From spam floods to network attacks, I have never gotten a response in 5 years. To be fair, I don't always get responses from everybody, but at least other areas of the world have a better track record.
I have resorted to blocking the offending network or ISP temporarily (until they get tired of getting no response from my networks and move on), but I really can't see blocking an entire segment of the world just to stop spam. It just goes against the grain of an "open" 'Net. I'd rather try something like SpamAssassin (no affiliation - I've just used it and it works great) than block nations for the actions of albeit many bad apples.
Good point - I guess I wasn't looking at it from that point of view. The environmental impact alone might be worth the switch. I might still hesitate, living in the US northeast, as I would only be able to use it roughly 4 months a year...
Initially, I just like the idea of a gang of 400lb geeks screaming down the sidewalk on their Segways;-)
I like the potential to not need to manually control the cameras when video-conferencing. I just love it when the speaker on the other end has happy feet and you wind up wasting time trying to keep him in frame;)
I also like the fact that the guts of the project are being released to the public so we can all play. Not like I have the equipment to set this up, but it's nice to know I could if I wanted to.
Sure, they seem cool and you can't discount the geek appeal, but how much effort is really involved in walking to your destination? Is the company looking to outfit these suckers in 5 years with heavy-duty shocks because all the customers have become extremely out of shape?
I apologize for the flamebait here - I love the idea of people whizzing around on the sidewalk at 13mph, but how hard is it to walk down to the bus station/ATM/bar?
Even though I think Microsoft will have a hard time arguing against this, I doubt the States will see anything. Microsoft's lawyers "proved" this before so I doubt the judge will allow the States to re-hash this argument.
Besides, if by some chance Microsoft did have to show their code, it would be done in an extremely closed manner. The comments here about the code being in CVS somewhere are just silly - wishful, yet silly.
What if you are unfortunate enough to be both blind and deaf? Audio books don't do you much good then. Besides, what if the audio version hasn't come out yet?
In the "Highlights" section, it mentions a pricetag of "$11,495 U.S. List, a 35% price reduction on the previous entry price for an SGI high-performance 64-bit workstation."
A bit pricey for me, but I'll put it on my wish list anyway;)
I personally think the idea of an sql-ish filesystem might be handy for some tasks but not the majority of them. I can see the benefits of running queries on my email and documents (and maybe even log files), but I question the performance of such a system in general. I can't imagine access time would not be affected signifigantly by this - even for the home user. I definitely can't see running this on a server level - can you imagine all the I/O involved in email processing on a large server running a DB FS?
While I doubt the numbers, I suppose it could be true. At my current company, they insist on supplying *everyone* with a windows box, regardless of need. As a sysadmin, all I use it for is surfing (google searches, sfocus, pstormm slashdot =), since my Linux desktop is where I get all my real work done;)
Hopefully this will provide some help in the fight against SPAM. We have laws that help fight fax SPAM and phone SPAM, why not email SPAM? SPAM costs us money (time is money), and it is getting to the point that "just hit delete" doesn't cut it anymore.
A clear message need to be sent to spammers (and would-be spammers) that this deluge of crap email will not be tolerated. The main selling point to spammers now is that it's free, but wait till someone slaps them with a huge lawsuit;)
From the article:
Two months ago, Jaime Cardinal Sin, the nation's influential archbishop, was among the first to call for the resignation of President Joseph Estrada
The Glass-Steagall Act prohibits banks from offering a full range of financial services and prevents securities and insurance firms from
accepting deposits or affiliating with deposit-taking institutions. The goal of the proposals is to give financial institutions the flexibility they need to most efficiently allocate capital and to
compete in the international marketplace while also ensuring the safety of the financial system. Key themes in the committee's work will include devising a simplified regulatory structure,
the distribution between banking and commerce, and the structure under which their affiliation may take place. The 104th Congress introduced legislation to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act,
but agreement could not be reached largely because of a dispute regarding the extent to which banks should be regulated in order to market insurance products =)
Just thought of another negative: people are always complaining about the lack of domain names as it is. Would we use a new TLD (.phone?.wireless?), or have
something like phone://hemos.attws.com ? Which, again, would tie things to a single provider and would change every time you went w/ another service.
What would be the difference, your phone number changes now when you change providers (unless they have some sort of portability agreement).
See, after all the berating of activex/vbscript bugs in outlook that allowed the new "worm" breed or viruses to plague Windoze users, now we have something nasty to send the *nix users who read email with Netscape and have html/java turned on;)
(of course, us Mutt or Elm users are still safe *grin*)
While I appreciate what Billington is trying to do by keeping a certain sense of "reverance" wrt print books, you also need to take into account the fact that more and more material is becoming avail. online. I carry my laptop and TriPad with me more often than books (since leaving college *grin*), and I might read more if I had the opportunity to do it from anywhere I had net access.
I don't think anyone should decide what's better for the public in the long run - they should let us choose which way we'd rather access those texts.
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I have resorted to blocking the offending network or ISP temporarily (until they get tired of getting no response from my networks and move on), but I really can't see blocking an entire segment of the world just to stop spam. It just goes against the grain of an "open" 'Net. I'd rather try something like SpamAssassin (no affiliation - I've just used it and it works great) than block nations for the actions of albeit many bad apples.
just gave me a good laugh. ;-)
It's been that kind of day, sorry
Richard Nixon learned that lesson quite well ;-)
Initially, I just like the idea of a gang of 400lb geeks screaming down the sidewalk on their Segways ;-)
I second - please, please keep computers (and cameras/microphones) out of the bathroom ;-)
I also like the fact that the guts of the project are being released to the public so we can all play. Not like I have the equipment to set this up, but it's nice to know I could if I wanted to.
I apologize for the flamebait here - I love the idea of people whizzing around on the sidewalk at 13mph, but how hard is it to walk down to the bus station/ATM/bar?
Besides, if by some chance Microsoft did have to show their code, it would be done in an extremely closed manner. The comments here about the code being in CVS somewhere are just silly - wishful, yet silly.
What if you are unfortunate enough to be both blind and deaf? Audio books don't do you much good then. Besides, what if the audio version hasn't come out yet?
A bit pricey for me, but I'll put it on my wish list anyway ;)
I personally think the idea of an sql-ish filesystem might be handy for some tasks but not the majority of them. I can see the benefits of running queries on my email and documents (and maybe even log files), but I question the performance of such a system in general. I can't imagine access time would not be affected signifigantly by this - even for the home user. I definitely can't see running this on a server level - can you imagine all the I/O involved in email processing on a large server running a DB FS?
While I doubt the numbers, I suppose it could be true. At my current company, they insist on supplying *everyone* with a windows box, regardless of need. As a sysadmin, all I use it for is surfing (google searches, sfocus, pstormm slashdot =), since my Linux desktop is where I get all my real work done ;)
A clear message need to be sent to spammers (and would-be spammers) that this deluge of crap email will not be tolerated. The main selling point to spammers now is that it's free, but wait till someone slaps them with a huge lawsuit ;)
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Looks cool - definitely wouldn't hurt to widen your field of view. Just as long as you don't get fragged while you're busy looking around ;)
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Seems like a strange name for an archbishop =)
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The Glass-Steagall Act prohibits banks from offering a full range of financial services and prevents securities and insurance firms from accepting deposits or affiliating with deposit-taking institutions. The goal of the proposals is to give financial institutions the flexibility they need to most efficiently allocate capital and to compete in the international marketplace while also ensuring the safety of the financial system. Key themes in the committee's work will include devising a simplified regulatory structure, the distribution between banking and commerce, and the structure under which their affiliation may take place. The 104th Congress introduced legislation to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act, but agreement could not be reached largely because of a dispute regarding the extent to which banks should be regulated in order to market insurance products =)
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What would be the difference, your phone number changes now when you change providers (unless they have some sort of portability agreement).
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See, after all the berating of activex/vbscript bugs in outlook that allowed the new "worm" breed or viruses to plague Windoze users, now we have something nasty to send the *nix users who read email with Netscape and have html/java turned on ;)
(of course, us Mutt or Elm users are still safe *grin*)
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But, I'd rather wait until the bandwidth and format issues have been worked out - I sure hope they're released in a format playable by Linux ;)
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I don't think anyone should decide what's better for the public in the long run - they should let us choose which way we'd rather access those texts.
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man does this sound cool
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This looks like the perfect gift for that PERL nut in your life for X-Mas ;)
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