They may have been sentenced to two years, but that may have been suspended due to the plea agreement. Why would the prosecutor would go into a plea agreement to find out how they spammed? Everyone KNOWS how spam is sent and how spammers work. The problem is how to FIX the problem without breaking email for everyone else....
Most spammers just use poorly configured email systems (or email systems running VERY outdated software) in random contries around the world. Many of these systems don't log or validate connections so it
makes things VERY difficult to deal with.
Several things have to change before the spam problem will go away.
ALL ISP's need to block outgoing port 25 from cablemodems / DSL / dialups. Require users to use the ISP's mail servers. Exceptions can be made for "powerusers" who sign a contract. (this can happen NOW and could drastically reduce spam today.)
ISP's need to install rate limiters / spam detection on the mail servers (this can also happen today.)
Get everyone to upgrade to secure DNS and authenticated SMTP for server to server transactions. (This will take a couple years.)
It's not hard, but it may take pressure from congress to force ISP's to enact these measures.
ISP's are unwilling to do things themselves as they are too busy making money off spammers, and they are lazy. Make the ISP's liable for SPAM and THEN they will act.
What's the F-ing point of going 600MB/s when drives can't even do 40???? The speed of the interface has NOTHING to do with the speed that the bits can be read from the disk! The only time the faster interface helps is when you have multiple drives on the same wire - something you CAN'T do with SATA!!!
So instead of 1 cable from the motherboard hooking up 1 - 15 drives (scsi) you have lots of cables
with lots of connectors on the MB.
If you want your drives external, then you have lots of cables from the computer to the drive chassis! Dumb Dumb Dumb. The foresight of the SATA people is NIL.
The reason for this is that SCSI is a much more intelligent device and thus requires much more sophisticated electronics
That used to be true, but not anymore. SCSI controller chips are no more expensive to manufacture than IDE drive chips. The difference is now what the market is willing to pay.
If you have looked at a modern IBM drive lately, and sat a SCSI and IDE next to each other, the only differece is in what chips are used. The level of complexity of the controller on the drive is the same. If there is a difference in manufacturing costs, it's measured in pennies.
First, you get remote gui as a standard feature in Unix. It's not standard on Windows. MS treats this thing as inovative - what is inovative about a technology that Unix has had for 20 years?
Second, let's talk about cost. TS is VERY expensive. If you were to actually adhear to MS license restrictions, TS is more expensive than stand-alone machines.
I'm not an sExchange fan, but you can run the sExchange database from an NetApp filer and fixing
sExchange's curruption becomes easy due to the snap-shot feature on the filer.
The idea of 100% electronic voting with no physical record scares the shit out of me. There is no way to guarentee that there was no voter fraud.
The only way I can see this being OK is if there
was a hard-copy printout of your vote that you
could verify, and turn in. If there was ever a need to validate results, it would be possible.
Don't let a little shrink-wrap stop you from thumbing through a book... Tear it off!! You have a perfect right to open the hood of a car before you buy it, and you have a right to check the quality of a book before you buy it. Stores can always re-shrink wrap things if they choose.
Re: So far my experience has been fairly good, but not stellar. Our VA server initally came a bit damaged, one of the rack mount brackets was bent (such that my boss feared installing it). We sent it back, had the replacement in a week with VA's hearty apologies.
I would be PISSED if it took a week. Even though that sounds like a shipper problem, VA should have
overnighted you a new box. In the business world,
fast service is a big part of "quality" service.
This assumes that the DMA is a reputable organization. Basicaly, I put them in the same category as politicians, lawyers, child molesters, script kiddies, etc.
For more info on just how sleazy the DMA is, check out variouls anti-spam organizations web sites.
It's very similar to sneaking around a dark alley with a crowbar while wearing a ski mask vs using a crowbar to pry off your hubcap to change a flat tire.
In one case the tool is a burglary tool, and in the other it's not. It has NOTHING to do with the tool itself.
Sure, it's a milestone, alpha level release. So, I downloaded it, installed it, checked out a few major sites, and deleted it. The thing is SOOOO buggy, it's unusable. Preferences is horrible, you can't change fonts, the font dialog takes Several seconds on a p3-550 to come up, you can't even click on the OK button (cancel works). The screen has a MAJOR refresh problem, where the only solution is to reload the page. Many of the sites I visited couldn't be navigated, had images missing, images screwed up, out of place, etc. Compared to how this looked 6 months ago, it's not much better IMHO, and has a VERY long way to go to have the same stability of Netscape 4.7. Looking at the rate of progress between milestones, I would have to say that there is no way we will get a good stable release before fall.
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Most spammers just use poorly configured email systems (or email systems running VERY outdated software) in random contries around the world. Many of these systems don't log or validate connections so it makes things VERY difficult to deal with.
Several things have to change before the spam problem will go away.
- ALL ISP's need to block outgoing port 25 from cablemodems / DSL / dialups. Require users to use the ISP's mail servers. Exceptions can be made for "powerusers" who sign a contract. (this can happen NOW and could drastically reduce spam today.)
- ISP's need to install rate limiters / spam detection on the mail servers (this can also happen today.)
- Get everyone to upgrade to secure DNS and authenticated SMTP for server to server transactions. (This will take a couple years.)
It's not hard, but it may take pressure from congress to force ISP's to enact these measures. ISP's are unwilling to do things themselves as they are too busy making money off spammers, and they are lazy. Make the ISP's liable for SPAM and THEN they will act.So instead of 1 cable from the motherboard hooking up 1 - 15 drives (scsi) you have lots of cables with lots of connectors on the MB.
If you want your drives external, then you have lots of cables from the computer to the drive chassis! Dumb Dumb Dumb. The foresight of the SATA people is NIL.
That used to be true, but not anymore. SCSI controller chips are no more expensive to manufacture than IDE drive chips. The difference is now what the market is willing to pay.
If you have looked at a modern IBM drive lately, and sat a SCSI and IDE next to each other, the only differece is in what chips are used. The level of complexity of the controller on the drive is the same. If there is a difference in manufacturing costs, it's measured in pennies.
First, you get remote gui as a standard feature in Unix. It's not standard on Windows. MS treats this thing as inovative - what is inovative about a technology that Unix has had for 20 years?
Second, let's talk about cost. TS is VERY expensive. If you were to actually adhear to MS license restrictions, TS is more expensive than stand-alone machines.
Win TS? No thanks...
I'm not an sExchange fan, but you can run the sExchange database from an NetApp filer and fixing sExchange's curruption becomes easy due to the snap-shot feature on the filer.
The only way I can see this being OK is if there was a hard-copy printout of your vote that you could verify, and turn in. If there was ever a need to validate results, it would be possible.
Don't let a little shrink-wrap stop you from thumbing through a book... Tear it off!! You have a perfect right to open the hood of a car before you buy it, and you have a right to check the quality of a book before you buy it. Stores can always re-shrink wrap things if they choose.
Most have the capability to upload via floppy or cdrom that you may have burned at home.
Get a yahoo email account, and post via deja news. Upload to as many international archive sites as you can think of.
If the library has goofy software installed, you may be able to boot off a linux CD or floppy.
Same goes for any university. Many have computer labs that you can just sit down and browse - no student ID needed.
I would be PISSED if it took a week. Even though that sounds like a shipper problem, VA should have overnighted you a new box. In the business world, fast service is a big part of "quality" service.
This assumes that the DMA is a reputable organization. Basicaly, I put them in the same category as politicians, lawyers, child molesters, script kiddies, etc.
For more info on just how sleazy the DMA is, check out variouls anti-spam organizations web sites.
It's very similar to sneaking around a dark alley with a crowbar while wearing a ski mask vs using a crowbar to pry off your hubcap to change a flat tire.
In one case the tool is a burglary tool, and in the other it's not. It has NOTHING to do with the tool itself.
Any bets as to how long it will take to port Linux to it? This assumes of course that M$ would be willing to release specs (not very likely...)
Sure, it's a milestone, alpha level release. So, I downloaded it, installed it, checked out a few major sites, and deleted it. The thing is SOOOO buggy, it's unusable. Preferences is horrible, you can't change fonts, the font dialog takes Several seconds on a p3-550 to come up, you can't even click on the OK button (cancel works). The screen has a MAJOR refresh problem, where the only solution is to reload the page. Many of the sites I visited couldn't be navigated, had images missing, images screwed up, out of place, etc. Compared to how this looked 6 months ago, it's not much better IMHO, and has a VERY long way to go to have the same stability of Netscape 4.7. Looking at the rate of progress between milestones, I would have to say that there is no way we will get a good stable release before fall.