People who like to think they know what they're talking about saying how dumb the SCO executives are.
And utterly failing to realise that the SCO executives are rich. And will get much richer as a result of this, completely regardless of the outcome. And there you'll be at the end of this, crowing about how right you were, and how dumb they were, while they move into bigger mansions, or buy that third yacht. Hence why they're rich, and you're languishing as a second-rate programmer.
Whitelists already exist to a degree - if the email is in razor, and you've marked it as spam, then it's been checked as a human, using a trust network, to be spam. Simply follow links if the spam is also in razor...
I pretty much managed to kick this behaviour about a month ago. It's probably easiest to explain with an example, which is keeping my personal space tidy:
Write down a list of things that need to be accomplished, sub-tasks if you will. In this case, picking up clothes, sorting clothes into clean and dirty, picking up litter, making my bed.
If any of these tasks looks like it'll take more than 10 minutes, split it into sub-tasks. And keep doing that until you have a list of little tasks that you think will take under five minutes each. Write these down in a text editor. If any of the tasks daunt you with their difficulty, break them down into manageable chunks.
When you have this list, write down a start time next to the first item. Do it, and see how quickly you can do it. When you're finished, write the finishing time, and how long it took you. Are you happy with that time? Write down the beginning time of the next task immedietly. Repeat.
Spammers aren't out to cause denial of service attacks. They don't really want to suck up your bandwidth.
Spammers are solely interested in making money.
If people can trivially filter all spam, simply by routing it directly to their trash without reading it, then the tiny response rate that spammers already get gets much closer to 0.
This stops spammers making money. Spammers stop spamming.
For those of you who don't have to regularly deal with non-native speakers:
"Officially, Huang's excellent book is not about helping the differently-abled. That would be against the law."
Apparently helping the handicapped to use the xBox would be illegal (because of the DMCA, allegedly). That is why the book is called 'Hacking the xBox', and not 'Helping the handicapped use the xBox'.
"Huang was forced by the DMCA to hide his humanitarianism under the cloak of 'reverse engineering' because this is one of the few legitimate uses given a small amount of protection by the law."
The DMCA does allow some legal reverse-engineering (according to this), which is why Huang's book is meant to appear as a guide to that, rather than as a guide to (illegally) helping disabled people use the xBox.
"But if you've got an urge to help the handicapped or any other reason to tinker with your XBox, buy this book before the Man sees through this ruse."
So if you want to help the handicapped, or do other funky things with your xBox, buy this book, before Microsoft sues the author for helping the disabled.
I'm getting quite tired of hearing the term '[US] military superiority'.
The United Kingdom, for example, has enough nuclear missiles and sufficient delivery systems to level the US at the touch of a button. So does Russia. So does China. So does France. Give it a few years, and so will India and North Korea.
In a situation like this, 'superiority' is not really applicable.
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You mean you couldn't find a trash can on the underground, because, unlike certain countries who have only found out that terrorism is real in the last couple of years, we've been dealing with it for decades.
Funny, I never heard Americans make snide comments about people in New York over-reacting - maybe it's not terrorism unless it happens to America?
That's almost entirely technically incorrect (please mod it down).
The 'vast majority' of Outlook virues exploit bugs in Internet Explorer's and Outlook's handling of HTML. As far as I am aware, there was never a 'buffer overflow' used. Yes, almost all the vulnerabilities have been patched, but, guess what! Ill-informed home-users have absolutely no motivation to patch against a virus like Klez, as it's rarely traceable to them, and they don't know when they have it.
Please, please, could you offer something to back that up?
An unpatched Linux machine is as vulnerable as an unpatched Windows machine. Security is to do with administration, not the operating system.
The sooner Linux zealots realise this, and start saying things like "Linux provides an easier patch path", the sooner people will start taking them seriously.
Anyone remember? My beautiful MS keyboard allows me to type at around 90 words a minute, all the time issuing the little clickety-click noises that drive our sales person nuts.
Furthermore, you can map all those extra buttons to do useful things - the Mail button launches mutt, the Sleep button starts xscreensaver...
The only problem being that it makes my iBook keyboard (the one I'm using right now) feel so, so inadequate.
On an off-shoot - I bought an MS optical mouse recently, and I was convinced the extra buttons would piss me off, but in Windows (I use a KVM box to control FreeBSD, Linux, OS X, and Win2k machines) they're automatically mapped to 'Back' and 'Forward' in web-browsers - I found when I used my parents' machine that I was always trying to use the mouse in the same way...
- It's foolish to expect it'll stop viruses - Microsoft will have the anti-virus industry by the short and curlies - Microsoft PR is impressively... uh... PR-ish;-)
Slap me if I'm being silly, but how much do we know about the internals of these products, and how they're implemented between platforms?
That is, could it be that the Windows Adobe team simply writes better software than the Mac Adobe team? How much of this can be put down to the underlying operating systems on both machines?
Still, H.323 support (or support for whatever its heir apparent is) within the OS is SORELY lacking, according to my videoconferencing friends, so I know they'll gleefully welcome this.
Yahoo Messenger for Mac OS X provides video-conferencing, and fairly well too - it works over NAT too, which is something I believe H.323 doesn't natively support.
So far, it's the only decent system I've found. It's free, it's cross-platform, and I like it a lot:-)
Perhaps where you work. Working in the anti-virus field, it's often policy that no.doc files go through the mail server - guidelines state that if someone sends you a.doc file, you should write back and ask for.rtf.
The turning point is normally pointing out to the sender that:
a) If they send a macro virus, they could be liable b) They may be sending a lot more information that they wish to by using.doc
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Ah no, see, you forgot to read the first line:
"One of Perl's great strengths is in processing text files."
Perl is good at handling text files. XML is a text file. Therefore, Perl is good at handling XML.
As opposed to:
My pasta maker is good at making pasta. Pasta is a type of food. Ice-cream is also food. Therefore, my pasta maker is good at making ice-cream.
"PERL IS DEAD PHP FOREVER MAN YEAH PEACE OUT", "PHP is like C without the speed, like Perl, without the toolbox", "Heh, man, like, heh, Java", "YOU CAN USE PHP FOR SHELL SCRIPTS MY BROTHER WROTE ONE ONCE", $x ??? PROFIT [that'll actually compile in Perl 6],
Mod parent down. It seems our friend doesn't quite understand slashdot yet - the reason people post stuff like that anonymously is because they think it will be useful, but aren't looking for karma. Try a little harder next time.
BZZZZT. The GPL takes away freedom? No, the GPL giveth, the GPL does not taketh away. You have precisely no rights to use unlicensed code written by other people.
The GPL gives you the right to use it (assuming it's been licensed that way) if you follow some rules. And if the BSD license offers 'true freedom', how come people don't release under Public Domain instead? Oh wait, time for you to go read the licenses again.
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People who like to think they know what they're talking about saying how dumb the SCO executives are.
And utterly failing to realise that the SCO executives are rich. And will get much richer as a result of this, completely regardless of the outcome. And there you'll be at the end of this, crowing about how right you were, and how dumb they were, while they move into bigger mansions, or buy that third yacht. Hence why they're rich, and you're languishing as a second-rate programmer.
Whitelists already exist to a degree - if the email is in razor, and you've marked it as spam, then it's been checked as a human, using a trust network, to be spam. Simply follow links if the spam is also in razor...
I pretty much managed to kick this behaviour about a month ago. It's probably easiest to explain with an example, which is keeping my personal space tidy:
Write down a list of things that need to be accomplished, sub-tasks if you will. In this case, picking up clothes, sorting clothes into clean and dirty, picking up litter, making my bed.
If any of these tasks looks like it'll take more than 10 minutes, split it into sub-tasks. And keep doing that until you have a list of little tasks that you think will take under five minutes each. Write these down in a text editor. If any of the tasks daunt you with their difficulty, break them down into manageable chunks.
When you have this list, write down a start time next to the first item. Do it, and see how quickly you can do it. When you're finished, write the finishing time, and how long it took you. Are you happy with that time? Write down the beginning time of the next task immedietly. Repeat.
Hope this helps...
I think you're missing the point here.
Spammers aren't out to cause denial of service attacks. They don't really want to suck up your bandwidth.
Spammers are solely interested in making money.
If people can trivially filter all spam, simply by routing it directly to their trash without reading it, then the tiny response rate that spammers already get gets much closer to 0.
This stops spammers making money. Spammers stop spamming.
It's all about the money.
For those of you who don't have to regularly deal with non-native speakers:
"Officially, Huang's excellent book is not about helping the differently-abled. That would be against the law."
Apparently helping the handicapped to use the xBox would be illegal (because of the DMCA, allegedly). That is why the book is called 'Hacking the xBox', and not 'Helping the handicapped use the xBox'.
"Huang was forced by the DMCA to hide his humanitarianism under the cloak of 'reverse engineering' because this is one of the few legitimate uses given a small amount of protection by the law."
The DMCA does allow some legal reverse-engineering (according to this), which is why Huang's book is meant to appear as a guide to that, rather than as a guide to (illegally) helping disabled people use the xBox.
"But if you've got an urge to help the handicapped or any other reason to tinker with your XBox, buy this book before the Man sees through this ruse."
So if you want to help the handicapped, or do other funky things with your xBox, buy this book, before Microsoft sues the author for helping the disabled.
I'm getting quite tired of hearing the term '[US] military superiority'.
The United Kingdom, for example, has enough nuclear missiles and sufficient delivery systems to level the US at the touch of a button. So does Russia. So does China. So does France. Give it a few years, and so will India and North Korea.
In a situation like this, 'superiority' is not really applicable.
You mean you couldn't find a trash can on the underground, because, unlike certain countries who have only found out that terrorism is real in the last couple of years, we've been dealing with it for decades.
Funny, I never heard Americans make snide comments about people in New York over-reacting - maybe it's not terrorism unless it happens to America?
I can't wait for the next round of people who stop trying to be cool by using the word 'virii' where 'viruses' is correct.
"Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." -- Henry Spencer
That's almost entirely technically incorrect (please mod it down).
The 'vast majority' of Outlook virues exploit bugs in Internet Explorer's and Outlook's handling of HTML. As far as I am aware, there was never a 'buffer overflow' used. Yes, almost all the vulnerabilities have been patched, but, guess what! Ill-informed home-users have absolutely no motivation to patch against a virus like Klez, as it's rarely traceable to them, and they don't know when they have it.
Please, please, could you offer something to back that up?
An unpatched Linux machine is as vulnerable as an unpatched Windows machine. Security is to do with administration, not the operating system.
The sooner Linux zealots realise this, and start saying things like "Linux provides an easier patch path", the sooner people will start taking them seriously.
Anyone remember? My beautiful MS keyboard allows me to type at around 90 words a minute, all the time issuing the little clickety-click noises that drive our sales person nuts.
Furthermore, you can map all those extra buttons to do useful things - the Mail button launches mutt, the Sleep button starts xscreensaver...
The only problem being that it makes my iBook keyboard (the one I'm using right now) feel so, so inadequate.
On an off-shoot - I bought an MS optical mouse recently, and I was convinced the extra buttons would piss me off, but in Windows (I use a KVM box to control FreeBSD, Linux, OS X, and Win2k machines) they're automatically mapped to 'Back' and 'Forward' in web-browsers - I found when I used my parents' machine that I was always trying to use the mouse in the same way...
Is he really? How about taking a look and seeing how he endorses the project to replace his scripts, hrm?
Think *BEFORE* typing.
So perhaps the story there isn't true, but, you've been able to write Perl using white-space only for a little while now:
Acme::Bleach
It's also worth taking a look at Clarinet's offering:
ProleText...
I wrote what I consider to be a fairly informative article on Palladium and the impact on the anti-virus industry here:
p alladium.xml
... uh ... PR-ish ;-)
http://www.virusbtn.com/magazine/archives/200209/
Summary:
- It's foolish to expect it'll stop viruses
- Microsoft will have the anti-virus industry by the short and curlies
- Microsoft PR is impressively
Slap me if I'm being silly, but how much do we know about the internals of these products, and how they're implemented between platforms?
That is, could it be that the Windows Adobe team simply writes better software than the Mac Adobe team? How much of this can be put down to the underlying operating systems on both machines?
Just thoughts
Still, H.323 support (or support for whatever its heir apparent is) within the OS is SORELY lacking, according to my videoconferencing friends, so I know they'll gleefully welcome this.
:-)
Yahoo Messenger for Mac OS X provides video-conferencing, and fairly well too - it works over NAT too, which is something I believe H.323 doesn't natively support.
So far, it's the only decent system I've found. It's free, it's cross-platform, and I like it a lot
Which explains the funky spelling?
This is a duplicate of a story earlier today about brain-dead copyright checking! Sheesh, those editors! Oh wait...
Perhaps where you work. Working in the anti-virus field, it's often policy that no .doc files go through the mail server - guidelines state that if someone sends you a .doc file, you should write back and ask for .rtf.
.doc
The turning point is normally pointing out to the sender that:
a) If they send a macro virus, they could be liable
b) They may be sending a lot more information that they wish to by using
Ah no, see, you forgot to read the first line:
"One of Perl's great strengths is in processing text files."
Perl is good at handling text files. XML is a text file. Therefore, Perl is good at handling XML.
As opposed to:
My pasta maker is good at making pasta. Pasta is a type of food. Ice-cream is also food. Therefore, my pasta maker is good at making ice-cream.
Does that help?
"PERL IS DEAD PHP FOREVER MAN YEAH PEACE OUT",
"PHP is like C without the speed, like Perl, without the toolbox",
"Heh, man, like, heh, Java",
"YOU CAN USE PHP FOR SHELL SCRIPTS MY BROTHER WROTE ONE ONCE",
$x ??? PROFIT [that'll actually compile in Perl 6],
Mod parent down. It seems our friend doesn't quite understand slashdot yet - the reason people post stuff like that anonymously is because they think it will be useful, but aren't looking for karma. Try a little harder next time.
BZZZZT. The GPL takes away freedom? No, the GPL giveth, the GPL does not taketh away. You have precisely no rights to use unlicensed code written by other people.
The GPL gives you the right to use it (assuming it's been licensed that way) if you follow some rules. And if the BSD license offers 'true freedom', how come people don't release under Public Domain instead? Oh wait, time for you to go read the licenses again.
Who cares? Pilots aren't allowed to use GPS as their sole means of navigation anyway. I'm a little more worried about conventional bombs to be honest.