Umm... if you're running your own mailserver on your residential DSL... aren't you violating the Terms of Service of most residential DSL agreements which says "thou shalt not run servers that are accessible via the DSL connection"?
If you need email you can trust, what's wrong with Hotmail or Yahoo! or any other free mail service?
What happens if total money is a constant and jobs goes up?
Yes, I can see jobs doubling by 2010, because I can definitely see salaries halving by 2010. Folks making $60K today, in 7 years, will be making $30K plus some adjustment for inflation and cost of living -- probably about $37K given a 3% rate.
If only salaries had been forcefully halved in 2000, a lot more folks might have kept their jobs, instead of that lucrative job title change of "professional unemployment collector."
For $2,000, the front window better be an active overlay that renders a thermal scan of the contents of the microwave, so I can see exactly how hot the AOL CD that it's nuking is getting.
"Excuse me, what's that racked next to the Cisco 7000?" "Oh, that? That's our new stackable 24-port 10/100 switch and microwave combo unit."
-- Dossy (I wonder how many RC5 keys this new microwave can break.)
Maybe it's just me, but I think the RIAA is telling us that it's time for a Richard Stallman-like character to pop out of the woodwork in the music industry to start a Free Music Foundation label.
It'll help put an end to sell-out artists, and instead promote those artists who really want their art to be distributed and enjoyed by others. Then we'll finally have musical art for art's sake, which might raise the quality of music, just a notch.
It'd be nice if the FMF used a non-encumbered music format, since the MP3 format clearly has its issues in that regard.
Speaking of audio blog/shows... it's sad that with so many mock-worthy events happening in the recent media that no young group of talented people have gotten together to do something ala The Goon Show.
I think a modernized version of The Goon Show, as an audio-only webcast... could really become big.
The Laurie Garrett hoax is just that -- it's a great example of performance art. But what makes it so believable? It's the whole state of global current affairs... it's just a clever piece of anti-war propaganda disguised as a conference report from some accredited news reporter who may likely have attended the event.
Why do we believe that this isn't a hoax because some pseudonymous person named "beagle" claims to have interacted with the supposedly "real" Laurie Garrett with no real proof other than another piece of performance art hoax email that has no verifiable details to prove the message was really sent by Laurie herself.
Someone (or some group) out there is trying to make us believe that the state of affairs is grim, that the war with Iraq will make it even worse... and they "leaked" this "privileged" information under Laurie's name to give it artificial credibility.
The world's collective stupidity is astounding, and our desire to believe the ridiculous -- wholesale, without rationality -- is disappointing.
Most spammers aren't dumb enough to put their real return address in the spam. So, sending a bounce message back just floods some poor unsuspecting mail server with a bunch of bounces for a mail it didn't originate.
I've been using qmail, qmail-scanner and SpamAssassin with a few very minor tweaks to deter spammers. Basically, qmail-scanner runs SpamAssassin, and if SA returns with a score above 15.0, instead of sending a "250 ok" to the spammer telling them the mail was accepted, I send back a "5.3.0 spam detected" -- this seems to have gotten me off a couple of spam lists where the spammers actually care enough to clean their lists.
I made these tweaks because once the mail is sent and the spammer has disconnected, there really is no way of getting information back to them that you're rejecting their mail. So, you have to reject it at the time they've got the SMTP session established... which I've done.
TarPit seems like an exercise in overengineering with little proof that it'll do anything to hurt spammers -- they'll figure a way around the tarpit, somehow.
Someone needs to moderate this up as Informative. It's so very true -- bands aren't supposed to expect to make money from selling their recorded music. The money is supposed to be in touring ticket sales, and maybe royalties for soundtracks, etc.
Why must Linus adopt this? The community has already done something about this: Linux Kernel State Tracer (LKST) and Linux Kernel Crash Dumps (LKCD)...
When these things have proven themselves to be both generally useful and stable, I'm sure they'll make their way into the mainstream Linux kernel and distributions.
-- Dossy
Nice work on MessageWall -- I was thinking of building something like this just the other day.
As a potentially viable commercial product, I was also thinking of using the same "core design" you used for MessageWall (I came up with the same idea) to create a Win32-based POP/IMAP proxy, so that desktop users can take advantage of these features (in case their ISP doesn't).
Does anyone else see any interest in something like this?
Could be worse. Staples, Office Depot and the others could be required to report names and addresses of buyers of felt tip markers, similar to the FBI and their "watched book list" (which might just be urban legend, but the point still remains...)
Slashdot Mirror
Umm
If you need email you can trust, what's wrong with Hotmail or Yahoo! or any other free mail service?
-- Dossy
Remember:
What happens if total money is a constant and jobs goes up?
Yes, I can see jobs doubling by 2010, because I can definitely see salaries halving by 2010. Folks making $60K today, in 7 years, will be making $30K plus some adjustment for inflation and cost of living -- probably about $37K given a 3% rate.
If only salaries had been forcefully halved in 2000, a lot more folks might have kept their jobs, instead of that lucrative job title change of "professional unemployment collector."
Ain't that a bitch.
-- Dossy
For $2,000, the front window better be an active overlay that renders a thermal scan of the contents of the microwave, so I can see exactly how hot the AOL CD that it's nuking is getting.
"Excuse me, what's that racked next to the Cisco 7000?" "Oh, that? That's our new stackable 24-port 10/100 switch and microwave combo unit."
-- Dossy
(I wonder how many RC5 keys this new microwave can break.)
Maybe it's just me, but I think the RIAA is telling us that it's time for a Richard Stallman-like character to pop out of the woodwork in the music industry to start a Free Music Foundation label.
It'll help put an end to sell-out artists, and instead promote those artists who really want their art to be distributed and enjoyed by others. Then we'll finally have musical art for art's sake, which might raise the quality of music, just a notch.
It'd be nice if the FMF used a non-encumbered music format, since the MP3 format clearly has its issues in that regard.
-- Dossy
Whoever moderated the parent down as troll should have their moderation bit turned off, permanently.
It needs to be modded up as Funny, you fucktards.
-- Dossy
Speaking of audio blog/shows
I think a modernized version of The Goon Show, as an audio-only webcast
-- Dossy
The Laurie Garrett hoax is just that -- it's a great example of performance art. But what makes it so believable? It's the whole state of global current affairs ... it's just a clever piece of anti-war propaganda disguised as a conference report from some accredited news reporter who may likely have attended the event.
Why do we believe that this isn't a hoax because some pseudonymous person named "beagle" claims to have interacted with the supposedly "real" Laurie Garrett with no real proof other than another piece of performance art hoax email that has no verifiable details to prove the message was really sent by Laurie herself.
Someone (or some group) out there is trying to make us believe that the state of affairs is grim, that the war with Iraq will make it even worse ... and they "leaked" this "privileged" information under Laurie's name to give it artificial credibility.
The world's collective stupidity is astounding, and our desire to believe the ridiculous -- wholesale, without rationality -- is disappointing.
-- Dossy
Most spammers aren't dumb enough to put their real return address in the spam. So, sending a bounce message back just floods some poor unsuspecting mail server with a bunch of bounces for a mail it didn't originate.
-- Dossy
I've been using qmail, qmail-scanner and SpamAssassin with a few very minor tweaks to deter spammers. Basically, qmail-scanner runs SpamAssassin, and if SA returns with a score above 15.0, instead of sending a "250 ok" to the spammer telling them the mail was accepted, I send back a "5.3.0 spam detected" -- this seems to have gotten me off a couple of spam lists where the spammers actually care enough to clean their lists.
... which I've done.
I made these tweaks because once the mail is sent and the spammer has disconnected, there really is no way of getting information back to them that you're rejecting their mail. So, you have to reject it at the time they've got the SMTP session established
TarPit seems like an exercise in overengineering with little proof that it'll do anything to hurt spammers -- they'll figure a way around the tarpit, somehow.
-- Dossy
Someone needs to moderate this up as Informative. It's so very true -- bands aren't supposed to expect to make money from selling their recorded music. The money is supposed to be in touring ticket sales, and maybe royalties for soundtracks, etc.
Will the tooth-phone run J2ME for tooth-embedded apps?
Can I have my tooth-phone sync with my Palm to keep track of how often I eat? Or how many times I chew my food or brush my teeth?
Perhaps a small "odor meter" app. to let me know if and how much my breath stinks. Hmm.
-- Dossy
"Brush regularly. Don't let your gums be the bleeding edge of technology!"
Speaking of soundtrack, does anyone have Origin of Love in MP3?
...
-- Dossy
awaiting my own copy of the DVD and soundtrack CD
Why must Linus adopt this? The community has already done something about this: Linux Kernel State Tracer (LKST) and Linux Kernel Crash Dumps (LKCD) ...
When these things have proven themselves to be both generally useful and stable, I'm sure they'll make their way into the mainstream Linux kernel and distributions.
-- Dossy
Nice work on MessageWall -- I was thinking of building something like this just the other day.
As a potentially viable commercial product, I was also thinking of using the same "core design" you used for MessageWall (I came up with the same idea) to create a Win32-based POP/IMAP proxy, so that desktop users can take advantage of these features (in case their ISP doesn't).
Does anyone else see any interest in something like this?
-- Dossy
Could be worse. Staples, Office Depot and the others could be required to report names and addresses of buyers of felt tip markers, similar to the FBI and their "watched book list" (which might just be urban legend, but the point still remains ...)
Hi, did you actually *check* that page recently?
I mean, scroll to the bottom of it, and read it?
So, Tyler/Poe's cypher is still the one to break. :-)