That's an average for all users. I have 3 hotmail accounts. One of them had an easily guessed address. It started getting spam within days of starting the account and gets over 30 spams a day now. Another one I only gave out to friends and never got a spam. A third one I used to sign up for Yahoo groups, and it gets about 2-3 spams a day.
One thing I've seen spammers do to evade filters is munge the HTML source by randomizing line breaks or inserting nonsense tags like [!asdf] . They especially like to use line breaks to break up common spam phrases like "save 70% on your life insurance!". It renders all on one line, but it's split across lines in the source so dumb filters will miss it. Not sure if DCC or Razor account for this by ignoring nonsense HTML tags or ignoring line breaks in HTML mail.
Depends on what you consider spam. When I tested Spamassassin, it caught a lot of subriber newsletters from places like Cnet and ZDnet. They're legitimate mail but they have many characteristics of spam like HTML-only, web bugs, advertising, unsubscribe instructions, etc.
Right... The only three-letter-agency with the budget and brains to research speaker-independent speech recognition is the NSA, and I'm sure they'd be happy to share their super secret classified Echelon gizmos with the FBI.
I don't think they'd care about a few thousand geeks representing, oh about.05% of their customer bases. A better protest may be to boycott doing any Linux work for them. The Linux workstations are made by HP. Maybe HP employee Bruce Perens should educate them on the misguided ways of the Hollings bill.
I don't think Microsoft cared much about this. These are their 3D animation systems that used to run on SGI workstations. A drop in the bucket compared to all their Windows desktops.
"Why aren't the car makers expected to deal with erroneous input in automobiles?"
The critical controls in an automobile are more or less a universal interface, and everybody who drives is at least minimally trained in their use. Gas, brake and steering are all in the same place. It wasn't always that way. Look at a classic car from the 1920s. Secondary controls like lights, radio, and A/C are different among cars, but still, turning the wrong knob on the dashboard doesn't reroute exhaust gas into the cabin or dump all your engine oil on the ground.
You can add src IP spoofing to that feature wishlist. It could be done with UDP transfers and an intermediary server for sending back retransmission requests.
"Most IIS patches (read: not IE, a completely different product) are out whithin days or a week at the most as well."
The reason Microsoft patches are released close to when bugs are announced is because most security researchers withhold their reports until the vendor has a patch ready. Responsible disclosure and all. Eeye discovered the latest.htr bug in IIS and they waited until the hotfix was ready.
That's a big reason why rental stores are slower to switch to DVD. Tapes wear out with time and use, but they stand up better to rough treatment. DVDs crack when they're dropped in the night-drop slot and scratch easily. Also, lots of porn and older (80s and 90s) movies were never released on DVDs.
"As far as I know there is no finalized court judgment on the Microsoft case yet."
A defendant is guilty when the verdict is handed down on the trial. Appeals may try to reverse the guilty verdict, but they're still guilty. Judge Jackson's Findings of Fact are the equivalent of a criminal conviction, and they were upheld by the Appeals Court. Only the original penalty was thrown out on appeal. The only out they have is if the settlement includes language like "defendant admits no wrongdoing" and somehow grants immunity from other parties using the Findings of Fact as evidence in more lawsuits.
Maybe not the long-haul airplane routes, but high speed rail hits a sweet spot on those 250-400mi trips, where your choices are drive 5-8 hrs or fly an hour and wait a few more hours getting in and out of the airport. LA to Vegas in 2 hrs or less? Lots of people would pay for that.
Of course anytime you have a 200-300mph vehicle hurtling along the ground, sabotage and accidents are always a concern. But then conventional passenger trains are vulnerable to the same things to a lesser degree, and maglev track would be more durable than a conventional high speed rail because of no wheel contact.
That would be a direct result of Clear Channel buying up so many radio stations nationwide, a process enabled by the 1996 Telecommunications Act lifting previous ownership limits (no more than 40 stations nationwide, no more than 4 in one city). Reinstating those limits would go a long way in righting the wrongs: lack of local content, moronic prerecorded DJs, repetitive playlists.
Actually Enron was a big supporter of the Kyoto treaty because it favors natural gas over coal for power plants, and they had plans to build a global network for trading "carbon" credits. Not that it helped. When there's so many competing big businesses, even the Republocrat campaign contribution whores can't please them all.
I saw the 9210 at Comdex. It's bigger and heavier than most phones. Almost as heavy as a small phone and Palm V combined. The processing power and complexity seem about the same as a PocketPC. It has a viewer for MS Office documents and even runs (bleh) Realplayer.
Personally I'd rather have a simpler PDA like the Palm and a thumb keyboard for typing emails and text messages. The 5510 fits the bill for that, but if you think talking into a stereo faceplate is wierd, forget about this. Also, the screen's pretty small because it's not a flip phone.
Welcome the bizarre world of software "licencing", based on the concept that reading parts of a program into memory as they are needed is making a copy,
This is one of the huge myths of copyright law and is often cited to justify mandatory software licensing vs. purchase. Section 117(1) of the Copyright Act amended in 1976 thoroughly debunks this:
Sect. 117. Limitations on exclusive rights: Computer programs
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106 [17 USCS Sect. 106], it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided:
(1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner, or
(2) that such new copy or adaptation is for archival purposes only and that all archival copies are destroyed in the event that continued possession of the computer program should cease to be rightful.
Yup, by the time SSE2 optimized compilers become widely used, the P4 will be old news. For plain-old i686 code, it's a dog. A 1.6GHz P4 runs as fast as a 1.2GHz PIII. Suddenly, that 2.4GHz P4 don't sound so fast any more.
I don't think the capture software is that hard. You could always cobble together a homemade PVR using something like Cinax WinVCR. As you said, CPUs are cheap and fast enough to do real time MPEG encoding. Tivos have a hardware MPEG encoder so it can run the OS on a slower PowerPC processor.
I think the big obstacle is the program guide, which is what make Tivo so useful. Someone could write something to download listings from Yahoo or TVguide.com (there's a few listed on Freshmeat), but it could turn into a real cat and mouse game if the sites start munging their listings to discourage such use.
The record labels are technically a cartel. As much as they suck, Clear Channel sucks worse. They're well on their way to a monopoly on "pop" music radio. They own 3 or 4 radio stations in this town, and it's all bland least-common-denominator crap. They have Rick Dees. 'nuff said
But for the choices to appear, software developers must write programs "so that they can register here," he said. When no third-party middleware installed, Microsoft software would appear in the list.
So this looks like a new and different API that 3rd partys will use to register their file associations. And how is this different from the API that Windows already has to register file associations? If it's new and different, all the middleware vendors will have to roll out new versions to be listed.
Maybe not the markers, but the instructions in the Reuters article damn well do count as an anti-circumvention device, as much as DeCSS source code or a cryptanalysis of CSS encryption would be.
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That's an average for all users. I have 3 hotmail accounts. One of them had an easily guessed address. It started getting spam within days of starting the account and gets over 30 spams a day now. Another one I only gave out to friends and never got a spam. A third one I used to sign up for Yahoo groups, and it gets about 2-3 spams a day.
One thing I've seen spammers do to evade filters is munge the HTML source by randomizing line breaks or inserting nonsense tags like [!asdf] . They especially like to use line breaks to break up common spam phrases like "save 70% on your life insurance!". It renders all on one line, but it's split across lines in the source so dumb filters will miss it. Not sure if DCC or Razor account for this by ignoring nonsense HTML tags or ignoring line breaks in HTML mail.
Depends on what you consider spam. When I tested Spamassassin, it caught a lot of subriber newsletters from places like Cnet and ZDnet. They're legitimate mail but they have many characteristics of spam like HTML-only, web bugs, advertising, unsubscribe instructions, etc.
Right... The only three-letter-agency with the budget and brains to research speaker-independent speech recognition is the NSA, and I'm sure they'd be happy to share their super secret classified Echelon gizmos with the FBI.
"I don't imagine the FBI will abuse this because i'm sure..."
Trust us. We're from the government, and we're here to help.
I don't think they'd care about a few thousand geeks representing, oh about .05% of their customer bases. A better protest may be to boycott doing any Linux work for them. The Linux workstations are made by HP. Maybe HP employee Bruce Perens should educate them on the misguided ways of the Hollings bill.
I don't think Microsoft cared much about this. These are their 3D animation systems that used to run on SGI workstations. A drop in the bucket compared to all their Windows desktops.
"Why aren't the car makers expected to deal with erroneous input in automobiles?"
The critical controls in an automobile are more or less a universal interface, and everybody who drives is at least minimally trained in their use. Gas, brake and steering are all in the same place. It wasn't always that way. Look at a classic car from the 1920s. Secondary controls like lights, radio, and A/C are different among cars, but still, turning the wrong knob on the dashboard doesn't reroute exhaust gas into the cabin or dump all your engine oil on the ground.
You can add src IP spoofing to that feature wishlist. It could be done with UDP transfers and an intermediary server for sending back retransmission requests.
"Most IIS patches (read: not IE, a completely different product) are out whithin days or a week at the most as well."
.htr bug in IIS and they waited until the hotfix was ready.
The reason Microsoft patches are released close to when bugs are announced is because most security researchers withhold their reports until the vendor has a patch ready. Responsible disclosure and all. Eeye discovered the latest
That's a big reason why rental stores are slower to switch to DVD. Tapes wear out with time and use, but they stand up better to rough treatment. DVDs crack when they're dropped in the night-drop slot and scratch easily. Also, lots of porn and older (80s and 90s) movies were never released on DVDs.
"As far as I know there is no finalized court judgment on the Microsoft case yet."
A defendant is guilty when the verdict is handed down on the trial. Appeals may try to reverse the guilty verdict, but they're still guilty. Judge Jackson's Findings of Fact are the equivalent of a criminal conviction, and they were upheld by the Appeals Court. Only the original penalty was thrown out on appeal. The only out they have is if the settlement includes language like "defendant admits no wrongdoing" and somehow grants immunity from other parties using the Findings of Fact as evidence in more lawsuits.
Maybe not the long-haul airplane routes, but high speed rail hits a sweet spot on those 250-400mi trips, where your choices are drive 5-8 hrs or fly an hour and wait a few more hours getting in and out of the airport. LA to Vegas in 2 hrs or less? Lots of people would pay for that.
Of course anytime you have a 200-300mph vehicle hurtling along the ground, sabotage and accidents are always a concern. But then conventional passenger trains are vulnerable to the same things to a lesser degree, and maglev track would be more durable than a conventional high speed rail because of no wheel contact.
That would be a direct result of Clear Channel buying up so many radio stations nationwide, a process enabled by the 1996 Telecommunications Act lifting previous ownership limits (no more than 40 stations nationwide, no more than 4 in one city). Reinstating those limits would go a long way in righting the wrongs: lack of local content, moronic prerecorded DJs, repetitive playlists.
"system monitor firmware with Assembly Language source code"
Those were the days... Apple II computers also came with the assembly source code to the system ROM in the owner's manual.
The rest of the wu software isn't much better. pine and wu-imap are full of holes.
Actually Enron was a big supporter of the Kyoto treaty because it favors natural gas over coal for power plants, and they had plans to build a global network for trading "carbon" credits. Not that it helped. When there's so many competing big businesses, even the Republocrat campaign contribution whores can't please them all.
I saw the 9210 at Comdex. It's bigger and heavier than most phones. Almost as heavy as a small phone and Palm V combined. The processing power and complexity seem about the same as a PocketPC. It has a viewer for MS Office documents and even runs (bleh) Realplayer.
Personally I'd rather have a simpler PDA like the Palm and a thumb keyboard for typing emails and text messages. The 5510 fits the bill for that, but if you think talking into a stereo faceplate is wierd, forget about this. Also, the screen's pretty small because it's not a flip phone.
Welcome the bizarre world of software "licencing", based on the concept that reading parts of a program into memory as they are needed is making a copy,
This is one of the huge myths of copyright law and is often cited to justify mandatory software licensing vs. purchase. Section 117(1) of the Copyright Act amended in 1976 thoroughly debunks this:
Sect. 117. Limitations on exclusive rights: Computer programs
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106 [17 USCS Sect. 106], it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided:
(1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner, or
(2) that such new copy or adaptation is for archival purposes only and that all archival copies are destroyed in the event that continued possession of the computer program should cease to be rightful.
Yup, by the time SSE2 optimized compilers become widely used, the P4 will be old news. For plain-old i686 code, it's a dog. A 1.6GHz P4 runs as fast as a 1.2GHz PIII. Suddenly, that 2.4GHz P4 don't sound so fast any more.
I don't think the capture software is that hard. You could always cobble together a homemade PVR using something like Cinax WinVCR. As you said, CPUs are cheap and fast enough to do real time MPEG encoding. Tivos have a hardware MPEG encoder so it can run the OS on a slower PowerPC processor.
I think the big obstacle is the program guide, which is what make Tivo so useful. Someone could write something to download listings from Yahoo or TVguide.com (there's a few listed on Freshmeat), but it could turn into a real cat and mouse game if the sites start munging their listings to discourage such use.
The record labels are technically a cartel. As much as they suck, Clear Channel sucks worse. They're well on their way to a monopoly on "pop" music radio. They own 3 or 4 radio stations in this town, and it's all bland least-common-denominator crap. They have Rick Dees. 'nuff said
So this looks like a new and different API that 3rd partys will use to register their file associations. And how is this different from the API that Windows already has to register file associations? If it's new and different, all the middleware vendors will have to roll out new versions to be listed.
Netcaptor also does tabbed browsing in IE. Never tried it, but it's been around for years.
Maybe not the markers, but the instructions in the Reuters article damn well do count as an anti-circumvention device, as much as DeCSS source code or a cryptanalysis of CSS encryption would be.