I work in an environment where re-imaging and deleting is not an option. Often my work actually images an employees computer for backup purposes when they leave the company, in case any work specific files are left lying around.
I think the question here is, how can you nuke as much "private" stuff as possible, keeping the OS and possibly work files intact.
I don't tend to skip ads.
The fact is that advertisers keep me watching ads by making them interesting.
Add to that the fact that I prefer to use my DVR for other purposes.
Rewinding when I miss part of my show.
Pausing while I'm on the phone or otherwise occupied.
Saving a show I have already watched to watch later.
Because I tend to watch in real time I can't skip past commercials that are on even if they really suck.
If something is on when I would otherwise miss the show I do skip commercials though I forget to do so often, and sometimes I see a commercial that makes me laugh and I watch it. But in this regard the DVR is no different than a VCR so why is it such a big deal now?
I think most people are the same way.
While I do believe they should initiate an effort to update the standard, if they view it as a security threat or a spam vector they are entirely right in shutting down the service.
If a RFC said all boxes should have a port that users could telnet into with root access, and people start abusing that would you leave it and wait for the standard to change?
And when either all seeds are pollinated this way, or every manufacturer uses Terminator seeds, and a catastrophic event occurs that nearly wipes out mankind; what will we use to grow food after the nuclear winter?
The biggest advantage in my mind is control of what is sent to you, and who you download from, and when.
Spammers would be forced into using Servers on static IP addresses that could be tracked and confirmed and thereby controlled.
ISP's could use a variety of means to control the spammers including speed limits, and spam bonds for businesses that have valid reasons to exceed speed limits. (I don't necessarily endorse this method; but it jumps quickly to mind).
Spammers change ISP's to avoid IP blocking and as soon as the message is sent it is too late. The ISP gets hundreds or thousands of bounces, but the messages are sent. This would give the ISP time to stop the message by disallowing any further downloads of the message.
Once a message is identified as spam, (either by the ISP spam checking before sending, or a user on the recipient end marking it as spam) that message (message id, hash), or that server (id, or ip address) could be blocked for the thousands of other victims, either by the ISP blocking further downloading, or the servers checking blacklist servers.
Although the spammer might realize that his message was downloaded once per recipient server they will not necessarily know that any one read the email.
Alot of these methods have been used in existing Anti-Spam methods.
IP and user Blacklisting - but this method allows for greater control of ISP's that control their spam. This also limits dial up spam, and controls spoofed IP Addresses because of the call back feature.
Whitelisting: this give absolute control. The message is not even delivered if your not on the whitelist.
Message hash profiling is already done. But this method combines the hash with a confirmed server.
SPF etc - The ISP server would vouch for the user, or the server would be blacklisted.
Additionally less bandwidth, and less server resources are used because the whole message is not being sent to all the people that ignore the messages; even valid mail in multiple formats like text, and html are not downloaded in both formats, only the format required.
This approach would allow the user to control whether the attachments, or html, or graphics are downloaded.
> And all we have to do is completely redesign the entire e-mail system to do it. I bet you'll have no problem convincing everyone to jump on board.
I believe the post that I was answering specifically suggested a complete rebuild. This is what I addressing. And compatibility could worked in so messages stored on the server could be SMTP'ed if the recipients server was not compatible.
> I really look forward to getting 404 errors with individual mail messages, and depending on 58,7124 different mail servers to get each message through to me as I click on it instead of just one that can be failed over if it falls over.
404 huh? According to you Internet Explorer is a MUA is it? With a web based approach the server would need to get the mail for you (minus java approaches etc) you certainly wouldn't be getting 404 erros. The point being you could establish content rules before you even recieved the message!
Your server could get only the messages with the word VIAGRA in them just like you like to get.
The server working in the background to selectively retrieve the messages for you is barely different than a server working in the background to send the messages for you! The only difference other than direction is that the sender can only send to their own server, and the recipient has control over which mail to retrieve and store on their servers!
I have an idea on rebuilding email. I have designed a couple of prototypes, but haven't really had the time to flesh them out as I would like.
I think we are at the point bandwidth wise where we can flip email upside down and let the senders server hold the email, and simply notify the recipients server that there is an email waiting for it.
My prototypes called this BMAIL.
Email would be sent from the Mail User Agent (MUA) as it is currently sent. Specifically to an ISP server, which currently then sends it using SMTP to the recipients server.
But now instead of sending the message to the recipients server, the ISPs server would send a message to the recipients server indicating that a message was waiting for them on the senders server, and giving basic information like subject, date sent, expiry date, and a unique 1 off user name and password to retrieve the message.
The recipeints server could then be configured to either:
1. automatically retrieve the message for the user;
2. retrieve part of the message. (like minus the attachments or first 20k)
3. check a database to see if the sender or server are approved for retrieval.
4. do nothing.
5. Wait until the user checks his messages, and pass the notification of mail waiting on the senders server to the users MUA to handle.
This would mean the server sending the mail would be stuck holding the useless mail. These servers could be blacklisted either on a server by server basis or by some blacklist service quite quickly.
If a user did not retrieve a message within a certain period of time the sending server could expire the message releasing resources.
If the sender wanted a message recieved receipt they could get one.
If the sender wanted the message (an offer perhaps to expire) they could do it.
This method gives both sender, and recipient the flexibility they require to manage their communications as if you were present.
Email was modelled after SNAIL MAIL. We don't need to model this type of communication in the same way as it was designed hundreds of years ago!
First off. There is an inner conflict with Anakin while he is Darth Vader. It is what eventually allows him to come back to the goodside.
Anakin's motive is love. He is excited about his wife, and child.
Why then is he able to slaughter younglings. Seems to me the snap was just too sudden, from turning over the emperor, to killing younglings in a couple of hours.
If his motivation is Padme how could he even choke her at all nevermind the 30 seconds that he does?
Why do the other Jedi not sense the disturance in the force? Why only Yoda?
Why does Yoda see it black and white? Why must he go into exile because he failed?
Does Revenge of the sith fill in the gaps? Yes. Does it lead nicely to Episode 4? Yes. Does it contradict the true story from episodes 4,5,6 ? Yes.
Some of you have wondered what do you need with more than a memory tester, and a disk surface scan?
Have you never encountered PC's that have perfectly working hard drives, and memory, but the machine keeps crashing?
I've had a few, among the culprits a microfracture on the motherboard, a PCI slot that was sending the wrong data, corrupt video memory, a corrupt bios etc.
If I could put a disk into the machine and find out a few hours later exactly what the problem is that would be great.
I've been doing this for a while and I have my instincts, 99% of the time they are right, but when it's I figure out its not problem A like I figured it would be, I know its b, c, d, or e; that doesn't save me the 2 days of troubleshooting.
Anywho - finding a good diagnostic tool, software or hardware that could help deduce this stuff without my constant attention would be great.
I currently work in Canada, and am moving to the states. The simple fact is that the Canadian dollar used to be worth more than the US dollar, over the past 20 years the Canadian dollar has fallen.
What does this matter?
Simple.
Because the dollar is lower, the labour costs are lower in Canada, but in both places I get paid the same.
If the Canadian dollar rebounds (which it has rallied lately not rebounded) than the pay in either place doesn't change.
Businesses also don't tend to take jobs to Canada because although they might save a few bucks for now because of the weaker currency the taxes are much higher for businesses.
martyr ( P ) Pronunciation Key (märtr) n. One who chooses to suffer death rather than renounce religious principles. One who makes great sacrifices or suffers much in order to further a belief, cause, or principle.
One who endures great suffering: a martyr to arthritis. One who makes a great show of suffering in order to arouse sympathy.
How do you see yourself?
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There has been alot of press, and over the years you have been a hero, and a Martyr to thousands of geeks and hackers, in addition to phone phreaks and anti establishment movements.
In what light and or combination of these types do you see yourself now, is that different from how you were 20 years ago, and do you see yourself as a champion of these things in the future or do you intend to just mix back into society and get a "normal" life back (after your book of course)?
There is another issue as well. The issue of one person one vote.
In a zero knowledge world, whats the best they could do; set a cookie on your computer to stop you from voting again? How many votes would that allow everyone on this site to have?
You first have to consider who's job is it to create an interface that the customer is to use.
-The Engineer.
What is the market for the device?
-Everyone who owns a TV, and those that may ever buy a TV.
Who then is the customer?
-Everyone who owns a TV?
What is ther Engineers job?
-To make an interface that Everyone can use; not just the people who read manuals. The easier the better. If we don't do it the competition will. If the competition does it first we may not survive.
So it is the engineers job to create the interface. If the Engineer doesn't make an interface that allows the user to say "tape star trek at 9:00" and the TiVo can't say "All good things on channel 59? or Farpoint on channel 60?" then the engineer has failed; the customer can't fail they are paying.
It's been said in a roundabout way a few times here, but you wanted to know why users dont actually download your software there are a couple reasons.
People give false email addresses so they won't be hounded, without the username and password they can't download
People don't wan't to wait two hours for a username, if they don't get the information within 10 minutes, they find something else that does the same job
That's why not all your registrations are downloaded.
Astrogen
The fact is I don't mind "tech" oriented banner advertising.. but mixing things in with stories is an awful idea; I mean even the National Enquirer doesn't mix advertisements in looking like stories.
So if I subscribe do I have to read the crap, and if I subscribe, how much further is Slashdot going to sell out?
Your question about a snowball effect can be answered with a simple no.
Really.. the our day could be 28 hours long, (hence our attempts at colonizing other planets) and it would make a very subtle difference.
Sure we would lose a couple million species of plants, and animals, but we would end up gaining those species back, as other life evolves in the new conditions... long term temperature changes would simply adjust.. we would have warmer days, and COLDER nights (as the planet would be away from the sun longer during the night).
The difference is probably something in the range of the difference in temperature between south Dakota (U.S.A) and Manitoba (Canada). A few degrees here, and there.. but people live in both places happily.
I don't think that there is any selling out going on here. There is a difference between globalization and communism.
The fact that people are selling the software to China and elsewhere is proof that globalization is occuring, we are all seeing each other as neighbors, and business partners now. That means if I don't sell them my software someone else will.
It is not up to us to judge our neighbors, we may or may not like how they do things, we may even use other methods to try to "encourage" them to change but Im not going to let my competitor sell them my legitimate product because I disagree with how they use it; thats up to their government.
Business is business, and business in a global economy as in any "free enterprise" economy means you supply the consumer what they want, because if you don't someone else will. This does not mean that business is relieved of any moral obligations; however in this case the businesses are not supplying weapons to terrorists; the business is merely respecting the governments attempts to "protect" (and yes I agree its not the best way to protect) their citizens from outside influences. But what China is doing is not really that much worse than what Australia has been doing in recent years.
Globalism: The process of changing peoples perceptions of thier identity from being a member of a unique group which is not "Earthling" to that of being an "Earthling".
As geeky as it sounds this definition is not far from the truth; though Im certain someone could enhance the definition to be less geeky.
Currently people see themselves as Americans, Canadians, Muslims, Christians, or any number of groups.
Globalism is the process of changing those perceptions of one's identity. Currently someone working in Brandon, Manitoba Canada who owns a business might see themselves as a community business person ("Brandonite"), or maybe if they are a bigger company they are "Manitoban", or even larger they are "Canadian".
When the Internet came along alot of these perceptions began to change; many of the people who saw themselves as one of these groups began to be able to do business with people around the world. They began to be global businesses, not just Canadian businesses, or Manitoban, or even Brandon Businesses. This is an example of Economic Globalism.
Globalism, isn't however limited to economic concerns, it is spreads into all areas of life. When people no longer seperate themselves based on criteria other than being a member of this planet; when the entire world see's everybody else as neighbors; then we will have achieved globalism.
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I have some early versions of a dice rolling game I made in the late 80's. Never been seen before.
The game crashes in certain circumstances, but it isn't documented exactly why.
The bidding starts at $1000.
I work in an environment where re-imaging and deleting is not an option. Often my work actually images an employees computer for backup purposes when they leave the company, in case any work specific files are left lying around.
I think the question here is, how can you nuke as much "private" stuff as possible, keeping the OS and possibly work files intact.
-Benjamin J. Judson
(I don't have a witty sig)
I'm getting a story not found at the link. Anyone got another link?
- Rewinding when I miss part of my show.
- Pausing while I'm on the phone or otherwise occupied.
- Saving a show I have already watched to watch later.
Because I tend to watch in real time I can't skip past commercials that are on even if they really suck. If something is on when I would otherwise miss the show I do skip commercials though I forget to do so often, and sometimes I see a commercial that makes me laugh and I watch it. But in this regard the DVR is no different than a VCR so why is it such a big deal now? I think most people are the same way.While I do believe they should initiate an effort to update the standard, if they view it as a security threat or a spam vector they are entirely right in shutting down the service.
If a RFC said all boxes should have a port that users could telnet into with root access, and people start abusing that would you leave it and wait for the standard to change?
And when either all seeds are pollinated this way, or every manufacturer uses Terminator seeds, and a catastrophic event occurs that nearly wipes out mankind; what will we use to grow food after the nuclear winter?
They ought to move them to Brandon, MB Canada. (1 hour from the US Border). They have an abundance of Cheap Electricity and it doesn't cost much to Keep your office cool most of the year.
The biggest advantage in my mind is control of what is sent to you, and who you download from, and when.
Spammers would be forced into using Servers on static IP addresses that could be tracked and confirmed and thereby controlled.
ISP's could use a variety of means to control the spammers including speed limits, and spam bonds for businesses that have valid reasons to exceed speed limits. (I don't necessarily endorse this method; but it jumps quickly to mind).
Spammers change ISP's to avoid IP blocking and as soon as the message is sent it is too late. The ISP gets hundreds or thousands of bounces, but the messages are sent. This would give the ISP time to stop the message by disallowing any further downloads of the message.
Once a message is identified as spam, (either by the ISP spam checking before sending, or a user on the recipient end marking it as spam) that message (message id, hash), or that server (id, or ip address) could be blocked for the thousands of other victims, either by the ISP blocking further downloading, or the servers checking blacklist servers.
Although the spammer might realize that his message was downloaded once per recipient server they will not necessarily know that any one read the email.
Alot of these methods have been used in existing Anti-Spam methods.
IP and user Blacklisting - but this method allows for greater control of ISP's that control their spam. This also limits dial up spam, and controls spoofed IP Addresses because of the call back feature.
Whitelisting: this give absolute control. The message is not even delivered if your not on the whitelist.
Message hash profiling is already done. But this method combines the hash with a confirmed server.
SPF etc - The ISP server would vouch for the user, or the server would be blacklisted.
Additionally less bandwidth, and less server resources are used because the whole message is not being sent to all the people that ignore the messages; even valid mail in multiple formats like text, and html are not downloaded in both formats, only the format required.
This approach would allow the user to control whether the attachments, or html, or graphics are downloaded.
> And all we have to do is completely redesign the entire e-mail system to do it. I bet you'll have no problem convincing everyone to jump on board.
I believe the post that I was answering specifically suggested a complete rebuild. This is what I addressing. And compatibility could worked in so messages stored on the server could be SMTP'ed if the recipients server was not compatible.
> I really look forward to getting 404 errors with individual mail messages, and depending on 58,7124 different mail servers to get each message through to me as I click on it instead of just one that can be failed over if it falls over.
404 huh? According to you Internet Explorer is a MUA is it? With a web based approach the server would need to get the mail for you (minus java approaches etc) you certainly wouldn't be getting 404 erros. The point being you could establish content rules before you even recieved the message!
Your server could get only the messages with the word VIAGRA in them just like you like to get.
The server working in the background to selectively retrieve the messages for you is barely different than a server working in the background to send the messages for you! The only difference other than direction is that the sender can only send to their own server, and the recipient has control over which mail to retrieve and store on their servers!
-Astrogen
I have an idea on rebuilding email. I have designed a couple of prototypes, but haven't really had the time to flesh them out as I would like.
I think we are at the point bandwidth wise where we can flip email upside down and let the senders server hold the email, and simply notify the recipients server that there is an email waiting for it.
My prototypes called this BMAIL.
Email would be sent from the Mail User Agent (MUA) as it is currently sent. Specifically to an ISP server, which currently then sends it using SMTP to the recipients server.
But now instead of sending the message to the recipients server, the ISPs server would send a message to the recipients server indicating that a message was waiting for them on the senders server, and giving basic information like subject, date sent, expiry date, and a unique 1 off user name and password to retrieve the message.
The recipeints server could then be configured to either:
1. automatically retrieve the message for the user;
2. retrieve part of the message. (like minus the attachments or first 20k)
3. check a database to see if the sender or server are approved for retrieval.
4. do nothing.
5. Wait until the user checks his messages, and pass the notification of mail waiting on the senders server to the users MUA to handle.
This would mean the server sending the mail would be stuck holding the useless mail. These servers could be blacklisted either on a server by server basis or by some blacklist service quite quickly.
If a user did not retrieve a message within a certain period of time the sending server could expire the message releasing resources.
If the sender wanted a message recieved receipt they could get one.
If the sender wanted the message (an offer perhaps to expire) they could do it.
This method gives both sender, and recipient the flexibility they require to manage their communications as if you were present.
Email was modelled after SNAIL MAIL. We don't need to model this type of communication in the same way as it was designed hundreds of years ago!
-Astrogen
First off. There is an inner conflict with Anakin while he is Darth Vader. It is what eventually allows him to come back to the goodside.
Anakin's motive is love. He is excited about his wife, and child.
Why then is he able to slaughter younglings. Seems to me the snap was just too sudden, from turning over the emperor, to killing younglings in a couple of hours.
If his motivation is Padme how could he even choke her at all nevermind the 30 seconds that he does?
Why do the other Jedi not sense the disturance in the force? Why only Yoda?
Why does Yoda see it black and white? Why must he go into exile because he failed?
Does Revenge of the sith fill in the gaps? Yes. Does it lead nicely to Episode 4? Yes. Does it contradict the true story from episodes 4,5,6 ? Yes.
Some of you have wondered what do you need with more than a memory tester, and a disk surface scan?
Have you never encountered PC's that have perfectly working hard drives, and memory, but the machine keeps crashing?
I've had a few, among the culprits a microfracture on the motherboard, a PCI slot that was sending the wrong data, corrupt video memory, a corrupt bios etc.
If I could put a disk into the machine and find out a few hours later exactly what the problem is that would be great.
I've been doing this for a while and I have my instincts, 99% of the time they are right, but when it's I figure out its not problem A like I figured it would be, I know its b, c, d, or e; that doesn't save me the 2 days of troubleshooting.
Anywho - finding a good diagnostic tool, software or hardware that could help deduce this stuff without my constant attention would be great.
Okay heres the deal.
I currently work in Canada, and am moving to the states. The simple fact is that the Canadian dollar used to be worth more than the US dollar, over the past 20 years the Canadian dollar has fallen.
What does this matter?
Simple.
Because the dollar is lower, the labour costs are lower in Canada, but in both places I get paid the same.
If the Canadian dollar rebounds (which it has rallied lately not rebounded) than the pay in either place doesn't change.
Businesses also don't tend to take jobs to Canada because although they might save a few bucks for now because of the weaker currency the taxes are much higher for businesses.
-Astrogen
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=martyr
martyr ( P ) Pronunciation Key (märtr)
n.
One who chooses to suffer death rather than renounce religious principles.
One who makes great sacrifices or suffers much in order to further a belief, cause, or principle.
One who endures great suffering: a martyr to arthritis.
One who makes a great show of suffering in order to arouse sympathy.
There has been alot of press, and over the years you have been a hero, and a Martyr to thousands of geeks and hackers, in addition to phone phreaks and anti establishment movements.
In what light and or combination of these types do you see yourself now, is that different from how you were 20 years ago, and do you see yourself as a champion of these things in the future or do you intend to just mix back into society and get a "normal" life back (after your book of course)?
There is another issue as well. The issue of one person one vote.
In a zero knowledge world, whats the best they could do; set a cookie on your computer to stop you from voting again? How many votes would that allow everyone on this site to have?
Who would that make President?
You first have to consider who's job is it to create an interface that the customer is to use.
-The Engineer.
What is the market for the device?
-Everyone who owns a TV, and those that may ever buy a TV.
Who then is the customer?
-Everyone who owns a TV?
What is ther Engineers job?
-To make an interface that Everyone can use; not just the people who read manuals. The easier the better. If we don't do it the competition will. If the competition does it first we may not survive.
So it is the engineers job to create the interface. If the Engineer doesn't make an interface that allows the user to say "tape star trek at 9:00" and the TiVo can't say "All good things on channel 59? or Farpoint on channel 60?" then the engineer has failed; the customer can't fail they are paying.
-Ben
It's all part of a deal so they won't get audited.
- People give false email addresses so they won't be hounded, without the username and password they can't download
- People don't wan't to wait two hours for a username, if they don't get the information within 10 minutes, they find something else that does the same job
That's why not all your registrations are downloaded. AstrogenOkay, the story didn't say it so I have to ask...
If I subscribe do I still need to read this crap?
The fact is I don't mind "tech" oriented banner advertising.. but mixing things in with stories is an awful idea; I mean even the National Enquirer doesn't mix advertisements in looking like stories.
So if I subscribe do I have to read the crap, and if I subscribe, how much further is Slashdot going to sell out?
Astrogen
Your question about a snowball effect can be answered with a simple no.
Really.. the our day could be 28 hours long, (hence our attempts at colonizing other planets) and it would make a very subtle difference.
Sure we would lose a couple million species of plants, and animals, but we would end up gaining those species back, as other life evolves in the new conditions... long term temperature changes would simply adjust.. we would have warmer days, and COLDER nights (as the planet would be away from the sun longer during the night).
The difference is probably something in the range of the difference in temperature between south Dakota (U.S.A) and Manitoba (Canada). A few degrees here, and there.. but people live in both places happily.
I don't think that there is any selling out going on here. There is a difference between globalization and communism.
The fact that people are selling the software to China and elsewhere is proof that globalization is occuring, we are all seeing each other as neighbors, and business partners now. That means if I don't sell them my software someone else will.
It is not up to us to judge our neighbors, we may or may not like how they do things, we may even use other methods to try to "encourage" them to change but Im not going to let my competitor sell them my legitimate product because I disagree with how they use it; thats up to their government.
Business is business, and business in a global economy as in any "free enterprise" economy means you supply the consumer what they want, because if you don't someone else will. This does not mean that business is relieved of any moral obligations; however in this case the businesses are not supplying weapons to terrorists; the business is merely respecting the governments attempts to "protect" (and yes I agree its not the best way to protect) their citizens from outside influences. But what China is doing is not really that much worse than what Australia has been doing in recent years.
Globalism: The process of changing peoples perceptions of thier identity from being a member of a unique group which is not "Earthling" to that of being an "Earthling".
As geeky as it sounds this definition is not far from the truth; though Im certain someone could enhance the definition to be less geeky.
Currently people see themselves as Americans, Canadians, Muslims, Christians, or any number of groups.
Globalism is the process of changing those perceptions of one's identity. Currently someone working in Brandon, Manitoba Canada who owns a business might see themselves as a community business person ("Brandonite"), or maybe if they are a bigger company they are "Manitoban", or even larger they are "Canadian".
When the Internet came along alot of these perceptions began to change; many of the people who saw themselves as one of these groups began to be able to do business with people around the world. They began to be global businesses, not just Canadian businesses, or Manitoban, or even Brandon Businesses. This is an example of Economic Globalism.
Globalism, isn't however limited to economic concerns, it is spreads into all areas of life. When people no longer seperate themselves based on criteria other than being a member of this planet; when the entire world see's everybody else as neighbors; then we will have achieved globalism.