VMS was doing that 20 years ago... they probably weren't the first either.
I'm surprised it's taken Windows that long. OTOH the feature currently doesn't work on Vista (doesn't look like it's implemented) - there's a 'versions' in properties but it's never populated.
Problem with nuclear is the waste. Reprocessing plants are *not* cheap, so they offset the cost (it was worked out in the 80's that nuclear was the most expensive technology, with many plants only surviving by government subsidy (producing some weapons grade stuff on the side I'd guess)).
True they don't go wrong often, but when they do... you don't wanna be in the same country..
Worst one I saw was 'high calcium water'. There was a craze for it a few years back.. I saw doting mothers literally walking out with shopping carts full of the stuff.
The 'secret' ingredient? Calcium carbonate. Exactly the same stuff that's in tapwater in cities (that turns your kettle mungy).
Except these numpties were paying £2 a bottle with about 100 bottles a week...
In fact the over-sterilisation of our environment has been linked with the rise in immune disorders such as asthma.
I was always tought that it's good to let children get covered in mud occasionally so their immune systems get a good workout - and this was years ago. Seems that this advice is becoming accepted again.
Whether the story that gave the effect its name is entirely accurate (although I'd believe documented history rather than a wiki anyday about that) the effect *does* exist, and companies have been bankcrupt that way.
If you did any business studies at college you'd have probably had to do an essay or three on it...
Same here - and I even have 10.4 in a box. Had to uninstall it because the compiler couldn't create 10.3.6 compatible binaries (which is still a showstopper because we have large customers on 10.3.6). Thought it was dreadfully expensive at the time for a mere point upgrade... they're doing the same with 10.5 (which probably won't be able to create 10.4 binaries if apple are true to form).
I know of no good ISP that bans such servers. Nor would I use any that did - that's retarded... I'm paying for the bandwidth and it's mine to use.
Consumer grade DSL is much faster than the servers that used to run ISP email systems just a few years ago - there's really no need to pay for expensive hosting unless you're a company needing 99.9% uptime. I do have hosts for some stuff but only that for which the bandwidth requirements exceed what DSL can provide.
propose that we start treating ALL mail as spam, then run our tests in reverse to see if it's legit or not
The false positive rate would go through the roof if you did that - and for many companies one false positive can cost thousands (potentially millions) in lost business.
It's better to have a small false negative rate than a small false positive rate.
You could extend SMTP - for example a version of sender verification that not only asks whether a username is correct, but whether a messageid is correct (ie. not only 'do you know who this is?' but 'did you really send this message?'). The problem is getting enough people to accept the change (ISPs mostly since they handle the bulk of email) and solving problems like relays.
my logfiles indicate that they catch thousands of spam-mails per day. But i woulyd not even know without them.
You pay for your bandwidth presumably? Image spam is 10-100* the size of normal spam. Once you're over quota due to spam and your monthly rates go up then you'll understand what the problem is.
Now scale that to the ISP level - these people deal with hundreds of thousands of *legitimate* emails per day. Now they're getting 10* that in spam (around 90% of all email sent is spam currently). They have to put in a bigger pipe, servers, etc. to handle the load.. your monthly bill goes up.
I used to use email filters but stopped a couple years ago, preferring to delete what I don't want myself. I found email filters were simply a waste of time, space, system resources & money. Also considering you had to do much of the work yourself with email filters, it was just as easy to hit the delete button.
Lucky you, your time is clearly worth nothing.
I get 1500-2000 email spams a day to my personal account. Lots of people have similar volumes. Spamassassin just works, and doesn't require me to do anything.
Greylisting helps, but not much since most spam is retried multiple times.. when I tried it the volume of spam didn't drop by more than a few %, and I lost quite a bit of legitimate email (MS Exchange servers mostly as they treated the nonfatal error code as a bounce).
The biggie for me is sender verification (in postfix, probably in other MTA's too) - the MTA looks up the MX for the sending domain and basically says 'do you know who cheapviagra@foo.com is?'. This catches over 80% of spam before it even reaches the server (only a few headers are sent). Spamassassin mops up the rest.
Even that has false positives (cisco for example send out emails from bogus email addresses). There's no perfect system..
It should be fairly easy to see this going on and for law enforcement to catch the right people. These 10,000 shares must be owned by someone and there will be a record of that.
Not dissimilar to what happened with Saddam hussein.
The plan was to release a nice clean film of a dignified hanging. The moment the cameras were off they changed tack completely. Luckily someone had a camera phone.
In any sizable protest now the majority will have camera phones - which means the scenario you describe of waiting until the media is out of the way isn't going to happen. Take film, email it from the phone, and keep out of the way of the police whilst it's emailing (which isn't long at 3G speeds). If you get arrested and they 'accidentally' step on the phone it's too late.
Who here remembers Williams Communications and their bandwidth exchange, back during the height of the bouble?
Interesting.. I worked for a company that wanted to do that a couple of years back. They even claimed to be getting a patent on the idea... They'd just been bought out by this US investment company, sold on the flashy words ('if we get 1% of the bandwidth market you'll all be millionaires' and other crap (Yes the statement is factually true but the size of that 'If' dwarfs the rest of the statement)). They even had special routers on order that measured bandwidth usage/availability (now *that* would be a hard sell... shall I go for a cisco or this unknown company with no track record?? hmm...)
All the employees knew that it was hogwash but management was just seeing dollar sign. One of them even remortgaged his house to plough into the business. It turned out that this 'multi million dollar investment company' had a staff of 5 people. They'd tried this 3 times before and all of the ventures had gone bankcrupt.
I wonder if Williams Communications was in the early history of these clowns (given their patent claims).
And if someone wanted to create a successful 'unofficial' TLD google would be the people to do it. Unless a website is indexed by google it effectively doesn't exist (unless it's big/well known already). If google started returning.ggl sites I'd be adding their root servers the next day.
The MS download manager is actually quite good now.. it used to be the height of suckage but all the MSDN subscribers complaining motivated them to do something about it.
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..or vista (seriously.. that thing hits the disk constantly.. it just assumes swap is there and uses it, even when you have 2GB of RAM).
VMS was doing that 20 years ago... they probably weren't the first either.
I'm surprised it's taken Windows that long. OTOH the feature currently doesn't work on Vista (doesn't look like it's implemented) - there's a 'versions' in properties but it's never populated.
Problem with nuclear is the waste. Reprocessing plants are *not* cheap, so they offset the cost (it was worked out in the 80's that nuclear was the most expensive technology, with many plants only surviving by government subsidy (producing some weapons grade stuff on the side I'd guess)).
True they don't go wrong often, but when they do... you don't wanna be in the same country..
I'm guessing 2 million sheep don't have many electricity demands...
When I see organic milk I can't help thinking that the inorganic stuff would be a bit crunchy...
Worst one I saw was 'high calcium water'. There was a craze for it a few years back.. I saw doting mothers literally walking out with shopping carts full of the stuff.
The 'secret' ingredient? Calcium carbonate. Exactly the same stuff that's in tapwater in cities (that turns your kettle mungy).
Except these numpties were paying £2 a bottle with about 100 bottles a week...
In fact the over-sterilisation of our environment has been linked with the rise in immune disorders such as asthma.
I was always tought that it's good to let children get covered in mud occasionally so their immune systems get a good workout - and this was years ago. Seems that this advice is becoming accepted again.
Whether the story that gave the effect its name is entirely accurate (although I'd believe documented history rather than a wiki anyday about that) the effect *does* exist, and companies have been bankcrupt that way.
If you did any business studies at college you'd have probably had to do an essay or three on it...
If it's not an ipod then what the hell is it? A phone with no 3g, no video calling, no java, no MMS...
Apple seem to be pushing it as a next-gen ipod, so it's entirely fair to compare it with existing ipods.
There's no such thing as bad publicity!
Patently untrue. See The Osborne Effect which is a textbook example of a company destroying itself with its own publicity.
Bad publicity generated externally has bankcrupted companies in the past as well, and even if it doesn't affects their bottom line.
Same here - and I even have 10.4 in a box. Had to uninstall it because the compiler couldn't create 10.3.6 compatible binaries (which is still a showstopper because we have large customers on 10.3.6). Thought it was dreadfully expensive at the time for a mere point upgrade... they're doing the same with 10.5 (which probably won't be able to create 10.4 binaries if apple are true to form).
Rule 1: never forward spam, even to abuse addresses, and absolutely never to the 'unsubscribe' address.
The only exception I know of is spamcop as they're (I think) trustworthy.
I know of no good ISP that bans such servers. Nor would I use any that did - that's retarded... I'm paying for the bandwidth and it's mine to use.
Consumer grade DSL is much faster than the servers that used to run ISP email systems just a few years ago - there's really no need to pay for expensive hosting unless you're a company needing 99.9% uptime. I do have hosts for some stuff but only that for which the bandwidth requirements exceed what DSL can provide.
propose that we start treating ALL mail as spam, then run our tests in reverse to see if it's legit or not
The false positive rate would go through the roof if you did that - and for many companies one false positive can cost thousands (potentially millions) in lost business.
It's better to have a small false negative rate than a small false positive rate.
You could extend SMTP - for example a version of sender verification that not only asks whether a username is correct, but whether a messageid is correct (ie. not only 'do you know who this is?' but 'did you really send this message?'). The problem is getting enough people to accept the change (ISPs mostly since they handle the bulk of email) and solving problems like relays.
my logfiles indicate that they catch thousands of spam-mails per day. But i woulyd not even know without them.
You pay for your bandwidth presumably? Image spam is 10-100* the size of normal spam. Once you're over quota due to spam and your monthly rates go up then you'll understand what the problem is.
Now scale that to the ISP level - these people deal with hundreds of thousands of *legitimate* emails per day. Now they're getting 10* that in spam (around 90% of all email sent is spam currently). They have to put in a bigger pipe, servers, etc. to handle the load.. your monthly bill goes up.
I used to use email filters but stopped a couple years ago, preferring to delete what I don't want myself. I found email filters were simply a waste of time, space, system resources & money. Also considering you had to do much of the work yourself with email filters, it was just as easy to hit the delete button.
Lucky you, your time is clearly worth nothing.
I get 1500-2000 email spams a day to my personal account. Lots of people have similar volumes. Spamassassin just works, and doesn't require me to do anything.
Say goodbye to mailing lists, and legitimate business email (have you any idea how many emails amazon send in a day?).
Oh, and good luck collecting and money from the spammers in china.
Greylisting helps, but not much since most spam is retried multiple times.. when I tried it the volume of spam didn't drop by more than a few %, and I lost quite a bit of legitimate email (MS Exchange servers mostly as they treated the nonfatal error code as a bounce).
The biggie for me is sender verification (in postfix, probably in other MTA's too) - the MTA looks up the MX for the sending domain and basically says 'do you know who cheapviagra@foo.com is?'. This catches over 80% of spam before it even reaches the server (only a few headers are sent). Spamassassin mops up the rest.
Even that has false positives (cisco for example send out emails from bogus email addresses). There's no perfect system..
It should be fairly easy to see this going on and for law enforcement to catch the right people. These 10,000 shares must be owned by someone and there will be a record of that.
That's a git if you're running a mailing list... suddenly you can't browse the web.
Not dissimilar to what happened with Saddam hussein.
The plan was to release a nice clean film of a dignified hanging. The moment the cameras were off they changed tack completely.
Luckily someone had a camera phone.
In any sizable protest now the majority will have camera phones - which means the scenario you describe of waiting until the media is out of the way isn't going to happen. Take film, email it from the phone, and keep out of the way of the police whilst it's emailing (which isn't long at 3G speeds). If you get arrested and they 'accidentally' step on the phone it's too late.
Who here remembers Williams Communications and their bandwidth exchange, back during the height of the bouble?
Interesting.. I worked for a company that wanted to do that a couple of years back. They even claimed to be getting a patent on the idea... They'd just been bought out by this US investment company, sold on the flashy words ('if we get 1% of the bandwidth market you'll all be millionaires' and other crap (Yes the statement is factually true but the size of that 'If' dwarfs the rest of the statement)). They even had special routers on order that measured bandwidth usage/availability (now *that* would be a hard sell... shall I go for a cisco or this unknown company with no track record?? hmm...)
All the employees knew that it was hogwash but management was just seeing dollar sign. One of them even remortgaged his house to plough into the business. It turned out that this 'multi million dollar investment company' had a staff of 5 people. They'd tried this 3 times before and all of the ventures had gone bankcrupt.
I wonder if Williams Communications was in the early history of these clowns (given their patent claims).
I'm sure google could afford to lease the dark fiber in an area... the stuff is all over the place and plentiful supply normally -- cheap.
The problem comes when you want to light it. Then it gets expensive.
And if someone wanted to create a successful 'unofficial' TLD google would be the people to do it. Unless a website is indexed by google it effectively doesn't exist (unless it's big/well known already). If google started returning .ggl sites I'd be adding their root servers the next day.
The MS download manager is actually quite good now.. it used to be the height of suckage but all the MSDN subscribers complaining motivated them to do something about it.