I think that the MAPS people are in a very good position to help stop spam on the internet. However, what they have done is detrimental to their ability to continue - for me, while in the past I would have used them (I was about to start using them), I would have to think that again now...
I would propose that perhaps they should switch to having two or more lists, one which is just actual spammers, and the other(s) to allow people to fight against a specific cause - essentially, censorware, when you think about it - but upfront about it. A potential list would be spammers and people who support or are passive in reacting to (when brought to their attention) spam.
So please MAPS folks, you have a great service, but do your lobbying elsewhere! Its just not the right place to promote one's views, and it will tarnish your reputation a lot.
Now that a large company has been mesureably and obviously affected, I really hope they take legal action. I generally don't support legal action, but against spammers, well, there are exceptions... Same with DoS monkeys... erm, kiddies;).
if you have a shell on the school system, try putting a file called ".forward" in your home directory, with the address you want your mail forwarded to (assuming you want it all - you may need to put it to its own address with fancy filters and all that jazz).
I think what the bad idea reaction is that some people are starting to feel that linux (the kernel) is getting too bloated, and think it would be more beautiful if we were micro-kernel-ish... arguments for both sides, but essentially it all boils down to where we draw the line. Hmm, wonder what it would be like to have netscape in the kernel *cough*.
We already have a web server, an nfs server, and others in the kernel...
We do this for performance reasons - a user land program can't get anywhere near the same perf. as being in the kernel...
But honestly, programs don't belong in the kernel! (I'm not even going to touch upon the possibilities of a program in the kernel had a sploit...) Why don't we just improve the methods of user land programs communicating with the kernel so they can have performance as good asor so-similarily-it-dosen't matter as being right in the kernel? In the long run, wouldn't this be a better way to go?
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I don't do kernel coding, so please don't tell me to do it myself. You really don't want me touching your kernel anyway! Or perhaps its just not possible, but then how does the hurd have acceptable performance? or does it...
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I suspect that this is starting to change as there are more broadband users... audio on a 56k is just ugly.. (and fills the link completely). So with more broadband, its possible it could be more viable now.
In my area, it has already been decreaed that in 2003, they will switch to 10 digit dialing - at least they gave us some warning..
Something I honestly don't understand is why they aren't planning ahead a bit more, and doing a system where the number of digits after the area code (1 area code per area, please! one area code for every area in the world, and only one;) shouldn't be a fixed. When they run out in the 7 digit numbers, add a digit. When they run out in 8, add a digit! It lasts and lasts! (ok, it dosen't sort your mail). Honestly though, I don't see why we keep putting fixed amounts of digits on things we know will grow significantly in the not so long-term future, or even things where there is a chance of that happening. I have a similar rant about ipv6, but I'll save that for another day when I put out a specification;).
10 grand is pretty cheap to have your security tested by thousands of people.. plus, if they want the money, you need to give them an NDA, so basically, they improve their methods AND people don't find out how it was originally broken...
Take a look at SEUL (www.seul.org I believe).. That stand for Simple End User Linux.. I think they even have a distro which they have tried to make "easy". Seul-edu is a sub group they have which deals specifically with education, they have lists of resources and do some stuff themselves..
.au bandwidth is rather expensive because of how few users there are and how much it costs to get a link
building one link is expensive enough, but 2 when not needed is just not likely to happen, unless they need the bandwidth to sell it. because.au is probably a hard market to get into (upfront costs ++), its rather monopolistic.
therefore, as the only company around, they don't really need to be uber reliable, only decent. from their point of view, redundancy is probably only a cost which they can slash... capitalism strikes again
This really interests me and I was wondering how far they are expected to allow you to transmit for consumers? If I can do 15 kilometers with these things at a half decent price, I can see a very large market...
well, perhaps thats why they focused on the lower volume and clean air and not on that when they did a presentation a while ago... , truth in advertising !puke!
As someone else mentioned earlier, computer recycling is big business.
What I haven't seen mentioned is that other things recycled are big business too. The example that springs to my mind is an incinerator in my area. Municipalities pay to have their garbage incinerated (its done extremely cleanly - next to zero emissions - less then a car, you can't even tell its there when your right next to it) and the heat energy from burning is converted into electricity, and sold, and also partially sold as steam to run a factory near by. They make millions every year, some of which (not too much) goes to the French company that manages it, and the rest is enough to fund the recycling program in the area. Innovative!
At an annual fair they have here, I once tried (5 bucks for like 5-10 minutes) something sorta like this.. You put on a headset, and it moved the "perspective" of your game of doom/really close doom clone as you moved your head, you walked on the spot to move forward, and you pressed the triggers in your hands to shoot.. It was quite a system, and it looks like it is starting to approach home usability finally!
On closer inspection, the article states that the device isn't self powered, and powers itself from an electric field that the reading device produces - meaning that you have to be fairly close to read it/activate it - also don't forget that the transmitter can't have that high a capacity...
One pretty cool use that I can see (although there would be some issues if I had a wire mesh lined pocket - wire mesh blocks RF) would be stores where you just take all the things you want, put it in your pockets, and use your RF credit card to pay buy just walking through a gate. I think I'd want an activation button on my CC though, don't want to have people walking around with a reader picking up CC numbers... should be interesting.
I guess I'm just lucky to live in BC (Canada.. and NO, I don't live in an igloo damnit!:), we have fairly cheap power because its almost all hyrdo-electric damns.
something I'd like to note is that they probably won't be selling this thing cheaply.
Now, I don't know about most areas, but here, electricity is fairly cheap (I think its 7 cents a killowatt-hour or whatever). A parrallel I'd like to draw is a recent push in my area to insulate your house better to save on energy (they said it would be cheaper). But if you really looked at the numbers, it would be at least 40 years before it would have paid for itself... Don't forget that they pay big $$$ for 40 year loans...
If my electricity/gas bill is say, $350 a year, I really doubt that it will be worth it for me - there's the cost of a yearly checkup, the cost of fixing it if it breaks, the purchase cost, installation, etc. Not to mention that the gas price is not that stable here, but the electricity price is due to the plentiful supply of water for damns. Perhaps it indeed would be economical in many areas, but where I live, I don't think so.
has it occured to anyone but myself that the reason they did this (and I seem to recall them saying they'd target a specific individual within the next 12 months) to scare people?
Therefore, by/. posting this article, I believe that they are (unintentially) _helping_ the RIAA!!!:(
yes.. but TV is just where it starts... how long until it reaches books (oh wait, thats almost too late..).. how long until it reaches your computer.. (oh wait, its getting there already... )... how long until it reaches the chair you sit in?? (please insert quarter to use YOUR chair for another 5 minutes)
yes, but tell me this: do you sleep with an alarm clock or for that matter anything electronic next to your bed / in your room? if so, then its the same thing... (if that study is true)
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I think that the MAPS people are in a very good position to help stop spam on the internet. However, what they have done is detrimental to their ability to continue - for me, while in the past I would have used them (I was about to start using them), I would have to think that again now...
I would propose that perhaps they should switch to having two or more lists, one which is just actual spammers, and the other(s) to allow people to fight against a specific cause - essentially, censorware, when you think about it - but upfront about it. A potential list would be spammers and people who support or are passive in reacting to (when brought to their attention) spam.
So please MAPS folks, you have a great service, but do your lobbying elsewhere! Its just not the right place to promote one's views, and it will tarnish your reputation a lot.
OEM licenses only account for something like 10-15% of their profit... so that wouldn't be that big a loss for them
There is just one little piece of logic that I don't understand: why do you have an index of the WWW on a system which can't access the WWW?
Now that a large company has been mesureably and obviously affected, I really hope they take legal action. I generally don't support legal action, but against spammers, well, there are exceptions... Same with DoS monkeys... erm, kiddies ;).
if you have a shell on the school system, try putting a file called ".forward" in your home directory, with the address you want your mail forwarded to (assuming you want it all - you may need to put it to its own address with fancy filters and all that jazz).
I think what the bad idea reaction is that some people are starting to feel that linux (the kernel) is getting too bloated, and think it would be more beautiful if we were micro-kernel-ish... arguments for both sides, but essentially it all boils down to where we draw the line. Hmm, wonder what it would be like to have netscape in the kernel *cough*.
We already have a web server, an nfs server, and others in the kernel...
We do this for performance reasons - a user land program can't get anywhere near the same perf. as being in the kernel...
But honestly, programs don't belong in the kernel! (I'm not even going to touch upon the possibilities of a program in the kernel had a sploit...) Why don't we just improve the methods of user land programs communicating with the kernel so they can have performance as good asor so-similarily-it-dosen't matter as being right in the kernel? In the long run, wouldn't this be a better way to go?
P.S.
I don't do kernel coding, so please don't tell me to do it myself. You really don't want me touching your kernel anyway! Or perhaps its just not possible, but then how does the hurd have acceptable performance? or does it...
yes
I suspect that this is starting to change as there are more broadband users... audio on a 56k is just ugly.. (and fills the link completely). So with more broadband, its possible it could be more viable now.
In my area, it has already been decreaed that in 2003, they will switch to 10 digit dialing - at least they gave us some warning..
Something I honestly don't understand is why they aren't planning ahead a bit more, and doing a system where the number of digits after the area code (1 area code per area, please! one area code for every area in the world, and only one ;) shouldn't be a fixed. When they run out in the 7 digit numbers, add a digit. When they run out in 8, add a digit! It lasts and lasts! (ok, it dosen't sort your mail). Honestly though, I don't see why we keep putting fixed amounts of digits on things we know will grow significantly in the not so long-term future, or even things where there is a chance of that happening. I have a similar rant about ipv6, but I'll save that for another day when I put out a specification ;).
10 grand is pretty cheap to have your security tested by thousands of people.. plus, if they want the money, you need to give them an NDA, so basically, they improve their methods AND people don't find out how it was originally broken...
Take a look at SEUL (www.seul.org I believe).. That stand for Simple End User Linux.. I think they even have a distro which they have tried to make "easy". Seul-edu is a sub group they have which deals specifically with education, they have lists of resources and do some stuff themselves..
building one link is expensive enough, but 2 when not needed is just not likely to happen, unless they need the bandwidth to sell it. because .au is probably a hard market to get into (upfront costs ++), its rather monopolistic.
therefore, as the only company around, they don't really need to be uber reliable, only decent. from their point of view, redundancy is probably only a cost which they can slash... capitalism strikes again
This really interests me and I was wondering how far they are expected to allow you to transmit for consumers? If I can do 15 kilometers with these things at a half decent price, I can see a very large market...
the difference is that plex86 is more effecient since it uses a completely different method, doing things itself verusus passing it off to the chip...
well, perhaps thats why they focused on the lower volume and clean air and not on that when they did a presentation a while ago... , truth in advertising !puke!
As someone else mentioned earlier, computer recycling is big business.
What I haven't seen mentioned is that other things recycled are big business too. The example that springs to my mind is an incinerator in my area. Municipalities pay to have their garbage incinerated (its done extremely cleanly - next to zero emissions - less then a car, you can't even tell its there when your right next to it) and the heat energy from burning is converted into electricity, and sold, and also partially sold as steam to run a factory near by. They make millions every year, some of which (not too much) goes to the French company that manages it, and the rest is enough to fund the recycling program in the area. Innovative!
At an annual fair they have here, I once tried (5 bucks for like 5-10 minutes) something sorta like this.. You put on a headset, and it moved the "perspective" of your game of doom/really close doom clone as you moved your head, you walked on the spot to move forward, and you pressed the triggers in your hands to shoot.. It was quite a system, and it looks like it is starting to approach home usability finally!
On closer inspection, the article states that the device isn't self powered, and powers itself from an electric field that the reading device produces - meaning that you have to be fairly close to read it/activate it - also don't forget that the transmitter can't have that high a capacity... One pretty cool use that I can see (although there would be some issues if I had a wire mesh lined pocket - wire mesh blocks RF) would be stores where you just take all the things you want, put it in your pockets, and use your RF credit card to pay buy just walking through a gate. I think I'd want an activation button on my CC though, don't want to have people walking around with a reader picking up CC numbers... should be interesting.
I guess I'm just lucky to live in BC (Canada.. and NO, I don't live in an igloo damnit! :), we have fairly cheap power because its almost all hyrdo-electric damns.
Now, I don't know about most areas, but here, electricity is fairly cheap (I think its 7 cents a killowatt-hour or whatever). A parrallel I'd like to draw is a recent push in my area to insulate your house better to save on energy (they said it would be cheaper). But if you really looked at the numbers, it would be at least 40 years before it would have paid for itself... Don't forget that they pay big $$$ for 40 year loans...
If my electricity/gas bill is say, $350 a year, I really doubt that it will be worth it for me - there's the cost of a yearly checkup, the cost of fixing it if it breaks, the purchase cost, installation, etc. Not to mention that the gas price is not that stable here, but the electricity price is due to the plentiful supply of water for damns. Perhaps it indeed would be economical in many areas, but where I live, I don't think so.
has it occured to anyone but myself that the reason they did this (and I seem to recall them saying they'd target a specific individual within the next 12 months) to scare people?
Therefore, by /. posting this article, I believe that they are (unintentially) _helping_ the RIAA!!! :(
yes.. but TV is just where it starts... how long until it reaches books (oh wait, thats almost too late..).. how long until it reaches your computer.. (oh wait, its getting there already... )... how long until it reaches the chair you sit in?? (please insert quarter to use YOUR chair for another 5 minutes)
Ok, lets take a look at what happened with DVDs...
Product released which isn't what consumers want. Smart manufacturer ... avoids... some of the restrictions: product sells like wildfire...
If "hidden" features don't start getting built into the TVs, how long before someone creates an add-on (like a blackbox) which removes that signal...
Also, is the FCC restricting what this signal can be put into???
actually, you can watch DivX on linux using xmps. It was on slashdot a while ago (and yes, I tried it with one of my own movies).
yes, but tell me this: do you sleep with an alarm clock or for that matter anything electronic next to your bed / in your room? if so, then its the same thing... (if that study is true)