From the large installation sysadmin point of view, cablemodems are like dialups, only faster. It's is virtually universal that cable IPs (and a growing number of DSL IPs) are handed out dynamically. That doesn't mean that they change frequently (some don't change for months.) Because of this, it's standard practice to to treat them like dial-up IPs. It's also a frequent problem that home machine are not secured very well, frequently running open relays and proxies. The concensus is that people on dynamic addresses should use their ISP's mail servers.
I'm not saying that I 100% agree with this, just relaying the views of several people I know that run block lists such as MAPS, Orbs, etc.
Spam is the internet's version of rape. It's an ANALOGY, and a DAMN good one which is why you can't come up with a rebutal to it. Of COURSE "rape" and "spam" are different. They also share similar characteristics which I have explained in detail.
Glad you explained WHY it's a bad analogy. Kinda like the "because I said so" response.
It's rape because you are violated. Nobody want's spam. It's forced upon you. It frequently offends you. You are forced to pay for it either directly or indirectly in higher ISP prices, lower email server performance, your time dealing with it, etc.
The chastity belt is akin to block lists / filtering software. They are a pain where legit email can get blocked and some spam still gets through. It's something YOU have to deal with because of the lack of morals of someone else.
Since there is no law, we have no recourse. I want recourse. I KNOW it won't stop all spam, but at the current rate that it is increasing, email will be unusable in 2 years. In the past 6 months I've logged a 10 times increase in spam.
There are those that think that we should just change the email protocol. When should we do this? How long of grace period do we let old email work? 2 years? Look how fast IPv6 is being implemented...
To suggest that we can implement a new secure email protocol in less than several years shows a major lack of understanding of business, economics, IT infrastructure, etc.
Spam is a social problem - not a technical problem. You can implement all the technical measures you want and it won't stop spam. Granted there are some technical measures that exist that will help such as eliminating open relays, but spammers just change their methods to get spam through.
A good analogy would be to tell a woman that she can expect to get raped and have no legal recourse. She can wear a chastity belt, but that's just a weak technical measure that a determined rapist will get around. So shall we require all our women to wear titanium suits to protect themselves and go through all the pain and hassles that go along with it? Doesn't this sound stupid as hell?
You need to educate that it's morally wrong to cost shift advertizing onto others, and have legal means to go after those who spam. An international "known spam offender" database can help ISP's stop selling access to those who flaunt the law.
Back to the main topic, Telstra is probably having problems because people block 211.*.*.* which is mostly asian / china. A small part is allocated to Australia. This MAY be what is going on...
... and it's apple's fault that they use shitty hardware that self distructs when you put a CD in them. Like it or not, these plastic disks ARE CD's, just not compliant with the "Compact Disk" logo requirments. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck,...
While I don't feel that apple did anything "wrong" by using these shitty drives, they should standby their warranty and provide a fix. Sony (or whoever created these abortions of CD's) should be sued by apple for damages too as well as by consumers.
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Netsol has good customer service????? What cracksmoking planet are you from anyway???? I'm sure someone can come up with google search terms for all the horror stories about netsol... They used to be OK back in the very early days of the web boom but they started to suck very quickly. They have never stopped sucking and as of the last couple years are now spamming as well.
I moved all my domains off netsol as soon as it was possible.
Check the hardware list for sane and then pick one of the fastest scanners you can afford. The DB on Sane's web site is your best bet. You will find that to get good scanning speed you will need scsi as USB is just too slow.
jpeg also sucks for this. Jpeg is best for full color images like photographs. Better off using tiff or png. Most OCR software will require tiff. Don't know of any OCR software for linux although you might get some windows app to work under WINE. Textbridge from Xerox isn't bad for the money.
Speaking of datacenter security, that's apt. I used GlobalCenter (before they were bought by Exodus) and had a little tiff with their security chief.
From the front, you need to get buzzed into the lobby, where you face a guard behind a sheet of bullet proof glass. If you pass credentials, the guard lets you into a hall that has an elevator, and another secure door. You also need a cardkey to use the elevator. So to get to your locked cage, you need to go through 3 locked doors, one which uses a hand-scanner. Sound fairly secure?
The back door to the loading dock was always wide open (a big garage door) during business hours. The single door between the datacenter and the dock (normal key only) was frequently propped open to provide that nice cool air to the loading dock worker.
The bottom line is that you can have a facade of tight security but it's all for naught due to poor internal practices (or shoddy programming on MS's part.) If MS is truely concerned about disclosure due to security reasons, anyone running their business on Windows should really think twice. Security through obscurity doesn't work and that's been proven over and over and over.
I can think of a number of cool four letter words that would make great tlds.... I wanna register eat.shit:-)
You have to remember something here. ICANN is creating an artificial scarcity. This creates market opportunities. There is NO technical reason we can't have MILLIONS of TLD's.
They have been making "plastic" grocery bags from processed corn for almost 10 years now. The next time you shop, check the fine print on the bag to see if the bag is biodegradable. And No, it's not the print that talks about how plastic bags can be used as a population control device...
Ditto about the biodegradable packing peanuts.
IMHO, the more we can use renewable recyclable technologies, the better off we are. I for one would love to see fossil fuels go the way of the dinosaur:-)
Back to the main topic however, I remember reading about this "great new technology" that would allow full motion streaming video over normal phone lines (not talking DSL here, normal dial up connection.)
Sounds like it was this guy. I remember thinking "Yeah right. No way in hell."
Any engineer or reasonably astute person with any mathematics / EE skills should have known better. Frankly, anyone investing money with this guy deserves what they got IMHO. I have zero sympathy for them. It's quite clear that they were just as greedy as the scammer.
You are still not getting it. When you break the law you can be forced to do anything the government tell you you must do. If you don't like that, you need to change the law. Period.
While I agree that it is silly to remove IE outright, forcing MS to open up the system and release the API's that allow the "middleware" (which is the term the courts are using to describe IE) to communicate with other parts of the system is a good thing. This way OEM's and others could install third party superior alternatives to the "middleware". If it takes forcing MS to remove IE to accomplish this, so be it.
When MS closes the APIs, and locks the door, you stiffle innovation. With all the third party applications being locked out, MS has lost all reason to innovate. They have the monopoly.
Lets carry your analogy the other way. Let's say MS built houses. They were all the same. You didn't like the kitchen layout and wanted to remodel it. The MS way would not let you do that. You could add another kitchen, but the existing one couldn't change. How is this good? Why would you want those kinds of restrictions?
Lastly, who says that Windows without IE would be inferior? Maybe I want a browser that doesn't have a gazzilion security flaws forced down my throat. Frankly, I find Mozilla superior in many ways such as the ability to turn off pop-up ads.
"Silly mortals, I know what you need and want. How DARE you question me?" -- Bill G
That's right. They are actually fruit. Along with apples and oranges.
6 a : a plan for the programming of a mechanism (as a computer) b : a sequence of coded instructions that can be inserted into a mechanism (as a computer)
I suppose you could get nitpicky and say that they are "collections of programs", but that's just silly. People know what you mean just as they know you traveled in an airplane as opposed to flapping your arms when you say "I flew Dallas."
Um, you seem to be forgetting something. MS WAS tried and found guilty of abusing their monopoly power. This was upheld in the court of appeals. MS broke the law.
We are now in the remedy phase where indeed the government CAN tell MS what to do, just like in any civil case where the guilty party can have all sorts of penalties such as fines, requirments to change contracts, etc., etc. etc.
Our laws are here to protect us from companies that behave like MS, and allow for penalties to prohibit them from continuing illegal behavior.
Your analogy is also like a rapist defending his right to rape. "Why should the government be allowed to tell me what to do?" Well, maybe to protect society from the people breaking the law.
If you don't like it, write your congressmen. Tell him that you don't like having the government penalize people for breaking the law and see how far that gets you...
Damn. Wish there was a "clueless" mod option. The shell has virtually NOTHING to do with permissions. It hardly even touches them. The kernel enforces permissions and other applications (such as chmod and ls) set and view them using the functions provided by the kernel. The shell is mainly just a user interface. In fact, when you "exec" a command from the shell, the shell is GONE and replaced by the application.
What you don't comprehend is that UNIX is modular. This allows us to replace virtually every single command/component in the system with a different one. It also is what allows us to fairly easily support multiple differnt file systems of which linux supports over a dozen (maybe almost 2 dozen), different terminal programs, window managers, desktop environments (kde/gnome/etc) and web browsers.
What MS is trying to do (and having a hard time with) is actually having a stand-alone component be integrated. If MS wants to be able to upgrade IE (and it history proves that it does), it MUST be modular. The very fact that IE is upgradable totally blows MS's argument that IE cannot be separated.
Now there is the argument that you would lose the shell. This is bull. MS already has a IE-free shell that was available in 95 and NT4. What they did since then was add hooks in the shell to call IE at various places.
The bottom line is that there is no reason that Mozilla / netscape / opera couldn't use the same APIs that windows uses to "integrate" with IE other than the fact that MS keeps those APIs secret.
Frankly, yes. Then you KNOW what the terms are. I can then compare products based on license terms as well as features. In downloaded software, you also need to have the right to review the terms before you pay for the software.
In another/. story, we cave the case of the EULA being abused by a file swapping service that allows them to run arbitrary software on your computer and disable your anti-spyware software. While this software is free, it abusive to the consumer and morally repugnant.
Not only that but the COVER to the gas cap is locked and you can't see the sticker until after you buy the car and they allow you to open it.
click-wrap / shrink-wrap needs a good solid court case to make them unenforcable. I have never heard of a case going to court all the way through. Anyone have any references to court cases one way or the other?
The basic reason you don't see much else out there is "economics." It's VERY f-ing expensive to put out a new architecture, especially with all the issue associated with the modern bus speeds. Not to mention the software costs to support all the needed interfaces such as usb, scsi, firewire, video, audio, etc. Is your box going to be PCI? Sbus? What about third party support?
All the "specialized" processor architectures are dying. All you have to do is look at the workstation market of HP, SGI, & sun. Their sales drop every year (servers are a different story, but percent market share of intel-based boxes is still climbing.)
Is MUCH more cost effective to go with a fairly standardized architecture that has multiple vendor support, a huge code-base, etc.
Bang for buck you can't beat an x86 box. Period. We will see what the 64 bit market holds in a couple years, but it's probably going to be AMD / Intel ish...
So yeah, the intel PC architecture sucks. Interrupt conflicts, legacy ports, god-aweful bios architecture, real / protected mode - blech. We can only hope that Hammer / Itanium / etc fixes some of this and doesn't retain the crap "just because it's easier."
So where in his post did he say "raise taxes"? If you think about it, a GOOD professional at a higher wage can do the work of 2 lackeys at a lower wage. This may SAVE money.
The problem with government is that every time spending is increased, it is never decreased. Departments only have to justify NEW spending, not the old. Now you end up with bloated useless government full of people doing useless jobs that nobody cares about just because funding was given 30 years ago for a long since depreciated need.
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Maybe they want access to all the log files so they can sue bazillions
of former users for copyright infringment...
Nah. They wouldn't do that would they?
I agree with your last sentence. Mod that insightful!
From the large installation sysadmin point of view, cablemodems are like dialups, only faster. It's is virtually universal that cable IPs (and a growing number of DSL IPs) are handed out dynamically. That doesn't mean that they change frequently (some don't change for months.) Because of this, it's standard practice to to treat them like dial-up IPs. It's also a frequent problem that home machine are not secured very well, frequently running open relays and proxies. The concensus is that people on dynamic addresses should use their ISP's mail servers.
I'm not saying that I 100% agree with this, just relaying the views of several people I know that run block lists such as MAPS, Orbs, etc.
When you can't come up with a logical argument to support your view, you resort to personal attacks and regurgitate my post with search and replace.
Grow up, troll.
Spam is the internet's version of rape. It's an ANALOGY, and a DAMN good one which is why you can't come up with a rebutal to it. Of COURSE "rape" and "spam" are different. They also share similar characteristics which I have explained in detail.
Glad you explained WHY it's a bad analogy. Kinda like the "because I said so" response.
It's rape because you are violated. Nobody want's spam. It's forced upon you. It frequently offends you. You are forced to pay for it either directly or indirectly in higher ISP prices, lower email server performance, your time dealing with it, etc.
The chastity belt is akin to block lists / filtering software. They are a pain where legit email can get blocked and some spam still gets through. It's something YOU have to deal with because of the lack of morals of someone else.
Since there is no law, we have no recourse. I want recourse. I KNOW it won't stop all spam, but at the current rate that it is increasing, email will be unusable in 2 years. In the past 6 months I've logged a 10 times increase in spam.
There are those that think that we should just change the email protocol. When should we do this? How long of grace period do we let old email work? 2 years? Look how fast IPv6 is being implemented...
To suggest that we can implement a new secure email protocol in less than several years shows a major lack of understanding of business, economics, IT infrastructure, etc.
Spam is a social problem - not a technical problem.
You can implement all the technical measures you want and it won't stop spam. Granted there are some technical measures that exist that will help such as eliminating open relays, but spammers just change their methods to get spam through.
A good analogy would be to tell a woman that she can expect to get raped and have no legal recourse. She can wear a chastity belt, but that's just a weak technical measure that a determined rapist will get around. So shall we require all our women to wear titanium suits to protect themselves and go through all the pain and hassles that go along with it? Doesn't this sound stupid as hell?
You need to educate that it's morally wrong to cost shift advertizing onto others, and have legal means to go after those who spam. An international "known spam offender" database can help ISP's stop selling access to those who flaunt the law.
Back to the main topic, Telstra is probably having problems because people block 211.*.*.* which is mostly asian / china. A small part is allocated to Australia. This MAY be what is going on...
... and it's apple's fault that they use shitty hardware that self distructs when you put a CD in them. Like it or not, these plastic disks ARE CD's, just not compliant with the "Compact Disk" logo requirments. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, ...
While I don't feel that apple did anything "wrong" by using these shitty drives, they should standby their warranty and provide a fix. Sony (or whoever created these abortions of CD's) should be sued by apple for damages too as well as by consumers.
Netsol has good customer service????? What cracksmoking planet are you from anyway???? I'm sure someone can come up with google search terms for all the horror stories about netsol... They used to be OK back in the very early days of the web boom but they started to suck very quickly. They have never stopped sucking and as of the last couple years are now spamming as well.
I moved all my domains off netsol as soon as it was possible.
Check the hardware list for sane and then pick one of the fastest scanners you can afford. The DB on Sane's web site is your best bet. You will find that to get good scanning speed you will need scsi as USB is just too slow.
jpeg also sucks for this. Jpeg is best for full color images like photographs. Better off using tiff or png. Most OCR software will require tiff. Don't know of any OCR software for linux although you might get some windows app to work under WINE. Textbridge from Xerox isn't bad for the money.
Speaking of datacenter security, that's apt. I used GlobalCenter (before they were bought by Exodus) and had a little tiff with their security chief.
From the front, you need to get buzzed into the lobby, where you face a guard behind a sheet of bullet proof glass. If you pass credentials, the guard lets you into a hall that has an elevator, and another secure door. You also need a cardkey to use the elevator. So to get to your locked cage, you need to go through 3 locked doors, one which uses a hand-scanner. Sound fairly secure?
The back door to the loading dock was always wide open (a big garage door) during business hours. The single door between the datacenter and the dock (normal key only) was frequently propped open to provide that nice cool air to the loading dock worker.
The bottom line is that you can have a facade of tight security but it's all for naught due to poor internal practices (or shoddy programming on MS's part.) If MS is truely concerned about disclosure due to security reasons, anyone running their business on Windows should really think twice. Security through obscurity doesn't work and that's been proven over and over and over.
I can think of a number of cool four letter words that would make great tlds.... I wanna register eat.shit :-)
You have to remember something here. ICANN is creating an artificial scarcity. This creates market opportunities. There is NO technical reason we can't
have MILLIONS of TLD's.
So exactly how does registering a domain name create awareness? It's not advertising...
.pro by refusing .pro site.
I plan on reducing the "value" of
traffic from any
Frankly, ICANN has GOT to go. They are worse than what we had before. Time to startup that letter writting campaign.
They have been making "plastic" grocery bags from processed corn for almost 10 years now. The next time you shop, check the fine print on the bag to see if the bag is biodegradable. And No, it's not the print that talks about how plastic bags can be used as a population control device...
:-)
Ditto about the biodegradable packing peanuts.
IMHO, the more we can use renewable recyclable technologies, the better off we are. I for one would love to see fossil fuels go the way of the dinosaur
Interesting story.
Back to the main topic however, I remember reading about this "great new technology" that would allow full motion streaming video over normal phone lines (not talking DSL here, normal dial up connection.)
Sounds like it was this guy. I remember thinking "Yeah right. No way in hell."
Any engineer or reasonably astute person with any mathematics / EE skills should have known better. Frankly, anyone investing money with this guy deserves what they got IMHO. I have zero sympathy for them. It's quite clear that they were just as greedy as the scammer.
You are still not getting it. When you break the law you can be forced to do anything the government tell you you must do. If you don't like that, you need to change the law. Period.
While I agree that it is silly to remove IE outright, forcing MS to open up the system and release the API's that allow the "middleware" (which is the term the courts are using to describe IE) to communicate with other parts of the system is a good thing. This way OEM's and others could install third party superior alternatives to the "middleware". If it takes forcing MS to remove IE to accomplish this, so be it.
When MS closes the APIs, and locks the door, you stiffle innovation. With all the third party applications being locked out, MS has lost all reason to innovate. They have the monopoly.
Lets carry your analogy the other way. Let's say MS built houses. They were all the same. You didn't like the kitchen layout and wanted to remodel it. The MS way would not let you do that. You could add another kitchen, but the existing one couldn't change. How is this good? Why would you want those kinds of restrictions?
Lastly, who says that Windows without IE would be inferior? Maybe I want a browser that doesn't have a gazzilion security flaws forced down my throat. Frankly, I find Mozilla superior in many ways such as the ability to turn off pop-up ads.
"Silly mortals, I know what you need and want. How DARE you question me?" -- Bill G
Um, you seem to be forgetting something. MS WAS tried and found guilty of abusing their monopoly power. This was upheld in the court of appeals. MS broke the law.
We are now in the remedy phase where indeed the government CAN tell MS what to do, just like in any civil case where the guilty party can have all sorts of penalties such as fines, requirments to change contracts, etc., etc. etc.
Our laws are here to protect us from companies that behave like MS, and allow for penalties to prohibit them from continuing illegal behavior.
Your analogy is also like a rapist defending his right to rape. "Why should the government be allowed to tell me what to do?" Well, maybe to protect society from the people breaking the law.
If you don't like it, write your congressmen. Tell him that you don't like having the government penalize people for breaking the law and see how far that gets you...
What you don't comprehend is that UNIX is modular. This allows us to replace virtually every single command/component in the system with a different one. It also is what allows us to fairly easily support multiple differnt file systems of which linux supports over a dozen (maybe almost 2 dozen), different terminal programs, window managers, desktop environments (kde/gnome/etc) and web browsers.
What MS is trying to do (and having a hard time with) is actually having a stand-alone component be integrated. If MS wants to be able to upgrade IE (and it history proves that it does), it MUST be modular. The very fact that IE is upgradable totally blows MS's argument that IE cannot be separated.
Now there is the argument that you would lose the shell. This is bull. MS already has a IE-free shell that was available in 95 and NT4. What they did since then was add hooks in the shell to call IE at various places.
The bottom line is that there is no reason that Mozilla / netscape / opera couldn't use the same APIs that windows uses to "integrate" with IE other than the fact that MS keeps those APIs secret.
Frankly, yes. Then you KNOW what the terms are. I can then compare products based on license terms as well as features. In downloaded software, you also need to have the right to review the terms before you pay for the software.
/. story, we cave the case of the EULA being abused by a file swapping service that allows them to run arbitrary software on your computer and disable your anti-spyware software. While this software is free, it abusive to the consumer and morally repugnant.
In another
Well, if you paid for it with a credit card, dispute the charge.
Not only that but the COVER to the gas cap is locked and you can't see the sticker until after you buy the car and they allow you to open it.
click-wrap / shrink-wrap needs a good solid court case to make them unenforcable. I have never heard of a case going to court all the way through. Anyone have any references to court cases one way or the other?
I have to say "ditto" here.
The basic reason you don't see much else out there is "economics." It's VERY f-ing expensive to put out a new architecture, especially with all the issue associated with the modern bus speeds. Not to mention the software costs to support all the needed interfaces such as usb, scsi, firewire, video, audio, etc. Is your box going to be PCI? Sbus? What about third party support?
All the "specialized" processor architectures are dying. All you have to do is look at the workstation market of HP, SGI, & sun. Their sales drop every year (servers are a different story, but percent market share of intel-based boxes is still climbing.)
Is MUCH more cost effective to go with a fairly standardized architecture that has multiple vendor support, a huge code-base, etc.
Bang for buck you can't beat an x86 box. Period. We will see what the 64 bit market holds in a couple years, but it's probably going to be AMD / Intel ish...
So yeah, the intel PC architecture sucks. Interrupt conflicts, legacy ports, god-aweful bios architecture, real / protected mode - blech.
We can only hope that Hammer / Itanium / etc fixes some of this and doesn't retain the crap "just because it's easier."
If you know C best, use C. If you know Java best, use Java. Ditto for Perl.
Really.
The better you know a language, the faster you will be able to write your app, the more optimized it will be, fewer bugs, etc. This is common sense.
(I was going to have a really smart-assed comment on Logo, but I'll reserve that for later....)
So where in his post did he say "raise taxes"?
If you think about it, a GOOD professional at a higher wage can do the work of 2 lackeys at a lower wage. This may SAVE money.
The problem with government is that every time spending is increased, it is never decreased. Departments only have to justify NEW spending, not the old. Now you end up with bloated useless government full of people doing useless jobs that nobody cares about just because funding was given 30 years ago for a long since depreciated need.