I agree 100%. I went through a bit of work to explain this to PCstats before I noticed that others on slashdot noticed the same thing I did. The information below may be redundant, but shows more detail.
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The article states:
"While there was a noticeable drop in temperature, it was not a huge one. From 2.4GHz to 800MHz, the temperature decreased by only 6.5 degrees Celsius. To put it another way, for a 66% drop in speed there was a 20% drop in temperature. This makes a bit more sense if you look at the numbers in terms of Voltage not speed; a 43% drop in voltage producing a 20% drop in heat seems more reasonable. The largest temperature drop occurred between 1.3V and 1.25V, where almost 1.6C of heat was shed."
Unless the computer and participants were in a frozen room (at 0 degrees celcius), their analogy is flawed. The amount of heat generated is directly preportional to the temperature INCREASE above the ambient temperature. Let's assume that the test occurred at "room temperature" (70F deg or 21C deg). The chart would look more like the one below:
The article should have stated:
"For a 66% drop in speed, there was a 53% drop in added temperature."
"a 43% drop in voltage produced a 53% drop in in heat seems more reasonable."
My observation from that data above:
"A drop of only 400MHz (17%) and 0.15V (11%) showed a significant drop in the amount of heat generated (25%)."
Anonymous posters have all the fun. To each their own.
Welcome to ISP email administration - Level 2
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Should You Trust MAPS?
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· Score: 5, Informative
It doesn't matter if it's MAPS, ORBS, SPEWS, Spamhaus, or even AOL; if you administer outbound email, you are likely to be affected by someone protecting their email systems from spam. It is usually not your fault, but if others don't normally get listed frequently, there has to be some reason (unresponsive upstream ISP, something one of your customers or users is doing, a preventable misunderstanding about mailing lists) that got you listed.
If one RBL service has too many false positives, ISPs usually stop using them. MAPS is still in business, so their false positive rate probably isn't absurdly high.
Here are some tips to help email administrators keep their email flowing:
1. Negotiate ahead of time to get your servers whitelisted or registered as a "good" server. This means setting up proper forward/reverse DNS, configuring SPF, possibly registering with one or more "bonded sender" programs, looking at the AOL postmaster FAQ and getting into their whitelist system, etc.
2. Lease yourself a shared or dedicated server (think $25/mo -$60/mo) at another colocation facility that you can use to configure to be a mail relay for your primary mail servers. If delivery fails enough from your primary server, it should requeue the message to go out via your relay, perhaps after you've diagnosed the cause of the blocking complaint.
3. Setup test scripts to periodically poll major DNS RBLs for the status of your IP address and alert you when you're listed. (Perhaps tie this in to automatically activate your relay server in #2).
4. Ask your ISP what their spam policies are and assess your risk to getting mixed up in their other customers' problems. If they aren't vehemently anti-SPAM themselves, consider another provider for your outbound mail. By "vehemently", I mean: They have their own enformcement policies and 24-hour contact escallation policies with each customer, and will shut down customers that are not responsive to handling complaints.
5. If you manage mailing lists, make sure each and every message at the bottom has a link to the proof about how the recipient opted in for the message. (PS: Stop using email to distribute content! It's so, like, 20th-century. If your content is any good, they'll access it regularly via the web or RSS it into their portal.)
-ez
(Disclaimer: I'm the the inventor of DNS RBL. Your misery is partly my fault. Mua ha ha ha.)
Karma: Whore (you look at your score after posting)
A reason that Apple and Sun can support their base products so well is because they limit what hardware components they use and support in their platforms and therefore limit the hardware that the operating systems have to support. The price might go up, but the ability for the hardware to "just plain work" are much better.
This is not true in the PC world where manufacturers of motherboards, bus adapters, networking, and peripharals don't have to support anything but Microsoft compatability. Microsoft defines the compatability, not Intel, not AMD, and Microsoft will be very happy to give the vendors shortcuts (firmware modifications, OS middleware) to help Microsoft software drive their products (printers, winmodems, networking cards, etc.). If the Windows driver compensates for buggy hardware, or the hardware compensates for Windows bugs, the open source OS platforms are worse off and are less likely to support the products.
So, if you go the PC route, just plain beware the incompatabilities of all of the components. A few companies provide value-add by integrating systems with open source operating systems (laptops, servers, storage) so that their customers will know it works. If you're just starting out, you're way behind. To catch up, check the compatability lists of each OS you plan to support and pick products that work with all of the operating systems you want to support.
Who needs computers anyway? Soon enough, the whole world will just be a virtual session into the Google server farms.
-ez
Karma (whore) - you look at your score after posting
When I was young (early 80s), I was poor enough that my single working mom couldn't afford to buy me a computer or video game console (Atari and Coleco were what the trendy kids had). I still had an interest and went to the libraries to read books on BASIC programming. My favorite book was some insider's guide to the Commodore 64 where they taught you Peeks and Pokes and interrupts. I could figure out all the things I could do with that computer other than just stick a cartridge in it to play a game. I had other friends with C64s, and used their computers at their house to try things, from moving graphics to playing with the sound chips. Their amazement was my geek pride. I once borrowed a Timex Sinclair from someone and entered some games from a library book. When I got to high school, they had original IBM PCs in a lab, and the back room had the "IBM Technical Reference Manual". Talk about open source! I could read the assembly code and comments for the IBM BIOS! I learned assembly without having an assembler to play with. After a summer working at a gift shop for $3.50 an hour, I earned $1500 and could buy my very own IBM PC. I upgraded the RAM to 640K for an additional $250, and bought Borland Turbo Pascal/C. I was elite! I could write anything! I made a simple CAD program for a high school project.
Fast forward to college - they taught us an imaginary turing-complete Pascal-like language that no one practically used and made us do proofs and other tasks, mostly without the help of a computer. It wasn't fun, but it taught us to check our code. We'd read Knuth books, where most of the exercises were pseudo-code. We didn't just get on PCs and start coding.
Not having a computer in front of me made me THINK more about what I was going to do and how I was going to do it. As I later started programming tasks, I found that aside from typos caught by the compiler, my code normally worked the first time.
Moral: You don't need a computer to learn to be a coder.
PS: For those older than me... yes, I've heard the horror stories about having to rerun punch card decks. I don't envy having to punch all of my cards before I had a chance to run my code.
One expensive route is going to the local book store and just getting your items on tape. you've probably gone you yor local books store and have been frustrated by either the selection or price.
I've found that my local public library has a great selection of fiction, and it's virtually free. Recently I listened to a Clive Cussler book. It's just a little geeky with some action, adventure and women thrown in. Dune audio books will get you all the way across the country. I just enjoyed Dune House Atreides (which was 6 tapes)! I had much fun with the very large selection of Star Wars audio books (not the real episodes, but all of the in-between stories). If you ever fdo buy an audio book, don't let it sit in a box somewhere. Donate it to your local library so that others can enjoy it!
A good source for digital content may be Audible.com. For example, I just noticed they have all of the books from my favorite Ender Wiggins series by Orson Scott Card. If they have all of those books on MP3, I can imagine what else they'd have. For a tech geek, try a one-year subscription to "Technology Review"! You'd download them to your PC and then transfer them to your MP3 player or iPod or whatever and broadcast to your stereo as long as the batteries last (buy rechargable batteries!).
Some (like me) haven't made the bold leap into the 21st century and still have a stereo/tape player as their primary audio device in their car. I recently found a PC-to-tape device being advertised and reviewed. It looks great, but I don't have such a disposable income that'd warrant such luxury. I'll probably jury-rig some software to connect a cheap wireless Linux PC around my house to my stereo and record that way.
One can replace the noise pollution of a gas engine with annoying cell phone ring tones or loud music.
For sound purists, there's an obvious (don't try to patent this!) method of taking a motorcycle sound and matching it to the throttle and rpm speeds of the cycle.
How many people have actually followed the series on TV? How many of those would go to the movie? It's far less than any Star Trek franchise, so it won't happen.
I suspect only two good possibilities can come out of B5...
1. The SciFi channel buys the rights to air whole series, runs it, and then produces an original movie or mini-series to finish it off. 2. The producers/writers for the movie just make a book based on the plot of the movie. Doing so leaves the characters and the special effects to the imagination of the reader (much like the Star Wars books), and won't cost alot of money to produce. If we're lucky, perhaps they'll make an audio tape with some sound effects and dialog from the TV cast members.
While he's wondefully wealthy and can afford to buy one just for the sake of having one, Arnold was at least showing some leadership recently when he bought a GMC Hummer "H2H" converted to run on hydrogen rather than fuel. Just look for "Hydrogen Hummer Governor Arnold" at news.google.com or your favorite news outlet. Here's one article.
The gas station to fill his ride is at LAX airport. How that would help the Governator working in Sacramento is beyond me. Who wants to go to LAX every time you need to fill up? and how many miles can a big beefy Hummer go before it needs a refill? The Chino multi-station pilot test at least seems more practical.
Speaking of practical, just how practical is hydrogen going to be, anyway? Unless there is a huge improvement in the abundance of energy needed to seperate hydrogen atoms from water (or methane or other sources), other methods like bio-diesel or just plain electric are going to be more pratical ways to reduce US dependence on oil. If we somehow are able to implement pebble-nuke plants like the Chinese are doing, hydrogen processing might become more cost-effective.
Thanks for the resource pointing to a bunch of useful URLs, but no thanks.
If I look at some of the URLs from the same IP address, I suspect I'd trigger the monitoring system used by Homeland Security to find people who want to make such a device. Ring, ring, my lame not-privacy-protecting ISP gets a call from the FBI or Secret Service asking for my personal information based on the IP adddress and time of my access, and next thing I know, I have an FBI file and can't board a plane.
At the Linux Desktop Summit on Feb 10th, former MP3.com CEO and Lindows^H^H^H^Hspire founder Michael Robertson unveiled and demonstrated his new companies and products, MPtunes and the MP3beamer. During the demo, he took a Lindows PC running MP3beamer and went to MP3tunes.com to download an indie album into his Lsongs product (think iTunes for Linspire). He then inserted a CD, and it immediately started ripping those songs into Lsongs. He then used the MP3beamer software to setup a radio station to which a Windows PC on the network could listen and played the songs he downloaded. He then exported those songs from iTunes on the Windows PC to his iPod. He then has a Wireless Linksys MP3 radio tune in to the network and also play the same songs. He then had a (beautiful?) assistant walk down the isles of teh audience with his Verizon Wireless PocketPC phone playing the same songs.
The demo was a great demonstration TODAY (not just plans) of the possibilities of integration between online music services, MP3 software, phones, and consumer products. The gui-based integration of everything with Lindows 5.0 was excellent (they showed the beta to be released very soon).
The best price will not be found on Dell's web site. Any business customer that gets assigned a dedicated sales rep will always have the opportunity to haggle with the rep about the final price. I've seen additional discounts of 20% or more off Web "small business" pricing when ordering systems. I have a Fortune-500 IT friend who is amazed at how cheap he can order desktops from Dell.
I believe there are also Dell resellers on eBay that will sell you some items at a reduced price. I suspect these are inventory overstocks.
Now that we're getting closer to 5%, you can bust out your 20-sided dies and start rolling. For the comet-paranoid, here's a movie rental that will put you at ease: Wet Hot American Summer.
I'm surprised that the article didn't mention Menehune which are "little gods" that frequent Hawaiian and Polynesian folklore and mythology. When the settlers of the Pacific Islands were traveling around settling different islands thousands of years ago, they learned from little natives that seems gifted in surviving on the islands.
Watching TechTV on Saturdays got me hooked on The ThunderBirds, and the same reportedly inspired Parker/Stone to make this flick. It looks just as fun, if not more so, than the original.
With businesses able to host their own messaging servers behind the firewall and use it with Apple's included IM client, will this effect Jabber's overall share of the IM market?
You assume that ther are enough "mac" computers in business to affect market share? Some companies are hip enough to use Macs in business. Many many many are not.
If MozillaFireFoxBird had built-in support for Jabber instead of having to download a special client, Jabber might find its way into more homes and businesses. Like the US economy, Mozilla is starting to gain some traction.
This may sound blatantly naive, but given that SlashDot is a relatively open forum, why is it that we see hardly any spam at all in the SlashDot forums? Compared to virus-writing, it seems to be a trivial task to write a spambot that posts "Anonymous Coward" messages or even signs up real accounts before posting to forums.
Granted, we have trolls, offtopics, and flamebaits, but I have never seen anything close to what typical spam looks like when moderating and reading "flat" at level 0.
Dmail isn't doing anything new. If SlashDot were a Usenet group, it'd be spammed just like the rest of the groups. If everyone had a different method of contacting them, it'd be too hard a problem for spammers to reach everyone.
TCP connections in TIME_WAIT2 state (connection closed) waiting for the 2MSL timeout maintain only a minimal set of necessary information instead of a full blown TCP control block. This saves about 80% memory per connection in that state. Especially for HTTP servers this give a far better kernel memory resource usage and a higher number of concurrent connections that can be served within a short time frame ("Slashdot effect").
... so now your old Pentium Pro 200MHz machine sitting in the garage can keep up with a slashdotting.
Back in 1998, Hotmail was blocking all greeting card e-mail from Blue Mountain Arts to their users while allowing greeting cards from their own service. Microsoft was sued (article search). Microsoft lost.
If Microsoft gets sued again, the winner should get an award multiplier for Microsoft being a second-time (3-time? 10-time?) offender.
Slashdot Mirror
To use MSN's IM, you need a MSN/Hotmail account.
To send email to MSN/Hotmail users, people will get a Hotmail account.
Getting more people to subscribe to MSN/Hotmail accounts could be the real effect of their planned change.
0 8 20 6 * /usr/bin/Mail -s "Do not forget your anniversary this year." my-pager@my-domain.com < /dev/null
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The article states:
Unless the computer and participants were in a frozen room (at 0 degrees celcius), their analogy is flawed. The amount of heat generated is directly preportional to the temperature INCREASE above the ambient temperature. Let's assume that the test occurred at "room temperature" (70F deg or 21C deg). The chart would look more like the one below:The article should have stated:
"For a 66% drop in speed, there was a 53% drop in added temperature."
"a 43% drop in voltage produced a 53% drop in in heat seems more reasonable."
My observation from that data above:
"A drop of only 400MHz (17%) and 0.15V (11%) showed a significant drop in the amount of heat generated (25%)."
Anonymous posters have all the fun.
To each their own.
It doesn't matter if it's MAPS, ORBS, SPEWS, Spamhaus, or even AOL; if you administer outbound email, you are likely to be affected by someone protecting their email systems from spam. It is usually not your fault, but if others don't normally get listed frequently, there has to be some reason (unresponsive upstream ISP, something one of your customers or users is doing, a preventable misunderstanding about mailing lists) that got you listed.
If one RBL service has too many false positives, ISPs usually stop using them. MAPS is still in business, so their false positive rate probably isn't absurdly high.
Here are some tips to help email administrators keep their email flowing:
1. Negotiate ahead of time to get your servers whitelisted or registered as a "good" server. This means setting up proper forward/reverse DNS, configuring SPF, possibly registering with one or more "bonded sender" programs, looking at the AOL postmaster FAQ and getting into their whitelist system, etc.
2. Lease yourself a shared or dedicated server (think $25/mo -$60/mo) at another colocation facility that you can use to configure to be a mail relay for your primary mail servers. If delivery fails enough from your primary server, it should requeue the message to go out via your relay, perhaps after you've diagnosed the cause of the blocking complaint.
3. Setup test scripts to periodically poll major DNS RBLs for the status of your IP address and alert you when you're listed. (Perhaps tie this in to automatically activate your relay server in #2).
4. Ask your ISP what their spam policies are and assess your risk to getting mixed up in their other customers' problems. If they aren't vehemently anti-SPAM themselves, consider another provider for your outbound mail. By "vehemently", I mean: They have their own enformcement policies and 24-hour contact escallation policies with each customer, and will shut down customers that are not responsive to handling complaints.
5. If you manage mailing lists, make sure each and every message at the bottom has a link to the proof about how the recipient opted in for the message. (PS: Stop using email to distribute content! It's so, like, 20th-century. If your content is any good, they'll access it regularly via the web or RSS it into their portal.)
-ez
(Disclaimer: I'm the the inventor of DNS RBL. Your misery is partly my fault. Mua ha ha ha.)
Karma: Whore (you look at your score after posting)
A reason that Apple and Sun can support their base products so well is because they limit what hardware components they use and support in their platforms and therefore limit the hardware that the operating systems have to support. The price might go up, but the ability for the hardware to "just plain work" are much better.
This is not true in the PC world where manufacturers of motherboards, bus adapters, networking, and peripharals don't have to support anything but Microsoft compatability. Microsoft defines the compatability, not Intel, not AMD, and Microsoft will be very happy to give the vendors shortcuts (firmware modifications, OS middleware) to help Microsoft software drive their products (printers, winmodems, networking cards, etc.). If the Windows driver compensates for buggy hardware, or the hardware compensates for Windows bugs, the open source OS platforms are worse off and are less likely to support the products.
So, if you go the PC route, just plain beware the incompatabilities of all of the components. A few companies provide value-add by integrating systems with open source operating systems (laptops, servers, storage) so that their customers will know it works. If you're just starting out, you're way behind. To catch up, check the compatability lists of each OS you plan to support and pick products that work with all of the operating systems you want to support.
Who needs computers anyway? Soon enough, the whole world will just be a virtual session into the Google server farms.
-ez
Karma (whore) - you look at your score after posting
When I was young (early 80s), I was poor enough that my single working mom couldn't afford to buy me a computer or video game console (Atari and Coleco were what the trendy kids had). I still had an interest and went to the libraries to read books on BASIC programming. My favorite book was some insider's guide to the Commodore 64 where they taught you Peeks and Pokes and interrupts. I could figure out all the things I could do with that computer other than just stick a cartridge in it to play a game. I had other friends with C64s, and used their computers at their house to try things, from moving graphics to playing with the sound chips. Their amazement was my geek pride. I once borrowed a Timex Sinclair from someone and entered some games from a library book. When I got to high school, they had original IBM PCs in a lab, and the back room had the "IBM Technical Reference Manual". Talk about open source! I could read the assembly code and comments for the IBM BIOS! I learned assembly without having an assembler to play with. After a summer working at a gift shop for $3.50 an hour, I earned $1500 and could buy my very own IBM PC. I upgraded the RAM to 640K for an additional $250, and bought Borland Turbo Pascal/C. I was elite! I could write anything! I made a simple CAD program for a high school project.
Fast forward to college - they taught us an imaginary turing-complete Pascal-like language that no one practically used and made us do proofs and other tasks, mostly without the help of a computer. It wasn't fun, but it taught us to check our code. We'd read Knuth books, where most of the exercises were pseudo-code. We didn't just get on PCs and start coding.
Not having a computer in front of me made me THINK more about what I was going to do and how I was going to do it. As I later started programming tasks, I found that aside from typos caught by the compiler, my code normally worked the first time.
Moral: You don't need a computer to learn to be a coder.
PS: For those older than me... yes, I've heard the horror stories about having to rerun punch card decks. I don't envy having to punch all of my cards before I had a chance to run my code.
One expensive route is going to the local book store and just getting your items on tape. you've probably gone you yor local books store and have been frustrated by either the selection or price.
I've found that my local public library has a great selection of fiction, and it's virtually free. Recently I listened to a Clive Cussler book. It's just a little geeky with some action, adventure and women thrown in. Dune audio books will get you all the way across the country. I just enjoyed Dune House Atreides (which was 6 tapes)! I had much fun with the very large selection of Star Wars audio books (not the real episodes, but all of the in-between stories). If you ever fdo buy an audio book, don't let it sit in a box somewhere. Donate it to your local library so that others can enjoy it!
A good source for digital content may be Audible.com. For example, I just noticed they have all of the books from my favorite Ender Wiggins series by Orson Scott Card. If they have all of those books on MP3, I can imagine what else they'd have. For a tech geek, try a one-year subscription to "Technology Review"! You'd download them to your PC and then transfer them to your MP3 player or iPod or whatever and broadcast to your stereo as long as the batteries last (buy rechargable batteries!).
Some (like me) haven't made the bold leap into the 21st century and still have a stereo/tape player as their primary audio device in their car. I recently found a PC-to-tape device being advertised and reviewed. It looks great, but I don't have such a disposable income that'd warrant such luxury. I'll probably jury-rig some software to connect a cheap wireless Linux PC around my house to my stereo and record that way.
-ez
One can replace the noise pollution of a gas engine with annoying cell phone ring tones or loud music.
For sound purists, there's an obvious (don't try to patent this!) method of taking a motorcycle sound and matching it to the throttle and rpm speeds of the cycle.
Play me
How many people have actually followed the series on TV? How many of those would go to the movie? It's far less than any Star Trek franchise, so it won't happen.
I suspect only two good possibilities can come out of B5...
1. The SciFi channel buys the rights to air whole series, runs it, and then produces an original movie or mini-series to finish it off.
2. The producers/writers for the movie just make a book based on the plot of the movie. Doing so leaves the characters and the special effects to the imagination of the reader (much like the Star Wars books), and won't cost alot of money to produce. If we're lucky, perhaps they'll make an audio tape with some sound effects and dialog from the TV cast members.
-ez
While he's wondefully wealthy and can afford to buy one just for the sake of having one, Arnold was at least showing some leadership recently when he bought a GMC Hummer "H2H" converted to run on hydrogen rather than fuel. Just look for "Hydrogen Hummer Governor Arnold" at news.google.com or your favorite news outlet. Here's one article.
The gas station to fill his ride is at LAX airport. How that would help the Governator working in Sacramento is beyond me. Who wants to go to LAX every time you need to fill up? and how many miles can a big beefy Hummer go before it needs a refill? The Chino multi-station pilot test at least seems more practical.
Speaking of practical, just how practical is hydrogen going to be, anyway? Unless there is a huge improvement in the abundance of energy needed to seperate hydrogen atoms from water (or methane or other sources), other methods like bio-diesel or just plain electric are going to be more pratical ways to reduce US dependence on oil. If we somehow are able to implement pebble-nuke plants like the Chinese are doing, hydrogen processing might become more cost-effective.
Thanks for the resource pointing to a bunch of useful URLs, but no thanks.
If I look at some of the URLs from the same IP address, I suspect I'd trigger the monitoring system used by Homeland Security to find people who want to make such a device. Ring, ring, my lame not-privacy-protecting ISP gets a call from the FBI or Secret Service asking for my personal information based on the IP adddress and time of my access, and next thing I know, I have an FBI file and can't board a plane.
Color me paranoid.
-ez
The demo was a great demonstration TODAY (not just plans) of the possibilities of integration between online music services, MP3 software, phones, and consumer products. The gui-based integration of everything with Lindows 5.0 was excellent (they showed the beta to be released very soon).
Links:
Disclosure: I have no affiliation with the companies, just thought as an audience member that it was a cool demo.
The best price will not be found on Dell's web site. Any business customer that gets assigned a dedicated sales rep will always have the opportunity to haggle with the rep about the final price. I've seen additional discounts of 20% or more off Web "small business" pricing when ordering systems. I have a Fortune-500 IT friend who is amazed at how cheap he can order desktops from Dell.
I believe there are also Dell resellers on eBay that will sell you some items at a reduced price. I suspect these are inventory overstocks.
Now that we're getting closer to 5%, you can bust out your 20-sided dies and start rolling. For the comet-paranoid, here's a movie rental that will put you at ease: Wet Hot American Summer.
... is the sincerest form of flattery.
I'm surprised that the article didn't mention Menehune which are "little gods" that frequent Hawaiian and Polynesian folklore and mythology. When the settlers of the Pacific Islands were traveling around settling different islands thousands of years ago, they learned from little natives that seems gifted in surviving on the islands.
I think Intel's least favorite simple equation is:
4195835.0 / 3145727.0 < 1.3338
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Watching TechTV on Saturdays got me hooked on The ThunderBirds, and the same reportedly inspired Parker/Stone to make this flick. It looks just as fun, if not more so, than the original.
Can't wait!
With businesses able to host their own messaging servers behind the firewall and use it with Apple's included IM client, will this effect Jabber's overall share of the IM market?
You assume that ther are enough "mac" computers in business to affect market share? Some companies are hip enough to use Macs in business. Many many many are not.
If MozillaFireFoxBird had built-in support for Jabber instead of having to download a special client, Jabber might find its way into more homes and businesses. Like the US economy, Mozilla is starting to gain some traction.
This may sound blatantly naive, but given that SlashDot is a relatively open forum, why is it that we see hardly any spam at all in the SlashDot forums? Compared to virus-writing, it seems to be a trivial task to write a spambot that posts "Anonymous Coward" messages or even signs up real accounts before posting to forums.
Granted, we have trolls, offtopics, and flamebaits, but I have never seen anything close to what typical spam looks like when moderating and reading "flat" at level 0.
D15cr337 V14gr4 4 U!
Dmail isn't doing anything new. If SlashDot were a Usenet group, it'd be spammed just like the rest of the groups. If everyone had a different method of contacting them, it'd be too hard a problem for spammers to reach everyone.
Seen in Slide 21 in the PDF file....
TCP connections in TIME_WAIT2 state (connection closed) waiting for the 2MSL timeout maintain only a minimal set of necessary information instead of a full blown TCP control block. This saves about 80% memory per connection in that state. Especially for HTTP servers this give a far better kernel memory resource usage and a higher number of concurrent connections that can be served within a short time frame ("Slashdot effect").
As soon as someone uses the word "rich" in a marketing description for a product or technology, it's doomed to fail to live up to expectations.
The product is a QNX success story, so it seems they reconsidered (thank goodness).
Back in 1998, Hotmail was blocking all greeting card e-mail from Blue Mountain Arts to their users while allowing greeting cards from their own service. Microsoft was sued (article search). Microsoft lost.
If Microsoft gets sued again, the winner should get an award multiplier for Microsoft being a second-time (3-time? 10-time?) offender.