A petition on change.org pulled in about 100k signatures in 12 hours, each signature sending a notification to Verizon's customer service department. It was authored by a woman named Molly, who also beat up Bank of America with a popular petition a few months ago.
Massing consumer outrage like this seems to have at least some impact.
Obfuscation is also done to protect the identity of the "deputy" members of the SpamCop team. They're the people that do part-time work digging through and documenting the spam they get. If their addresses are revealed to spammers, their ability to be effective is diminished. Once found out, spammers would just avoid their addresses to avoid being reported.
And these are smart people that know the difference between commercial email (that you agreed to get or asked for) and SPAM.
I also happen to know that Ironport makes a C-series, designed for incoming and corporate mail. It takes the same Ironport architecture and crushes spam and virii. And Ironport A-series customers, by in large, are legit email senders like Paypal (who sends *tons* of email you *want* to get). Those boxes are too expensive to be attractive to spammers who only care about sending lots of email very cheaply.
Hey geniouses: when you are planning a server move, set the TTL really low in DNS for a week before. Then those of us behind DNS caches that honor TTL won't wonder where the hell you are for a day. And things get back to normal faster.
Obviously you haven't spent enough time listening to _Pinkerton_. I think it's their best effort, but it isn't as easily appreciated; it has less of an immediate "wow" effect (the green album has that in scads), but *really* grows on you and stands up to repeated playing. Put it back in your CD player.
And I think there is a legitimate "smart fans" problem, but it has NOTHING to do with CD-R's or MP3: it has to do with the fact that most people are stupid. There simply aren't that many smart people in the world compared to the moronic sheep-like masses. Create something intelligent (like a Weezer or DJ Shadow album, or a TV show like "Undeclared") and you are doomed. The bulk of the buying public is buying Britney Spears and watching "Survivor".
This is all moot for Moby, though. _18_ just isn't a very good album. He should've called it "Play 2", or maybe even "Eject".
Actually, it's a guy that all of us know as "Smu" (or "Smoo"), a nickname he picked up as a kid. Something related to a Hannah-Barbera cartoon, I think.
Hell - I didn't even know his name was James until more than a year after I met him!
Gar. I hate these warnings. Does anyone have a documented list of drives and IDE chipsets that this is a problem on? I'm afraid to use it myself, but maybe this is only a problem on those few bad chipsets. Grr.
Agreed. The problems aren't really with things like "the net". It's the fact that we've rested on our laurels and failed to continue building infrastructure. You can look at historical record and see that power demand goes up every single year around the country. We add more appliances, bigger TVs, air conditioners, computers, etc. Gee, we have more power demands?
The majority of these new devices are leisure related. The US is very much a leisure rich nation. Unfortunately, people who have a focus on leisure end up with too much time on their hands. They find weird ways to gain wealth and spend time. What we end up with (among other things, both good and bad) is environmentalists and homeowners. Neither wants new power plants built.
This is sadly short-sighted. We have to make some sacrifices to keep infrastructure ahead of demand. We may need to change the flow of a stream some to build a dam. And your property value may dip by 2% when a plant is built off in the distance.
Would you rather sit in the dark?
Plain and simple: it's time to make descision and start really conserving. The infrastructure built in the 1950's just won't keep up. We need to build more, and find new ways to use what we have.
(Really: I blame NT. Freakin' still doesn't have any power management. I wonder how many developers there are with gigantic monitors THAT NEVER SHUT OFF. It's probably the #1 developer OS here in the valley....)
It just so sad that this happened. Why would they choose to use a5 for their suspend partion type suddenly? I makes sense that BSD won't boot, since the BIOS now thinks that type a5 shouldn't be bootable. If you look up a couple of entries on the mentioned page, you see that "a0" has historically been use by ThinkPads for this purpose.
I wonder if it is a type-o that is hard to fix. Just think: now they have thousands of laptops out there suspending to an a5 parition. They'd have to distribute a BIOS patch and a utility to change the partition type marker on existing suspend partitions.
By the way, if they do allow the TLD.1 to be a new TLD, I will be in line to register 0.1, and the first host in my zone file will be 127.0.0.1. I'll have a very popular website.
As far as I can discern, TLDs CANNOT be purely numeric. That'd break a hell of a lot of software. How do you know if it's a DNS name to look up or an IP number?!?!?
There are plenty of other things not being considered:
1) OS versus Applications: The fact is that the core of the operating system (kernel, libc, shells) have relatively few problems. Only one or two vulnerabilities for these things have been posted. X may be the exception here, but is irrelevant if you don't install it (like on a web server).
2) Cross-Unix problems: when wu-ftpd posts another buffer overflow, it affects every Unix platform it is ported to, not just Linux.
3) Availability of choices: let's say that Unix programmers make half as many mistakes as people in Redmond. When I can choose from a dozen different ftpd's, there are going to be mistakes in all of them (theoretically, it'll still look like 6x the number of bugs to a layman).
4) Core application comparison: How many vulnerabilities have there been posted for pine vs. Outlook? Apache/Roxen/Zope/PHP vs. IIS? Sendmail/Qmail vs. Exchange? I suspect a more careful analysis would reveal that Linux is ahead in the last 2 years than NT.
5) Default applications: Due to the GPL, you get a lot with any Linux distro. More even than NT. The total number of packages available/installed is going to increase the number of bugs proporionally.
6) GPL Restrictions: Sun doesn't get to include GNOME, Apache, or even pine w/ Solaris. The GPL forbids them from "selling" these programs as a part of their OS. However, lots of sysadmins install them after Solaris is up. They're just as vulnerable.
7) Poplarity/availability of Linux: Since Linux is hot these day and everyone can get it, many vulnerabilities are discovered here (and later verified on other platforms). If everone in the security community got a free copy of NT Server and Exchange, I'm sure they'd pump out problems left and right. This is kind of security by obscurity.
All in all, I'd consider Mr. Moody's piece to be poorly informed and thought out.
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A petition on change.org pulled in about 100k signatures in 12 hours, each signature sending a notification to Verizon's customer service department. It was authored by a woman named Molly, who also beat up Bank of America with a popular petition a few months ago. Massing consumer outrage like this seems to have at least some impact.
Obfuscation is also done to protect the identity of the "deputy" members of the SpamCop team. They're the people that do part-time work digging through and documenting the spam they get. If their addresses are revealed to spammers, their ability to be effective is diminished. Once found out, spammers would just avoid their addresses to avoid being reported.
And these are smart people that know the difference between commercial email (that you agreed to get or asked for) and SPAM.
I also happen to know that Ironport makes a C-series, designed for incoming and corporate mail. It takes the same Ironport architecture and crushes spam and virii. And Ironport A-series customers, by in large, are legit email senders like Paypal (who sends *tons* of email you *want* to get). Those boxes are too expensive to be attractive to spammers who only care about sending lots of email very cheaply.
Hey geniouses: when you are planning a server move, set the TTL really low in DNS for a week before. Then those of us behind DNS caches that honor TTL won't wonder where the hell you are for a day. And things get back to normal faster.
Obviously you haven't spent enough time listening to _Pinkerton_. I think it's their best effort, but it isn't as easily appreciated; it has less of an immediate "wow" effect (the green album has that in scads), but *really* grows on you and stands up to repeated playing. Put it back in your CD player.
And I think there is a legitimate "smart fans" problem, but it has NOTHING to do with CD-R's or MP3: it has to do with the fact that most people are stupid. There simply aren't that many smart people in the world compared to the moronic sheep-like masses. Create something intelligent (like a Weezer or DJ Shadow album, or a TV show like "Undeclared") and you are doomed. The bulk of the buying public is buying Britney Spears and watching "Survivor".
This is all moot for Moby, though. _18_ just isn't a very good album. He should've called it "Play 2", or maybe even "Eject".
Actually, it's a guy that all of us know as "Smu" (or "Smoo"), a nickname he picked up as a kid. Something related to a Hannah-Barbera cartoon, I think.
Hell - I didn't even know his name was James until more than a year after I met him!
Gar. I hate these warnings. Does anyone have a documented list of drives and IDE chipsets that this is a problem on? I'm afraid to use it myself, but maybe this is only a problem on those few bad chipsets. Grr.
Agreed. The problems aren't really with things like "the net". It's the fact that we've rested on our laurels and failed to continue building infrastructure. You can look at historical record and see that power demand goes up every single year around the country. We add more appliances, bigger TVs, air conditioners, computers, etc. Gee, we have more power demands?
The majority of these new devices are leisure related. The US is very much a leisure rich nation. Unfortunately, people who have a focus on leisure end up with too much time on their hands. They find weird ways to gain wealth and spend time. What we end up with (among other things, both good and bad) is environmentalists and homeowners. Neither wants new power plants built.
This is sadly short-sighted. We have to make some sacrifices to keep infrastructure ahead of demand. We may need to change the flow of a stream some to build a dam. And your property value may dip by 2% when a plant is built off in the distance.
Would you rather sit in the dark?
Plain and simple: it's time to make descision and start really conserving. The infrastructure built in the 1950's just won't keep up. We need to build more, and find new ways to use what we have.
(Really: I blame NT. Freakin' still doesn't have any power management. I wonder how many developers there are with gigantic monitors THAT NEVER SHUT OFF. It's probably the #1 developer OS here in the valley....)
It just so sad that this happened. Why would they choose to use a5 for their suspend partion type suddenly? I makes sense that BSD won't boot, since the BIOS now thinks that type a5 shouldn't be bootable. If you look up a couple of entries on the mentioned page, you see that "a0" has historically been use by ThinkPads for this purpose.
I wonder if it is a type-o that is hard to fix. Just think: now they have thousands of laptops out there suspending to an a5 parition. They'd have to distribute a BIOS patch and a utility to change the partition type marker on existing suspend partitions.
By the way, if they do allow the TLD .1 to be a new TLD, I will be in line to register 0.1, and the first host in my zone file will be 127.0.0.1. I'll have a very popular website.
As far as I can discern, TLDs CANNOT be purely numeric. That'd break a hell of a lot of software. How do you know if it's a DNS name to look up or an IP number?!?!?
There are plenty of other things not being considered:
1) OS versus Applications: The fact is that the core of the operating system (kernel, libc, shells) have relatively few problems. Only one or two vulnerabilities for these things have been posted. X may be the exception here, but is irrelevant if you don't install it (like on a web server).
2) Cross-Unix problems: when wu-ftpd posts another buffer overflow, it affects every Unix platform it is ported to, not just Linux.
3) Availability of choices: let's say that Unix programmers make half as many mistakes as people in Redmond. When I can choose from a dozen different ftpd's, there are going to be mistakes in all of them (theoretically, it'll still look like 6x the number of bugs to a layman).
4) Core application comparison: How many vulnerabilities have there been posted for pine vs. Outlook? Apache/Roxen/Zope/PHP vs. IIS? Sendmail/Qmail vs. Exchange? I suspect a more careful analysis would reveal that Linux is ahead in the last 2 years than NT.
5) Default applications: Due to the GPL, you get a lot with any Linux distro. More even than NT. The total number of packages available/installed is going to increase the number of bugs proporionally.
6) GPL Restrictions: Sun doesn't get to include GNOME, Apache, or even pine w/ Solaris. The GPL forbids them from "selling" these programs as a part of their OS. However, lots of sysadmins install them after Solaris is up. They're just as vulnerable.
7) Poplarity/availability of Linux: Since Linux is hot these day and everyone can get it, many vulnerabilities are discovered here (and later verified on other platforms). If everone in the security community got a free copy of NT Server and Exchange, I'm sure they'd pump out problems left and right. This is kind of security by obscurity.
All in all, I'd consider Mr. Moody's piece to be poorly informed and thought out.