So we can look forward to 500 or so more articles on/. about the SCO issue? I'm sure glad/. is giving them so much press to the exact market SCO wants their FUD spread to. SCO is already winning.
Hell, I give anonymous posters +1 automatically, in my prefs. The real trolls still get modded down enough that I don't see 'em (I browse at 2). Works out pretty damned well.
So how much did the quality drop during these tests? Was it significant? Maybe the hacks nVidia put in for 3dmark03 specifically could be carried over to other games?
Re:What does using Gator have to do with using IE?
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Right. He's obviously an idiot for using Internet Explorer. He should think for himself. Let's all tell him what to think!!
Btw, I don't know if anyone cares, but the average download speed for people hitting the JPEG link is so far 58.3KB/s. Not that I'm arguing against posting smaller PNGs, I was just curious and maybe other people were too.:)
Makes sense now. I didn't know the cases were such a big part of it.
I'd bet this already exists, but I haven't personally seen it. A service where you bring in your old battery, case and all, and they swap out the cells for you, for a fee. That'd be neat.
Re:Why do people do this?
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I'm saying that spammers are going through the effort because some people aren't as anti-spam as the/. majority is. People actually do respond to this shit. On top of that, the spammers are selling a service - to get the message out to the most people possible (or N# of people). Yahoo! and AOL are two prime targets. If you can break their filters, you have another few million people as an audience.
Nobody signed up for AOL because they thought they'd get less spam. I'll bet the same goes for Yahoo! mail.
I'd bet if AOL found some foolproof way to block all spam, their users would be scratching their heads, and they'd call up asking "Where'd all the e-mail go?" People would actually miss spam! (Ok, maybe for only a second.:))
Or maybe this is "another mirror" by the time I finish posting this. The site is getting pounded hard. This is just the JPEG that was linked to, not the entire site.
Yeah, I agree. I didn't know about S/MIME. That's great. All MS would have had to do is to use it on all of their e-mails, from all of their staff, from Hotmail announcements, etc. That would have been enough to get the ball rolling.
I guess it comes down to a choice of style. Is chronological better? I dunno.
My resume lists my significant experience, with detail, and then I have an "other experience" section further down which does not contain detail (it says I worked there, for such and such a time, in such a position), and is for positions where I did things other than my current occupation.
I'd prefer someone who did work at 7-11 for a year, but if I'm reading one of a thousand resumes for a position and the first thing I see on there (in a purely chronological resume) is 7-11 manager, I might not bother reading on.
It's not like PGP-signing e-mails is something new and fantastical. If they'd done their homework, Outlook Express would have had such a thing incorporated in to it LONG ago (and I don't mean w/ a 3rd-party app), AND MS would have been making use of it for every one of their e-mails (make it a requirement that all employees use it, too). That'd go a long ways towards making signed e-mails the defacto standard.
Instead, MS chose to make HTML the "defacto standard" for e-mail, and I (and many others) despise them for it.:)
Re:Another bad Slashdot analogy
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Double opt-in is a misnomer. I think you mean "confirmed opt-in". You don't request to be added twice, you're merely confirming your request to be added.
Of course, I agree, but I think it's a dangerous path. If confirmed opt-in is legislated, we'll just see a bunch of "confirmation requests" all the time. They'll trace it back to some hitbot in China submitting the forms, but by that time, the damage will have already been done.
I don't think open relays are as bad as they once were. The vast majority of the spam I get comes from Windows servers that aren't running open relays (port 25). A small handful are running open proxy software (some of which responds to CONNECT).
I was really surprised to find that most of them are Windows machines. They're probably people's desktop machines. In the very few cases where I've been able to access them (anonymous smb) I've found that they were running spyware applications (Gator et al). Could Gator et al be the ones relaying the spam?
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Deregulation is good, because in theory, it will increase competition. In practice, the companies that were once under a regulated monopoly do not want competition. They do all sorts of things to make sure other companies cannot possibly compete with them, and in the end, once competition is all but killed, they raise their prices.
Regulation now would only set the new high prices as the bar.
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The reason people are working so hard to break filters is not to get to Joe Bob SpamAssassin - it's to get through Yahoo! and AOL's spam filters.
Ask a dozen random AOL and Yahoo! users - I bet not one of them can describe how the antispam features that their mail host uses work.
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I've been checking - most of the spam I get is actually from Windows boxes that don't have port 25 open (or other proxy ports). On some of them, the ones that invited me in (because they spammed me,;) ), I've been able to look around. I've found the usual spyware - Gator, KaZaa, etc. I'm not sure if any of those allow the companies to send spam from 'doze boxes, but it sure wouldn't surprise me.
Slashdot Mirror
So we can look forward to 500 or so more articles on /. about the SCO issue? I'm sure glad /. is giving them so much press to the exact market SCO wants their FUD spread to. SCO is already winning.
info is definitely one of those applications which deserves the GNU/ prepend. Buh.
Does running Linux on an Xbox render the Xbox completely unable to play Xbox games ever again? That'd be quite a mod.
In pine... uh.. hm.. don't.. hmm.. click? Hmm. Profit?
This article didn't make it to the main page. I think that's why you don't see as many responses.
Speak for yourself - some of us live in areas that get the majority of their power from clean sources. :)
Hell, I give anonymous posters +1 automatically, in my prefs. The real trolls still get modded down enough that I don't see 'em (I browse at 2). Works out pretty damned well.
So does this mean NV's driver developers are smarter, or more ballsy? :)
I'm against it too. Along those lines, let's agree to stop using the term "reverse sexism". It's sexism, plain and simple.
Just like "reverse discrimination" is the wrong term to use for white discrimination - it's plain and simple discrimination.
So how much did the quality drop during these tests? Was it significant? Maybe the hacks nVidia put in for 3dmark03 specifically could be carried over to other games?
Right. He's obviously an idiot for using Internet Explorer. He should think for himself. Let's all tell him what to think!!
o yea, that's dumb.
The good of the many outweigh the good of the few, or the one.
jpegtopnm < earth_jupiter_100.jpg | pnmtopng > earth_jupiter_100.png
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:)
PNG version.
Enjoy.
Btw, I don't know if anyone cares, but the average download speed for people hitting the JPEG link is so far 58.3KB/s. Not that I'm arguing against posting smaller PNGs, I was just curious and maybe other people were too.
Makes sense now. I didn't know the cases were such a big part of it.
I'd bet this already exists, but I haven't personally seen it. A service where you bring in your old battery, case and all, and they swap out the cells for you, for a fee. That'd be neat.
I'm saying that spammers are going through the effort because some people aren't as anti-spam as the /. majority is. People actually do respond to this shit. On top of that, the spammers are selling a service - to get the message out to the most people possible (or N# of people). Yahoo! and AOL are two prime targets. If you can break their filters, you have another few million people as an audience.
:))
Nobody signed up for AOL because they thought they'd get less spam. I'll bet the same goes for Yahoo! mail.
I'd bet if AOL found some foolproof way to block all spam, their users would be scratching their heads, and they'd call up asking "Where'd all the e-mail go?" People would actually miss spam! (Ok, maybe for only a second.
Or maybe this is "another mirror" by the time I finish posting this. The site is getting pounded hard. This is just the JPEG that was linked to, not the entire site.
/. doesn't have any consideration for other sites when they post links.
429319 byte JPEG. It's on a beefy connection, have a blast.
It's really too bad
Yeah, I agree. I didn't know about S/MIME. That's great. All MS would have had to do is to use it on all of their e-mails, from all of their staff, from Hotmail announcements, etc. That would have been enough to get the ball rolling.
Hell, it still would be.
I guess it comes down to a choice of style. Is chronological better? I dunno.
My resume lists my significant experience, with detail, and then I have an "other experience" section further down which does not contain detail (it says I worked there, for such and such a time, in such a position), and is for positions where I did things other than my current occupation.
I'd prefer someone who did work at 7-11 for a year, but if I'm reading one of a thousand resumes for a position and the first thing I see on there (in a purely chronological resume) is 7-11 manager, I might not bother reading on.
Sure, but why put 7-11 on your resume then? You don't have to include every single job you've ever worked ya know. ;)
Microsoft should've known better. ;)
:)
It's not like PGP-signing e-mails is something new and fantastical. If they'd done their homework, Outlook Express would have had such a thing incorporated in to it LONG ago (and I don't mean w/ a 3rd-party app), AND MS would have been making use of it for every one of their e-mails (make it a requirement that all employees use it, too). That'd go a long ways towards making signed e-mails the defacto standard.
Instead, MS chose to make HTML the "defacto standard" for e-mail, and I (and many others) despise them for it.
Double opt-in is a misnomer. I think you mean "confirmed opt-in". You don't request to be added twice, you're merely confirming your request to be added.
Of course, I agree, but I think it's a dangerous path. If confirmed opt-in is legislated, we'll just see a bunch of "confirmation requests" all the time. They'll trace it back to some hitbot in China submitting the forms, but by that time, the damage will have already been done.
I don't think open relays are as bad as they once were. The vast majority of the spam I get comes from Windows servers that aren't running open relays (port 25). A small handful are running open proxy software (some of which responds to CONNECT).
I was really surprised to find that most of them are Windows machines. They're probably people's desktop machines. In the very few cases where I've been able to access them (anonymous smb) I've found that they were running spyware applications (Gator et al). Could Gator et al be the ones relaying the spam?
Deregulation is good, because in theory, it will increase competition. In practice, the companies that were once under a regulated monopoly do not want competition. They do all sorts of things to make sure other companies cannot possibly compete with them, and in the end, once competition is all but killed, they raise their prices.
Regulation now would only set the new high prices as the bar.
The reason people are working so hard to break filters is not to get to Joe Bob SpamAssassin - it's to get through Yahoo! and AOL's spam filters.
Ask a dozen random AOL and Yahoo! users - I bet not one of them can describe how the antispam features that their mail host uses work.
I've been checking - most of the spam I get is actually from Windows boxes that don't have port 25 open (or other proxy ports). On some of them, the ones that invited me in (because they spammed me, ;) ), I've been able to look around. I've found the usual spyware - Gator, KaZaa, etc. I'm not sure if any of those allow the companies to send spam from 'doze boxes, but it sure wouldn't surprise me.