That just sounds like those lame autorespond schemes that are around.
If joe schmuck gets a bounce from an email address asking for money he'lll just say 'sod that' and either pick up the phone or ignore it (actually, from experience from non-techie friends he'll probably just get confused and assume his email is 'broken').
If I get one I'll just put the recipient on a blacklist. If they want to talk to me it's up to them to receive my email not up to me to worry about their broken configuration.
I'd probably set up a script since I run mailing lists. If anyone sends me one of these - automatic permanent ban.
So I receive an email that someon has put a stamp on.
I don't run Windows. Or OE.
Oops, it just cost him money to send to a Linux user... Six months down the road, and companies start refusing to allow Linux users to contact them because it costs too much money.
If the email is relayed through korea, from a temporary hotmail address and giving contact details in Nigeria.
Who pays?
This won't reduce spam one iota. It'll reduce legitimate email, though. As a mailing list admin I do get the occasional bozo who decides I'm sending spam because he can't click on the link on the bottom of *every* email to unsubscribe - my ISP knows I use Mailman and there's no way they could be subscribed without asking, but if I suddenly had to start *paying* these idiots I'd just shut down the list as I can't affort many of those.
I've read the article about 3 times and still can't see the utility of it. My phone number is *not* public information and has nothing to do with my email address, nor do I want it ever to do so.
VOIP can use IP addresses and therefore works fine on the back of the existing DNS system - there's zero need for a 'new' standard.
Huh? You can still access the internet. The advert doesn't specifically say 'no restrictions' - on the contrary it gives the ISP the right to terminate the connection for a variety of reasons, one of which is adversely affecting the service of other users... ie. using massively over your contended allocation.
It also gives you the right to terminate if they change the conditions and you don't want to accept the new contract. Your chouce.
I pay about £30 a month (~45$) for a 512/256 unlimited connection. From that I'm able to run about half a dozen websites, apt-get from debian unstable regularly, usual downloading/browsing & the wife playing TSO almost 24/7 and I still only use up about 15GB/month. Heck, I'd happily pay more if it meant better service.
Even at 50:1 contention (theoretical, the actual is closer to 15:1 apparently), I rarely get less than 100% of the required bandwidth when I need it, and when I don't I don't care much - that's what contended means.
Unfortunately there are too many warez monkeys around that think maxing out a 1mb connection 24/7 is their right and think contention shouldn't apply to them (you should here the screams of indignation when *gasp* they only get 95% of their potential bandwidth! 'but I paid £30 a month for this service!' (um, no, you paid £30 for a contended service and should be damned grateful you ever get anything like the speeds you have at the moment).
The sooner the ISPs start banding their prices (eg. £20/mo for the casual browser, £30/mo for about 10gb/mo, £35 for 20gb/mo, £40 for 30gb/mo etc.) then the sooner people will start realizing that bandwidth costs money.
It may be easy for the actual sender of the email to hide his identity, but if the spam is offerring goods or services it is not so easy to hide the identity of the privider.
Nice idea, who's going to sue Symantec then?
I get about two or three spams a day advertising Norton... most of these bounced through open relays with faked from/to address.
There is no idenification of who is really sending them (or why, for that matter.. to give Symantec a bad name? Or maybe they really are major league spammers?).
There's no way to stop things like that, because spammers are stupid and often don't actually give you a way to respond to their ad:-)
The GPL doesn't need to be 'enforced'. No GPL = No right to use the code anyway. No company up until now has been stupid enough to risk this (if the GPL was rendered invalid can you imagine the fallout? Entire ISPs being shut down... IBM share price plummets...)
This is purely an issue of theft of copyrighted code.
Sky+ is *not* repeat *not* a Tivo. Nor is it anything like. It is pitched at the 'digital vcr' market and is doing quite well there. It doesn't have any of the enhanced Tivo funcionality (proper season passes, wishlists, suggestions) but has the advantage that it can record the mpeg stream directly (which AFAIK no Tivo can do).
There is *no new news*. Tivo have *not* pulled out of the UK. Service is still available. This whole damned article is just a repeat of news from last Semptember.
It changed channels without asking (I'd actually changed channels to watch the News and lost the first few minutes because of it). The only obvious way to stop it recording was to reboot the Tivo.
Amusingly, because the TV schedules are basically fiction over hear the programme ran late and missed half of it anyway:-)
btw. I don't think this is why Thomson (*not* Tivo.. I do wish the news monkeys would get something accurate for once) stopped producing Tivos... it was just plain lack of sales, plus the fact that the best advertising slogan that Tivo themselves could come up with is 'It pauses live TV!' (well whoopee doo... That's sure worth £400 of my money...)
I've come close to blacklisting the entire.cn domain before now... I settled for high scoring rules in SA (basically if it's been via china or korea if there's even a *sniff* of spamminess about it it gets binned).
Presumably someone will take the code and make another project based on it. SA was too damned useful to be killed.
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In the UK you can get 512/256 for about £27 per month, which is roughly similar to the 40EUR/month mentioned above.
Cable, while about £2/month cheaper, has virtually no availability outside major cities (and it's extremely patchy inside them - I can see the cable distribution box out of my window but NTL have 'no plans' to wire cable to my street).
I wouldn't use Slashdot as a measure of the popularity of Tivo. Go to your non-techie relatives and mention Tivo in conversation... I tried this and got a mixture of:
'What's that?' 'Isn't that the thing that forces videos things you didn't ask for?' 'I've already got a VCR'
Absolutely *nobody* had any interest in buying one.
Even the salesmen know nothing about them - they have been witnessed pulling off the front panel trying to insert a VHS tape then telling the customer 'it must be broken I can't get the tape in'
This is partly why Tivo pulled out of the UK - no market over there. In the US you can keep a company ticking over with just the scraps as it's a very large consumer base.
They're abolishing this in the UK after a couple of high profile cases where the police botched the evidence and it later became clear that the offenders were as guilty as hell.
...as long as you agree with GWB, otherwise it becomes 'speach from inside a prison camp'.
I notice now the US has elected him again he's decided to setup secret police so they can 'stop terrorism' (=lock up more people who disagree with the government).
Presumably you signed the human rights act (which outlaws the death penalty on the grounds that the life is a human right).
The russians have done some horrible things to Checnya too, you know... these stories are never one sided and advocating killing people without even *trying* to understand what their problem is is just going to make things worse.
btw. The russions already executed the terrorists, and most of the hostages at the same time. Way to go...
In the US, it's close, REAL close now to being "hate speech" to point this out
Heard of the Patriot act? Saying something like 'I think saddam hussein is cool' in public is likely to end with you being thrown in camp x-ray with no genuine right to trial (GWB has stated that nobody will ever be allowed out of there *even if they are found innocent*).
If you need 6gig you're presumably not using an Intel architecture anyway (possibly itanic but that can take loads of ram on its motherboards anyway).
The max an intel can address is 4gig, and the practical limit is around 3gig. Any more and you're into segmented addressing hacks again, which just aren't worth it.
It doesn't mention Linux compatibility, only that it has been 'designed to appeal to the Unix and Linux communities' - basically they're pushing the standards compliance a lot.
There will always be compatibility issues... VC.NET is a lot better than VC6 but there are holes, like MS' continued habit of putting underscores in front of 'unix compatible' names (snprintf for example), and calling other things completely differntly (eg. strcasecmp).
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That just sounds like those lame autorespond schemes that are around.
If joe schmuck gets a bounce from an email address asking for money he'lll just say 'sod that' and either pick up the phone or ignore it (actually, from experience from non-techie friends he'll probably just get confused and assume his email is 'broken').
If I get one I'll just put the recipient on a blacklist. If they want to talk to me it's up to them to receive my email not up to me to worry about their broken configuration.
I'd probably set up a script since I run mailing lists. If anyone sends me one of these - automatic permanent ban.
So I receive an email that someon has put a stamp on.
I don't run Windows. Or OE.
Oops, it just cost him money to send to a Linux user... Six months down the road, and companies start refusing to allow Linux users to contact them because it costs too much money.
Won't work.
If the email is relayed through korea, from a temporary hotmail address and giving contact details in Nigeria.
Who pays?
This won't reduce spam one iota. It'll reduce legitimate email, though. As a mailing list admin I do get the occasional bozo who decides I'm sending spam because he can't click on the link on the bottom of *every* email to unsubscribe - my ISP knows I use Mailman and there's no way they could be subscribed without asking, but if I suddenly had to start *paying* these idiots I'd just shut down the list as I can't affort many of those.
I've read the article about 3 times and still can't see the utility of it. My phone number is *not* public information and has nothing to do with my email address, nor do I want it ever to do so.
VOIP can use IP addresses and therefore works fine on the back of the existing DNS system - there's zero need for a 'new' standard.
Huh? You can still access the internet. The advert doesn't specifically say 'no restrictions' - on the contrary it gives the ISP the right to terminate the connection for a variety of reasons, one of which is adversely affecting the service of other users... ie. using massively over your contended allocation.
It also gives you the right to terminate if they change the conditions and you don't want to accept the new contract. Your chouce.
I pay about £30 a month (~45$) for a 512/256 unlimited connection. From that I'm able to run about half a dozen websites, apt-get from debian unstable regularly, usual downloading/browsing & the wife playing TSO almost 24/7 and I still only use up about 15GB/month. Heck, I'd happily pay more if it meant better service.
Even at 50:1 contention (theoretical, the actual is closer to 15:1 apparently), I rarely get less than 100% of the required bandwidth when I need it, and when I don't I don't care much - that's what contended means.
Unfortunately there are too many warez monkeys around that think maxing out a 1mb connection 24/7 is their right and think contention shouldn't apply to them (you should here the screams of indignation when *gasp* they only get 95% of their potential bandwidth! 'but I paid £30 a month for this service!' (um, no, you paid £30 for a contended service and should be damned grateful you ever get anything like the speeds you have at the moment).
The sooner the ISPs start banding their prices (eg. £20/mo for the casual browser, £30/mo for about 10gb/mo, £35 for 20gb/mo, £40 for 30gb/mo etc.) then the sooner people will start realizing that bandwidth costs money.
It may be easy for the actual sender of the email to hide his identity, but if the spam is offerring goods or services it is not so easy to hide the identity of the privider.
:-)
Nice idea, who's going to sue Symantec then?
I get about two or three spams a day advertising Norton... most of these bounced through open relays with faked from/to address.
There is no idenification of who is really sending them (or why, for that matter.. to give Symantec a bad name? Or maybe they really are major league spammers?).
There's no way to stop things like that, because spammers are stupid and often don't actually give you a way to respond to their ad
The GPL doesn't need to be 'enforced'. No GPL = No right to use the code anyway. No company up until now has been stupid enough to risk this (if the GPL was rendered invalid can you imagine the fallout? Entire ISPs being shut down... IBM share price plummets...)
This is purely an issue of theft of copyrighted code.
bzzt.
Let's put this to bed once and for all shall we?
Stop listening to Dixons salesmen.
Sky+ is *not* repeat *not* a Tivo. Nor is it anything like. It is pitched at the 'digital vcr' market and is doing quite well there. It doesn't have any of the enhanced Tivo funcionality (proper season passes, wishlists, suggestions) but has the advantage that it can record the mpeg stream directly (which AFAIK no Tivo can do).
*sigh*
There is *no new news*. Tivo have *not* pulled out of the UK. Service is still available. This whole damned article is just a repeat of news from last Semptember.
It wasn't 4AM it was 7pm.
:-)
It changed channels without asking (I'd actually changed channels to watch the News and lost the first few minutes because of it). The only obvious way to stop it recording was to reboot the Tivo.
Amusingly, because the TV schedules are basically fiction over hear the programme ran late and missed half of it anyway
btw. I don't think this is why Thomson (*not* Tivo.. I do wish the news monkeys would get something accurate for once) stopped producing Tivos... it was just plain lack of sales, plus the fact that the best advertising slogan that Tivo themselves could come up with is 'It pauses live TV!' (well whoopee doo... That's sure worth £400 of my money...)
I've come close to blacklisting the entire .cn domain before now... I settled for high scoring rules in SA (basically if it's been via china or korea if there's even a *sniff* of spamminess about it it gets binned).
Presumably someone will take the code and make another project based on it. SA was too damned useful to be killed.
In the UK you can get 512/256 for about £27 per month, which is roughly similar to the 40EUR/month mentioned above.
Cable, while about £2/month cheaper, has virtually no availability outside major cities (and it's extremely patchy inside them - I can see the cable distribution box out of my window but NTL have 'no plans' to wire cable to my street).
I wouldn't use Slashdot as a measure of the popularity of Tivo. Go to your non-techie relatives and mention Tivo in conversation... I tried this and got a mixture of:
'What's that?'
'Isn't that the thing that forces videos things you didn't ask for?'
'I've already got a VCR'
Absolutely *nobody* had any interest in buying one.
Even the salesmen know nothing about them - they have been witnessed pulling off the front panel trying to insert a VHS tape then telling the customer 'it must be broken I can't get the tape in'
This is partly why Tivo pulled out of the UK - no market over there. In the US you can keep a company ticking over with just the scraps as it's a very large consumer base.
They're abolishing this in the UK after a couple of high profile cases where the police botched the evidence and it later became clear that the offenders were as guilty as hell.
...as long as you agree with GWB, otherwise it becomes 'speach from inside a prison camp'.
I notice now the US has elected him again he's decided to setup secret police so they can 'stop terrorism' (=lock up more people who disagree with the government).
Presumably you signed the human rights act (which outlaws the death penalty on the grounds that the life is a human right).
The russians have done some horrible things to Checnya too, you know... these stories are never one sided and advocating killing people without even *trying* to understand what their problem is is just going to make things worse.
btw. The russions already executed the terrorists, and most of the hostages at the same time. Way to go...
Think about it, if they pass this law, what is stopping them from passing a law that makes it against the law to advocate violence
It's called 'incitement' and is already illegal in most countries.
In the US, it's close, REAL close now to being "hate speech" to point this out
Heard of the Patriot act? Saying something like 'I think saddam hussein is cool' in public is likely to end with you being thrown in camp x-ray with no genuine right to trial (GWB has stated that nobody will ever be allowed out of there *even if they are found innocent*).
If you need 6gig you're presumably not using an Intel architecture anyway (possibly itanic but that can take loads of ram on its motherboards anyway).
The max an intel can address is 4gig, and the practical limit is around 3gig. Any more and you're into segmented addressing hacks again, which just aren't worth it.
Score -1: Clueless....
(hint: Read RFC1918 before posting)
Oops (don't try that at home kids...)
# dig @a.root-servers.net . ns >/etc/bind/db.root
No need to slashdot internic, just:
$ dig @a.root-servers.net . >/etc/bind/db.root
It doesn't mention Linux compatibility, only that it has been 'designed to appeal to the Unix and Linux communities' - basically they're pushing the standards compliance a lot.
There will always be compatibility issues... VC.NET is a lot better than VC6 but there are holes, like MS' continued habit of putting underscores in front of 'unix compatible' names (snprintf for example), and calling other things completely differntly (eg. strcasecmp).