I meant spam directly from dialup to the recipient's MX, not through an open relay. I know open relays can send multiple copies and amplify the bandwidth of a dialup. A normal mail server that's an open relay would have Received: headers with the spammer's source IP, and there's still a chance you could get their dialup account killed. If they spam through an open proxy, there's no way to find their IP except with forensics on the open proxy computer.
"In case you hadn't noticed, spammers choose dial-up ISPs with all-ports-open for their spamming runs. When the access gets shut off, they are out $9.95. They are much less likely to do that with DSL or cable because there are very few providers (exactly one at my location) and the service is not $9.95/month."
They rarely spam directly from dialups because it's slow. What they will do is exploit open proxies on cable or DSL lines. It might be an insecure Wingate proxy, one of these Trojan zombies, or they'll even pay a college student to deliberately run an open proxy. An open SOCKS or HTTP proxy will thoroughly anonymize the mail headers of anything sent through it, so well that you probably wouldn't need throwaway dialup accounts anymore. It's a very good reason to block email from dynamic DSL and cable modem IPs.
"Top research prize went to a steer by wire system. This is already employed in race cars and ferrari's alike."
Not exactly. Many cars have a drive-by-wire throttle, even relatively inexpensive cars like Nissan Maximas. All steering is still done by a direct mechanical linkage. There have been a few experimental research and concept cars with drive-by-wire steering.
That's exactly what they do. They lobby school boards to teach creationism and not evolution. I don't see Hindus or anyone else lobbying to teach their religion in a public school science class. Even among Christians, the creationists are a fringe group. Ask a theologian and most would say that Genesis is meant to be interpreted symbolically and not literally.
I know flash memory has dropped in price, but it's still not THAT cheap. The article doesn't say price, but the going rate for compactflash is about $250/GB, and it's as much a commodity as any other PC component so don't expect big volume discounts. That's 5 grand worth of flash memory to record 72 minutes of video. You could fit the same onto a $15 miniDV tape. I suppose there's a few early adopters and professionals like TV news crews willing to pay the price.
It's a ploy by the mainsleaze spammers to legitimize their spam because the scammers and porn peddlers give all UCE such a bad name. This might provide some relief from the scams, porn, Viagra, and penis enlargement spam, but potentially opens the floodgates for just about everything else.
VirtualPC does nothing to address the problem of running IA32 software on IA64 hardware. It lets you host IA32 virtual machines on IA32 or PPC hardware through native execution on IA32 h/w and emulation on PPC h/w. Itanium can already run IA32 software correctly but slowly through its own emulation.
Most pundits think MS bought VPC so they could add the virtual machine feature to Windows 2003 server and they're likely to neglect the Mac version.
Check your local Municipal code, a business license for consultant or software work is usually cheap, like $100 or less, and as others have pointed out, they're usually allowed in residential areas since they don't generate commercial traffic.
I wasn't suggesting at all that the $200 million was meant to encourage Caldera to "help" Microsoft. Just wanted to show that they were opponents in a lawsuit and Caldera are the LAST people I'd expect to help MS.
"But M$ would never actually bribe another company to sue (and threaten to sue)"
So? Caldera (now SCO) won $200 mill from Microsoft in a lawsuit settlement over DR-DOS, and this was just a few years ago, not ancient history. They're hardly the people I'd expect to do Microsoft's bidding, but then stranger things have happened.
Not that I'm suggesting this for professional use, but Photoshop 3.0 for Mac (last one for 68K) runs great under Basilisk II. Emulation on a 1.3Ghz PC runs as fast as a hypothetical 200Mhz Quadra. Of course you'll be stuck in 1995 but it was good enough for professional use back then on systems 1/5 as fast.
If you want to keep it simple along those lines, what about Mozilla Navigator? It's just like how Netscape 4 had Communicator for the suite and Navigator for just the browser.
I didn't say oil profits were the only motive for the war. I said you can't disprove it as a motive by making simplistic arguments about return on investment. Big difference. Also your scenario of kickbacks from Halliburton to Dubya assumes that they are disinterested parties exchanging money for goods and services. It makes more sense once you think of them as a band of cronies with similar self interest, much like labor unions and the Dems, etc.
Personally I don't think oil profits are high up on the list of motives, but then again I don't think being appalled by Saddam's human rights violations or imminent danger from his WMD are high up there either.
Yeah, I notice a lot of fulfillment centers in Minnesota too. I think their main business isn't consumer rebates, but redeeming manufacturer coupons for grocery stores. If you think sending in a rebate a couple times a year is a hassle, imagine what a hassle it is for supermarkets redeeming their coupons.
why the US would spend $100+ billion to control Iraqi oil revenues that are a twentieth of that annually... surely one could get a higher return elsewhere?
You can't debunk the greed motive so easily. The people footing the bill aren't the ones reaping the profits. The American taxpayer pays the $100 billion and Halliburton, et al make the money.
"If app vendors write to a Windows "version" properly supported by Wine, Microsoft can change the Win32 API all they want, but no one will use it because they don't want to write off Linux users."
Microsoft already can't change Win32 to break compatibility unless they also break Windows 98, NT, 2000. There's a huge installed base of older Windows and it'll take at least 5 years to End-Of-Life each version.
The time for CF microdrives may have come and gone. CF flash cards are $120 for 512MB and $250 for 1GB. At these prices, there's no reason to put up with the heat and power consumption of microdrives.
There's really two directions for development. On one path lies "more power, more power, argh argh!". There will always be a demand for more power whether it's for gaming, video editing, or some other cool new thing that hasn't been done yet. It won't "make the Internet run faster", but if someone bought a top of the line P4 because of that hype, they'd deserve to be parted from their money.
The other path is for people who just want to do web surfing, word processing, play some music and video, and maybe some light gaming. There's a lot that could be done with quiet, low power, small form factor designs with instant-on capability. You do not want an 80W space heater for this application.
In a test flight in 1961 a Douglas DC-8 went supersonic in a dive from 51,000 ft. It didn't have the power to do it in level flight, but for the airframe at least the immediate consequences of breaking the sound barrier are not disasterous.
I don't think refueling the car once a week or so is that big a hassle compared to sitting on top of a fusion reactor with all that heavy radiation shielding. Fuel cells are "good enough" for most portable power requirements and a fusion power infrastructure could provide enough cheap electricity to make all the H2 you'll ever need.
Then again, if you're talking 22rd Century, sure, with the materials and engineering they could have ubiquitous portable fusion power.
Efficient, yes. But matter/antimatter reactions would probably most of their energy as gamma rays. Now how do you suppose we'd turn that into something useful to us like electricity?
Not really a regression. XFree 4.3 is the first one to support the Geforce4 with the Free nv driver (2D-only). Found that out when I upgraded from a GF2 MX to a GF4 Ti4200 and startx bombed out. Lindows probably included Nvidia's binary driver.
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I meant spam directly from dialup to the recipient's MX, not through an open relay. I know open relays can send multiple copies and amplify the bandwidth of a dialup. A normal mail server that's an open relay would have Received: headers with the spammer's source IP, and there's still a chance you could get their dialup account killed. If they spam through an open proxy, there's no way to find their IP except with forensics on the open proxy computer.
"In case you hadn't noticed, spammers choose dial-up ISPs with all-ports-open for their spamming runs. When the access gets shut off, they are out $9.95. They are much less likely to do that with DSL or cable because there are very few providers (exactly one at my location) and the service is not $9.95/month."
They rarely spam directly from dialups because it's slow. What they will do is exploit open proxies on cable or DSL lines. It might be an insecure Wingate proxy, one of these Trojan zombies, or they'll even pay a college student to deliberately run an open proxy. An open SOCKS or HTTP proxy will thoroughly anonymize the mail headers of anything sent through it, so well that you probably wouldn't need throwaway dialup accounts anymore. It's a very good reason to block email from dynamic DSL and cable modem IPs.
You can easily create a buyer's account on Ebay with fake info, but you'll need a credit card to create a seller's account.
"Top research prize went to a steer by wire system. This is already employed in race cars and ferrari's alike."
Not exactly. Many cars have a drive-by-wire throttle, even relatively inexpensive cars like Nissan Maximas. All steering is still done by a direct mechanical linkage. There have been a few experimental research and concept cars with drive-by-wire steering.
"as long as they don't shove it down my throat."
That's exactly what they do. They lobby school boards to teach creationism and not evolution. I don't see Hindus or anyone else lobbying to teach their religion in a public school science class. Even among Christians, the creationists are a fringe group. Ask a theologian and most would say that Genesis is meant to be interpreted symbolically and not literally.
I know flash memory has dropped in price, but it's still not THAT cheap. The article doesn't say price, but the going rate for compactflash is about $250/GB, and it's as much a commodity as any other PC component so don't expect big volume discounts. That's 5 grand worth of flash memory to record 72 minutes of video. You could fit the same onto a $15 miniDV tape. I suppose there's a few early adopters and professionals like TV news crews willing to pay the price.
"This seems like a ploy to legitimize spam"
It's a ploy by the mainsleaze spammers to legitimize their spam because the scammers and porn peddlers give all UCE such a bad name. This might provide some relief from the scams, porn, Viagra, and penis enlargement spam, but potentially opens the floodgates for just about everything else.
VirtualPC does nothing to address the problem of running IA32 software on IA64 hardware. It lets you host IA32 virtual machines on IA32 or PPC hardware through native execution on IA32 h/w and emulation on PPC h/w. Itanium can already run IA32 software correctly but slowly through its own emulation.
Most pundits think MS bought VPC so they could add the virtual machine feature to Windows 2003 server and they're likely to neglect the Mac version.
Check your local Municipal code, a business license for consultant or software work is usually cheap, like $100 or less, and as others have pointed out, they're usually allowed in residential areas since they don't generate commercial traffic.
I wasn't suggesting at all that the $200 million was meant to encourage Caldera to "help" Microsoft. Just wanted to show that they were opponents in a lawsuit and Caldera are the LAST people I'd expect to help MS.
"But M$ would never actually bribe another company to sue (and threaten to sue)"
So? Caldera (now SCO) won $200 mill from Microsoft in a lawsuit settlement over DR-DOS, and this was just a few years ago, not ancient history. They're hardly the people I'd expect to do Microsoft's bidding, but then stranger things have happened.
Not that I'm suggesting this for professional use, but Photoshop 3.0 for Mac (last one for 68K) runs great under Basilisk II. Emulation on a 1.3Ghz PC runs as fast as a hypothetical 200Mhz Quadra. Of course you'll be stuck in 1995 but it was good enough for professional use back then on systems 1/5 as fast.
If you want to keep it simple along those lines, what about Mozilla Navigator? It's just like how Netscape 4 had Communicator for the suite and Navigator for just the browser.
Naw, already taken by a punk band. Fenix TX
I didn't say oil profits were the only motive for the war. I said you can't disprove it as a motive by making simplistic arguments about return on investment. Big difference. Also your scenario of kickbacks from Halliburton to Dubya assumes that they are disinterested parties exchanging money for goods and services. It makes more sense once you think of them as a band of cronies with similar self interest, much like labor unions and the Dems, etc.
Personally I don't think oil profits are high up on the list of motives, but then again I don't think being appalled by Saddam's human rights violations or imminent danger from his WMD are high up there either.
Yeah, I notice a lot of fulfillment centers in Minnesota too. I think their main business isn't consumer rebates, but redeeming manufacturer coupons for grocery stores. If you think sending in a rebate a couple times a year is a hassle, imagine what a hassle it is for supermarkets redeeming their coupons.
why the US would spend $100+ billion to control Iraqi oil revenues that are a twentieth of that annually... surely one could get a higher return elsewhere?
You can't debunk the greed motive so easily. The people footing the bill aren't the ones reaping the profits. The American taxpayer pays the $100 billion and Halliburton, et al make the money.
"If app vendors write to a Windows "version" properly supported by Wine, Microsoft can change the Win32 API all they want, but no one will use it because they don't want to write off Linux users."
Microsoft already can't change Win32 to break compatibility unless they also break Windows 98, NT, 2000. There's a huge installed base of older Windows and it'll take at least 5 years to End-Of-Life each version.
The time for CF microdrives may have come and gone. CF flash cards are $120 for 512MB and $250 for 1GB. At these prices, there's no reason to put up with the heat and power consumption of microdrives.
There's really two directions for development. On one path lies "more power, more power, argh argh!". There will always be a demand for more power whether it's for gaming, video editing, or some other cool new thing that hasn't been done yet. It won't "make the Internet run faster", but if someone bought a top of the line P4 because of that hype, they'd deserve to be parted from their money.
The other path is for people who just want to do web surfing, word processing, play some music and video, and maybe some light gaming. There's a lot that could be done with quiet, low power, small form factor designs with instant-on capability. You do not want an 80W space heater for this application.
In a test flight in 1961 a Douglas DC-8 went supersonic in a dive from 51,000 ft. It didn't have the power to do it in level flight, but for the airframe at least the immediate consequences of breaking the sound barrier are not disasterous.
The Boeing 747's first test flight was in 1969 too. Of course the 747's been in continuous production and has been updated many times.
I don't think refueling the car once a week or so is that big a hassle compared to sitting on top of a fusion reactor with all that heavy radiation shielding. Fuel cells are "good enough" for most portable power requirements and a fusion power infrastructure could provide enough cheap electricity to make all the H2 you'll ever need.
Then again, if you're talking 22rd Century, sure, with the materials and engineering they could have ubiquitous portable fusion power.
Efficient, yes. But matter/antimatter reactions would probably most of their energy as gamma rays. Now how do you suppose we'd turn that into something useful to us like electricity?
Not really a regression. XFree 4.3 is the first one to support the Geforce4 with the Free nv driver (2D-only). Found that out when I upgraded from a GF2 MX to a GF4 Ti4200 and startx bombed out. Lindows probably included Nvidia's binary driver.