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Quite usefull for setting test environments as well. In fact, extremely useful if you are working on cellular infrastructure or any other radio equipment that operates in a licensed band.
Rediff is one the biggest annoyances in terms of keeping spammer accounts active. A year ago it reached the point where I have put SPAM filters that flag as SPAM anything with even a single occurrance of rediff anywhere in the message on all of my accounts (and there have been no false positives so far).
So all it will have to do will be to act on the 15000000 recent SPAM complaints after the "yahoo mailing list" and "bulletproof hosting" peddlers have collected all of their responses of course.
They already do. If you try to trace the websites in "cheap oem software offers" you will notice that they are in fact compromised machines on DSL and cable spread around the globe. The last sample I followed was in US, UK, France, China and portugal and a name server doing load balancing in the US. Registered by a russian company. This about says it all...
In fact I drove all possible candidates for several days before I bought what I have now. It is quite easy. Every time you go on a holiday rent one of the candidates for "next thing to buy". You get to see it in all of its "glory" - lowest spec, run down by tourists and badly maintained. If it is still OK you go and buy it. You may suffer some minor discomfort compared to renting "the old familiar", but you save a lot of money:-)
I also do the same stuff with computer equipment. Buy, test drive if it is shit - return. It is quite easy to do it in EU due to distance selling regulations. You are entitled to a free return no questions asked of anything you have bought over phone or Internet within 1 week after purchase. This limits you to internt purchases, but once you add this along with observations of company kit you are reasonably well positioned to get the right stuff...
BT does not employ shit nowdays besides managers as far as Internet is concerned. Nearly everything is otsourced to TATA or someone else.
Their internet access at work is censored to the point where it is nearly useless especially as far as port in concerned. Still, people find way to get around it. Check on theregister. They had a fairly decent coverage of a story where a student offered her virginity on Ebay to pay for Uni. The person to buy the goods and consume them was a BT engineer (apparetnly did it at work the poor sod and in the UK soliciting for prostitution happens to be illegal).
However, one-time passwords do sound like a good idea
NOPE
The best idea is a password of whatever persuation and a x509 certificate used for SSL which is ussed by the bank in the sign on process. As a result you are always asked two passwords one of which cannot be set to "remember" - your SSL cert store and your bank username/password. This combines luser authentication with machine authentication. As a result you have to steal the machine used by Joe Average in order to use his/her bank account. This has the obvious plus that Joe Average cannot access shit through an unsecure public terminal even if he/she wants to do so.
This scheme is used nearly everywhere in the less developed countries where even the smaller sums in accounts are a sweet target. It is sometimes combined with one time passwords, but it is always "both machine and luser", not "just luser". It is also used by some banks handling larger accounts (or lifetime savings/investment schemes) in EU and in that case the cert is locked on a keyfob or something else that uses the windows crypto API to give the machine only what it needs. Yeah, I know, a windows only bummer, but it is something which Windows has and Linux does not in mainsteam stable kernel and mainstream userland - a crypto API to plug things at a device level and allow userland a uniform API to access it which is understandable to openssl, browsers, etc.
In fact the less developed a country is, the better the internet banking security. For example UK e-banking security is pathetic compared to Russia, Bulgaria or the ex-soviet block.
To add further, this is valid not just for banking. Locks, code access, etc are all similar. Most locks sold in the UK will take an average of 5-10s to open for an Eastern European criminal and houses usually have just one lock. For example in Russia it is considered standard to have at least two locks and they have to be turned simultaneously and they self close so you cannot open one and then the other.
So on so forth (simple economics as usually being the reason).
Besides being well funded it is also ongoing. Anyone thinking that the Torqueville Job is a recent one off is wrong.
One of the trolls referred to by ESR - The "Pizduk" known as Nikolay Bezroukov was trolling on a similar assignment as early as the beginning of 2002 (obviously being flamed to charcoal by ESR in 1998 did not teach him a lesson). He tried to get my opinion on some of his scribbling, but he did not quite like what he got. At the time he was trying to compare Open Source to Intelligencia as presented in trash quality English translations of 19th century Russian novels.
In btw, he did not have a clue about the culture and traditions of Russian Science and Engineering as well.
Unfortunately the dry period which killed the Maya empire is a fact. It is also a fact that during the same period the temperature in the North Atlantic went down by more then 5C. Why do you think the Vikings went south and appeared all over the place?
It is also a fact that during the same period the bay of Venice and the bay of Monaco froze several times. Same with the Bosphorus, North part of the Black see and part of Mare Marmaris. Every single one of these is a historical fact. Just check with the chronicles (or references for them which are widely available).
Europe is heated by the Gulfstream. Just look at the map. The temperature in Europe at the moment is 9C above what it is in the US or Asia at the same latitude. So all that happens is that it goes where it belongs.
Simultaneously you get an additional "pleasant" side effect. Currently, the gulfstream drains the energy accumulated in the gulf of Mexico during the summer. If the gulfstream stops this energy will stay there with all the relevant consequences to hurricanes. It will be the equivalent of nuking the entire US south coast from Texas to Florida.
As someone who have had some touches with growing algae in a lab once upon a time, I would say that they are an absolute pain in the arse. Once the concentration goes to a commercially viable level the algae soup becomes very susceptible to both fungi and bacteria which promptly kill em off.
So I would suggest to stick to good old plants. Quite a few of them have sufficient growth rates to be used in applications like these - elodea, water gyacinth, etc.
Quite a few places. In Europe linitx.com. There are a few places in the US as well.
In btw, I may be mistaken, but I have some questions about the reality of the article as well as the integrity of the journalist who wrote it. The picture looks suspiciously like MII, probably the 600MHz version with the heatsink taken off the Eden on it. It has PCMCIA and cardbus and is C3 based. It is not the C5 motherboard described in the article.
I have to admit, I did not do a full RTFA before doing the previous post.
Here are my 2p after reading the rest of it.
There are several incorrect assumptions in this article:
It forgets to account that EU deliberately expands towards less affected countries. It also forgets to notice that the agriculture in all of EU except Poland, Italy, Spain and possibly South France lives only on life support. If British, German, Northern France agriculture will die for climate reason the shelves in the supermarket will not even change and the Mediterranean regions are not going to be affected that much. Poland, Bulgaria and Romania are largely outside the affected zone (if the british met simulations are to be believed). After they join the EU (Poland already, BG and RO in 2007) EU will go fully selfsufficient in agriculture even if UK, DE and Scandinavia will freeze.
It forgets to mention that another least affected country - Russia. There will be some cooling around St Petersburg, Baltic, Murmansk, but the rest of the climate will stay where it is and it is largely selfsufficient.
The assumption that US is selfsufficient is deeply flawed. Nearly all large agricultural states in the US will be hit by either draught or multiple class 5 hurricanes per year. So in fact US is the only place that cannot fold into itself (yeah, we know who ordered the report and what do they want to hear).
There was a number of programs on BBC/Discovery in the horizon series. One of them is about global warming, the other one was about the fall of the Maya empire which happened during one of these abrupt events.
The thing which people do not understand about global warming is that it sooner or later brings the gulfstream to a standstill due to decrease in water salinity in the arctic. As a result New England, Iceland and most of Wester Europe freeze as the temperature drops down by up to 9C. After all, London is at the lattitude of Alaska and the only thing keeping it warm is the Stream.
Latin America overheats and goes into a draught. There are some effects going as far as changes in the monsoon patterns and draughts in South East Asia.
This is also the reason why you cannot indiscriminately use historic data sets about climate without weighting. This is also the reason why a recently published right-thinking-tank flamebait (honoured on Slashdot) that the original global warming research is flawed because they did not use all data including Texas is what it is - flamebait. Texas is probably the only place to go cooler in such an event because the rain that currently drops on Latin America will drop there.
The simulations have been run many times and the result is always the same. In fact sod the temperature, the most scary fact of global warming is the gradual decrease of flow in the antigulfstream and water salinity which have been picked up for the last several years.
For a lamers overview see this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/bigchill.shtml
For non lamers - see Science as well as a few other magazines where the results have been published over the years
Also, I am not amazed that the Pentagon has asked for this. The most scary part of global warming is the stop of the gulfstream and the 2+ billion of hungry and thursty armed people on the move. Some of them with nuclear weapons...
No. It is jumping in a mature market, conceding to the market demands and playing by the market rules. In fact it is the first IP vendor to do so.
The biggest demand and the main objection to IP by all big telcos since the first days of the Internet has been that you cannot interface routers directly into the provisioning backend and that you have to keep highly qualified expensive staff to run it instead of paying a fraction of that for backend software and coasting on it for 7-9 years.
Cisco is the first one to comply with this demand from the IP vendors, but not the last one. In fact Juniper is about to follow, others will also jump on the bandwagon.
It is the first router to have an XML/SOAP interface that can be plugged into the provisioning/maintenance system via an industry standard for interfacing large systems so you no longer need to employ a bunch of CCXX-es to bang on keyboards. In fact it is what carriers have been asking to use MPLS for a while now and similar to what the ITU would have forced down everyone's throat anyway.
This also means that any CCXX that is not accompanied by computing background has just dropped in value and will continue to drop in value as Cisco releases the new IOS to other devices accompanied by tools.
I can understand them doing it. Their revenue from certs has nearly leveled now after that mad rush at the end of the boom. It is time to pick up a new revenue stream in the form of upgrades to Cisco Wors (favourite oximoron) and interfacing to carrier systems.
Not any more. Most companies have learned the lesson that they are too inert and they are not getting enough turnover.
As a result modern toy and household plastics have under 5 years of life and become brittle and break due to decomposition and loss of plastifiers. Some plastics are even more short lived (plastic bags have under 6 months of life). So that dino is not going to be there for very long.
Continuing on this, what is SPAM for me is some other people's lifeline. The correct policy should be tag with an appropriate header, defang if dangerous and leave the user decide.
If you are talking about the one built in the 80-es in the south of France (which is the biggest built so far), it uses an Archimedes mirror. It is the same concept as a Frenel Lens, but only by reflection - multiple synchronized _flat_ mirrors. Note the _flat_. As a result:
1. The focus can be altered in real time 2. It does not suffer from the problem of most spherical lens/mirrors which can focus the Sun only on 17" (angle mins) due to the fact that it has finite size. These mirror systems always focus it on a sector the size of a single mirror segment. 3. In fact the bloody thing is a perfect weapon. Its first use is attributed to Archimedes directing troops to use polished sheets of copper against the roman fleet. In btw, it takes a very small number to get very far. 32 assuming Mediteranean/Subtropical sun intensity will put wood on fire, 56 will melt metals, 100+ will put a whole trhough everything including tank armour plates.
1. All that Jazz as far as I recall is a movie. 2. All that Jazz is by Bob Fosse (same as Cabaret). 3. All that Jazz besides all other things contains the most damning portrait of J. L. 4. When Bob Fosse did it he knew that he will not live long beyond the premiere. 5. Buy the bloody movie and watch it.
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Same for BT Openworld also known as Openwoe...
Quite usefull for setting test environments as well. In fact, extremely useful if you are working on cellular infrastructure or any other radio equipment that operates in a licensed band.
There will be still 15000000 free inboxes.
Rediff is one the biggest annoyances in terms of keeping spammer accounts active. A year ago it reached the point where I have put SPAM filters that flag as SPAM anything with even a single occurrance of rediff anywhere in the message on all of my accounts (and there have been no false positives so far).
So all it will have to do will be to act on the 15000000 recent SPAM complaints after the "yahoo mailing list" and "bulletproof hosting" peddlers have collected all of their responses of course.
4.x has SMP. Used it for a while before switching to 5.x.
4,X SMP is not the best performer out there, because the locking is not very fine grained, but it works.
They already do. If you try to trace the websites in "cheap oem software offers" you will notice that they are in fact compromised machines on DSL and cable spread around the globe. The last sample I followed was in US, UK, France, China and portugal and a name server doing load balancing in the US. Registered by a russian company. This about says it all...
I do.
:-)
In fact I drove all possible candidates for several days before I bought what I have now. It is quite easy. Every time you go on a holiday rent one of the candidates for "next thing to buy". You get to see it in all of its "glory" - lowest spec, run down by tourists and badly maintained. If it is still OK you go and buy it. You may suffer some minor discomfort compared to renting "the old familiar", but you save a lot of money
I also do the same stuff with computer equipment. Buy, test drive if it is shit - return. It is quite easy to do it in EU due to distance selling regulations. You are entitled to a free return no questions asked of anything you have bought over phone or Internet within 1 week after purchase. This limits you to internt purchases, but once you add this along with observations of company kit you are reasonably well positioned to get the right stuff...
A lot. Very few make use of it though...
Here just went my moderation, but IIRC:
BT does not employ shit nowdays besides managers as far as Internet is concerned. Nearly everything is otsourced to TATA or someone else.
Their internet access at work is censored to the point where it is nearly useless especially as far as port in concerned. Still, people find way to get around it. Check on theregister. They had a fairly decent coverage of a story where a student offered her virginity on Ebay to pay for Uni. The person to buy the goods and consume them was a BT engineer (apparetnly did it at work the poor sod and in the UK soliciting for prostitution happens to be illegal).
Ahem. Same thought crossed my mind.
It will also be nice if they publish a HOWTO so that we all know how to get MSFT to sponsor other Open Source projects.
NOPE
The best idea is a password of whatever persuation and a x509 certificate used for SSL which is ussed by the bank in the sign on process. As a result you are always asked two passwords one of which cannot be set to "remember" - your SSL cert store and your bank username/password. This combines luser authentication with machine authentication. As a result you have to steal the machine used by Joe Average in order to use his/her bank account. This has the obvious plus that Joe Average cannot access shit through an unsecure public terminal even if he/she wants to do so.
This scheme is used nearly everywhere in the less developed countries where even the smaller sums in accounts are a sweet target. It is sometimes combined with one time passwords, but it is always "both machine and luser", not "just luser". It is also used by some banks handling larger accounts (or lifetime savings/investment schemes) in EU and in that case the cert is locked on a keyfob or something else that uses the windows crypto API to give the machine only what it needs. Yeah, I know, a windows only bummer, but it is something which Windows has and Linux does not in mainsteam stable kernel and mainstream userland - a crypto API to plug things at a device level and allow userland a uniform API to access it which is understandable to openssl, browsers, etc.
In fact the less developed a country is, the better the internet banking security. For example UK e-banking security is pathetic compared to Russia, Bulgaria or the ex-soviet block.
To add further, this is valid not just for banking. Locks, code access, etc are all similar. Most locks sold in the UK will take an average of 5-10s to open for an Eastern European criminal and houses usually have just one lock. For example in Russia it is considered standard to have at least two locks and they have to be turned simultaneously and they self close so you cannot open one and then the other.
So on so forth (simple economics as usually being the reason).
No. Longhorn is late. That's all.
Besides being well funded it is also ongoing. Anyone thinking that the Torqueville Job is a recent one off is wrong.
One of the trolls referred to by ESR - The "Pizduk" known as Nikolay Bezroukov was trolling on a similar assignment as early as the beginning of 2002 (obviously being flamed to charcoal by ESR in 1998 did not teach him a lesson). He tried to get my opinion on some of his scribbling, but he did not quite like what he got. At the time he was trying to compare Open Source to Intelligencia as presented in trash quality English translations of 19th century Russian novels.
In btw, he did not have a clue about the culture and traditions of Russian Science and Engineering as well.
Unfortunately the dry period which killed the Maya empire is a fact. It is also a fact that during the same period the temperature in the North Atlantic went down by more then 5C. Why do you think the Vikings went south and appeared all over the place?
It is also a fact that during the same period the bay of Venice and the bay of Monaco froze several times. Same with the Bosphorus, North part of the Black see and part of Mare Marmaris. Every single one of these is a historical fact. Just check with the chronicles (or references for them which are widely available).
Europe is heated by the Gulfstream. Just look at the map. The temperature in Europe at the moment is 9C above what it is in the US or Asia at the same latitude. So all that happens is that it goes where it belongs.
Simultaneously you get an additional "pleasant" side effect. Currently, the gulfstream drains the energy accumulated in the gulf of Mexico during the summer. If the gulfstream stops this energy will stay there with all the relevant consequences to hurricanes. It will be the equivalent of nuking the entire US south coast from Texas to Florida.
As someone who have had some touches with growing algae in a lab once upon a time, I would say that they are an absolute pain in the arse. Once the concentration goes to a commercially viable level the algae soup becomes very susceptible to both fungi and bacteria which promptly kill em off.
So I would suggest to stick to good old plants. Quite a few of them have sufficient growth rates to be used in applications like these - elodea, water gyacinth, etc.
Quite a few places. In Europe linitx.com. There are a few places in the US as well.
In btw, I may be mistaken, but I have some questions about the reality of the article as well as the integrity of the journalist who wrote it. The picture looks suspiciously like MII, probably the 600MHz version with the heatsink taken off the Eden on it. It has PCMCIA and cardbus and is C3 based. It is not the C5 motherboard described in the article.
I have to admit, I did not do a full RTFA before doing the previous post.
Here are my 2p after reading the rest of it.
There are several incorrect assumptions in this article:
It forgets to account that EU deliberately expands towards less affected countries. It also forgets to notice that the agriculture in all of EU except Poland, Italy, Spain and possibly South France lives only on life support. If British, German, Northern France agriculture will die for climate reason the shelves in the supermarket will not even change and the Mediterranean regions are not going to be affected that much. Poland, Bulgaria and Romania are largely outside the affected zone (if the british met simulations are to be believed). After they join the EU (Poland already, BG and RO in 2007) EU will go fully selfsufficient in agriculture even if UK, DE and Scandinavia will freeze.
It forgets to mention that another least affected country - Russia. There will be some cooling around St Petersburg, Baltic, Murmansk, but the rest of the climate will stay where it is and it is largely selfsufficient.
The assumption that US is selfsufficient is deeply flawed. Nearly all large agricultural states in the US will be hit by either draught or multiple class 5 hurricanes per year. So in fact US is the only place that cannot fold into itself (yeah, we know who ordered the report and what do they want to hear).
There was a number of programs on BBC/Discovery in the horizon series. One of them is about global warming, the other one was about the fall of the Maya empire which happened during one of these abrupt events.
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The thing which people do not understand about global warming is that it sooner or later brings the gulfstream to a standstill due to decrease in water salinity in the arctic. As a result New England, Iceland and most of Wester Europe freeze as the temperature drops down by up to 9C. After all, London is at the lattitude of Alaska and the only thing keeping it warm is the Stream.
Latin America overheats and goes into a draught. There are some effects going as far as changes in the monsoon patterns and draughts in South East Asia.
This is also the reason why you cannot indiscriminately use historic data sets about climate without weighting. This is also the reason why a recently published right-thinking-tank flamebait (honoured on Slashdot) that the original global warming research is flawed because they did not use all data including Texas is what it is - flamebait. Texas is probably the only place to go cooler in such an event because the rain that currently drops on Latin America will drop there.
The simulations have been run many times and the result is always the same. In fact sod the temperature, the most scary fact of global warming is the gradual decrease of flow in the antigulfstream and water salinity which have been picked up for the last several years.
For a lamers overview see this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/bigchil
For non lamers - see Science as well as a few other magazines where the results have been published over the years
Also, I am not amazed that the Pentagon has asked for this. The most scary part of global warming is the stop of the gulfstream and the 2+ billion of hungry and thursty armed people on the move. Some of them with nuclear weapons...
1. Err... I am not in Bangladesh...
2. I am not a kid...
3. I used to maintain such a backend for a living in a global carrier.
4. Get a clue
No. It is jumping in a mature market, conceding to the market demands and playing by the market rules. In fact it is the first IP vendor to do so.
The biggest demand and the main objection to IP by all big telcos since the first days of the Internet has been that you cannot interface routers directly into the provisioning backend and that you have to keep highly qualified expensive staff to run it instead of paying a fraction of that for backend software and coasting on it for 7-9 years.
Cisco is the first one to comply with this demand from the IP vendors, but not the last one. In fact Juniper is about to follow, others will also jump on the bandwagon.
It is the first router to have an XML/SOAP interface that can be plugged into the provisioning/maintenance system via an industry standard for interfacing large systems so you no longer need to employ a bunch of CCXX-es to bang on keyboards. In fact it is what carriers have been asking to use MPLS for a while now and similar to what the ITU would have forced down everyone's throat anyway.
This also means that any CCXX that is not accompanied by computing background has just dropped in value and will continue to drop in value as Cisco releases the new IOS to other devices accompanied by tools.
I can understand them doing it. Their revenue from certs has nearly leveled now after that mad rush at the end of the boom. It is time to pick up a new revenue stream in the form of upgrades to Cisco Wors (favourite oximoron) and interfacing to carrier systems.
Not any more. Most companies have learned the lesson that they are too inert and they are not getting enough turnover. As a result modern toy and household plastics have under 5 years of life and become brittle and break due to decomposition and loss of plastifiers. Some plastics are even more short lived (plastic bags have under 6 months of life). So that dino is not going to be there for very long.
Continuing on this, what is SPAM for me is some other people's lifeline. The correct policy should be tag with an appropriate header, defang if dangerous and leave the user decide.
Err... No.
If you are talking about the one built in the 80-es in the south of France (which is the biggest built so far), it uses an Archimedes mirror. It is the same concept as a Frenel Lens, but only by reflection - multiple synchronized _flat_ mirrors. Note the _flat_. As a result:
1. The focus can be altered in real time
2. It does not suffer from the problem of most spherical lens/mirrors which can focus the Sun only on 17" (angle mins) due to the fact that it has finite size. These mirror systems always focus it on a sector the size of a single mirror segment.
3. In fact the bloody thing is a perfect weapon. Its first use is attributed to Archimedes directing troops to use polished sheets of copper against the roman fleet. In btw, it takes a very small number to get very far. 32 assuming Mediteranean/Subtropical sun intensity will put wood on fire, 56 will melt metals, 100+ will put a whole trhough everything including tank armour plates.
It is not even veiled. What is the name of the guy who is given the script to take over?
1. All that Jazz as far as I recall is a movie.
2. All that Jazz is by Bob Fosse (same as Cabaret).
3. All that Jazz besides all other things contains the most damning portrait of J. L.
4. When Bob Fosse did it he knew that he will not live long beyond the premiere.
5. Buy the bloody movie and watch it.