bonded sender is talking about $1000 per server... There is *no way* I can afford that kind of money to run my mailserver (the hardware didn't even cost one tenth of that). We have three at work here - that would cost us $3000 for zero benefit (yeah, I can really see that one get past the bean counters).
If it was $20 it might be worth it. At $1000 maybe big ISPs might bother (but they're the source of most of the spam anyway... I get shedloads from rr.com, btw.).
Fake costs work for eg. the telephone network (network maintenence is fairly fixed-cost so charging by the minute is pretty bogus.. half the traffic goes over IP anyway)... it's all about market forces in the end - if you can convince people that paying is 'better' they'll pay (you can bet MS will try something like that soon).
Spam changes a *lot*, often to get around bayesean filters, plus the filters vary in effectiveness. For example at work SA catches ~2000 spams a day. With SA 2.55 I had a cron job wiping the bayes database once a week because after that it started to give a lot of false negatives. 2.60 seems to have cured that one (although there's one spammer who seems to score BAYES_00 every time, and I'm damned if I can work out a rule to stop him because he's using servers all over the place, and there's only about a dozen words in the spam).
Since SA 2.60 it seems bayes is about 80% accurate, with the rules catching the rest... unfortunately most spam now comes with 'bayes poisoners' so the bayes effectiveness seems to level off with time (it might start dropping off again, depending on how much poisoned spam we get).
Eventually bayes poisoning will reach the stage that it'll be rendered useless, but hopefully another technology will come along that'll replace it.
I'm not sure I believe the 99% stories... with a carefully constructed corpus anyone can get figures like that, but they're not representitive of the real world.
btw. Never bounce spam... the bounce will simply end up in some poor suckers inbox and the spammer will never hear about it.
The first time I tried reiser was early in the 2.4.x cycle and it took 3 days to render the drive unbootable.
That last time (after dozens of people said 'it's better now') was about a month ago - debian didn't even get to the end of the install process before reiser f*cked up. I'm not bothering again. (And each time is with known working hardware that's been 100% reliable on ext3 since, before you ask).
JFS/XFS seem quite good... although the thing I like most about ext3 is it's easy to recover with a boot disk as it's compatible with ext2.
Yup, they'll be bombing bits of britain tonight:) (tempted to make a cheap shot about current events here but there are too many americans on slashdot).
TBH these people don't sound that good... they go on about this DOS app that can recover disks but for that to happen (a) the drive has to be viable (no good if someone's trashed the electronics) and (b) it would have to have a working DOS partition on it! (Note the mention in the article of C: drives) - this isn't a low level recovery app they're describing... it's an undelete program. Wooopie doo - and I bet they charge a 5 figure sum for using it too.
They're like the things that stores use. I believe they're just magnetic strips of some kind (I've pulled a few apart and not been able to find any electronics in them). The 'detector' just de-magnetises the strip.
Called a magic bag, people use them for shoplifting. I'm quite sure they're illegal.
I'm told that these will automatically set of the anti-theft alarms if you try to walk through them... mind you the guy who told me was a security guard:)
(1) The legal system has basically failed. These guys should have been told to shut up or put up as soon as they started, but we're told it could be two *years* before the lawyers get of their f...ing arses and actually get the thing to court. (2) People posting about (1) saying 'it's all part of the game'. It's *not* a game. It's a threat to the life the average slashdotter has a lot of emotional (and probably financial) investment in.
I have a lot of sympathy for the extreme posts. Heck, I'd be talking like that myself but I'm not that kind of person.
However, if it really came to it and I saw someone with a baseball bat on his way to teach those goons a lesson I'd probably just develop temporary blindness. I don't generally agree with violence, but what are the options? There aren't any any more.
The UK government is planning to force everyone to have it added to their water, which pretty much means I'll have to start buying gallons of non-flouridated water at inflated prices (my wife has a stomach condition and things like that are almost guaranteed to put her in hospital).
Not to mention the major health risk - if you boil water with it it leaves a residue that is apparently more toxic than cyanide, so you have to scrub the kettle clean after each cup... no thanks. I can't risk dying because someone forgot to scrub the kettle out.
I bought one on Friday:) (the dealer put the prices up a few days too early... accepted the order though).
I should have it in my hands by Tomorrow, which is a first for CPU release I believe - usually manufacturers (Intel especially) advertise months before general availability...
It could be the floating point. AMD added a shedload of FP registers in 64bit mode, so you no longer have to do so much stack based stuff when you're doing calculations.
Fine, except the guy who wrote the article *is* a programmer - he produces a semi-commercial rival to openssh (cryptlib, which was Windows only last time I used it 6 months ago).
No it's not fraud, it's on your contract (oh and if you still think it's fraud, better never catch a plane because they all contend the seat allocations too).
They contend at eg. 15:1 and are therefore able to sell $400 bandwidth for $600 (15*40). = Profit.
This works as long as everyone is just browsing plus the occasional download.
Then someone comes along and decides they want that bandwidth 24/7... suddenly for that $400 they're only getting $40 and they have to buy another $400 circuit to keep the other 14 customers happy.
So suddenly they're getting $600 for $800 worth of bandwidth. = No profit.
The cheap bandwidth model is falling apart because of changing internet usage. DSL/Cable is going to have to become a *lot* more expensive to get the contention down. The companies don't want to do that because people get pissed off when the prices go up (especially if they double or triple!) so they're going for the easy option - bandwidth caps.. force people to 'play nice' and use the actual bandwidth they paid for (which is only the contended fraction of the total available bandwidth - the rest is 'borrowed').
Hint: IF you want something as slow as a T1 don't bother.
The providers aren't interested in laying copper. It's dead technology. Ask for 10MB at least and they might be interested enough to start bargaining.
And don't let them talk you into the CIR/PVC/MBS stuff as that's just a cash cow*... get the bare cable if you can get them to provide it & do both ends yourself (not always possible unless you can get physical access to a POP, but it's easier than you might think).
* All leased lines are just Frame Relay - the rest is just marketing, really.
Imagine if there were a couple of people that used all the oxygen for an entire country each day, and people were suffocating.
In that case I certainly would advocate killing off the 'heavy breathers' to allow other their share of air.
Heavy P2Pers use many times more bandwidth than average.. it's not just a few percent more - often it's 10 times the average. Then the ISP gets complaints the network is slow. They have two choices - buy more bandwidth & increase the monthly bills, or chuck off the leaches who were only giving them $50 a month anyway.
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So what happens is 'Joe Greedy' signs up for 100 email lists, and pushes the 'charge' button for every single email he receives.
:) $250 for pressing a button 1000 times.
Nice little 'earner
bonded sender is talking about $1000 per server... There is *no way* I can afford that kind of money to run my mailserver (the hardware didn't even cost one tenth of that). We have three at work here - that would cost us $3000 for zero benefit (yeah, I can really see that one get past the bean counters).
If it was $20 it might be worth it. At $1000 maybe big ISPs might bother (but they're the source of most of the spam anyway... I get shedloads from rr.com, btw.).
Fake costs work for eg. the telephone network (network maintenence is fairly fixed-cost so charging by the minute is pretty bogus.. half the traffic goes over IP anyway)... it's all about market forces in the end - if you can convince people that paying is 'better' they'll pay (you can bet MS will try something like that soon).
Spam changes a *lot*, often to get around bayesean filters, plus the filters vary in effectiveness. For example at work SA catches ~2000 spams a day. With SA 2.55 I had a cron job wiping the bayes database once a week because after that it started to give a lot of false negatives. 2.60 seems to have cured that one (although there's one spammer who seems to score BAYES_00 every time, and I'm damned if I can work out a rule to stop him because he's using servers all over the place, and there's only about a dozen words in the spam).
Since SA 2.60 it seems bayes is about 80% accurate, with the rules catching the rest... unfortunately most spam now comes with 'bayes poisoners' so the bayes effectiveness seems to level off with time (it might start dropping off again, depending on how much poisoned spam we get).
Eventually bayes poisoning will reach the stage that it'll be rendered useless, but hopefully another technology will come along that'll replace it.
I'm not sure I believe the 99% stories... with a carefully constructed corpus anyone can get figures like that, but they're not representitive of the real world.
btw. Never bounce spam... the bounce will simply end up in some poor suckers inbox and the spammer will never hear about it.
At least read the summary :)
She *did* get the credit card.
The first time I tried reiser was early in the 2.4.x cycle and it took 3 days to render the drive unbootable.
That last time (after dozens of people said 'it's better now') was about a month ago - debian didn't even get to the end of the install process before reiser f*cked up. I'm not bothering again. (And each time is with known working hardware that's been 100% reliable on ext3 since, before you ask).
JFS/XFS seem quite good... although the thing I like most about ext3 is it's easy to recover with a boot disk as it's compatible with ext2.
Yup, they'll be bombing bits of britain tonight :)
(tempted to make a cheap shot about current events here but there are too many americans on slashdot).
Maybe he's the world best reenigne?
He's full of sh.t anyway.
If you recover your data using pkzip, well say goodbye to all your long filenames...
He doesn't mention how he got pkzip to write to an NTFS drive either...
TBH these people don't sound that good... they go on about this DOS app that can recover disks but for that to happen (a) the drive has to be viable (no good if someone's trashed the electronics) and (b) it would have to have a working DOS partition on it! (Note the mention in the article of C: drives) - this isn't a low level recovery app they're describing... it's an undelete program. Wooopie doo - and I bet they charge a 5 figure sum for using it too.
They're like the things that stores use. I believe they're just magnetic strips of some kind (I've pulled a few apart and not been able to find any electronics in them). The 'detector' just de-magnetises the strip.
Called a magic bag, people use them for shoplifting. I'm quite sure they're illegal.
:)
I'm told that these will automatically set of the anti-theft alarms if you try to walk through them... mind you the guy who told me was a security guard
Aargh that Red Dwarf trailer... I nearly cried after seeing that - talk about *not* getting the point!
Considering the way they destroyed the Dr.Who movie I'm not holding out much hope.
I've got every hitch hiker book/tape but I'm not anticipating going to see this movie.
It's understandable though... consider the facts:
(1) The legal system has basically failed. These guys should have been told to shut up or put up as soon as they started, but we're told it could be two *years* before the lawyers get of their f...ing arses and actually get the thing to court.
(2) People posting about (1) saying 'it's all part of the game'. It's *not* a game. It's a threat to the life the average slashdotter has a lot of emotional (and probably financial) investment in.
I have a lot of sympathy for the extreme posts. Heck, I'd be talking like that myself but I'm not that kind of person.
However, if it really came to it and I saw someone with a baseball bat on his way to teach those goons a lesson I'd probably just develop temporary blindness. I don't generally agree with violence, but what are the options? There aren't any any more.
The UK government is planning to force everyone to have it added to their water, which pretty much means I'll have to start buying gallons of non-flouridated water at inflated prices (my wife has a stomach condition and things like that are almost guaranteed to put her in hospital).
Not to mention the major health risk - if you boil water with it it leaves a residue that is apparently more toxic than cyanide, so you have to scrub the kettle clean after each cup... no thanks. I can't risk dying because someone forgot to scrub the kettle out.
I bought one on Friday :) (the dealer put the prices up a few days too early... accepted the order though).
I should have it in my hands by Tomorrow, which is a first for CPU release I believe - usually manufacturers (Intel especially) advertise months before general availability...
It could be the floating point. AMD added a shedload of FP registers in 64bit mode, so you no longer have to do so much stack based stuff when you're doing calculations.
You don't need PAE for that... normal paging can handle that just fine.
Fine, except the guy who wrote the article *is* a programmer - he produces a semi-commercial rival to openssh (cryptlib, which was Windows only last time I used it 6 months ago).
No it's not fraud, it's on your contract (oh and if you still think it's fraud, better never catch a plane because they all contend the seat allocations too).
They contend at eg. 15:1 and are therefore able to sell $400 bandwidth for $600 (15*40). = Profit.
This works as long as everyone is just browsing plus the occasional download.
Then someone comes along and decides they want that bandwidth 24/7... suddenly for that $400 they're only getting $40 and they have to buy another $400 circuit to keep the other 14 customers happy.
So suddenly they're getting $600 for $800 worth of bandwidth. = No profit.
The cheap bandwidth model is falling apart because of changing internet usage. DSL/Cable is going to have to become a *lot* more expensive to get the contention down. The companies don't want to do that because people get pissed off when the prices go up (especially if they double or triple!) so they're going for the easy option - bandwidth caps.. force people to 'play nice' and use the actual bandwidth they paid for (which is only the contended fraction of the total available bandwidth - the rest is 'borrowed').
Hint: IF you want something as slow as a T1 don't bother.
The providers aren't interested in laying copper. It's dead technology. Ask for 10MB at least and they might be interested enough to start bargaining.
And don't let them talk you into the CIR/PVC/MBS stuff as that's just a cash cow*... get the bare cable if you can get them to provide it & do both ends yourself (not always possible unless you can get physical access to a POP, but it's easier than you might think).
* All leased lines are just Frame Relay - the rest is just marketing, really.
Imagine if there were a couple of people that used all the oxygen for an entire country each day, and people were suffocating.
In that case I certainly would advocate killing off the 'heavy breathers' to allow other their share of air.
Heavy P2Pers use many times more bandwidth than average.. it's not just a few percent more - often it's 10 times the average. Then the ISP gets complaints the network is slow. They have two choices - buy more bandwidth & increase the monthly bills, or chuck off the leaches who were only giving them $50 a month anyway.
Maybe 10 years ago this might have been news.. but today? Half the ISPs out there have caps of some sort.
Nildram have applied the patch (they mentioned this on adslguide yesterday IIRC).