Incorrect in my opinion - *any* machine ought to be able to go 3 months without a reboot (patching software and changing hardware excepted). Why do you feel that your desktop PC hardware or your desktop PC OS should be automatically inferior, to the point that you consider it incapable of running for more than 90 days without the OS crashing, and it's significant if this does not happen?
Or it means you want to stop receiving them, but you're too lazy to unsubscribe.
We're talking about whether spam is boolean. "Too lazy to unsubscribe" is completely irrelevant to this thread because it doesn't magically create a third state of email (spam/not spam/???).
But it does! It creates a category "Not-Spam but tagged as it because I couldn't follow the correct procedure to stop receiving it". Consider, I sign up to a list - the emails are not spam. I decide I no longer want emails from that list, the emails are still not spam (they are not unsolicited at this moment, as I have not unsubscribed). I click "Spam". The email list will continue to send to me - I have not unsubscribed, therefore they are still not unsolicited, and therefore not spam. I am therefore receiving "not spam, but tagged as such because I did the wrong thing". That's a third category. If I had unsubscribed and THEN continued receiving the unwanted emails, they would be unsolicited, and clicking on "Spam" on subsequent emails would be justified.
Before you get on your high-horse about your industry knowledge, yes I AM an email admin.
3 months uptime - that is not significant uptime at all. When you have a machine that has been humming along for a whole year without a reboot, then you can begin to talk about uptime. It helps if it's a machine running a real task as well (public facing web-server, that sort of thing).
As for your mention of MS Project and Visio, you are aware that Microsoft didn't write them, they bought out the companies that did aren't you? So much for innovation there.
Without knowing the full details of what happened to the article poster: if I was asked to investigate an email issue, that would imply permission to check email logs, possibly website code and logs if the email is sent by a page, but I can't see why I would need to access the DB. Now, it is possible if the email is generated from information in the DB that this might be part of the troubleshooting process, but in this case I would expect the explanation of what we had fixed to make it clear why it was necessary - which doesn't seem to be the case here.
Not sure what the situation is in the US, but here in the UK if it's co-location (i.e. you own the box) the ISP has no right to log into your box without your permission.
OK, the basic reason why dictionary words are bad is this: traditionally for Unix systems, in order for systems to allow users to authenticate, the password file had to be readable by the users. This meant any valid user account could grab the *entire* list of encrypted passwords. Now all you had to do was run a list of dictionary words through the known encryption routine and compare the encrypted result with the versions in the password file - if you get a match you know the password for that user.
That is not a plain text file, that is a Latex document. If your chosen format supports storing comments, then guess what, you can store comments in the file. Now try storing comments or alternative versions in a file format that does not support this to begin with.
$500 covers the cost of Windows Server, plus CAL's, plus Exchange, plus Outlook licenses? Wow. Either you have very few users (if so, take a look at Scalix Community edition), or you are not counting the cost of all your expenditure.
You do realise the PBL is used by your ISP to tell Spamhaus that email should not originate from certain IP ranges - it appears you or the sender are sending out email from an IP range THAT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO DIRECTLY SEND. The fault is not with Spamhaus. You really do need to educate yourself about email.
I think you mean the UK is said to have no written constitution. It sure as hell has a constitution, which mostly consists of existing case law. Funnily enough most of this is actually written down, but not in one single document. This has advantages and disadvantages - it's more flexible than the formal US constitution (this is both the advantage and disadvantage).
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When it's the "Christmas Card" database or somesuch.
Considering Turkey didn't exist until after it's secular foundation, this is nonsense. Perhaps you mean that secular Turkey has destroyed the culture of the Ottoman empire.
"Guilty until proven innocent" is sometimes call the Napoleonic code due to the seeming de facto presumption of guilt under that system in Napoleon's France, and later elsewhere in Europe. It *can* actually be made to work very well if the defendant is given the appropriate resources, but I don't think I'd like it personally. I think Old English Common Law was like this as well, but I'm too lazy to look it up.:)
No. US law is based upon UK law (hint: the US was one of our colonies). The innocent until proven guilty bit is the foundation of British Law. You are correct about Napoleonic law.
It can mean the same in the UK, funnily enough (although we would refer to a mobile service not a cell phone service this side of the pond). My initial reaction was how can you rate the top 5 mobile services, when there are basically only 4 or 5 main mobile providers in the UK...
No, it is a set of routines to configure a machine before handing full hardware control to a real OS (note BIOS is Basic Input/Output System). Also note that in DOS the BIOS formed part of the OS.
* Is OpenFirmware an OS? Mac OS X needs it to run.
Sounds like it is part of the OS then, not an OS in it's own right. An OS can comprise of hardware and software components.
* Is the BIOS in a Lenovo-compatible[1] PC an OS? (Some have alleged that the added complexity compared to 1981 IBM PC BIOS makes it a Built-In Operating System.)
This is the same as your first question.
* Is the microcode in your PC's CPU an OS? BIOS needs it to run.
No. This is firmware for the processor. Of course your OS needs your processor to work in order to run.
The e-petition to "scrap the proposed introduction of ID cards" has now closed. The petition stated that "The introduction of ID cards will not prevent terrorism or crime, as is claimed. It will be yet another indirect tax on all law-abiding citizens of the UK". This is a response from the Prime Minister, Tony Blair.
The petition calling for the Government to abandon plans for a National ID Scheme attracted almost 28,000 signatures - one of the largest responses since this e-petition service was set up. So I thought I would reply personally to those who signed up, to explain why the Government believes National ID cards, and the National Identity Register needed to make them effective, will help make Britain a safer place.
The petition disputes the idea that ID cards will help reduce crime or terrorism. While I certainly accept that ID cards will not prevent all terrorist outrages or crime, I believe they will make an important contribution to making our borders more secure, countering fraud, and tackling international crime and terrorism. More importantly, this is also what our security services - who have the task of protecting this country - believe.
So I would like to explain why I think it would be foolish to ignore the opportunity to use biometrics such as fingerprints to secure our identities. I would also like to discuss some of the claims about costs - particularly the way the cost of an ID card is often inflated by including in estimates the cost of a biometric passport which, it seems certain, all those who want to travel abroad will soon need.
In contrast to these exaggerated figures, the real benefits for our country and its citizens from ID cards and the National Identity Register, which will contain less information on individuals than the data collected by the average store card, should be delivered for a cost of around £3 a year over its ten-year life.
But first, it's important to set out why we need to do more to secure our identities and how I believe ID cards will help. We live in a world in which people, money and information are more mobile than ever before. Terrorists and international criminal gangs increasingly exploit this to move undetected across borders and to disappear within countries. Terrorists routinely use multiple identities - up to 50 at a time. Indeed this is an essential part of the way they operate and is specifically taught at Al-Qaeda training camps. One in four criminals also uses a false identity. ID cards which contain biometric recognition details and which are linked to a National Identity Register will make this much more difficult.
Secure identities will also help us counter the fast-growing problem of identity fraud. This already costs £1.7 billion annually. There is no doubt that building yourself a new and false identity is all too easy at the moment. Forging an ID card and matching biometric record will be much harder.
I also believe that the National Identity Register will help police bring those guilty of serious crimes to justice. They will be able, for example, to compare the fingerprints found at the scene of some 900,000 unsolved crimes against the information held on the register. Another benefit from biometric technology will be to improve the flow of information between countries on the identity of offenders.
The National Identity Register will also help improve protection for the vulnerable, enabling more effective and quicker checks on those seeking to work, for example, with children. It should make it much more difficult, as has happened tragically in the past, for people to slip through the net.
Proper identity management and ID cards also have an important role to play in preventing illegal immigration and illegal working. The effectiveness on the new biometric technology is, in fact, already being seen. In trials using this technology on visa applications at just nine overseas posts, our officials have already uncovered 1,400 pe
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One of our Linux servers regularly copes with a load in excess of 100. Things slow down, but nothing breaks.
In which case you are arguing that a boxing match that is won by a knock-out is a sport, but if it's a points decision it's not.
I think you might find it's the other way round - cutting edge is new technology, bleeding edge is so new it's likely to hurt you.
Are we including boxing in this?
Incorrect in my opinion - *any* machine ought to be able to go 3 months without a reboot (patching software and changing hardware excepted). Why do you feel that your desktop PC hardware or your desktop PC OS should be automatically inferior, to the point that you consider it incapable of running for more than 90 days without the OS crashing, and it's significant if this does not happen?
We're talking about whether spam is boolean. "Too lazy to unsubscribe" is completely irrelevant to this thread because it doesn't magically create a third state of email (spam/not spam/???).
But it does! It creates a category "Not-Spam but tagged as it because I couldn't follow the correct procedure to stop receiving it". Consider, I sign up to a list - the emails are not spam. I decide I no longer want emails from that list, the emails are still not spam (they are not unsolicited at this moment, as I have not unsubscribed). I click "Spam". The email list will continue to send to me - I have not unsubscribed, therefore they are still not unsolicited, and therefore not spam. I am therefore receiving "not spam, but tagged as such because I did the wrong thing". That's a third category. If I had unsubscribed and THEN continued receiving the unwanted emails, they would be unsolicited, and clicking on "Spam" on subsequent emails would be justified.
Before you get on your high-horse about your industry knowledge, yes I AM an email admin.
OK, just to point out a few fallacies:
3 months uptime - that is not significant uptime at all. When you have a machine that has been humming along for a whole year without a reboot, then you can begin to talk about uptime. It helps if it's a machine running a real task as well (public facing web-server, that sort of thing).
As for your mention of MS Project and Visio, you are aware that Microsoft didn't write them, they bought out the companies that did aren't you? So much for innovation there.
Without knowing the full details of what happened to the article poster: if I was asked to investigate an email issue, that would imply permission to check email logs, possibly website code and logs if the email is sent by a page, but I can't see why I would need to access the DB. Now, it is possible if the email is generated from information in the DB that this might be part of the troubleshooting process, but in this case I would expect the explanation of what we had fixed to make it clear why it was necessary - which doesn't seem to be the case here.
Not sure what the situation is in the US, but here in the UK if it's co-location (i.e. you own the box) the ISP has no right to log into your box without your permission.
OK, the basic reason why dictionary words are bad is this: traditionally for Unix systems, in order for systems to allow users to authenticate, the password file had to be readable by the users. This meant any valid user account could grab the *entire* list of encrypted passwords. Now all you had to do was run a list of dictionary words through the known encryption routine and compare the encrypted result with the versions in the password file - if you get a match you know the password for that user.
Yeah, back in the 80's we were using ancient systems like the IBM PC and compatibles.
That is not a plain text file, that is a Latex document. If your chosen format supports storing comments, then guess what, you can store comments in the file. Now try storing comments or alternative versions in a file format that does not support this to begin with.
Seriously, did you study Mathematic or Mathematics? If the latter, you should shorten it to Maths. English is really quite simple.
$500 covers the cost of Windows Server, plus CAL's, plus Exchange, plus Outlook licenses? Wow. Either you have very few users (if so, take a look at Scalix Community edition), or you are not counting the cost of all your expenditure.
You do realise the PBL is used by your ISP to tell Spamhaus that email should not originate from certain IP ranges - it appears you or the sender are sending out email from an IP range THAT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO DIRECTLY SEND. The fault is not with Spamhaus. You really do need to educate yourself about email.
I think you mean the UK is said to have no written constitution. It sure as hell has a constitution, which mostly consists of existing case law. Funnily enough most of this is actually written down, but not in one single document. This has advantages and disadvantages - it's more flexible than the formal US constitution (this is both the advantage and disadvantage).
When it's the "Christmas Card" database or somesuch.
Considering Turkey didn't exist until after it's secular foundation, this is nonsense. Perhaps you mean that secular Turkey has destroyed the culture of the Ottoman empire.
You do know there is a big difference between a BB gun and an air rifle, don't you?
"Guilty until proven innocent" is sometimes call the Napoleonic code due to the seeming de facto presumption of guilt under that system in Napoleon's France, and later elsewhere in Europe. It *can* actually be made to work very well if the defendant is given the appropriate resources, but I don't think I'd like it personally. I think Old English Common Law was like this as well, but I'm too lazy to look it up. :)
No. US law is based upon UK law (hint: the US was one of our colonies). The innocent until proven guilty bit is the foundation of British Law. You are correct about Napoleonic law.
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It can mean the same in the UK, funnily enough (although we would refer to a mobile service not a cell phone service this side of the pond). My initial reaction was how can you rate the top 5 mobile services, when there are basically only 4 or 5 main mobile providers in the UK...
* Is LinuxBIOS an OS?
No, it is a set of routines to configure a machine before handing full hardware control to a real OS (note BIOS is Basic Input/Output System). Also note that in DOS the BIOS formed part of the OS.
* Is OpenFirmware an OS? Mac OS X needs it to run.
Sounds like it is part of the OS then, not an OS in it's own right. An OS can comprise of hardware and software components.
* Is the BIOS in a Lenovo-compatible[1] PC an OS? (Some have alleged that the added complexity compared to 1981 IBM PC BIOS makes it a Built-In Operating System.)
This is the same as your first question.
* Is the microcode in your PC's CPU an OS? BIOS needs it to run.
No. This is firmware for the processor. Of course your OS needs your processor to work in order to run.
E-petition: Response from the Prime Minister
The e-petition to "scrap the proposed introduction of ID cards" has now closed. The petition stated that "The introduction of ID cards will not prevent terrorism or crime, as is claimed. It will be yet another indirect tax on all law-abiding citizens of the UK". This is a response from the Prime Minister, Tony Blair.
The petition calling for the Government to abandon plans for a National ID Scheme attracted almost 28,000 signatures - one of the largest responses since this e-petition service was set up. So I thought I would reply personally to those who signed up, to explain why the Government believes National ID cards, and the National Identity Register needed to make them effective, will help make Britain a safer place.
The petition disputes the idea that ID cards will help reduce crime or terrorism. While I certainly accept that ID cards will not prevent all terrorist outrages or crime, I believe they will make an important contribution to making our borders more secure, countering fraud, and tackling international crime and terrorism. More importantly, this is also what our security services - who have the task of protecting this country - believe.
So I would like to explain why I think it would be foolish to ignore the opportunity to use biometrics such as fingerprints to secure our identities. I would also like to discuss some of the claims about costs - particularly the way the cost of an ID card is often inflated by including in estimates the cost of a biometric passport which, it seems certain, all those who want to travel abroad will soon need.
In contrast to these exaggerated figures, the real benefits for our country and its citizens from ID cards and the National Identity Register, which will contain less information on individuals than the data collected by the average store card, should be delivered for a cost of around £3 a year over its ten-year life.
But first, it's important to set out why we need to do more to secure our identities and how I believe ID cards will help. We live in a world in which people, money and information are more mobile than ever before. Terrorists and international criminal gangs increasingly exploit this to move undetected across borders and to disappear within countries. Terrorists routinely use multiple identities - up to 50 at a time. Indeed this is an essential part of the way they operate and is specifically taught at Al-Qaeda training camps. One in four criminals also uses a false identity. ID cards which contain biometric recognition details and which are linked to a National Identity Register will make this much more difficult.
Secure identities will also help us counter the fast-growing problem of identity fraud. This already costs £1.7 billion annually. There is no doubt that building yourself a new and false identity is all too easy at the moment. Forging an ID card and matching biometric record will be much harder.
I also believe that the National Identity Register will help police bring those guilty of serious crimes to justice. They will be able, for example, to compare the fingerprints found at the scene of some 900,000 unsolved crimes against the information held on the register. Another benefit from biometric technology will be to improve the flow of information between countries on the identity of offenders.
The National Identity Register will also help improve protection for the vulnerable, enabling more effective and quicker checks on those seeking to work, for example, with children. It should make it much more difficult, as has happened tragically in the past, for people to slip through the net.
Proper identity management and ID cards also have an important role to play in preventing illegal immigration and illegal working. The effectiveness on the new biometric technology is, in fact, already being seen. In trials using this technology on visa applications at just nine overseas posts, our officials have already uncovered 1,400 pe
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