Of the million or so emails I process per day, 80% are marked as spam. Of those approximately 75% are caught by the RBLs before it even reaches the spamassassin engine.
I highly recommend RBLs to anyone. Not only are they fast and usually pretty accurate, but they are very fast learners usually.:)
One of my favorites is the SURBL which seems to catch a good chunk of it. Bayes filters are always gonna be thrown off by the dummy words thrown in there but the minute they try to link the person to their site BAM the surbl gets them.
The best way you can stop spam right now is to employ one of the many outsourced spam filtering services.
This way it eats someone else's CPU time, someone else maintains the filter, and someone else deals with all the crap.
Though these services are not usually very cheap. But the monthly fee is "in theory" gained back in increased productivity due to people not having to sift through hundreds of spam to get to the good things.
I work for one such service. (Shameless Plug, sorry;) )In the last 24 hours of all the email to hit our system 83% of it was flagged as being either a virus or spam. 83% and we're obviously not catching 100% of them, no filter is bulletproof.
The argument is also flawed because we _can_ communicate with dolphins. We may not "talk" to them in the same sense that we talk to other humans, however, we can exchange ideas through the use of symbols, hand signals, and the like.
"Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating. " - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
In Final Fantasy 4 (Japan) there was a chick who would throw her dress off and dance for you.
In GTA you can pick up hookers and get extra health... "My people make the cars and the women bounce up and down" - Fernando Martinez
In the original Neverwinter Nights campaign you can hire a prostitute at a brothel in the first chapter, you even gotta go and get papers saying you're "clean" before they'll do it with you.
I work for a company whose primary role is filtering spam from client servers. They point their MX records at us, and we send their good mail on to them on the other side.
We see approximately 60-70% spam, maybe 3% virii.
Thing is, they are probably counting internal e-mails, mailing lists, and whatnot as not spam.
I personally get about 300 messages a day at my business e-mail account, very few are spam, mainly because 250 of those are e-mail lists that I subscribe to.
Packages, production machines don't need compilers on them that way. The slimmer you can keep your production boxes, the more sane they are to manage, IMO.
I disconnected my cable, thats how infrequently I watch TV anymore. I don't miss it.
Most shows I really want to watch anymore I can get from the library (hey cool, a legal place to get stuff and I don't have to search very hard)...
The exception is live sports, in which case I can either go to a bar or a friends house.
The thing is, if they offered a "pay-per-view" service where for a nominal charge I could watch my program whenever I wanted free from commercials, I wouldn't mind shelling out say $2 to see a week old episode of something, for the convenience of not having to mess with anything.
"IDs games have been used for years as a benchmark, and a basis for purchasing beter hardware, and continue to support their game. They can throw that out the window now."
I would imagine they would include a -bench type switch that will throw the game in a non-playable type benchamark mode where the cap will be lifted, just to run benchmarks on.
Spires shooting out of the ground, a great epic battle between Asheron and Bael Zharon that players could participate in? An event where one faction of players had to keep players from defeating an evil crystal from another faction of players?
Of all the MMORPGs I've played, (EQ, AC, AO, DAoC) AC had the most liquid world BY FAR.
You could also share replays with stunts. One of my favorite was some bug that made my car careen out of control and fly about 10,000 feet straight up in the air, and by some measure of luck, when I landed, I landed square on top of my opponent.
Ah... those were the days, when copy protection was beaten by memorizing sections of the manual.;)
Yes, FFXI is coming with the often ridiculed "monthly service fee". But it also comes with continually updated content, constant customer support, and a persistant world hosted on a central server, such as all games who call themselves "MMORPG" do.
I understand that a lot of people will find this to be rediculous. However, in FFXI's case, you have a huge fan base (Fan being in the fanatical sense) that has matured over many many years (FF1 came out in the US I believe in 1989?) many of whom have fawned over anything Squaresoft even breathes on.
Plus, the persistant online world that people will be in in the playstation version is the exact same persistant online world that the PC version people are getting. We all know how successful some PC based MMORPGs are becoming.
Thus, I say, FFXI will be the worlds first widely successful console based MMORPG. Its already VERY popular in Japan.
MMORPGs aren't for everyone. It takes a special kind of personality (disorder?) to enjoy them. However, for those people who could get into a MMORPG and don't really want to use a full blown PC to play, FFXI will be the breakout game for them.
"The holodeck will be the last invention of Mankind, ever." - Scott Adams
Top on my list was a woman who was giving a business presentation using a projector and a presentation laptop. When the meeting started, for whatever reason, she decided to close her own personal laptop, and use it to prop up the projector so the image would be higher on the wall I guess.
If you've ever used one of those projectors, you know that they get very, very hot. Hot enough to melt a laptop in fact. Many executives in this meeting making lots more money than I do and not a single one of them had the thought to say, "Hey, do you smell something burning?"
Well the woman comes to my office and gives me her laptop. She's almost in tears, despite the fact that all of her important documents were fine (sneaky sysadmins forcing redirection of mydocuments folder to a safe place;) ) but she quite literally begged me not to report that it was her fault the laptop was toasty.
If you want to see a well done game such as this, check out "A tale in the desert" ( www.atitd.com )
Its a MMORPG that has no combat in it whatsoever, its more politcs than fighting. (heh).
Very interesting concept, has a lot of neat ideas too like the players get to vote on what features the game devs work on next.
The pricing model is interesting for a MMORPG style game as well. You download the client for free and only pay the monthly ($14 I believe) subscription fee.
I haven't played since beta closed because I personally like combat, especially the kind where you kill other players.;) But the idea of a political game was interesting to me.
Telemarketer: Hello! I am running for Mayor in the City of Ritzville, so this is a political call exempt from the Do Not Call list. I am running for mayor on the platform of keeping our wonderful vacation timeshares as cheap as possible for the good bargain hunters. In fact, you can get this beutiful timeshare right on the beach for less than you might think. Would you like to hear more about these wonderful deals that happen to be in the city I'm running for mayor in? If so, press 1 to talk to a representative now!
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I wonder how many self proclaimed linux geeks know how to pronounce Yggsdrasil.
Of the million or so emails I process per day, 80% are marked as spam. Of those approximately 75% are caught by the RBLs before it even reaches the spamassassin engine.
:)
I highly recommend RBLs to anyone. Not only are they fast and usually pretty accurate, but they are very fast learners usually.
One of my favorites is the SURBL which seems to catch a good chunk of it. Bayes filters are always gonna be thrown off by the dummy words thrown in there but the minute they try to link the person to their site BAM the surbl gets them.
I first read this as "Mythical Man Moth"
So I was thinking Arthur from "The Tick" was coming back.
Imagine my dissappointment...
IT workers aren't going to get any clout in government until a majority of them unionize.
The best way you can stop spam right now is to employ one of the many outsourced spam filtering services.
;) )In the last 24 hours of all the email to hit our system 83% of it was flagged as being either a virus or spam. 83% and we're obviously not catching 100% of them, no filter is bulletproof.
This way it eats someone else's CPU time, someone else maintains the filter, and someone else deals with all the crap.
Though these services are not usually very cheap. But the monthly fee is "in theory" gained back in increased productivity due to people not having to sift through hundreds of spam to get to the good things.
I work for one such service. (Shameless Plug, sorry
The argument is also flawed because we _can_ communicate with dolphins. We may not "talk" to them in the same sense that we talk to other humans, however, we can exchange ideas through the use of symbols, hand signals, and the like.
"Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating. " - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Hmm:
In Final Fantasy 4 (Japan) there was a chick who would throw her dress off and dance for you.
In GTA you can pick up hookers and get extra health... "My people make the cars and the women bounce up and down" - Fernando Martinez
In the original Neverwinter Nights campaign you can hire a prostitute at a brothel in the first chapter, you even gotta go and get papers saying you're "clean" before they'll do it with you.
I'm sure there are others....
Need spam filtering software for /. now ... :(
Agreed. Sylvestor was my all time favorite of the 7 original actors.
It was "Rememberence of the Daleks" in which the dalek climbed the stairs to get at the terrified Sylvestor McCoy.
The same episode gave us:
"Little green men doctor?"
"No. Little green blobs in bonded polycarbide armor."
Heh, don't laugh at the delorean's doors.
Open wide
(Taken from a delorean thread on newbeetle.org)
I work for a company whose primary role is filtering spam from client servers. They point their MX records at us, and we send their good mail on to them on the other side.
We see approximately 60-70% spam, maybe 3% virii.
Thing is, they are probably counting internal e-mails, mailing lists, and whatnot as not spam.
I personally get about 300 messages a day at my business e-mail account, very few are spam, mainly because 250 of those are e-mail lists that I subscribe to.
The ministry of Plenty released today that production of shoes was up 20% from the same time last year...
Turn this on next to will hung and watch a phone kill itself.
Packages, production machines don't need compilers on them that way. The slimmer you can keep your production boxes, the more sane they are to manage, IMO.
I disconnected my cable, thats how infrequently I watch TV anymore. I don't miss it.
Most shows I really want to watch anymore I can get from the library (hey cool, a legal place to get stuff and I don't have to search very hard)...
The exception is live sports, in which case I can either go to a bar or a friends house.
The thing is, if they offered a "pay-per-view" service where for a nominal charge I could watch my program whenever I wanted free from commercials, I wouldn't mind shelling out say $2 to see a week old episode of something, for the convenience of not having to mess with anything.
"IDs games have been used for years as a benchmark, and a basis for purchasing beter hardware, and continue to support their game. They can throw that out the window now."
I would imagine they would include a -bench type switch that will throw the game in a non-playable type benchamark mode where the cap will be lifted, just to run benchmarks on.
The world didn't change in AC?
Nuke Arwyc anyone?
Spires shooting out of the ground, a great epic battle between Asheron and Bael Zharon that players could participate in? An event where one faction of players had to keep players from defeating an evil crystal from another faction of players?
Of all the MMORPGs I've played, (EQ, AC, AO, DAoC) AC had the most liquid world BY FAR.
You could also share replays with stunts. One of my favorite was some bug that made my car careen out of control and fly about 10,000 feet straight up in the air, and by some measure of luck, when I landed, I landed square on top of my opponent.
;)
Ah... those were the days, when copy protection was beaten by memorizing sections of the manual.
In UT there is a way you can script your mouse sensitivity to be on your mousewheel, so you can crank it up and down on the fly.
Yes, FFXI is coming with the often ridiculed "monthly service fee". But it also comes with continually updated content, constant customer support, and a persistant world hosted on a central server, such as all games who call themselves "MMORPG" do.
I understand that a lot of people will find this to be rediculous. However, in FFXI's case, you have a huge fan base (Fan being in the fanatical sense) that has matured over many many years (FF1 came out in the US I believe in 1989?) many of whom have fawned over anything Squaresoft even breathes on.
Plus, the persistant online world that people will be in in the playstation version is the exact same persistant online world that the PC version people are getting. We all know how successful some PC based MMORPGs are becoming.
Thus, I say, FFXI will be the worlds first widely successful console based MMORPG. Its already VERY popular in Japan.
MMORPGs aren't for everyone. It takes a special kind of personality (disorder?) to enjoy them. However, for those people who could get into a MMORPG and don't really want to use a full blown PC to play, FFXI will be the breakout game for them.
"The holodeck will be the last invention of Mankind, ever." - Scott Adams
I just hope the people who are working on this game are the turbineites who made AC1, and not the ones who made AC2.
Top on my list was a woman who was giving a business presentation using a projector and a presentation laptop. When the meeting started, for whatever reason, she decided to close her own personal laptop, and use it to prop up the projector so the image would be higher on the wall I guess.
;) ) but she quite literally begged me not to report that it was her fault the laptop was toasty.
;)
If you've ever used one of those projectors, you know that they get very, very hot. Hot enough to melt a laptop in fact. Many executives in this meeting making lots more money than I do and not a single one of them had the thought to say, "Hey, do you smell something burning?"
Well the woman comes to my office and gives me her laptop. She's almost in tears, despite the fact that all of her important documents were fine (sneaky sysadmins forcing redirection of mydocuments folder to a safe place
She should have offered me beer.
If you want to see a well done game such as this, check out "A tale in the desert" ( www.atitd.com )
;) But the idea of a political game was interesting to me.
Its a MMORPG that has no combat in it whatsoever, its more politcs than fighting. (heh).
Very interesting concept, has a lot of neat ideas too like the players get to vote on what features the game devs work on next.
The pricing model is interesting for a MMORPG style game as well. You download the client for free and only pay the monthly ($14 I believe) subscription fee.
I haven't played since beta closed because I personally like combat, especially the kind where you kill other players.
Guy: Hello?
Telemarketer: Hello! I am running for Mayor in the City of Ritzville, so this is a political call exempt from the Do Not Call list. I am running for mayor on the platform of keeping our wonderful vacation timeshares as cheap as possible for the good bargain hunters. In fact, you can get this beutiful timeshare right on the beach for less than you might think. Would you like to hear more about these wonderful deals that happen to be in the city I'm running for mayor in? If so, press 1 to talk to a representative now!