What do we call it when you oversimplify to the point of being flat out wrong? Human females have stronger emotional motivations, some of which are acted out almost instinctively. This doesn't mean they are incapable of logic, as you so inelegantly implied. If you think women, especially women in positions of power, act only in an emotionally based fashion I suggest you study the life and career of one Hillary Rodham Clinton a little closer.
Most ISPs require some form of authentication, either pop-before-smtp or smtp-auth. However neither of these is a terrible burden for spamming through an account. Changing accounts every week isn't a terrible burden either.
Most spam is never paid for. That's a fact of being an ISP, hosting provider, or email services provider. Even if you charge a CC before allowing the account to do anything, you're likely never going to see the money.
Charity stamps aren't going to stop it either, because most people are like me, and would flat our refuse to send email to people attempt to charge for "unknown senders". If I got that back I'd think "Fuck that" and move along. The people I email that I don't know? Usually prospective vendors who'd be losing out on my money. The people I receive email (non-spam) from who I don't know? Usually prospective customers who'd I be turning away. Doesn't seem real logical.
The only way spam will really end is if the market decides to stop responding to it entirely, at which point even a zero physical cost activity becomes pointless, because opportunity cost would be the dominant factor.
With a well known dislike for all but one single purpose device (the ever beloved fire extinguisher) you've obviously found lots of alternatives uses for common household items. Do you feel that this makes your food better or worse? What is the inspiration process for trying a new item out as, for example, a yogurt chiller or a smoker. Do you see an item and have it shout a new use at you, or is it that you're seeking out an alternative to the single purpose dev ice for a recipe or show and just find something that works after some trial and error?
Ok, explain to us all just how this works again. Google doesn't control the content of websites, just whether searches reach them or not. Somehow this gives them control over the net?
There are literally dozens of other search engines, both specialized and general, to which hundreds of thousands of queries are directed every day. Not everyone slavishly worships Google.
Google cannot "take control" of a medium over which, fundamentally, they have no leverage. They are intimately aware of the fact that they are about 2 emails away from losing 100% of their marketshare if they ever slip up as the leading search engine. The moment word gets around that Google is selectively not returning search results people will flock to Yahoo!, Altavista, HotBot, and so on.
So please, continue spreading Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, but next time, try showing at least the tiniest bit of intelligence before quoting pathetic artists and their doom and gloom projections for the interweb.
I just checked in SO6 and it supports print to file for both PS and PDF. Even if it's PDF output sucks you can always run ps2pdf which works fairly reliably.
If for some reason that doesn't work, save to HTML and have Mozilla print to PS or PDF instead, and again potentially use ps2pdf.
I like Unix Guru Universe (UGU). It's a place I usually go when trying to solve a problem, however I've wandered through some of their links and info contained on the site and liked it.
No, it's not Nobel Prize type stuff. Alfred Nobel hated mathematics, which is why there still isn't a Nobel Prize in math and prime factorization isn't a physics or economics problem which is where the math geeks usually get their prizes from.
"Do video stores like Blockbuster have to pay royalties to movie studios? Curious..." They pay royaltiesin the form of highly expensive physical media which then gets rented out over and over until it wears out. Movie88 wouldn't have to worry about the wearing out, and I'm guessing that since this happened they probably didn't pay jack to the movie houses.
Be careful discussing the VM rewrite as experimental because its a somewhat more complex issue.
The VM issue had been nagging since 2.4.x opened last January, and finally Arcangeli wrote something useable that works better than Van Riels design. There was much patching, tweaking and benchmarking of the two from 2.4.9 onward, until around 2.4.14 or.15 at which point Alan and Linus and the bulk of the mailing list agreed that AA's VM was better than Van Riel's.
The 2.4.15 mistake was a mistake, and had mostly to do with Linus trying very hard to get 2.4.15 out ASAP in order to get 2.5.0 really underway.
He was pretty blatant in telling people that there were some issues being worked out in the 2.4.x tree after the VM issue reared its head.
It all boils down to not trusting the vendor, in this case Linus and co., implicitly, but instead doing your own quality assurance and sanity checking before deploying a new kernel anywhere important.
Excuse, me when did domain registration become free speech?
Didn't any of you people have to click-through a license agreement with NSI or your alternative registrar of choice agreeing to be bound by the UDRP or its equivalent with other arbiters?
Please stop making life harder for those people actually fighting for free speech, a la DeCSS/Skylarov/etc, instead of fighting for the right to violate contracts in the name of pathetic humor.
First, never think you're too anything to do what you want. Unless you wish to start a career as a 21 year old groupie, yer ok.
I'm an admin now, soon to get the coveted Senior prefix on my title, and I still don't even have a degree. Hell, I only have a GED, I got where I did on tenacity, skill and perseverence, in that order.
A good skills inventory to try and achieve can be found in the job descriptions made available by S.A.G.E. which is the System Administrators Guild. Knowing your shit is far more valuable than having certifications claiming you know it. If you want to go for Solaris careers, Sun certs are semi-worthwhile but expensive to get the training for, as opposed to learning on the job and then just passing a test.
There are many routes in, however trying to start at a junior admin level is probably the easiest. That or find a company with a NOC and try and get in there. The position usually means a fair degree of visibility in terms of technical skills without having the pressure of your future immediately riding on unpolished skills. That's how I ended up as an admin in fact. I was hired into the NOC, learned Perl and did some administrative scripting that people found valuable, then won a few technical debates to prove I knew what I was talking about.
Reliability of DSL/Cable connections is something of an issue compared to standard telco lines, but that is becoming less and less the case. Once telco's move towards providing high bandwidth last mile we'll begin to enjoy "telco grade" reliability, as they'll be using high end equipment. If you look at reliability provided by large Colo or transit providers, i.e. Exodus/Level3/Genuity, they have extremely high (5 9s is the norm) reliability numbers.
The subscription is usually around the same as monthly phone charges with potentially greatly increased functionality. Wouldn't you rather negotiate your speed dial numbers through a java-gui interface to your address book, instead of trying to remember who's programmed into where?
The incoming phone number charge varies greatly with providers. The company I work for, for example, will be providing an incoming number (toll free) as part of the base subscription price.
The real power of VoIP, mostly using SIP, is that it can easily go back and forth from data to PSTN networks. There are several transit providers offering soft-switching, as well as hardware vendors offering boxes for companies who already have large numbers of circuits from Telcos, perhaps with numbers attached to them already.
VoIP is not really aimed directly at the home market, but instead at businesses, especially large multi-office corporations. Imagine being able to build a transparent PBX system with a soft-switch at the "edge of network" that people call into. Then you pay next to nothing to route calls across the internal LAN/WAN and can transfer calls easily from any phone in any office to any other phone in any other office.
Obviously there'll be a slow phase in to different markets, based on who has the most use for the technology. Eventually it'll become refined, polished and cheap enough to make it to the home, much as every other technology has.
Just remember, people used to sneer at the thought of anything other than dialup being affordable enough for home Internet acces. That was, of course, after they'd finished sneering at the thought of people connecting to the Internet from their homes at all.
Actually that's not entirely true. Intel does in fact have legal protection on certain numbers, 5 not being one of them. I can't quickly locate the relevant info, but the copyright/legal trouble, was that they wouldn't get to name the pentium the 586..so Pentium came out.
Gee...did the article actually say remote control by Microsoft? Let's read together now...NO, it didn't. It allows you to email a user, specify a time period in which you need it fixed..then watch them fix it so you know for next time. This is really intended towards the corporate setting with an internal help desk.
I think it'd be kinda nice to be able to take a help desk call and rather than telling them which buttons to push, ask them to follow my cursor and point out what I'm doing as I do it..sort of like PCAnywhere, but more integrated.
Yeah, it better be secure...but for a corporation this means firewalling properly. It'd also be rather simple to add a nice layer of security by not turning a receiver for this on UNTIL said email is sent and then providing an authentication function. Sure you can brute force the authentication, but until you get a trojan in to turn the service on you're fuxored.
If you read through their page they list which categories were turned on, and specifically delineate what sites were blocked "correctly" and "incorrectly".
18 is typicaly used because it is the age at which a person obtains their majority. IE they are legally an adult.
Driving, consent to marry and so on have no bearing on this. The constitution recognizes 18 as the age of majority in many rulings at various levels of the justice system.
They're working around the CC sure, and yes they might be "dated" in that they were written years ago, but the concepts are still true. ACL's are better than standard Unix file permissions because of granularity.
The ability to allow limited access into specific portions of system resources without allowing them to run privileged is a Good Thing.
The point is, yes, there's exploits AND trust violations...we need to work on fixing BOTH. OpenBSD has done brilliant work on one, while ignoring the other. TrustedBSD is going brilliant work on the other, but ignoring the first.
If I could code I'd work on trying to bring the TrustedBSD extensions into the OpenBSD codebase and submitting diffs...but my C is pretty damn abysmal.
The article briefly touches on OpenBSD, and mentions the differences...and it brought to mind the opinion I've heard floating through the *BSD community, that Theo and the gang just can't play very well with others, and I wonder if this project would be that much cooler if they could?
OpenBSD has some killer code auditers, and they've done some great work on securing the OS...but wouldn't these trusted OS extensions be the icing on the cake to make theirs a truly formiddable OS for the security conscious?
Apparently I ought grow breasts then? I can't visualize shit, but I've got all the appropriate anatomy and chemitry to be a man.
I don't feel a need to comment on equality for the sake of being PC, just for the sake of being realistic. There may be some evidence to support your statement, but until I see every man woman and child on this planet tested under conditions which take into account the need for a test which has zero dependency on learned abilities. Find me this test, and the results, and let's break it down by gender then and see where we stand eh?
You call it science, tell me to how many decimal places.
I hate to say it people...but Napster is a case about many things, some of which are rather absurd..why are AT&T and the like getting involved in this but sitting idly by when travesties of justice like 2600/DeCSS are happening???
Why is no one recognizing the far broader threat that DeCSS being ruled illegal is to freedom compared to what narrowly viewed is our right to trade music illegally?
I would rather have to follow copyright laws but write whatever code I want than the reverse.
I'm truly curious if the legal experts, of which I am not one, feel that 2600 being the "instigator" of this legal test of the DMCA had any effect on the outcome of the case? Do you believe that if the Wall Street Journal had published this would the judge have thought differently?
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What do we call it when you oversimplify to the point of being flat out wrong?
Human females have stronger emotional motivations, some of which are acted out almost instinctively. This doesn't mean they are incapable of logic, as you so inelegantly implied. If you think women, especially women in positions of power, act only in an emotionally based fashion I suggest you study the life and career of one Hillary Rodham Clinton a little closer.
Most spam is never paid for. That's a fact of being an ISP, hosting provider, or email services provider. Even if you charge a CC before allowing the account to do anything, you're likely never going to see the money.
Charity stamps aren't going to stop it either, because most people are like me, and would flat our refuse to send email to people attempt to charge for "unknown senders". If I got that back I'd think "Fuck that" and move along. The people I email that I don't know? Usually prospective vendors who'd be losing out on my money. The people I receive email (non-spam) from who I don't know? Usually prospective customers who'd I be turning away. Doesn't seem real logical.
The only way spam will really end is if the market decides to stop responding to it entirely, at which point even a zero physical cost activity becomes pointless, because opportunity cost would be the dominant factor.
With a well known dislike for all but one single purpose device (the ever beloved fire extinguisher) you've obviously found lots of alternatives uses for common household items. Do you feel that this makes your food better or worse? What is the inspiration process for trying a new item out as, for example, a yogurt chiller or a smoker. Do you see an item and have it shout a new use at you, or is it that you're seeking out an alternative to the single purpose dev ice for a recipe or show and just find something that works after some trial and error?
There are literally dozens of other search engines, both specialized and general, to which hundreds of thousands of queries are directed every day. Not everyone slavishly worships Google.
Google cannot "take control" of a medium over which, fundamentally, they have no leverage. They are intimately aware of the fact that they are about 2 emails away from losing 100% of their marketshare if they ever slip up as the leading search engine. The moment word gets around that Google is selectively not returning search results people will flock to Yahoo!, Altavista, HotBot, and so on.
So please, continue spreading Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt, but next time, try showing at least the tiniest bit of intelligence before quoting pathetic artists and their doom and gloom projections for the interweb.
If for some reason that doesn't work, save to HTML and have Mozilla print to PS or PDF instead, and again potentially use ps2pdf.
I like Unix Guru Universe (UGU). It's a place I usually go when trying to solve a problem, however I've wandered through some of their links and info contained on the site and liked it.
No, it's not Nobel Prize type stuff. Alfred Nobel hated mathematics, which is why there still isn't a Nobel Prize in math and prime factorization isn't a physics or economics problem which is where the math geeks usually get their prizes from.
"Do video stores like Blockbuster have to pay royalties to movie studios? Curious..."
They pay royaltiesin the form of highly expensive physical media which then gets rented out over and over until it wears out.
Movie88 wouldn't have to worry about the wearing out, and I'm guessing that since this happened they probably didn't pay jack to the movie houses.
Who says they didn't?
Woohoo, isn't proving a negative all kinds of fun?
Be careful discussing the VM rewrite as experimental because its a somewhat more complex issue. .15 at which point Alan and Linus and the bulk of the mailing list agreed that AA's VM was better than Van Riel's.
The VM issue had been nagging since 2.4.x opened last January, and finally Arcangeli wrote something useable that works better than Van Riels design. There was much patching, tweaking and benchmarking of the two from 2.4.9 onward, until around 2.4.14 or
The 2.4.15 mistake was a mistake, and had mostly to do with Linus trying very hard to get 2.4.15 out ASAP in order to get 2.5.0 really underway.
He was pretty blatant in telling people that there were some issues being worked out in the 2.4.x tree after the VM issue reared its head.
It all boils down to not trusting the vendor, in this case Linus and co., implicitly, but instead doing your own quality assurance and sanity checking before deploying a new kernel anywhere important.
Excuse, me when did domain registration become free speech?
Didn't any of you people have to click-through a license agreement with NSI or your alternative registrar of choice agreeing to be bound by the UDRP or its equivalent with other arbiters?
Please stop making life harder for those people actually fighting for free speech, a la DeCSS/Skylarov/etc, instead of fighting for the right to violate contracts in the name of pathetic humor.
I'm an admin now, soon to get the coveted Senior prefix on my title, and I still don't even have a degree. Hell, I only have a GED, I got where I did on tenacity, skill and perseverence, in that order.
A good skills inventory to try and achieve can be found in the job descriptions made available by S.A.G.E. which is the System Administrators Guild. Knowing your shit is far more valuable than having certifications claiming you know it. If you want to go for Solaris careers, Sun certs are semi-worthwhile but expensive to get the training for, as opposed to learning on the job and then just passing a test.
There are many routes in, however trying to start at a junior admin level is probably the easiest. That or find a company with a NOC and try and get in there. The position usually means a fair degree of visibility in terms of technical skills without having the pressure of your future immediately riding on unpolished skills. That's how I ended up as an admin in fact. I was hired into the NOC, learned Perl and did some administrative scripting that people found valuable, then won a few technical debates to prove I knew what I was talking about.
The subscription is usually around the same as monthly phone charges with potentially greatly increased functionality. Wouldn't you rather negotiate your speed dial numbers through a java-gui interface to your address book, instead of trying to remember who's programmed into where?
The incoming phone number charge varies greatly with providers. The company I work for, for example, will be providing an incoming number (toll free) as part of the base subscription price.
The real power of VoIP, mostly using SIP, is that it can easily go back and forth from data to PSTN networks. There are several transit providers offering soft-switching, as well as hardware vendors offering boxes for companies who already have large numbers of circuits from Telcos, perhaps with numbers attached to them already.
VoIP is not really aimed directly at the home market, but instead at businesses, especially large multi-office corporations. Imagine being able to build a transparent PBX system with a soft-switch at the "edge of network" that people call into. Then you pay next to nothing to route calls across the internal LAN/WAN and can transfer calls easily from any phone in any office to any other phone in any other office.
Obviously there'll be a slow phase in to different markets, based on who has the most use for the technology. Eventually it'll become refined, polished and cheap enough to make it to the home, much as every other technology has.
Just remember, people used to sneer at the thought of anything other than dialup being affordable enough for home Internet acces. That was, of course, after they'd finished sneering at the thought of people connecting to the Internet from their homes at all.
You didn't mean orientated, you meant oriented. GAH!
Actually that's not entirely true. Intel does in fact have legal protection on certain numbers, 5 not being one of them. I can't quickly locate the relevant info, but the copyright/legal trouble, was that they wouldn't get to name the pentium the 586..so Pentium came out.
Gee...did the article actually say remote control by Microsoft? Let's read together now...NO, it didn't. It allows you to email a user, specify a time period in which you need it fixed..then watch them fix it so you know for next time. This is really intended towards the corporate setting with an internal help desk.
I think it'd be kinda nice to be able to take a help desk call and rather than telling them which buttons to push, ask them to follow my cursor and point out what I'm doing as I do it..sort of like PCAnywhere, but more integrated.
Yeah, it better be secure...but for a corporation this means firewalling properly. It'd also be rather simple to add a nice layer of security by not turning a receiver for this on UNTIL said email is sent and then providing an authentication function. Sure you can brute force the authentication, but until you get a trojan in to turn the service on you're fuxored.
If you read through their page they list which categories were turned on, and specifically delineate what sites were blocked "correctly" and "incorrectly".
18 is typicaly used because it is the age at which a person obtains their majority. IE they are legally an adult. Driving, consent to marry and so on have no bearing on this. The constitution recognizes 18 as the age of majority in many rulings at various levels of the justice system.
Sadly, Signal 11 has all the prior art.
The ability to allow limited access into specific portions of system resources without allowing them to run privileged is a Good Thing.
The point is, yes, there's exploits AND trust violations...we need to work on fixing BOTH. OpenBSD has done brilliant work on one, while ignoring the other. TrustedBSD is going brilliant work on the other, but ignoring the first.
If I could code I'd work on trying to bring the TrustedBSD extensions into the OpenBSD codebase and submitting diffs...but my C is pretty damn abysmal.
The article briefly touches on OpenBSD, and mentions the differences...and it brought to mind the opinion I've heard floating through the *BSD community, that Theo and the gang just can't play very well with others, and I wonder if this project would be that much cooler if they could? OpenBSD has some killer code auditers, and they've done some great work on securing the OS...but wouldn't these trusted OS extensions be the icing on the cake to make theirs a truly formiddable OS for the security conscious?
You mean Rip Van Winkle...sorry.
I don't feel a need to comment on equality for the sake of being PC, just for the sake of being realistic. There may be some evidence to support your statement, but until I see every man woman and child on this planet tested under conditions which take into account the need for a test which has zero dependency on learned abilities. Find me this test, and the results, and let's break it down by gender then and see where we stand eh?
You call it science, tell me to how many decimal places.
Why is no one recognizing the far broader threat that DeCSS being ruled illegal is to freedom compared to what narrowly viewed is our right to trade music illegally?
I would rather have to follow copyright laws but write whatever code I want than the reverse.
I'm truly curious if the legal experts, of which I am not one, feel that 2600 being the "instigator" of this legal test of the DMCA had any effect on the outcome of the case? Do you believe that if the Wall Street Journal had published this would the judge have thought differently?