That way the route of email is from your ISP to their ISP
So I should shut my mailserver off because YOU get too much spam, I think not.
and oh, my ISP made the mistake of having the web server release the/etc/passwd file through an shtml include and now EVERYONE from that ISP is being regularly spammed. Worse bit is I told them about the vulnerability 3 years ago!!
IPs that try to connect more than N times in L seconds. gosh I'm sure the spammers will never notice that one
I cant get to the hash cash but if it's the old "generate a hash key for each email" it's equally flawed. Spammers have plenty of time
which leads people to believe they really *were* worth 700$
101 Economics - the value of a good is worth what people are willing to pay. How else would you define it's value?
It's described as the "elasticity of demand".
Free market economics is supposed to regulate prices through this, hike your prices and demand falls. Lower it, demand rises. If this doesn't happen then the demand is described as inelastic.
No doubt the auction world follows the same lines but with specialised goods then one man's bargain is another man's rip off.
As a FreeBSD/plan9 user much of my demand is inelastic. I need hardware supported by my OS's and although I try and get my hardware cheap enough after tracking the prcies for a while I normally jump in with a last minute snipe maybe 20-30 quid over the odds because I want that item, I want it now and I've invested enough time trying to find one. The time I save is easily worth that extra.
If ever a paradigm mixed logic and presentation then spreadsheets are it.
They are software throguh and through, no question.
It would be fairly trivial to write a Turing Complete Machine interpreter entirely in VBA in Excel and I'm sure the same must be true of other spreadsheets.
Just like php, spreadsheet's consider anything literal text unless otherwise instructed.
You can embed the excel engine as an ActiveX control in other applications and use it.
Although I 90% agree I do live the fact that I can browse through my filesystem and if I'ev got use index.html turned on it shows me the rendered HTML.
I can see why the file browser & the web browser got married, but sheesh, does it have to be slowwwwwww.
The one every british schoolchild will be familiar with...
pah, BBC model B in my day:)
these kids today
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sounds more like a job for venti
the block level file server, blocks are hashed before storage, if the hash is already present no disk write need take place so duplicated data in the namespace doesn't duplicate data in the file store.
I'm not one for saying "it'll never happen" because sometimes if you just sit there that's exactly what happens.
But I'm not convinvced of this particular threat.
It would require worldwide cooperation and at every level of computing. It would be difficult to draft an international law AND define what a computer was. Does my digital watch need DRM?
To get this law in one country (probably the US) is going to have to implement it unilaterally. Chaos will ensue. I think it's just too much hassle for a government to embark on.
So mark my words, and then punch me with them when you can't play your.ogg files no more.
I would already have realised that I might have to give up the source code to win9x. I woudl have had a secret cabal of top programmers going through it obfuscating and repairing deliberatly anti-competitive routines.
Source code is also no good if it can't compile and be run. Do the state experts have the necessary compilers to do this? I bet it's not a vanilla MS-C or MS-C++. And we all know that you can't trust the compiler.
If you suspect that someone is untrustworthy then asking them for their written documentation of their untrustworthyness cannot be trusted.
HA! They should use that as a defense!!
I'm guilty but you can't take my word for it, I'm a liar.
What the hell does that have to do with the subject at hand? So microsoft's products have holes. We all know this. Did you know that email has been around longer than outlook? It's true! Microsoft didn't invent email!
The point being that it's isn't just MIME mail that can carry a nasty payload and that it isn't just MUA's that purposely execute atatchments that are vulnerable. The article was trying to imply a plain text only world was a safe from harm world.
The post I replied to quotes from the article "Microsoft changed that by having its mail clients automatically execute commands embedded in e-mail. This paved the way for e-mail viruses"
and then states "Give me pine anyday"
but pine and other text only MUA's are not invulnerable to exploitation, the buffer overrun could have been in any of them, it just so happened that the one I remembered was in Outlook.
Did you know that not all comments including the word Microsoft are rants or bashing for the sake of it?
Slashdot Mirror
That way the route of email is from your ISP to their ISP
/etc/passwd file through an shtml include and now EVERYONE from that ISP is being regularly spammed. Worse bit is I told them about the vulnerability 3 years ago!!
So I should shut my mailserver off because YOU get too much spam, I think not.
and oh, my ISP made the mistake of having the web server release the
IPs that try to connect more than N times in L seconds.
gosh I'm sure the spammers will never notice that one
I cant get to the hash cash but if it's the old "generate a hash key for each email" it's equally flawed. Spammers have plenty of time
TMDA is one way, to prevent you from seeing spam
which leads people to believe they really *were* worth 700$
101 Economics - the value of a good is worth what people are willing to pay. How else would you define it's value?
It's described as the "elasticity of demand".
Free market economics is supposed to regulate prices through this, hike your prices and demand falls. Lower it, demand rises. If this doesn't happen then the demand is described as inelastic.
No doubt the auction world follows the same lines but with specialised goods then one man's bargain is another man's rip off.
As a FreeBSD/plan9 user much of my demand is inelastic. I need hardware supported by my OS's and although I try and get my hardware cheap enough after tracking the prcies for a while I normally jump in with a last minute snipe maybe 20-30 quid over the odds because I want that item, I want it now and I've invested enough time trying to find one. The time I save is easily worth that extra.
Run a webserver on your local machine.
and put
<script>
window.close()
</script>
in the error page associated with 127.0.0.1
Hey I live in England, that's price enough to pay for DSL
If ever a paradigm mixed logic and presentation then spreadsheets are it.
They are software throguh and through, no question.
It would be fairly trivial to write a Turing Complete Machine interpreter entirely in VBA in Excel and I'm sure the same must be true of other spreadsheets.
Just like php, spreadsheet's consider anything literal text unless otherwise instructed.
You can embed the excel engine as an ActiveX control in other applications and use it.
What other proof would one need?
The controller is just a hunk of plastic, with a few microswitches(?)
I think Immersion might argue differently
What can Zope do that PHP cannot? Or Perl for that matter? Or even ASP?
essentially nothing, in the same way you cannot do anything I cannot do
the last thing I was between me and a bullet is a sheet of something that will shatter with countless sharp edges to cut me to ribbons
:)
actually the last thing I would want is the second bullet
Although I 90% agree I do live the fact that I can browse through my filesystem and if I'ev got use index.html turned on it shows me the rendered HTML.
I can see why the file browser & the web browser got married, but sheesh, does it have to be slowwwwwww.
The one every british schoolchild will be familiar with...
:)
pah, BBC model B in my day
these kids today
sounds more like a job for venti
the block level file server, blocks are hashed before storage, if the hash is already present no disk write need take place so duplicated data in the namespace doesn't duplicate data in the file store.
And that's just one feature.
the horse's mouth
as the only person who would be playing with hardware there would be the IT guy. I was pretty dissapointed
really, oh I could feel the relief the day I could phone the IT dept. and just say:
"My PC isn't working."
and they come out, replace my workstation with another one and I carry on working.
Only happened once while I was there (hd failure) but it was certainly appreciated.
gnome is *not* a window manager
hehe oh yeah well never mind
whatever it is I don't run it
I prefer diet coke too
as KRS-one noted:
Everything you do in private is illegal,
Everything is legal
If the government can see you.
reminds me of a sig I saw round here :
"beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers"
indeed that is a persuasive argument, and one I was bearing in mind when I added my caveat (being fairly WIPO ignorant)
"be pure, be vigilant, behave" - a two sided coin
I'm not one for saying "it'll never happen" because sometimes if you just sit there that's exactly what happens.
.ogg files no more.
But I'm not convinvced of this particular threat.
It would require worldwide cooperation and at every level of computing. It would be difficult to draft an international law AND define what a computer was. Does my digital watch need DRM?
To get this law in one country (probably the US) is going to have to implement it unilaterally. Chaos will ensue. I think it's just too much hassle for a government to embark on.
So mark my words, and then punch me with them when you can't play your
I would already have realised that I might have to give up the source code to win9x. I woudl have had a secret cabal of top programmers going through it obfuscating and repairing deliberatly anti-competitive routines.
Source code is also no good if it can't compile and be run. Do the state experts have the necessary compilers to do this? I bet it's not a vanilla MS-C or MS-C++. And we all know that you can't trust the compiler.
If you suspect that someone is untrustworthy then asking them for their written documentation of their untrustworthyness cannot be trusted.
HA! They should use that as a defense!!
I'm guilty but you can't take my word for it, I'm a liar.
What the hell does that have to do with the subject at hand? So microsoft's products have holes. We all know this. Did you know that email has been around longer than outlook? It's true! Microsoft didn't invent email!
The point being that it's isn't just MIME mail that can carry a nasty payload and that it isn't just MUA's that purposely execute atatchments that are vulnerable. The article was trying to imply a plain text only world was a safe from harm world.
The post I replied to quotes from the article "Microsoft changed that by having its mail clients automatically execute commands embedded in e-mail. This paved the way for e-mail viruses"
and then states "Give me pine anyday"
but pine and other text only MUA's are not invulnerable to exploitation, the buffer overrun could have been in any of them, it just so happened that the one I remembered was in Outlook.
Did you know that not all comments including the word Microsoft are rants or bashing for the sake of it?
"Originally, e-mail was text only, and e-mail viruses were impossible."
shame it's not true
Buffer overflow in MS Outlook & Outlook Express Email clients (Date parsing)
actually I was falsely distinguishing between bony fish and non-bony fish
sharks are the latter
sharks used to be the domniant of the two with many many variants but latterly the bony fish have more variety
don't say those secrets out loud, people in the industry might notice!!
I have a kickass laptop
man are you going to be screwed when it get's stolen!
doh, read the story idiot
/.!
didn;t realise out local news was so interesting to
And I'm in Nottingham, Englad and the venue was The Birmingham Sea Life Centre, Birmingham, UK!
something fishy is going on!
though of course sharks aren't fish