Open your email client. Look at the default colour of the messages. Most of them are black type on a white background.
I want the default colour to indicate that it has passed my tests for LEGITIMATE mail. I do NOT mean that is has not FAILED to be identified as spam.
This is mostly for business users. As the email admin, I should be able to identify the servers that send us legitimate email. So I can add headers that are known only to my system.
Any message NOT containing those headers will be shown in a different colour. Even if they pass all the anti-spam tests.
This is a change from identifying what MAY be spam. This is about identifying established relationships.
Scenario: My user account is linked to the role account of postmaster.
I go on vacation. I use principal/agent to assign LIMITED rights to my user account to someone else while I'm out. That also, by default, allows them access to postmaster through my account. That way I don't have to dig through a bunch of roles and accounts and then remember to take them back later.
But include switches so that I can limit/deny that if I really want to. Or assign it to someone else. But the default should be the easiest.
#1. Lots of hooks. One of the reasons that Outlook/Exchange is so popular is that anyone can write an app that uses them and become "emain enabled". Yes, I know this is USUALLY (99.9%+) the WRONG way to do it (why do I need Outlook installed to monitor web traffic?) but I'm sure that it can be done correctly.
#2. Online and live BACKUPS! No more shutting down the server to get a decent backup OR buying expensive database backup software.
#3. Shared folders / calendars.
#4. Roles / identities / aliases / whatever. So I can send email as "postmaster" without having to log out of my user account and log into the postmaster account. And so "sales" will go to the entire sales team.
I'm in no way defending the licensing of the codecs, but as unfair as it is, it's a problem that ultimately exists on their OS.
No, it is not.
You are focusing on the format, not the functionality.
If you want to listen to music files, Ubuntu will play.ogg and.wav files right out of the box.
Your (and his) problem is that you are focusing on a specific PROPRIETARY file format instead of looking at the functionality. The functionality is there. You just refuse to recognize it.
The ultimate attainable security... is when your systems lose/corrupt/release data more often due to the stupid (non-malicious) actions of your people than due to crackers.
The human level is the last limit. Don't focus on technology that will get you that last 0.0001% when the people running your systems will causing the problems 100x more often.
And this is because MP3 codecs can't be included in an OS without paying a bunch of money to Thomson (licensee of the MP3 patents). MS and Apple can pay this, Ubuntu can't. How could this ever be solved for free software until the patents run out?
Exactly.
Ubuntu is a Linux distribution.
It is based upon the GPL.
That's Free as in speech. NOT free as in beer. Which is what that idiot seems to have missed.
Ubuntu is NOT about being a free (as in beer) replacement for Windows/Macs. It's about being a Free (as in speech) system.
Picking up a Free system and then complaining that it doesn't work with your non-Free items is... idiotic. He's looking for "free Microsoft Windows" and that is HIS error. Not Ubuntu's. Not Linux's.
Anything not working is a legitimate complaint. Period.
Then Windows doesn't work because you have to install software to get your iPod to function on it.
It doesn't matter if the issues are legal or technological; if something doesn't work, it's an issue.
Again, if your "logic" was correct then he could not recommend Windows. Yet he does.
You can't even handle basic spreadsheets on Windows given his/your criteria.
Now go and put a brand new Windows machine on the Internet without anti-virus or a hardware firewall. You can't even open random emails.
He's an idiot because his criteria would NOT result in a "working" system on any of those platforms. Yet he chooses to ignore that FACT and complain about minor issues instead.
He did get an Ubuntu laptop from Dell and NONE of his itemized complaints matched his "...someone who wouldn't want to enter text commands, hunt the Web for drivers and enabling software, or learn a whole new user interface..." bullshit.
#1. Problem with his touchpad. Probably legit.
#2. Volume control crashes on "wake from sleep". Probably legit - definitely minor.
#3. Playing mp3's - learn the legal issues, we've been harping on that for YEARS.
#4. Hooking up camera & iPod. Probably legit.
#5. Playing videos - see #3.
So he has TWO legitimate complaints and one minor problem. He's an idiot. By his "logic", Windows is not ready for anyone. Try getting an iPod to work on it without installing software.
1) I am not aware of any known observations of macroevolution (new species created via mutation).
A. There is no "macroevolution".
B. New species are easy to show. Take a colony of animals, split it into two sub-groups and breed only within those sub-groups until the sub-groups cannot breed with each other.
What you refuse to accept is that a dog will NEVER conceive a cat because that would disprove evolution.
2) To date, no direct ancestral chains have been established. That is, where one species can be definitively proven to have descended from another.
There is no "proof" except in Math. Everything else depends upon evidence. And there is plenty of evidence showing evolution.
My facts may not be up to date (and yes I am a creationist), however just as I take the Bible on faith (as Hebrews 11:3 states); It would seem that an evolutionist must rely on faith that there is a mechanism (mutation or otherwise) capable of differentiating species.
No. Because you refuse to accept the repeatable experiments showing exactly that does NOT mean that those experiments do not exist.
It would also seem a step of faith that the missing transitional forms also exists.
Which "transitional forms" are those? All you're doing is repeating crap you've heard.
Also please do not the the wrong actions (tax evasion) effect your judgment. The Bible clearly teaches that men are flawed beings. If Dr. Hovind has engaged in tax evasion (I do not know all the facts here), he has violated both Scripture and the laws of the country. Please do not let this color your opinion of the evidence for the creationist position.
Someone who will violate the laws of his country and scripture is still to be respected because he wouldn't make false statements on other subjects?
If OOXML is accepted as an ISO standard then Microsoft's implementation of that "standard" will be the "de facto" standard implementation of it. Not exactly a "reference implementation" but effectively accepted as such.
Even if Microsoft's implementation doesn't follow any of the published "standard".
Just as IE was the "standard" when you were designing a web page. Sure, you could follow the official WWW standards, but if IE couldn't render it, it was considered "broken" by the general public.
Back in the day... if one company wanted to sell/give/transfer a license to another company, they had to send a letter to Novell on company letterhead stating which company was transferring which licenses to which company along with contact names, phone numbers and addresses.
It worked for me. When I started the job I'm at now I checked their licenses with Novell and found they had a license that was not registered to them. So I ordered them a replacement.
Now, this only works if the software company trusts its users and the users trust the software company.
But it would work a lot better than their system in TFA.
You are, effectively, immortal. You can keep coming back. That changes the economics. Instead of a single run (life), you can have multiple runs. Without the tedious childhood and learning parts.
No, it would not have any relevance to anything other than a fairy tale.
Governments control their economies. That's part of what they do. And right now, most of that is accomplished through managing the money and the banks.
Otherwise, the government would not have much in the way of revenue. Which is where this scenario fails. It's based upon individuals (or small groups) working to earn money themselves to accomplish their goals. With the only influence being other individuals (or groups) trying to get the resources first.
Rather than watch everyone and keep adding names to the "people we don't think are terrorists today", they'd look for specific activities. "Follow the money."
In your scenario, what happens when the bad guy isn't doing anything bad during the time that he is being monitored?
We have over 300 million people here. The number of false positives in your plan would mean that we couldn't track any of the bad guys. We'd have spent all the money on following innocent people.
So what you're saying is that I should get a completely new system, all AMD-based?
And that I should send a copy of the receipt to AMD along with the explanation that the only reason I spent that money was so I could run Ubuntu with the new Free video driver? And that I should say that the system I'm replacing was Intel/nVidia?
Well, if you say I should, that's good enough for me.
And you go on to say that everyone who buys an ATI card because of this should also send a letter (not email) to ATI saying the same thing?
Back around 1776 there were a large number (about 20% of our population) of "Loyalists" who opposed our Independence.
If you had polled England at the time, and those Loyalists, you'd understand that the "terrorists" had control of the "colonies".
If England had won, every one of those "terrorists" who had signed their little "Declaration" would have been hanged. And their would have been rejoicing in the streets of the colonies.
A recent report estimates that there are more than 5,000 Web sites created and maintained by known international terrorist groups, including Al-Qaeda, the Iraqi insurgencies, and many home-grown terrorist cells in Europe.
One man's "terrorist" is another man's "Freedom fighter".
Every TCP/IP packet has a source address and a destination address.
So all that the government would need would be the addresses of the web sites (no matter where they are located) and taps on the pipelines. You can either try to catch the stuff going OUT of your country or going INTO their country (if you can't just tap the line of that website).
That will tell you who, in your country, is going there.
As long as it isn't using encryption, you'll even get what is being read/posted.
If it is using encryption, you still should have the location of the guy reading/posting. Or you can try cracking the encryption.
Once you have the location of the guy, you get a warrant and put a keylogger on his box or whatever.
There's no need for all of this crap about "darkweb". Google can already tell you what is posted on what websites. If these guys are smart enough to beat the basics, they're smart enough to know NOT to use the Internet for point-to-point communications.
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Open your email client. Look at the default colour of the messages. Most of them are black type on a white background.
I want the default colour to indicate that it has passed my tests for LEGITIMATE mail. I do NOT mean that is has not FAILED to be identified as spam.
This is mostly for business users. As the email admin, I should be able to identify the servers that send us legitimate email. So I can add headers that are known only to my system.
Any message NOT containing those headers will be shown in a different colour. Even if they pass all the anti-spam tests.
This is a change from identifying what MAY be spam. This is about identifying established relationships.
Scenario:
My user account is linked to the role account of postmaster.
I go on vacation. I use principal/agent to assign LIMITED rights to my user account to someone else while I'm out. That also, by default, allows them access to postmaster through my account. That way I don't have to dig through a bunch of roles and accounts and then remember to take them back later.
But include switches so that I can limit/deny that if I really want to. Or assign it to someone else. But the default should be the easiest.
You want it modular so that you can upgrade it or swap it out when a flaw is discovered in it.
#1. Lots of hooks. One of the reasons that Outlook/Exchange is so popular is that anyone can write an app that uses them and become "emain enabled". Yes, I know this is USUALLY (99.9%+) the WRONG way to do it (why do I need Outlook installed to monitor web traffic?) but I'm sure that it can be done correctly.
#2. Online and live BACKUPS! No more shutting down the server to get a decent backup OR buying expensive database backup software.
#3. Shared folders / calendars.
#4. Roles / identities / aliases / whatever. So I can send email as "postmaster" without having to log out of my user account and log into the postmaster account. And so "sales" will go to the entire sales team.
Any other requirements?
I use it all the time. Even multiple levels of it.
I can GPG encrypt my message.
The server can use TLS when connecting to the other server.
He's already hit the top of his career. His fans will find him even if he never pays another dollar in marketing.
:)
In fact, his hard-core fans will probably be happier with him if he never pays another dollar in marketing.
The problem is that the industry is structured to cash in on people like Trent who make millions.
Then there are the one-hit-wonders. Use them up and spit them out.
Then there are the hordes looking for a chance to make it big. They can give away their stuff until they're signed. Then the labels own them.
No, it is not.
You are focusing on the format, not the functionality.
If you want to listen to music files, Ubuntu will play
Your (and his) problem is that you are focusing on a specific PROPRIETARY file format instead of looking at the functionality. The functionality is there. You just refuse to recognize it.
And he is defining "work" as "being exactly like Microsoft Windows".
No, Ubuntu is NOT "free Microsoft Windows". And there is no reason other than him being an idiot to expect it to be.
So Ubuntu doesn't play mp3's out of the box. It DOES play
Does Windows play
Ubuntu is NOT "free Microsoft Windows". Do not expect it to be. Do not complain when it is not.
Understand WHY Ubuntu was written.
Can I legally give Ubuntu to 100 people without anyone being charged for it? Yes.
Can I do that with Microsoft Windows? No.
The ultimate attainable security ... is when your systems lose/corrupt/release data more often due to the stupid (non-malicious) actions of your people than due to crackers.
The human level is the last limit. Don't focus on technology that will get you that last 0.0001% when the people running your systems will causing the problems 100x more often.
Exactly.
Ubuntu is a Linux distribution.
It is based upon the GPL.
That's Free as in speech. NOT free as in beer. Which is what that idiot seems to have missed.
Ubuntu is NOT about being a free (as in beer) replacement for Windows/Macs. It's about being a Free (as in speech) system.
Picking up a Free system and then complaining that it doesn't work with your non-Free items is
Then Windows doesn't work because you have to install software to get your iPod to function on it.
Again, if your "logic" was correct then he could not recommend Windows. Yet he does.
You can't even handle basic spreadsheets on Windows given his/your criteria.
Now go and put a brand new Windows machine on the Internet without anti-virus or a hardware firewall. You can't even open random emails.
He's an idiot because his criteria would NOT result in a "working" system on any of those platforms. Yet he chooses to ignore that FACT and complain about minor issues instead.
He did get an Ubuntu laptop from Dell and NONE of his itemized complaints matched his "...someone who wouldn't want to enter text commands, hunt the Web for drivers and enabling software, or learn a whole new user interface..." bullshit.
#1. Problem with his touchpad. Probably legit.
#2. Volume control crashes on "wake from sleep". Probably legit - definitely minor.
#3. Playing mp3's - learn the legal issues, we've been harping on that for YEARS.
#4. Hooking up camera & iPod. Probably legit.
#5. Playing videos - see #3.
So he has TWO legitimate complaints and one minor problem. He's an idiot. By his "logic", Windows is not ready for anyone. Try getting an iPod to work on it without installing software.
A. There is no "macroevolution".
B. New species are easy to show. Take a colony of animals, split it into two sub-groups and breed only within those sub-groups until the sub-groups cannot breed with each other.
What you refuse to accept is that a dog will NEVER conceive a cat because that would disprove evolution.
There is no "proof" except in Math. Everything else depends upon evidence. And there is plenty of evidence showing evolution.
No. Because you refuse to accept the repeatable experiments showing exactly that does NOT mean that those experiments do not exist.
Which "transitional forms" are those? All you're doing is repeating crap you've heard.
Someone who will violate the laws of his country and scripture is still to be respected because he wouldn't make false statements on other subjects?
If OOXML is accepted as an ISO standard then Microsoft's implementation of that "standard" will be the "de facto" standard implementation of it. Not exactly a "reference implementation" but effectively accepted as such.
Even if Microsoft's implementation doesn't follow any of the published "standard".
Just as IE was the "standard" when you were designing a web page. Sure, you could follow the official WWW standards, but if IE couldn't render it, it was considered "broken" by the general public.
It could be as simple as a cracked laptop used by some executive.
All it needs is access to the database.
Their press release provides NO information. And it does nothing to restore any confidence in their systems or management.
Back in the day ... if one company wanted to sell/give/transfer a license to another company, they had to send a letter to Novell on company letterhead stating which company was transferring which licenses to which company along with contact names, phone numbers and addresses.
It worked for me. When I started the job I'm at now I checked their licenses with Novell and found they had a license that was not registered to them. So I ordered them a replacement.
Now, this only works if the software company trusts its users and the users trust the software company.
But it would work a lot better than their system in TFA.
Don't forget the other key feature.
You are, effectively, immortal. You can keep coming back. That changes the economics. Instead of a single run (life), you can have multiple runs. Without the tedious childhood and learning parts.
Don't forget:
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Yes, macro-economics would still exist.
No, it would not have any relevance to anything other than a fairy tale.
Governments control their economies. That's part of what they do. And right now, most of that is accomplished through managing the money and the banks.
Otherwise, the government would not have much in the way of revenue. Which is where this scenario fails. It's based upon individuals (or small groups) working to earn money themselves to accomplish their goals. With the only influence being other individuals (or groups) trying to get the resources first.
Rather than watch everyone and keep adding names to the "people we don't think are terrorists today", they'd look for specific activities. "Follow the money."
In your scenario, what happens when the bad guy isn't doing anything bad during the time that he is being monitored?
We have over 300 million people here. The number of false positives in your plan would mean that we couldn't track any of the bad guys. We'd have spent all the money on following innocent people.
#1. Send it to ATI and let them use it in their marketing campaign.
#2. Send it to nVidia to show the profit that is going to their competitor from a FORMER customer.
#3. Send it to BOTH.
So what you're saying is that I should get a completely new system, all AMD-based?
And that I should send a copy of the receipt to AMD along with the explanation that the only reason I spent that money was so I could run Ubuntu with the new Free video driver? And that I should say that the system I'm replacing was Intel/nVidia?
Well, if you say I should, that's good enough for me.
And you go on to say that everyone who buys an ATI card because of this should also send a letter (not email) to ATI saying the same thing?
The only way to get nVidia to release their specs is to show them that there is a real market.
I'll do my part and replace my AGP nVidia card with an ATI one as soon as there is a good review of an available card with this driver on Ubuntu.
Back around 1776 there were a large number (about 20% of our population) of "Loyalists" who opposed our Independence.
If you had polled England at the time, and those Loyalists, you'd understand that the "terrorists" had control of the "colonies".
If England had won, every one of those "terrorists" who had signed their little "Declaration" would have been hanged. And their would have been rejoicing in the streets of the colonies.
One man's "terrorist" is another man's "Freedom fighter".
Every TCP/IP packet has a source address and a destination address.
So all that the government would need would be the addresses of the web sites (no matter where they are located) and taps on the pipelines. You can either try to catch the stuff going OUT of your country or going INTO their country (if you can't just tap the line of that website).
That will tell you who, in your country, is going there.
As long as it isn't using encryption, you'll even get what is being read/posted.
If it is using encryption, you still should have the location of the guy reading/posting. Or you can try cracking the encryption.
Once you have the location of the guy, you get a warrant and put a keylogger on his box or whatever.
There's no need for all of this crap about "darkweb". Google can already tell you what is posted on what websites. If these guys are smart enough to beat the basics, they're smart enough to know NOT to use the Internet for point-to-point communications.