Anyone who feels like a single entity needs to consider that much of what we are is a distributed system. Very small parts have tasks, such as shown on this movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWUmXx5V_wE . THis is a white blood cell (Neutrophil type) chasing down a little bad thing.. and gobbling it up. Sure, this can be attributed to Chemotaxis, but, the Neutrophil has intent. This seems unbeleivable. To get even crazier.. look into molecular motors.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7AQVbrmzFw ! Each of us is an amalgam, a colony of amazing things all going on at one time! The smart part of us - the brain, is the same part that does stupid things like smoking that takes its toll on so many little parts of us.. but.. the brain decides that its in its own best interest to buy the WHOLE CARTON because its cheaper that way. Oh, the humanities!
Put a good sound card in a basic small form factor PC, and run Amarok on it (or some other Music Front end) and figure out how to make it web friendly... That way, you can screw the MID to the coffee table hardwire it in to 120VAC and make that your effective music console. Am assuming the MID can DHCP into your home network? Not really a tablet, but it becomes a quasi-dedicated device as you seek.
We have grown to expect free stuff like alternate browsers, and Acrobat and Flash and Java (etc). We all are part of the new diorama of the Interweb, which is increasingly mined to extract information for commercial purposes. Its business. We'll have to get used to it. The consideration paid to the folks that build and maintain that diorama-space (TM) is the sale of the information that you push into it. The growing fear for me is how often its -extracted- vs -provided-. I am aware of everything that I type in, but have NO idea why facebook needs read/write access to my camera, address book or phone number list, or my surfing history or the.... (Whatever...)... As the a prior/. poster put it.... I can imagine the wringing pedipalps that must accompany any new data mining vector of personal and private data from anyone that has a cell phone, or smart phone or laptop or tablet (ie: all of us!! ) That said, who will negotiate for fair data-access on the side of the user? On the way home from dinner, (wife was driving!), I checked on NJ Devils hockey ticket offer that came via email. Once home, I opened a browser and all of a sudden, there were NJ Devils images all over the periphery of my experience. I felt sorta violated. On the other hand, I would rather see those I guess than meal deals from Moscow, or Brisbane or Kolkata. I guess another way we could address this is by making that data we maintain fairly unrepresentative. Imagine a script that visits 20 websites in a row, Opens a connection, pauses, closes opens another and output >/dev/null. Is that how we mask our nakedness?
What happens when someone patents a loop that has a condition and has tests embedded to make predictable decisions....
Every script I'd ever written would then be violating some patent, and my company would have to pay some patent goons for
something I dreamed up.
Who does that work for?
Keeping up with my pseudonym, would someone patent Mime Attachments?
Sounds like the time Microsoft and SGI collaborated on Fahrenheit. Nothing came of it, aside from Uncle Bills flying monkeys pulling the last relevant bits out of SGI's IP portfolio (OpenGL embraced/extended into DirectX). SGI plummeted afterwards since they had to acknowledged NT was way cooler than Irix. Yahoo....... Be careful. Keep your Intellectual Property close to chest. Sounds like a pirate boarding story from the Horn of Africa!
Why would Oracle chose to tune Redhat OS and Linux kernel in secret? Changing things like the "ld" binary seem a bit underhanded at best. Oracle is undermining the service provided by Redhat. They lend it credibility by copying it/ hacking it, and then fiddle with its revenue stream, as if they deserve it? Its obvious they add little to the big picture, and have a track record for producing products that are overly complex. IMHO.
Oracle does need to prove itself. Its got its own tech stacks that seem to be completely independant of each other. How many copies of the JVM are in an app server? Why are versions 8.0.6 still embedded inside the higher versions? Redhat provides coherency, and transparent success. How often does one read "Redhat 5.0 or newer"? Oracle provides the specific checklist of which versions are supposed to work with other versions. Redhat does a much better job at a stable and well-thought out product. Should we expect Oracle to fork Redhat or just pimp it as their own each time a new version comes out? I can't honestly pay Oracle for support when Redhat provides the coherency that leads to success. We have enough would-be visionaries that merely resell products that are "hammered to shape, filed to blend, painted to conceal" where others build it to their own spec and vision.
Its time for the vendors that add value to be paid for their work, and ensure that they stay in business. I shudder to think what would happen if we relied on Oracle to provide coherency in the developing world of open source software products.
The Primary MTA could be aware of good v. bad identities.... would not be too tough to extract in real time. Slowing down the bulk stuff would be good.
If the system with the lowest MX value could differentiate a good from a bad address, we could make a silent drop or TCP connection freeze (for..,, say 1 second?) to hamper the spammer. Even if a box is acting as a relay, would it be bad to choke it up a little?
That would end up being a double win.. Slowing down Spammers where ever they go, and slowing down boxes that are misconfigured.
Life isnt always fair.
-- See Attached.
Scammers, err, Spammers are famous for being happy with a 0.01% hit rate. So.. here is how we protect ourselves, slow every body down, just a little. Make any SMTP transaction take 1/2 second each. no big deal. that limits the thruput of any spammer... very much!
Or.... financially.... if some one is found to be spamming (100 Failed emails from one IP) we'd bring the $$ hammer down on the sender. Charging $.01 per message might also do it too.
Either of these might not scale in all cases, but, it might make cost/profit of spamming less tasty.
Its free??? I'll take 20! (sounds too much like my company!)
See Attached.
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Anyone who feels like a single entity needs to consider that much of what we are is a distributed system. Very small parts have tasks, such as shown on this movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWUmXx5V_wE . THis is a white blood cell (Neutrophil type) chasing down a little bad thing.. and gobbling it up. Sure, this can be attributed to Chemotaxis, but, the Neutrophil has intent. This seems unbeleivable. To get even crazier.. look into molecular motors.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7AQVbrmzFw ! Each of us is an amalgam, a colony of amazing things all going on at one time! The smart part of us - the brain, is the same part that does stupid things like smoking that takes its toll on so many little parts of us.. but.. the brain decides that its in its own best interest to buy the WHOLE CARTON because its cheaper that way. Oh, the humanities!
Put a good sound card in a basic small form factor PC, and run Amarok on it (or some other Music Front end) and figure out how to make it web friendly... That way, you can screw the MID to the coffee table hardwire it in to 120VAC and make that your effective music console. Am assuming the MID can DHCP into your home network? Not really a tablet, but it becomes a quasi-dedicated device as you seek.
We have grown to expect free stuff like alternate browsers, and Acrobat and Flash and Java (etc). We all are part of the new diorama of the Interweb, which is increasingly mined to extract information for commercial purposes. Its business. We'll have to get used to it. The consideration paid to the folks that build and maintain that diorama-space (TM) is the sale of the information that you push into it. The growing fear for me is how often its -extracted- vs -provided-. I am aware of everything that I type in, but have NO idea why facebook needs read/write access to my camera, address book or phone number list, or my surfing history or the .... (Whatever ...)... As the a prior /. poster put it.... I can imagine the wringing pedipalps that must accompany any new data mining vector of personal and private data from anyone that has a cell phone, or smart phone or laptop or tablet (ie: all of us!! ) That said, who will negotiate for fair data-access on the side of the user? On the way home from dinner, (wife was driving!), I checked on NJ Devils hockey ticket offer that came via email. Once home, I opened a browser and all of a sudden, there were NJ Devils images all over the periphery of my experience. I felt sorta violated. On the other hand, I would rather see those I guess than meal deals from Moscow, or Brisbane or Kolkata. I guess another way we could address this is by making that data we maintain fairly unrepresentative. Imagine a script that visits 20 websites in a row, Opens a connection, pauses, closes opens another and output > /dev/null. Is that how we mask our nakedness?
What happens when someone patents a loop that has a condition and has tests embedded to make predictable decisions.... Every script I'd ever written would then be violating some patent, and my company would have to pay some patent goons for something I dreamed up. Who does that work for? Keeping up with my pseudonym, would someone patent Mime Attachments?
Based on the job Oracle does maintaining their Tech Stacks, they would destroy the kernel. Case in point, the huge security issue with Java that Oracle feels best to be fixed in February. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/javacpuoct2012-1515924.html#PatchTable Just because you can, doesn't mean you should republish source code developed and collimated at considerable expense by someone else. Responsibility? http://blog.mozilla.org/security/2012/08/28/protecting-users-against-java-security-vulnerability/ ?? Wait till February. Anonymous's best friend.
How many Engineers have sold their BS degrees for a higher paying IT job? Many of the ones I'd gone to school with have made the jump.
Sounds like the time Microsoft and SGI collaborated on Fahrenheit. Nothing came of it, aside from Uncle Bills flying monkeys pulling the last relevant bits out of SGI's IP portfolio (OpenGL embraced/extended into DirectX). SGI plummeted afterwards since they had to acknowledged NT was way cooler than Irix. Yahoo....... Be careful. Keep your Intellectual Property close to chest. Sounds like a pirate boarding story from the Horn of Africa!
Why would Oracle chose to tune Redhat OS and Linux kernel in secret? Changing things like the "ld" binary seem a bit underhanded at best. Oracle is undermining the service provided by Redhat. They lend it credibility by copying it/ hacking it, and then fiddle with its revenue stream, as if they deserve it? Its obvious they add little to the big picture, and have a track record for producing products that are overly complex. IMHO.
Oracle does need to prove itself. Its got its own tech stacks that seem to be completely independant of each other. How many copies of the JVM are in an app server? Why are versions 8.0.6 still embedded inside the higher versions? Redhat provides coherency, and transparent success. How often does one read "Redhat 5.0 or newer"? Oracle provides the specific checklist of which versions are supposed to work with other versions. Redhat does a much better job at a stable and well-thought out product. Should we expect Oracle to fork Redhat or just pimp it as their own each time a new version comes out? I can't honestly pay Oracle for support when Redhat provides the coherency that leads to success. We have enough would-be visionaries that merely resell products that are "hammered to shape, filed to blend, painted to conceal" where others build it to their own spec and vision. Its time for the vendors that add value to be paid for their work, and ensure that they stay in business. I shudder to think what would happen if we relied on Oracle to provide coherency in the developing world of open source software products.
The Primary MTA could be aware of good v. bad identities.... would not be too tough to extract in real time. Slowing down the bulk stuff would be good.
If the system with the lowest MX value could differentiate a good from a bad address, we could make a silent drop or TCP connection freeze (for..,, say 1 second?) to hamper the spammer. Even if a box is acting as a relay, would it be bad to choke it up a little? That would end up being a double win.. Slowing down Spammers where ever they go, and slowing down boxes that are misconfigured. Life isnt always fair. -- See Attached.
Scammers, err, Spammers are famous for being happy with a 0.01% hit rate. So.. here is how we protect ourselves, slow every body down, just a little. Make any SMTP transaction take 1/2 second each. no big deal. that limits the thruput of any spammer... very much! Or.... financially.... if some one is found to be spamming (100 Failed emails from one IP) we'd bring the $$ hammer down on the sender. Charging $.01 per message might also do it too. Either of these might not scale in all cases, but, it might make cost/profit of spamming less tasty. Its free??? I'll take 20! (sounds too much like my company!) See Attached.