to check out who's designing your new Intel chips (can you spell alpha moron). For a story related to that, check here then of course there is the denial that the alpha design has influenced Intel here
You may also want to check out sources like EEtimes, shannon knows DEC/Compaq/HP and of course the intel web site. BTW VMS is running on IA64 hardware. Do you know what VMS is little girl?
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I know this isn't quite on topic, but I wonder how the latest Alpha design would fair. The alpha was the first mass produced 64 bit chip that had any commercial success. It was introduced in the early nineties. IN fact Linus had one. Basically the curret EV78 is a 6 or 7 year old design, but in most serious tests of processor power it has done quite good. It's amazing that such an "old" design still works so well. The last SPEC numbers I can find are here. Considering the platorm has been ignored and basically orphaned, it's suprising that this chip still powers many of the worlds top rated super computers.
How does all this relate to the G5 and Opteron? Well AMD gets it's bus design from the Alpha lineage. The G5 is built by IBM, who I believe is building the alpha cores as well (I could be wrong, I can't keep up). The irony? Every current intel pentium chip is quality control checked by machines with alpha processors. Funny world huh?
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At one time we didn't NEED internet law. It was understood that certain standards of behavior we're required so that we could all "get along". People that refused to follow the rules were "banned", essentially made non citizens of the global eletronic world. It was a brutally effective punishment.
Now we have no real accepted standard of behavior, and no penalty that is effective. Thus we have to create "Internet Laws" and find someway to enforce them. The early system was elegant and egalitarian. The current system is simply a miserable failure. I do not pine for the early days, I do not secretly sit in a dark corner complaining about the unwashed masses. I am vocal and write to my representatives when internet issues come before them, I try to enlighten my friends and family on the issues. Perhaps someday we will have some represntatives with a modicum of internet savvy. Then and only then can we start to write good internet law. Until then, 2003 was merely a stepping stone in a long arduous process.
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