First and foremost, it's free (speech and beer) and distributed under the GPL.
Second, the actual developers of the software actually participate in the support forums, so if you do have a question, it's likely to be answered very fast by someone intimately familiar with the software.
Third, it's a lot less susceptible to comment spam, especially after applying a few plugins and hacks. I've never received a single one, and that's not for lack of spammers trying.
Fourth, it's very easy to customize the look and feel of the site without knowing any PHP. HTML and CSS is about all you need to know. Knowing PHP helps a lot if you want to really customize it, but it isn't a requirement.
Finally, they've already included a Movable Type import utility, so those of you who are sick of MT for this and many other reasons can move over with little hassle.
Signed,
A very happy WordPress user and occasional contributor.
Most of this seems to be focusing on the executive director, Anthony Romero. I think the ACLU would be well served by getting rid of him.
Of course, I have my own beef with the ACLU, namely that they are very selective about whichcivil rights they will and willnot defend.
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Apparently trillian is supposed to work with Wine and/or Crossover Office.
I'd like to meet someone who got it to work. The last time I tried this, running Trillian in Wine brought down the whole computer. I've been very leery of Trillian, and repeating the experiment, ever since.
They say 32 gigabit, not gigabyte. So if you divide 32 by 8, that makes for 4 gigabytes. At least, that's the way I understand bit-to-byte conversion.
Yes, and that's 4GB on a chip smaller than your fingernail. With some creativity you can cram a whole bunch of those into the space of existing USB drives, or hundreds of them into an iPod.
Everyone has been saying that Itanic will sink for quite a while now; it's about time that HP and Intel realized they were pouring money down a drain and pulled the plug on the project.
if a kernel is written to take advantage of multiple cores, would this mean applications written ontop of it would start using the multiple cores?
Something like Linux SMP will see each core as a separate CPU and treat them as such, much as it does with hyperthreading today. The catch is, your applications have to be multithreaded. Then they will take advantage of the multiple cores.
So if it runs out of the box, then that's great. But if it required some tweaking, then that's an area of expertise that can't be expected from most people.
I run Gentoo, so it runs out of the box...once it's compiled. In a corporate setting, the sysadmins will be doing any necessary tweaking; the users won't have to worry about anything except filing trouble tickets if something breaks (which happens frequently enough on Windows that they all know how to do it).
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which vary from state to state.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses (x) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it (x) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires cooperation from too many of your friends and is counterintuitive ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business ( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever worked ( ) Other:
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it (x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email (x) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats (x) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches (x) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft (x) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers (x) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook ( ) Other:
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable (x) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck (x) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures cannot involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures cannot involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses (x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email (x) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough ( ) Other:
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Nice try, dude, but I don't think it will work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
I believe the 20 minute figure was arrived at by hooking up a fresh copy of XP (with no service packs that you can't even buy anymore)to an unprotected broadband network and then surfing the net without downloading any security updates.
In the test, they installed it, plugged in the Ethernet, and let it sit there idle. The XP box got its first trojan in under five minutes.
Some experts blame Microsoft for Windows vulnerabilities that help spread spyware. Microsoft and some others, meanwhile, said blame should be directed instead at spyware manufacturers.
"Spyware usually gets on your computer through human error," said Marc Maiffret of eEye Digital Security Inc., which regularly discovers serious Windows flaws.
Yeah, sure, if starting the computer is human error. It takes what, five minutes or less, for an XP box to get riddled with viruses, Trojans, etc.? The error is Microsoft didn't ship an operating system that could remotely be considered secure. You can't connect to the network to download SP2 without risking the computer. Where's the sense in this? Where's the user error?
Start with the first one full of spaces and throw letters in as you figure them out, and see what you get. Makes things very easy and eliminates all that pen-and-paper hassle.
Keep your MS Office if you must; versions up to Office 2000 run just fine in Wine. Wine is also VERY good at those little custom developed in-house vertical apps that all large companies seem to have lots of.
For one phone company I know of, which has such a Windows app for their customer service representatives to work with customers' accounts, I demonstrated it running perfectly in Wine. I was able to access and make changes to accounts just the same as if it were running on Windows, with no trouble whatsoever.
If it's not mentioned already, some discussion of Wine and its suitability for those types of applications definitely should be included.
Since the 70's every now and again someone predicts that such a climate change is just around the corner. The truth is that these predictions are very inaccurate. I'm talking thousands of years uncertainty.
Netcraft hasn't confirmed it yet.
I'm still waiting for Los Angeles to fall off into the ocean. If that hasn't happened yet, then we probably haven't reached the next ice age.
Keep in mind that MS's new anti-spyware product isn't going to remove anything that they want to remain on your machine. All current anti-spyware products have this problem, which is why most people need more than one.
How many Joe Sixpacks disable ActiveX? I'd bet 99% of IE users have ActiveX enabled, left their security settings at default, or even changed them down to "Low"!
This decision, which passed quickly through Council, was prompted by the recent case of the serial killer Michel Fourniret who was able to carry out his crimes for years by exploiting the poor communication between French and Belgian authorities.
Now I know the Belgians can speak French. If they can't communicate properly, this data retention law isn't going to help at all. What would help is for the various member states to get their act together and start working together more closely on international crimes.
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First and foremost, it's free (speech and beer) and distributed under the GPL.
Second, the actual developers of the software actually participate in the support forums, so if you do have a question, it's likely to be answered very fast by someone intimately familiar with the software.
Third, it's a lot less susceptible to comment spam, especially after applying a few plugins and hacks. I've never received a single one, and that's not for lack of spammers trying.
Fourth, it's very easy to customize the look and feel of the site without knowing any PHP. HTML and CSS is about all you need to know. Knowing PHP helps a lot if you want to really customize it, but it isn't a requirement.
Finally, they've already included a Movable Type import utility, so those of you who are sick of MT for this and many other reasons can move over with little hassle.
Signed,
A very happy WordPress user and occasional contributor.
I bet this new scheme yields to cdparanoia just like all the others.
Most of this seems to be focusing on the executive director, Anthony Romero. I think the ACLU would be well served by getting rid of him.
Of course, I have my own beef with the ACLU, namely that they are very selective about which civil rights they will and will not defend.
I'd like to meet someone who got it to work. The last time I tried this, running Trillian in Wine brought down the whole computer. I've been very leery of Trillian, and repeating the experiment, ever since.
Yes, and that's 4GB on a chip smaller than your fingernail. With some creativity you can cram a whole bunch of those into the space of existing USB drives, or hundreds of them into an iPod.
The Register coverage: Who Sank Itanic?
Everyone has been saying that Itanic will sink for quite a while now; it's about time that HP and Intel realized they were pouring money down a drain and pulled the plug on the project.
Something like Linux SMP will see each core as a separate CPU and treat them as such, much as it does with hyperthreading today. The catch is, your applications have to be multithreaded. Then they will take advantage of the multiple cores.
I run Gentoo, so it runs out of the box...once it's compiled. In a corporate setting, the sysadmins will be doing any necessary tweaking; the users won't have to worry about anything except filing trouble tickets if something breaks (which happens frequently enough on Windows that they all know how to do it).
...a beowulf cluster on a chip!
Playing games at work! Does your boss know about this?
This certainly explains the strange "rain" on weather radar maps in and around cities, when there isn't a cloud in the sky.
I vote these people Most Likely to Kidnap The "Can You Hear Me Now" Guy And Stuff Him Into That Dumpster.
No, I really do run Gentoo, and it really is still compiling.
Your post advocates a
( ) technical (x) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which vary from state to state.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
(x) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
(x) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires cooperation from too many of your friends and is counterintuitive
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
( ) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever worked
( ) Other:
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
(x) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
(x) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
(x) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(x) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
(x) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
(x) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
( ) Other:
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
(x) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
(x) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures cannot involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures cannot involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
(x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
(x) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
( ) Other:
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Nice try, dude, but I don't think it will work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
In the test, they installed it, plugged in the Ethernet, and let it sit there idle. The XP box got its first trojan in under five minutes.
Yeah, sure, if starting the computer is human error. It takes what, five minutes or less, for an XP box to get riddled with viruses, Trojans, etc.? The error is Microsoft didn't ship an operating system that could remotely be considered secure. You can't connect to the network to download SP2 without risking the computer. Where's the sense in this? Where's the user error?
Start with the first one full of spaces and throw letters in as you figure them out, and see what you get. Makes things very easy and eliminates all that pen-and-paper hassle.
For one phone company I know of, which has such a Windows app for their customer service representatives to work with customers' accounts, I demonstrated it running perfectly in Wine. I was able to access and make changes to accounts just the same as if it were running on Windows, with no trouble whatsoever.
If it's not mentioned already, some discussion of Wine and its suitability for those types of applications definitely should be included.
By the time this finishes compiling, gtk+ 2.6.1 will be out!
Netcraft hasn't confirmed it yet.
I'm still waiting for Los Angeles to fall off into the ocean. If that hasn't happened yet, then we probably haven't reached the next ice age.
Keep in mind that MS's new anti-spyware product isn't going to remove anything that they want to remain on your machine. All current anti-spyware products have this problem, which is why most people need more than one.
How many Joe Sixpacks disable ActiveX? I'd bet 99% of IE users have ActiveX enabled, left their security settings at default, or even changed them down to "Low"!
It should all fit in Liechtenstein. If not there's Luxembourg.
Now I know the Belgians can speak French. If they can't communicate properly, this data retention law isn't going to help at all. What would help is for the various member states to get their act together and start working together more closely on international crimes.
How about the robot that looks like Dick Clark that we're going to need shortly?