this might seem a little aloof...but why do we, as Slashdot, care if people who mass-mail AOL users are going to be charged a really, really idiotic e-mail tax?
Actually, from what I understand is that anyone who wants guaranteed delivery to AOL users will have to pay this "tax". Anyone else goes through the normal email filters.
That said, anyone who has family on AOL probably should help them get out of that place. There are cheaper and better ISPs out there.
That judge may get upset when someone starts sending emails from his email address. Of course, I don't know what kind of information is in the emails, but it is entirely possible to send false emails, even fraudulent ones. Just login to an insecure SMTP server and you're set.
How do you fake all the headers (included the one that are added by the recipients email server)? The Received By: line will have incorrect information up to the point where the email leaves your control.
it's simple to spoof an email, I can send mail as jonathan@pcphi...com any time I want to. I can also alter mailbox information, mess about with mail headers, make it say anything I want it to.
You can. But then you also have to make sure that it is the pcphi...com smtp server that actual do the delivery to my email server, otherwise the email will be thrown out of court because of invalid received by: lines. Even if you fake all received by: lines, some of the last lines should have been written by my email servers, which should have made a note where the connection came from. And if the last outside connection didn't match the pcphi...com smtp server...
And you can change your mailbox, but then my copy of the mail would be different from your copy of the mail. And since I'm a company, I make backup, and all the backup (verified) email have the same email content (up to the point when I received the email, of course).
2) You establish a community of companies that are providing competing products. They decide on certain core functionality that has become a commodity, but other features are the differentiators in the market. They choose to GPL the commodity code, reserving their seperate "feature rich" code internally. This forces changes made to the commodity code to be released back into the community pool by the members of the group. If they do not, then there are actual possible legal ramifications.
When you GPL your "commodity" code, then all your "feature rich" code also become GPL if you link it in.
Which is why I personally prefer the Mozilla/Apache license (keep the commodity free, do whatever you want with the linked in libraries). Of course, RMS doesn't believe you as the developer should have a say in what license you choose.
What will happen in 2006? Personally I don't think the iPod has peaked yet; I think 2006 figures will be higher than 2005, though not as spectacularly. I don't think any music phones will break the million-unit barrier. Mobile operators will probably give up on the concept of a music phone.
Have you looked at some of the phones that are coming out from Sony-Ericsson or Nokia? Those that don't come will 4 Gb internal memory, all come with some removable memory. I have an easier time filling up my Nokia N70 with music than my Ipod (Nokia N70 has a MMC, so I can put into my machine and Linux discovers it as a USB storage device).
I don't think the lower end Ipods (nano, mini) will survive.
I have a treo600 now, and -wish- I could shut off the phone while keeping the SMS (for server notifications) on sometimes.
Don't know about the treo, but Nokia N70 lets you have different sounds/notifications for each event like phonecall,sms,email. So I could have phonecall and email be silent, while sms gives a beep for instance.
If enough eyes are looking, all bugs are shallow, that is the open source mentality. That is precisely the good thing about open source.
Shallow bugs are a myth. There aren't enough eyes, and not all eyes are of the same quality. There have been bugs and exploits in Linux that have been laying dormat for years.
I never really understood the whole region-lock thing anyway. It just seems to be 100% greed.
It is 100% greed. DVD could be more expensive in Europe than in the US, even with the postage and custom (saying could, because it depends on the country). MPAA members want to be able to sell the same product for different prices depending on region. So, for a western European, buying from the US might be cheaper than buying locally. For a northern American, it could be cheaper to buy from Asia than to buy locally. They really want the public to pay as much as possible for a given product, and not the world average.
Also, they usually get local distributors to sell their DVDs. These would go away, they fear, if everybody buys DVDs from another country.
To be honest, I don't think they should fear the last point. Most people in Norway would prefer to have DVDs with Norwegian subtitles, so they probably wouldn't order from the US anyways (since those DVDs aren't subtitled in Norwegian).
So the Internet gets richer (640 width isn't enough for most sites any more - 800 or 1024 is the norm), and phones get smaller. A new miniNet must be developed! And WAP can fuck off if it thinks it's part of that miniNet!
Opera is doing some cool stuff with their browser, though. For instance, automagically resize the page for mobile devices, magnify/focus on specific places on the webpage. Also, the Norwegian websites (mostly news) that I have visited have been optimized for mobile browsing.
How often do you shrink a volume, anyways? I think fastest when it comes to reading the data you expect to have on a given volume is much more important than whether the system can shrink or not. Don't know about jfs, but both xfs and reiserfs lets you grow the filesystem. if you are using LVM and RAID, both Reiserfs and XFS are great.
One of the things I hate about Nokia phones is the battery life. I don't see why Sony Ericsson can get 9 hours+ talking time on their phone, and Nokia has less than 3 with the same functionality.
I think iPod nano and mini will probably be killed by the next generation mobile phone/mp3 players. At least outside the US, where the mobile phones are further along. The Sony Ericsson ones have close to the same battery life as the nano (9 hours for the Sony Ericsson vs 14 hours for the nano).
I'm not sure what the industry can do with products that are already in the markedplace. Unlike desktop OS, the mobile phones don't get updated.
Sorry, missed that you talked about Nokia 5510. I think all the N-series are running 'normal' mp3 files. At least N70 does. Probably all the Series 60 systems
The drives shows up as USB storage devices (at least they do in the newer Nokia models). You can just access them that way and copy the music or whatever over. That's what I do.
Say you have a mistress, and you don't want to get into the Beckham situation. Send her a self-destructing sms. Later she can't write a book about it because the messages have self-destructed. Or have her send you self-destructing sms. After you read, you don't have to remember to delete so your wife doesn't find out.
Plus, with windows IE, I have a billion dollar company standing behind my product. Who can I complain to if Firefox screws me.
You're so right. I mean, over the last five years, the billion dollar company has released so many updates to its browser, while Firefox has more or less been standing still. Clearly, the billion dollar company cared more about their product than those hippies at Mozilla. In fact, I care about IE as much as Microsoft does.
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this might seem a little aloof...but why do we, as Slashdot, care if people who mass-mail AOL users are going to be charged a really, really idiotic e-mail tax?
Actually, from what I understand is that anyone who wants guaranteed delivery to AOL users will have to pay this "tax". Anyone else goes through the normal email filters.
That said, anyone who has family on AOL probably should help them get out of that place. There are cheaper and better ISPs out there.
That judge may get upset when someone starts sending emails from his email address. Of course, I don't know what kind of information is in the emails, but it is entirely possible to send false emails, even fraudulent ones. Just login to an insecure SMTP server and you're set.
How do you fake all the headers (included the one that are added by the recipients email server)? The Received By: line will have incorrect information up to the point where the email leaves your control.
it's simple to spoof an email, I can send mail as jonathan@pcphi...com any time I want to. I can also alter mailbox information, mess about with mail headers, make it say anything I want it to.
You can. But then you also have to make sure that it is the pcphi...com smtp server that actual do the delivery to my email server, otherwise the email will be thrown out of court because of invalid received by: lines. Even if you fake all received by: lines, some of the last lines should have been written by my email servers, which should have made a note where the connection came from. And if the last outside connection didn't match the pcphi...com smtp server...
And you can change your mailbox, but then my copy of the mail would be different from your copy of the mail. And since I'm a company, I make backup, and all the backup (verified) email have the same email content (up to the point when I received the email, of course).
http://script.aculo.us/ has some interesting scripts (like drag-n-drop)
2) You establish a community of companies that are providing competing products. They decide on certain core functionality that has become a commodity, but other features are the differentiators in the market. They choose to GPL the commodity code, reserving their seperate "feature rich" code internally. This forces changes made to the commodity code to be released back into the community pool by the members of the group. If they do not, then there are actual possible legal ramifications.
When you GPL your "commodity" code, then all your "feature rich" code also become GPL if you link it in.
Which is why I personally prefer the Mozilla/Apache license (keep the commodity free, do whatever you want with the linked in libraries). Of course, RMS doesn't believe you as the developer should have a say in what license you choose.
What will happen in 2006? Personally I don't think the iPod has peaked yet; I think 2006 figures will be higher than 2005, though not as spectacularly. I don't think any music phones will break the million-unit barrier. Mobile operators will probably give up on the concept of a music phone.
Have you looked at some of the phones that are coming out from Sony-Ericsson or Nokia? Those that don't come will 4 Gb internal memory, all come with some removable memory. I have an easier time filling up my Nokia N70 with music than my Ipod (Nokia N70 has a MMC, so I can put into my machine and Linux discovers it as a USB storage device).
I don't think the lower end Ipods (nano, mini) will survive.
According to some testing over at anandtech, problem was in the way Windows XP polls USB2 devices.
I have a treo600 now, and -wish- I could shut off the phone while keeping the SMS (for server notifications) on sometimes.
Don't know about the treo, but Nokia N70 lets you have different sounds/notifications for each event like phonecall,sms,email. So I could have phonecall and email be silent, while sms gives a beep for instance.
If enough eyes are looking, all bugs are shallow, that is the open source mentality. That is precisely the good thing about open source.
Shallow bugs are a myth. There aren't enough eyes, and not all eyes are of the same quality. There have been bugs and exploits in Linux that have been laying dormat for years.
So, basically, South Korea or China is the ideal when it comes to GPL, since FSF doesn't believe in ownership of software, and neither do these guys
I never really understood the whole region-lock thing anyway. It just seems to be 100% greed.
It is 100% greed. DVD could be more expensive in Europe than in the US, even with the postage and custom (saying could, because it depends on the country). MPAA members want to be able to sell the same product for different prices depending on region. So, for a western European, buying from the US might be cheaper than buying locally. For a northern American, it could be cheaper to buy from Asia than to buy locally. They really want the public to pay as much as possible for a given product, and not the world average.
Also, they usually get local distributors to sell their DVDs. These would go away, they fear, if everybody buys DVDs from another country.
To be honest, I don't think they should fear the last point. Most people in Norway would prefer to have DVDs with Norwegian subtitles, so they probably wouldn't order from the US anyways (since those DVDs aren't subtitled in Norwegian).
NT was written as kind of a test bed for new technology. It wasn't originally designed to be a production system.
News to me. You of course has sources to back that up.
When did Recording Industry Association of America care about what you do with your movies?
So the Internet gets richer (640 width isn't enough for most sites any more - 800 or 1024 is the norm), and phones get smaller. A new miniNet must be developed! And WAP can fuck off if it thinks it's part of that miniNet!
Opera is doing some cool stuff with their browser, though. For instance, automagically resize the page for mobile devices, magnify/focus on specific places on the webpage. Also, the Norwegian websites (mostly news) that I have visited have been optimized for mobile browsing.
How often do you shrink a volume, anyways? I think fastest when it comes to reading the data you expect to have on a given volume is much more important than whether the system can shrink or not. Don't know about jfs, but both xfs and reiserfs lets you grow the filesystem. if you are using LVM and RAID, both Reiserfs and XFS are great.
One of the things I hate about Nokia phones is the battery life. I don't see why Sony Ericsson can get 9 hours+ talking time on their phone, and Nokia has less than 3 with the same functionality.
Nokia's E-series is probably for you.
I think iPod nano and mini will probably be killed by the next generation mobile phone/mp3 players. At least outside the US, where the mobile phones are further along. The Sony Ericsson ones have close to the same battery life as the nano (9 hours for the Sony Ericsson vs 14 hours for the nano).
I'm not sure what the industry can do with products that are already in the markedplace. Unlike desktop OS, the mobile phones don't get updated.
Sorry, missed that you talked about Nokia 5510. I think all the N-series are running 'normal' mp3 files. At least N70 does. Probably all the Series 60 systems
What are you talking about? My Nokia N70 reads normal mp3 files.
The drives shows up as USB storage devices (at least they do in the newer Nokia models). You can just access them that way and copy the music or whatever over. That's what I do.
Maybe he should outsource the gaming to China.
Say you have a mistress, and you don't want to get into the Beckham situation. Send her a self-destructing sms. Later she can't write a book about it because the messages have self-destructed. Or have her send you self-destructing sms. After you read, you don't have to remember to delete so your wife doesn't find out.
Plus, with windows IE, I have a billion dollar company standing behind my product. Who can I complain to if Firefox screws me.
You're so right. I mean, over the last five years, the billion dollar company has released so many updates to its browser, while Firefox has more or less been standing still. Clearly, the billion dollar company cared more about their product than those hippies at Mozilla. In fact, I care about IE as much as Microsoft does.