Fine, but it doesn't scale, and it wouldn't stop spammers from finding your email address. In fact, it would make it easier as all the email addresses are available at one easy-to-use location!
Technical measures to the spam problem just don't work. Being forced to change email addresses every week is NOT THE ANSWER. Filtering only masks the problem and doesn't solve it (closing the barn door AFTER the cows got out.) More and more people are filtering yet the volume of spam is just increasing. You can't just toss out email standards and create new standards as some people suggest (spammers would probably find a way to spam in a new standard anyway, and any new protocol would take 5-10 years to roll out.)
What is REALLY needed is GOOD anti-spam laws that would provide for hefty jail terms for spammers that do this kind of thing. Since most spam is US centric (even though spammers frequently use international open relays) US laws would make a huge dent in spam. Other countries would probably quickly follow suit. What is really needed is for congress to work with technical experts to write good laws with teeth. Even the DMA is comming around to the reality that spam is bad and laws are needed
Speaking of legal steps, I find it interesting that the people who are against making spam illegal are unusually quiet in this topic. They hate to admit that spam is truely evil, and sould be outlawed.
The scenario that happened to this guy happens EVERY DAY. There is no socially redeeming value to spam. It has to go. Contact your favorite government official of choice in whatever country you live in. Pressure them into outlawing spam. We must have the strong legal tools to bankrupt spammers.
You are missing something. Singing the songs in a school would be a public place. Very much like the Happy Birthday song can't be sung in a restaurant without paying ASCAP fees.
Oh come on. They just had a typo. They really meant P.C., short for Piece of Crap. Since Windows is the biggest Piece of Crap around, everyone KNOWS that that are just refering to Windows and not "Personal Computers" in general, since "Personal Computers" includes things like Macs, palm pilots, etc.
Um, the DMCA is a law. You can't sue it. You can only challenge the law based on constitutionality, or convice the "bought and paid for" congress to repeal it.
Um, and what about the guy who has to wait for days, his network being hammered, piling up and network usage charges, while you take you sweet time in the disconnect process? Do you cut your customers off if you can't reach them in 10 minutes or do you give them a while?
Of course then you also have ISP's that are so backlogged that they don't respond to a security issue for days to begin with, or the ISP's in China that can't read english so just ignore you.
Though rose-colored glasses this is fine. In the real world it fails.
A good example was code-red. It wasn't just one server once in a while trying to infect your server, it was HUNDREDS. Simultaniously. How the fuck do you handle that though notification? How long are you willing to let your business be offline?
Code-red was just another wake-up call. The next worm might be MUCH more malicious and do MUCH more harm to the internet.
I find the US dislike of anti-hate laws as strange as their predilection for firearms.
Hmm. How about an insight then. Hate laws are special because they are not just about your ACTIONS, but about your THOUGHTS and IDEAS and FEELINGS. I don't want to live in a society where I am persecuted because of what I think and believe, do YOU?
As far as firearms is concerned, I can kill a lot more people quicker by driving my car into crowds than I can with a pistol. Should we outlaw cars or murder?
Other than the fact that your numbers are WRONG, it IS true that digital phones operate at a lower power. Max power for analog is 3W for a bag phone and I think.6 or.8W for a hand-held. Digital I think maxes at.6W (it may be even less.)
This is for the US market of course, but numbers elsewhere are similar.
Um, I have to disagree. Analog is NOT always better than digital. It depends on MANY factors including bandwidth, noise, signal strength, etc. In a high noise or low signal strength environment (or combination) digital will sound better. Period. I left analog behind years ago and would NEVER go back.
I recently (last month) drove across the US with my dual analog / digital phone and in the few analog areas that I hit the service was terrible (didn't help any that it sucked my batteries at a rate 10 times faster than digital.)
I guess if you are sitting next to a cell tower analog would sound better, but in REAL WORLD conditions it is worse.
The problem is larger than just the ease of use of the tool. The more people you have entering bugs the more they are going to get categorized wrong, and the more dupes you are going to have, etc.
Assign someone in QA as the "bugmaster". Possibly rotate the responsability between team members so you don't get burnout.
Have people email bug reports to the bugmaster and have that person enter the bugs into the system the correct way. Yeah, it can be a lot of work for the bugmaster depending on the size of the system, but the QUALITY of the data will be vastly improved.
Trust me on this. A tool will not fix a process problem, no matter HOW easy a tool is to use. If you ARE choosing a new tool, make sure that ANY tool you use is web-browser usable for ALL functionality (avoid IE only, active-x required tools)
"I have a thingy connected to another thingy and I'm having problems."
I mean really! You don't say what apps you are using or even what operating system! How the hell do you expect anyone to help you?
Anyway, try tech support. That's what they are for. If they fail to help, THEN try slashdot or somewhere with DETAILED info. Tell people what you have tried. Exactly.
By the way, the editors should reject submissions like this for lack of info.
Hmm. must have been some other cell phone maker then. I read about some phone manufacturer that WAS going to use it and didn't. Anyone know who that was?
This is EXACTLY about lawyers getting rich. Our broken legal system drives this stuff. That said, I think it's Very clear that this is a case of deceptive advertising. However, a class action suit is not the answer. The FTC should be the agency that goes in and fines them a couple million bucks, and forbids them from doing that crap in the future.
When you look at deceptive behavior on the net though, there are other bigger fish to fry. Interstitials for example. Isn't it deceptive when you click on a link for a news article and you get an ad instead? What about all the ads for something "free" and you find out that you need a subscription or the product is anything but free? How about endless pop-up hell (not a problem for me personally, I use Galeon)? What about all the SPAM advertising things that are obviously not true, or claiming that they are from someone else?
IMHO, the FTC hasn't done nearly enough dealing with fraud on the internet. It's not that they don't know about it or anything...
First of all, Windows 2000 is not 5 years old. Second, Linux was not being adopted in a big way 5 years ago either. Numbers over a 5 year span would therefor be meaningless.
Note that Linux has advanced MASSIVE amounts over those 5 years in both performance, reliability, and ease of maintenance.
Second, it depends on WHICH 104 companies you survey. I could probably pick 104 companies that would have a totally different experience.
Um, maybe because regular non-developer type people don't run out and grab the latest kernel that just came out and compile it themselve for the hell of it. Instead, they run whatever version comes with their distro.
Anyone running the latest bleeding edge stuff keeps up with the LKML anyway, and KNOWS what is going on, way before it would hit a news site like/.
All the more reason to use the same open proxies in other countries that spammers use. Heh. Of course you can't run a server that way so you would be a leech, but it is a whole lot harder to trace.
Um, maybe because fiber costs LOTS more to work with? It's not just the physical cost of the cable, but you can't split it like copper, it's much harder to terminate, the connectors are several orders of magnitude more expensive, etc. Bottom line is that it would probably cost 10 time more to lay fiber to the house.
The way it's being done is to run fiber to a neighborhood POP and copper to the house. Performance is just fine if it is done right and the POP's are not oversubscribed. Note that it's still really expensive.
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Fine, but it doesn't scale, and it wouldn't stop spammers from finding your email address. In fact, it would make it easier as all the email addresses are available at one easy-to-use location!
Technical measures to the spam problem just don't work. Being forced to change email addresses every week is NOT THE ANSWER. Filtering only masks the problem and doesn't solve it (closing the barn door AFTER the cows got out.) More and more people are filtering yet the volume of spam is just increasing. You can't just toss out email standards and create new standards as some people suggest (spammers would probably find a way to spam in a new standard anyway, and any new protocol would take 5-10 years to roll out.)
What is REALLY needed is GOOD anti-spam laws that would provide for hefty jail terms for spammers that do this kind of thing. Since most spam is US centric (even though spammers frequently use international open relays) US laws would make a huge dent in spam. Other countries would probably quickly follow suit. What is really needed is for congress to work with technical experts to write good laws with teeth. Even the DMA is comming around to the reality that spam is bad and laws are needed
Speaking of legal steps, I find it interesting that the people who are against making spam illegal are unusually quiet in this topic. They hate to admit that spam is truely evil, and sould be outlawed.
The scenario that happened to this guy happens EVERY DAY. There is no socially redeeming value to spam. It has to go. Contact your favorite government official of choice in whatever country you live in. Pressure them into outlawing spam. We must have the strong legal tools to bankrupt spammers.
You are missing something. Singing the songs in a school would be a public place.
Very much like the Happy Birthday song can't be sung in a restaurant without paying ASCAP fees.
Stupid moderators can't recognize humor.
Oh come on. They just had a typo. They really meant P.C., short for Piece of Crap.
Since Windows is the biggest Piece of Crap around, everyone KNOWS that that are just refering to Windows and not "Personal Computers" in general, since "Personal Computers" includes things like Macs, palm pilots, etc.
Hmm. Could this be considered an anti-competitive move by a monopoly to hinder competitors?
Too bad MS already bought the DOJ.
Um, the DMCA is a law. You can't sue it. You can only challenge the law based on constitutionality, or convice the "bought and paid for" congress to repeal it.
Um, and what about the guy who has to wait for days, his network being hammered, piling up and network usage charges, while you take you sweet time in the disconnect process? Do you cut your customers off if you can't reach them in 10 minutes or do you give them a while?
Of course then you also have ISP's that are so backlogged that they don't respond to a security issue for days to begin with, or the ISP's in China that can't read english so just ignore you.
Though rose-colored glasses this is fine. In the real world it fails.
A good example was code-red. It wasn't just one server once in a while trying to infect your server, it was HUNDREDS. Simultaniously. How the fuck do you handle that though notification? How long are you willing to let your business be offline?
Code-red was just another wake-up call. The next worm might be MUCH more malicious and do MUCH more harm to the internet.
Not at all. This is not a trademark issue. The rules are different for patents. They can selectivly enforce patents just fine thankyouverymuch.
MS would have to convince Spain, or venuzuela or Mexico or any govenrnment that a US patent should be enforcable in their country. Hah.
I find the US dislike of anti-hate laws as strange as their predilection for firearms.
Hmm. How about an insight then. Hate laws are special because they are not just about your ACTIONS, but about your THOUGHTS and IDEAS and FEELINGS. I don't want to live in a society where I am persecuted because of what I think and believe, do YOU?
As far as firearms is concerned, I can kill a lot more people quicker by driving my car into crowds than I can with a pistol. Should we outlaw cars or murder?
Other than the fact that your numbers are WRONG, it IS true that digital phones operate at a lower power. Max power for analog is 3W for a bag phone and I think .6 or .8W for a hand-held. Digital I think maxes at .6W (it may be even less.)
This is for the US market of course, but numbers elsewhere are similar.
Um, I have to disagree. Analog is NOT always better than digital. It depends on MANY factors including bandwidth, noise, signal strength, etc. In a high noise or low signal strength environment (or combination) digital will sound better. Period. I left analog behind years ago and would NEVER go back.
I recently (last month) drove across the US with my dual analog / digital phone and in the few analog areas that I hit the service was terrible (didn't help any that it sucked my batteries at a rate 10 times faster than digital.)
I guess if you are sitting next to a cell tower analog would sound better, but in REAL WORLD conditions it is worse.
The problem is larger than just the ease of use of the tool. The more people you have entering bugs the more they are going to get categorized wrong, and the more dupes you are going to have, etc.
Assign someone in QA as the "bugmaster". Possibly rotate the responsability between team members so you don't get burnout.
Have people email bug reports to the bugmaster and have that person enter the bugs into the system the correct way. Yeah, it can be a lot of work for the bugmaster depending on the size of the system, but the QUALITY of the data will be vastly improved.
Trust me on this. A tool will not fix a process problem, no matter HOW easy a tool is to use. If you ARE choosing a new tool, make sure that ANY tool you use is web-browser usable for ALL functionality (avoid IE only, active-x required tools)
"I have a thingy connected to another thingy and I'm having problems."
I mean really! You don't say what apps you are using or even what operating system! How the hell do you expect anyone to help you?
Anyway, try tech support. That's what they are for. If they fail to help, THEN try slashdot or somewhere with DETAILED info. Tell people what you have tried. Exactly.
By the way, the editors should reject submissions like this for lack of info.
Hmm. must have been some other cell phone maker then. I read about some phone manufacturer that WAS going to use it and didn't. Anyone know who that was?
MS actually found a cell phone provider willing to put thier os in a phone. Lets see how long they use it until they dump it like Nokia did.
Didn't Nokia find it too unstable / restrictive?
This is EXACTLY about lawyers getting rich. Our broken legal system drives this stuff. That said, I think it's Very clear that this is a case of deceptive advertising. However, a class action suit is not the answer. The FTC should be the agency that goes in and fines them a couple million bucks, and forbids them from doing that crap in the future.
When you look at deceptive behavior on the net though, there are other bigger fish to fry. Interstitials for example. Isn't it deceptive when you click on a link for a news article and you get an ad instead? What about all the ads for something "free" and you find out that you need a subscription or the product is anything but free? How about endless pop-up hell (not a problem for me personally, I use Galeon)? What about all the SPAM advertising things that are obviously not true, or claiming that they are from someone else?
IMHO, the FTC hasn't done nearly enough dealing with fraud on the internet. It's not that they don't know about it or anything...
First of all, Windows 2000 is not 5 years old. Second, Linux was not being adopted in a big way 5 years ago either. Numbers over a 5 year span would therefor be meaningless.
Note that Linux has advanced MASSIVE amounts over those 5 years in both performance, reliability, and ease of maintenance.
Second, it depends on WHICH 104 companies you survey. I could probably pick 104 companies that would have a totally different experience.
What's that old saying about statistics again?
Um, maybe because regular non-developer type people don't run out and grab the latest kernel that just came out and compile it themselve for the hell of it. Instead, they run whatever version comes with their distro.
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Anyone running the latest bleeding edge stuff keeps up with the LKML anyway, and KNOWS what is going on, way before it would hit a news site like
The sky is falling! Sheesh...
emc does not have a beowulf product.
As others have stated, Openafs.org. It does exactly what you are looking for.
Might be a tad bit of a problem getting a building permit.
All the more reason to use the same open proxies in other countries that spammers use. Heh. Of course you can't run a server that way so you would be a leech, but it is a whole lot harder to trace.
why lay cable when you can run fibre
Um, maybe because fiber costs LOTS more to work with? It's not just the physical cost of the cable, but you can't split it like copper, it's much harder to terminate, the connectors are several orders of magnitude more expensive, etc. Bottom line is that it would probably cost 10 time more to lay fiber to the house.
The way it's being done is to run fiber to a neighborhood POP and copper to the house. Performance is just fine if it is done right and the POP's are not oversubscribed. Note that it's still really expensive.
Seriously. The