Providers should also limit the number of messages an individual machine can send to 100 per hour or 500 per day
I'd need to check my mail logs, but I suspect I'm getting close to that volume of outgoing mail due to bounces of spams coming in as dictionary attacks on my domains, as well as double-bounces due to joe-jobs using nonexistent accounts on my domains.
Well, Google, for one. The weapon didn't use chickens, but was kept warm by glass fibre, apparently, according to the UK Atomic Weapons Establishment. (PDF).
Neowin.net is reporting that Windows 2000 and Windows NT source code has been leaked to the internet.
The server is currently slashdotted, but I managed to download the first few lines of the Windows 2000 codebase. Here they are:
10 REM Windows 2000 Operating System 20 REM (C) Microsoft Corporation 30 REM Note: TO DO: fix up security stuff 40 REM: 50 REM:wq 60 REM exit^M^M quit ^C
...way back in the mid to late 80's, mostly doing compiler programming in the ML project. In fact, my first exposure to ML was in 1979, with an early version running on on DECsystem 20. (I can't remember what it was written in - something like Lisp or Prolog.) For my Ph.D. I implemented a polymorphically typed hybrid functional/logic language based on the ideas of Milner and Ehud Shapiro.
The big push to ML as a language was, as stated, a redesign and implementation (in Pascal, I think) on VAX/VMS by Luca Cardelli back around 1981 - it was a lovely piece of design, with first-class records and union types, and pattern matching. During the standardisation of the formal semantics (late 1980's), the implementation effort was shared with Dave MacQueen at AT&T and Andrew Appel at Princeton (whose compiler books and papers on continuation passing are a good read).
Throughout, the implementations and the mathematics advanced hand-in-hand; on many occasions I'd be doing something in the compiler, and referring to the formal equations of the static or dynamic semantics to make sure I was doing the right thing.
I've been out of touch for about ten years (just when the Pi-Calculus was emerging) but my patterns of thought and reasoning about software structure are still rooted in the experiences of a quarter of a century ago, and I still come across things whose lineage can be traced back to ML's theory and practice (for example, Java exceptions and inner classes).
...American consumers will have the ability to say no to SPAM...
But nobody else will.
Nice one.
A combined phone/PDA *sounds* like a good idea...
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...until the battery runs flat while you're on the move, or the machine crashes and loses data. (I've been using Psion PDA's for ten years, so I haven't had any problems with software crashes, but the machines tend to have chronic mechanical failures.)
Whenever I'm travelling, I always have important phone numbers and meetings on both phone and PDA.
...who have so many spammers that they're now in the SpamHaus database, and whose spammers have been joe-jobbing my domain (from numerous charter.com and charter.net connections) for the last month, and whose sysadmins competely ignore my complaints? Just checking...
There are quite a few of these things out there already, with different selections of customisation of services. A specific, market-oriented example might be the KnowledgeBox, but that in itself is customised on a more generic platform like the Kyzo or Equiinet.
The Mini-ITX hardware is a cute way to go though, if you don't mind the world of hurt which comes of trying to get the onboard VIA Rhine-II ethernet to work. At this very moment I'm part way through a Red Hat install onto a Mini-ITX which is going to be my new firewall and mail exchanger...
In London in the swinging '60's, it was hard to spend more than a week or two without encountering an Amphicar somewhere on the road. This new product is certainly a lot less ugly.
The service is called Shazam. The dial-up number is indeed 2580 (i.e. the centre column of buttons on the phone). It is automated - CD's are automatically ripped and the audio signatures are put into a humungous database, and some very smart DSP technology matches what the phone hears to what's on the database.
It does not follow radio playlists - to prove this, just try it against a CD - and it'll sometimes even pick out original recordings that have been sampled in more recent tracks. Shazam has a huge number of CD's on file - I tested it against a track playing in a North African cuisine restaurant here in London. ("Warda" by "Harramt Ahebbak", it says here.)
Coolest of all, of course, Shazam even has my CD on the database, even though isn't on a major label. (I know they have my CD, because I nagged a friend there to rip it.)
...it appears that Netscape 7.1 is now OS X only on the Mac (no more MacOS 9 support - browsing the download site under OS 9 only gives an OS X download option), and the downloader stub for Netscape 7.02 no longer works, so presumably they've yanked that release.
I was all ready to jump to Mozilla, but that has also just become Mac OS X only.
This worm appears to primarily affect Microsoft systems [...]
Translation: this worm only compromises and damages Microsoft systems, and only propagates on Microsoft systems; its effect on the rest of us is basically the shrapnel (as always).
Well, indeed; in terms of applying image compression, the highest form of life is indeed the super-intelligent shade of the colour blue, just as Adams predicted.
And the US military loves the idea of satellite journalism: after all, it has stated that it will target and destroy journalists whose reporting it does not approve of.
...but getting hold of raw Naqahdah must be difficult, and I don't think anyone's managed to get a machine booted beyond Chevron Six.
More seriously, the programming language for this smells a bit snake-oilish, as do most parallel programming languages, especially those touted by hardware companies. (Occam anyone?)
OK, so I was playing devil's advocate to a large extent: many of the items I mentioned can be brought online under Linux (and I've done so with many of them) but running a Linux desktop means regular Google and HOWTO searches, and numerous copies of HOWTO's in the Zaurus whenever I shop for anything.
The point being, that this shouldn't be what's needed for a consumer device like a desktop computer.
Oh, and the printer is one of the Canon BJ-10's that's not supported - I've checked.
Kernel 2.2.x - sorry, typo, I meant 2.4.19, as in Mandrake 9.0.
There's a huge inertia in terms of the software support offered by all the vendors of hardware and software trinkets that is in opposition to Linux on the desktop. For example: no Linux support for my printer. I don't have my scanner working yet. Synchronisation software for Psion PDA? Nope. CD burning: well, OK, when I've worked out how to do it in 2.2.18. Wireless hub setup via USB? Nope. USB ADSL modem? Nope. Winmodems? Nope. Digital camera? Who knows...
When the thousands of products out there say "PC/Mac/Linux compatible" rather than "PC/Mac", then things may change. (And if we trust "Linux compatible" - at least one network card claimed this but came with an out-of-date kernel module for the wrong chipset, and the multi-channel digital audio card pointed to a German enthusiast's web site for the drivers which was only 404-enabled.)
In the meantime, I'll keep my three Linux servers doing the good server-type stuff and dual-boot a laptop into Win98SE for actual desktop computing.
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I'd need to check my mail logs, but I suspect I'm getting close to that volume of outgoing mail due to bounces of spams coming in as dictionary attacks on my domains, as well as double-bounces due to joe-jobs using nonexistent accounts on my domains.
Au contraire: we went ahead and funded that project, and he's now US President.
Well, Google, for one. The weapon didn't use chickens, but was kept warm by glass fibre, apparently, according to the UK Atomic Weapons Establishment. (PDF).
The server is currently slashdotted, but I managed to download the first few lines of the Windows 2000 codebase. Here they are:
The big push to ML as a language was, as stated, a redesign and implementation (in Pascal, I think) on VAX/VMS by Luca Cardelli back around 1981 - it was a lovely piece of design, with first-class records and union types, and pattern matching. During the standardisation of the formal semantics (late 1980's), the implementation effort was shared with Dave MacQueen at AT&T and Andrew Appel at Princeton (whose compiler books and papers on continuation passing are a good read).
Throughout, the implementations and the mathematics advanced hand-in-hand; on many occasions I'd be doing something in the compiler, and referring to the formal equations of the static or dynamic semantics to make sure I was doing the right thing.
I've been out of touch for about ten years (just when the Pi-Calculus was emerging) but my patterns of thought and reasoning about software structure are still rooted in the experiences of a quarter of a century ago, and I still come across things whose lineage can be traced back to ML's theory and practice (for example, Java exceptions and inner classes).
But nobody else will.
Nice one.
Whenever I'm travelling, I always have important phone numbers and meetings on both phone and PDA.
...who have so many spammers that they're now in the SpamHaus database, and whose spammers have been joe-jobbing my domain (from numerous charter.com and charter.net connections) for the last month, and whose sysadmins competely ignore my complaints? Just checking...
The Mini-ITX hardware is a cute way to go though, if you don't mind the world of hurt which comes of trying to get the onboard VIA Rhine-II ethernet to work. At this very moment I'm part way through a Red Hat install onto a Mini-ITX which is going to be my new firewall and mail exchanger...
Since when has "everywhere" meant "in the United States only"?
...then - think about it - soon we'll never hear the nostalgic, reassuring aural tapestry of Morse Code ever again...
...oh, apart from those thousands of mobile phones bleeping out "SMS" daily to owners who have no idea what it means...
In London in the swinging '60's, it was hard to spend more than a week or two without encountering an Amphicar somewhere on the road. This new product is certainly a lot less ugly.
The Hubble images are lovely, but I can't make out any of the canals. Perhaps the Hubble needs repairing again.
It does not follow radio playlists - to prove this, just try it against a CD - and it'll sometimes even pick out original recordings that have been sampled in more recent tracks. Shazam has a huge number of CD's on file - I tested it against a track playing in a North African cuisine restaurant here in London. ("Warda" by "Harramt Ahebbak", it says here.)
Coolest of all, of course, Shazam even has my CD on the database, even though isn't on a major label. (I know they have my CD, because I nagged a friend there to rip it.)
I was all ready to jump to Mozilla, but that has also just become Mac OS X only.
Well, indeed; in terms of applying image compression, the highest form of life is indeed the super-intelligent shade of the colour blue, just as Adams predicted.
After all, as I recall there were absolutely no reported problems with web sites' performance during the last Gulf War.
And the US military loves the idea of satellite journalism: after all, it has stated that it will target and destroy journalists whose reporting it does not approve of.
...and buy a copy of the "Extreme Craftsmanship" book that is sure to come out next year.
ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS
EXCEPT EUROPA
(ACTUALLY, ON SECOND THOUGHTS,
YOU'RE WELCOME TO THAT ONE AS WELL.)
(Obligatory filler to defeat the Slashdot all-caps lameness filter.)
More seriously, the programming language for this smells a bit snake-oilish, as do most parallel programming languages, especially those touted by hardware companies. (Occam anyone?)
The point being, that this shouldn't be what's needed for a consumer device like a desktop computer.
Oh, and the printer is one of the Canon BJ-10's that's not supported - I've checked.
Kernel 2.2.x - sorry, typo, I meant 2.4.19, as in Mandrake 9.0.
When the thousands of products out there say "PC/Mac/Linux compatible" rather than "PC/Mac", then things may change. (And if we trust "Linux compatible" - at least one network card claimed this but came with an out-of-date kernel module for the wrong chipset, and the multi-channel digital audio card pointed to a German enthusiast's web site for the drivers which was only 404-enabled.)
In the meantime, I'll keep my three Linux servers doing the good server-type stuff and dual-boot a laptop into Win98SE for actual desktop computing.
1. Man.