I beg to differ. The parent post has a point. If it will become more difficult for the SPAM to reach the targets it is quite likely that the SPAM will become more sophisticated and more vile. Just a few examples of where we can be heading:
automated custom trojans which take advantage of the fact that a target to receive 99% of the cases will not be protected by an application firewall (fair assessment).
custom phishing attacks that do a search in the person bookmarks first, before displaying the phish target. 99% of the population is lazy and bookmarks their bank login page so a well designed phishing/trojan or phishing/XSS attack can chose the correct target if it wants to. The only reason it is not being done now is that there are plenty of idiots out there to be caught via more trivial means.
I think that the hypothesis that SPAMmers will start to work on maximizing the return from a single mark instead of maximizing the number of marks they hit is not improbable. Spam is already a mostly criminal affair with a lot of it being run by organized crime.
Yes. There is. As long as the others are not suitable for embedded applications Opera shall live. Mozilla has a project to do this, but it is still way off...
Correct. It is. I was not talking about the S200 software. To the extent of my knowledge tey did not _fire_ it using the S200 software. The S200 software aquired the target and killed it while in flight, but they fired it based on radar data from one of the newer systems, not from the original S200. And they made a pretty good job in covering up the fact that they are testing something that runs recent radar technology and and interfaces with old Russian missiles. That is a HELL OF A MARKET YA KNOW... Just think of all those banana/oil republics "export version" control systems (Iraq is a good example). If you thought that American export controls are nasty, you have definitely not seen the Russian ones...
1. You seriously underestimate the level of English education in the ex-Soviet union. There is a reason why most of UN synchronouse translators are Russian.
2. Their natural advantage is that no matter how shitty is the spec they are given they usually say "Yes great white master" and implement it exactly as specified (laughing when you do not see them). This appeals to some arseholes that will be right in their place on a dilbert strip. Eastern Europeans do not do that. They will actually send you the spec back for clarification. And Ukrainians especially. If we are talking about a pathological case of overgrown national pride a hohol will be a classic example. They do not make good outsourcing slaves. So there will not be a lot of outsourcing there, because outsourcing is more often done to satisfy sense of inferiority, then to save money.
Err... You are approaching this from your american moral perspective. From his perspective - business as usual.
Also, it may have been better to allow him to sell it. It would not have been used to shoot down civilian airplanes with 70+ passengers flying on a scheduled international flight in an approved corridor. Which they did and tried to lie about it. So much for quality assurance of the system software I guess...
Casual LCDs will survive under 300 hours while being illuminated at those intensities.
Just ask IBM - there used to be Stinkpad models which could have their LCD detached to be used for this exact purpose. I cannot recall off the top of my head, but they were not the only ones to do so.
Even if the US army drops bombs and kills some civilians, it was for a military objective such a s taking control of a city, or bridge. 9/11 was an action, like most "terrorist" actions,
Complete and utter bollocks. I do not see any military objective in bombing ex-Ugo infrastructure into the ground. Whatsofscking ever.
But I see the 20+ million of Serbians, Bulgarians, Romanians and northern Greek on which head the fallout from bombing of this infrastructure descended. Asbestous, carcinogenic chemicals, hydrofluoric acid, organofluoric compounds, depleted uranium, you name it. I see the thousands of people dying from cancer now and dying from cancer in the future. I see my best friend from college who used to run a software and hardware shop with me and his wife. He died from mesotelieloma two days ago (cancer typical for asbestous exposure, he never touched asbestous in his life). I no longer ask friends how are their folks there as the answer is universally either "I berried them last month" or "In the cancer ward". So on so fourth...
Just get a clue kid. Definitely get a clue and try to understand what does exactly US "shock and awe" approach do and how many civilians continue to die from it over 30+ years wherever it has been applied.
They are right that the head gets damaged - their head is not part of the cartridge. They are also right in the way they determine it. They mark it as empty if the level is low enough to allow the system to draw a bubble into the pipeline. I wish car manufacturers were so anal retentive - I know more then one person who have managed to kill their ignition systems (Fiat and some GMs) by running them dry. The thing I do not like is that on a system that is obviously designed for a refill, and used to be refillable (just look at a 1991 stylus) you have to swap a cartridge. Anyway, loads of pros and cons with one major pro in their favour - it actually works. You can forget Epson unused for half a year and you can still print on it (at least their laser printers). They are nasty like all printer manufacturers, but not as nasty as Lexmark, Canon or HP.
Buy a panasonic. Dunno about their small ones, but they make a selling point from the fact that their office kit is refillable with a bucket. It ain't anywhere near cheap, the size is monstrous, drivers are mildly horrible and 2-3 years behind the relevant OS requirements, old printers do not have drivers for new OSes as they stop development the day the first printer in a model is out of the door, Linux support inexistent. But it lasts forever and costs nearly nothing to run.
Lexmark's attempt to use DMCA to prevent thrid party cartridges sank in court a few weeks ago. They are bound to start looking for a different means to achieve the same goal as their printers are sold at dumping prices and they generate profit mostly from cartridges. In order to chose the next move they definitely need some reconnaissance data. Alternatively they are looking to move the grounds of enforcement on what the customer uses from suing competitors to sueing customers (what a novell idea...).
2. Lexmark AFAIK is one of the companies who are participating in the stupid law assistance program where software and hardware should detect common types of currency and refuse to copy or print it. Going from there to ratting on the ones who scan/print it is only one step.
Don't unions collectively bargain for pay rates. Well... I said something about high level architect and cubicle farm ant. The first is singular (or small number). The second is plural. There is no such thing as collective rate bargaining as far as the first is concerned. This actually seriously pisses of the ants. Especially the unionized ones. As a result most unionized industries are considerably more hostile towards a specialist that calls his own rates. In most branches of the computing industry there is a natural progression to this status if your qualification increases. In many other industries this progression does not exist. There is an upper limit to what you can do as a tiler, plumber or machinery operator. You cannot get into the next "white collar" level by learning on the job. In many branches of the computing industry you can still do that.
Unions protect the employees by making employee termination much more difficult to the employer. It is difficult as it is in the EU. The union ability to complicate it further is actually quite limited.
Unions typically prohibit companies from hiring non-union employees. This part of unionization is something which we have already experienced. Ever tried to get a job in a network shop that has suffered a CC** infection or a software shop that has suffered a MS** infection? The certification serves a similar function in our industry without bringing all the other benefits.
Well... It depends what are we talking about. People keep talking about the IT industry and unions without actually realizing that the differences in the industry are vast. Unions in a high level design department in a Telco - give me a break, unions in an architecture group in a software house - once again give me a break, unions in a "Mr Wolf" pulp fiction style consultancy - you gotta be kidding. Unions in a sweatshop cubicle XP farm where people are cranking out dull code and being payed by the hour - definitely. Actually, it is the same in the constuction industry - how many architects, interior designers or planners are unionized? Dunno about US, but here - about 0.
They are one of the few companies that have been nailed by the EU competition commission for deliberate and blatant flaunting of the EU open market laws. In fact they hold the title for the biggest fine payed in the computer industry (all higher fines are in the construction or pharmaceuticals). Of course, it may yet be eclipsed by Microsoft if the commission will manage to go all the way with that one (as the new commissioner has been known to be a rabid Bill fan I have serious doubts here).
Yep. Sounds about right. Plenty of people out there in fact. Interestingly enough they _are_ more expensive then MS** by approx 30%. This is one of those points where the article is using a true statement of fact just putting it out of context to make its dubious point.
At least here less then 0.5 % of companies hire direct. Even in the ones that do the application must pass through HR or a consultant.
So you give this job spec to a recruitment agent or a HR clerk and he/she will convert all "GOOD to HAVE" into "MUST HAVE".
As a result the only people you will get will be the ones who lie on their resume and lie to the agent.
Or you get noone, because for example I have a half a page long blacklist of agents which are not bothering with because they do this conversion and will not even read a CV which does not match all buzzwords.
Or the agency or HR will shovel off the first applicants who do not do a full match (with the GOOD converted to MUST) telling them that they are not qualified. As a result you get people who simply will no longer apply for a position in your company (the rest of my blacklist consists of places like this).
Been there, done that as a result of not knowing how to configure IGP on a unix box 10 years ago with gated. No thanks.
In btw, exchange points and load balancing are still more then enough to make a living off. And hopefully someone will at get an OSPF daemon working or get a good API to use this BGP daemon with a foreign OSPF implementation which lacks in terms of BGP.
The only justification for the project existence are exchange points and load balancing. The reason is that neither of these requires any IGP.
BGP by itself is meaningless. You need at least OSPF for a small network and ISIS for a large one to be able to use it and you need them in a form where the BGP knows everything about an OSPF or ISIS route.
1. It is PCI, but the modules do not use the standard PCI pinout and are not standard as per any of the available PCI standards (normal, mini or compact). You are correct - they use classic PCI chips. Early 36xx ethernet network modules used AMD lance, more recent ones use Intel.
2. 72xxx is also PCI, once again with a different card form factor.
3. The performance has nothing to do with tuning. It has to do with offloading heavily to cards various functions like checksumming and a lot of layer2 work.
Stick an ostrich there (birds being the closest relative of dinosaurs), and it will be dead in no time
One of the South American varieties lives as high up as 5000m way in the mountain tundra belt. So I would not bet on this. Same for the dinosaurs. They were sufficiently diverse to cover the entire Earth including the polar regions and at least some were covered with feathers. While the arctic 65 million years ago was not as cold as now, it were definitely not tropical.
Actually, the heavy methals thrown into the atmosphere are likely to have contributed much more to the demise of the dinosaurs compared to any nuclear winter effect. The bigger the animal and the slower its methabolism, the higher is the effect from heavy methal intoxication.
Err... Clarify yourself. AMD hardware or peripherals and MB which support AMD64?
If it is AMD hardware as such, debian sarge runs on dual opterons without any problem provided you use the most recent packaged kernel (2.6.8.1) or build yourself something post-2.6.7.
If it is about peripherals could not care less. Typing this at the moment on a 533 MHz C3. More then sufficiently fast for my needs for a desktop and most importantly absolutely silent - 22db from the drive when spinning (which is not very often).
So whom are you going to fight?
Just have a look here and ask yourself http://www.adherents.com/rel_USA.html#religions
can you fight anyone and do you have a chance of winning. In fact it is pretty amazing and admirable that Kerry got whatever he got in first place.
Well... Then may be he deserved to win it. Basically you are saying that all of the so called undecided voters suffered from rabid xenophobia and acute isolationism and reacted to letters from a foreigner by running to support the exact opposite candidate. Well, frankly that is Bush electorate by definition. So the Guardian did not have to do anything with it.
If anyone had to something with Bush winning, it was Bin Laden. He wants the American and the British to continue alienating the islamic world until all of it is at war against them. He got what he wanted. There was a lot of banter on Slashdot about him influencing the Spanish elections. Well... dunno about Spain, but he definitely got what he wanted in the US. That tape several days before the election was the most brilliant propaganda move in the Bush campaing. At the right time to make everyone scared and not giving enough time to get the White House to answer WTF is it doing in Iraq when enemy no 1 is still alive and kicking elsewhere. In fact if Bin Laden did not make the tape the Bush camp would have had to fake it. Or may be they did???
Illegal or not - who cares. The new competition commissioner has a history of being vehemently pro-Microsoft. So getting a payout before she dismisses the case may be a jolly good idea.
In btw, Americans have most likely missed this one around the election, but the "powerless" EU parliament managed to torpedo a well-known mafia puppet (The Lituanian candidate) along with a Catolic Bush clone (Italy). While I am not sure that the replacements are much better, this is still a reason for some selebration.
Have you tried to exercise those rights in Tesco in the UK? I have. And I can tell you - you can just forget it. The only way to get anywhere with any electrical goods returns is to go all the way through trading standards - writing a written complaint, filing it and following it up. Basically Tesco subtracts returns for reasons other then warranty from the store manager bonuses (indirectly through "efficiency" bonuses). You can guess how easy it is to return something after that.
Yeah, you have rights. But the person dealing with the return always disagrees with the fact this as a matter of principle. So in fact it is harder to return something at the number 1 consumer retailer in the UK then in any of the US stores referred in the article.
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- automated custom trojans which take advantage of the fact that a target to receive 99% of the cases will not be protected by an application firewall (fair assessment).
- custom phishing attacks that do a search in the person bookmarks first, before displaying the phish target. 99% of the population is lazy and bookmarks their bank login page so a well designed phishing/trojan or phishing/XSS attack can chose the correct target if it wants to. The only reason it is not being done now is that there are plenty of idiots out there to be caught via more trivial means.
I think that the hypothesis that SPAMmers will start to work on maximizing the return from a single mark instead of maximizing the number of marks they hit is not improbable. Spam is already a mostly criminal affair with a lot of it being run by organized crime.Yes. There is. As long as the others are not suitable for embedded applications Opera shall live. Mozilla has a project to do this, but it is still way off...
Correct.
It is.
I was not talking about the S200 software.
To the extent of my knowledge tey did not _fire_ it using the S200 software. The S200 software aquired the target and killed it while in flight, but they fired it based on radar data from one of the newer systems, not from the original S200. And they made a pretty good job in covering up the fact that they are testing something that runs recent radar technology and and interfaces with old Russian missiles. That is a HELL OF A MARKET YA KNOW...
Just think of all those banana/oil republics "export version" control systems (Iraq is a good example). If you thought that American export controls are nasty, you have definitely not seen the Russian ones...
1. You seriously underestimate the level of English education in the ex-Soviet union. There is a reason why most of UN synchronouse translators are Russian.
2. Their natural advantage is that no matter how shitty is the spec they are given they usually say "Yes great white master" and implement it exactly as specified (laughing when you do not see them). This appeals to some arseholes that will be right in their place on a dilbert strip. Eastern Europeans do not do that. They will actually send you the spec back for clarification. And Ukrainians especially. If we are talking about a pathological case of overgrown national pride a hohol will be a classic example. They do not make good outsourcing slaves. So there will not be a lot of outsourcing there, because outsourcing is more often done to satisfy sense of inferiority, then to save money.
Err... You are approaching this from your american moral perspective. From his perspective - business as usual.
Also, it may have been better to allow him to sell it. It would not have been used to shoot down civilian airplanes with 70+ passengers flying on a scheduled international flight in an approved corridor. Which they did and tried to lie about it. So much for quality assurance of the system software I guess...
That is the smaller problem.
Casual LCDs will survive under 300 hours while being illuminated at those intensities.
Just ask IBM - there used to be Stinkpad models which could have their LCD detached to be used for this exact purpose. I cannot recall off the top of my head, but they were not the only ones to do so.
No more. Guess why...
Depends on the level of inbreeding methinks... After all these are "folks" we are talking about...
Complete and utter bollocks. I do not see any military objective in bombing ex-Ugo infrastructure into the ground. Whatsofscking ever.
But I see the 20+ million of Serbians, Bulgarians, Romanians and northern Greek on which head the fallout from bombing of this infrastructure descended. Asbestous, carcinogenic chemicals, hydrofluoric acid, organofluoric compounds, depleted uranium, you name it. I see the thousands of people dying from cancer now and dying from cancer in the future. I see my best friend from college who used to run a software and hardware shop with me and his wife. He died from mesotelieloma two days ago (cancer typical for asbestous exposure, he never touched asbestous in his life). I no longer ask friends how are their folks there as the answer is universally either "I berried them last month" or "In the cancer ward". So on so fourth...
Just get a clue kid. Definitely get a clue and try to understand what does exactly US "shock and awe" approach do and how many civilians continue to die from it over 30+ years wherever it has been applied.
They are right that the head gets damaged - their head is not part of the cartridge. They are also right in the way they determine it. They mark it as empty if the level is low enough to allow the system to draw a bubble into the pipeline. I wish car manufacturers were so anal retentive - I know more then one person who have managed to kill their ignition systems (Fiat and some GMs) by running them dry. The thing I do not like is that on a system that is obviously designed for a refill, and used to be refillable (just look at a 1991 stylus) you have to swap a cartridge. Anyway, loads of pros and cons with one major pro in their favour - it actually works. You can forget Epson unused for half a year and you can still print on it (at least their laser printers). They are nasty like all printer manufacturers, but not as nasty as Lexmark, Canon or HP.
Buy a panasonic. Dunno about their small ones, but they make a selling point from the fact that their office kit is refillable with a bucket. It ain't anywhere near cheap, the size is monstrous, drivers are mildly horrible and 2-3 years behind the relevant OS requirements, old printers do not have drivers for new OSes as they stop development the day the first printer in a model is out of the door, Linux support inexistent. But it lasts forever and costs nearly nothing to run.
Lexmark's attempt to use DMCA to prevent thrid party cartridges sank in court a few weeks ago. They are bound to start looking for a different means to achieve the same goal as their printers are sold at dumping prices and they generate profit mostly from cartridges. In order to chose the next move they definitely need some reconnaissance data. Alternatively they are looking to move the grounds of enforcement on what the customer uses from suing competitors to sueing customers (what a novell idea...).
2. Lexmark AFAIK is one of the companies who are participating in the stupid law assistance program where software and hardware should detect common types of currency and refuse to copy or print it. Going from there to ratting on the ones who scan/print it is only one step.
Well... It depends what are we talking about. People keep talking about the IT industry and unions without actually realizing that the differences in the industry are vast. Unions in a high level design department in a Telco - give me a break, unions in an architecture group in a software house - once again give me a break, unions in a "Mr Wolf" pulp fiction style consultancy - you gotta be kidding. Unions in a sweatshop cubicle XP farm where people are cranking out dull code and being payed by the hour - definitely.
Actually, it is the same in the constuction industry - how many architects, interior designers or planners are unionized? Dunno about US, but here - about 0.
Seconded.
They are one of the few companies that have been nailed by the EU competition commission for deliberate and blatant flaunting of the EU open market laws. In fact they hold the title for the biggest fine payed in the computer industry (all higher fines are in the construction or pharmaceuticals). Of course, it may yet be eclipsed by Microsoft if the commission will manage to go all the way with that one (as the new commissioner has been known to be a rabid Bill fan I have serious doubts here).
Yep. Sounds about right. Plenty of people out there in fact. Interestingly enough they _are_ more expensive then MS** by approx 30%. This is one of those points where the article is using a true statement of fact just putting it out of context to make its dubious point.
There is one problem.
At least here less then 0.5 % of companies hire direct. Even in the ones that do the application must pass through HR or a consultant.
So you give this job spec to a recruitment agent or a HR clerk and he/she will convert all "GOOD to HAVE" into "MUST HAVE".
As a result the only people you will get will be the ones who lie on their resume and lie to the agent.
Or you get noone, because for example I have a half a page long blacklist of agents which are not bothering with because they do this conversion and will not even read a CV which does not match all buzzwords.
Or the agency or HR will shovel off the first applicants who do not do a full match (with the GOOD converted to MUST) telling them that they are not qualified. As a result you get people who simply will no longer apply for a position in your company (the rest of my blacklist consists of places like this).
Been there, done that as a result of not knowing how to configure IGP on a unix box 10 years ago with gated. No thanks.
In btw, exchange points and load balancing are still more then enough to make a living off. And hopefully someone will at get an OSPF daemon working or get a good API to use this BGP daemon with a foreign OSPF implementation which lacks in terms of BGP.
BGP by itself is meaningless. You need at least OSPF for a small network and ISIS for a large one to be able to use it and you need them in a form where the BGP knows everything about an OSPF or ISIS route.
1. It is PCI, but the modules do not use the standard PCI pinout and are not standard as per any of the available PCI standards (normal, mini or compact). You are correct - they use classic PCI chips. Early 36xx ethernet network modules used AMD lance, more recent ones use Intel.
2. 72xxx is also PCI, once again with a different card form factor.
3. The performance has nothing to do with tuning. It has to do with offloading heavily to cards various functions like checksumming and a lot of layer2 work.
One of the South American varieties lives as high up as 5000m way in the mountain tundra belt. So I would not bet on this. Same for the dinosaurs. They were sufficiently diverse to cover the entire Earth including the polar regions and at least some were covered with feathers. While the arctic 65 million years ago was not as cold as now, it were definitely not tropical.
Actually, the heavy methals thrown into the atmosphere are likely to have contributed much more to the demise of the dinosaurs compared to any nuclear winter effect. The bigger the animal and the slower its methabolism, the higher is the effect from heavy methal intoxication.
Err... Clarify yourself. AMD hardware or peripherals and MB which support AMD64?
If it is AMD hardware as such, debian sarge runs on dual opterons without any problem provided you use the most recent packaged kernel (2.6.8.1) or build yourself something post-2.6.7.
If it is about peripherals could not care less. Typing this at the moment on a 533 MHz C3. More then sufficiently fast for my needs for a desktop and most importantly absolutely silent - 22db from the drive when spinning (which is not very often).
So whom are you going to fight? Just have a look here and ask yourself http://www.adherents.com/rel_USA.html#religions can you fight anyone and do you have a chance of winning. In fact it is pretty amazing and admirable that Kerry got whatever he got in first place.
Well... Then may be he deserved to win it. Basically you are saying that all of the so called undecided voters suffered from rabid xenophobia and acute isolationism and reacted to letters from a foreigner by running to support the exact opposite candidate. Well, frankly that is Bush electorate by definition. So the Guardian did not have to do anything with it.
If anyone had to something with Bush winning, it was Bin Laden. He wants the American and the British to continue alienating the islamic world until all of it is at war against them. He got what he wanted. There was a lot of banter on Slashdot about him influencing the Spanish elections. Well... dunno about Spain, but he definitely got what he wanted in the US. That tape several days before the election was the most brilliant propaganda move in the Bush campaing. At the right time to make everyone scared and not giving enough time to get the White House to answer WTF is it doing in Iraq when enemy no 1 is still alive and kicking elsewhere. In fact if Bin Laden did not make the tape the Bush camp would have had to fake it. Or may be they did???
Illegal or not - who cares. The new competition commissioner has a history of being vehemently pro-Microsoft. So getting a payout before she dismisses the case may be a jolly good idea.
In btw, Americans have most likely missed this one around the election, but the "powerless" EU parliament managed to torpedo a well-known mafia puppet (The Lituanian candidate) along with a Catolic Bush clone (Italy). While I am not sure that the replacements are much better, this is still a reason for some selebration.
Yeah, you have rights. But the person dealing with the return always disagrees with the fact this as a matter of principle. So in fact it is harder to return something at the number 1 consumer retailer in the UK then in any of the US stores referred in the article.