...And don't forget how heated things come when TFA is written by one of the famous Steves out there. What if the exact same words had been published without a.sig? Would so many comments say hypocrite? Would there be so many comments, to start with?
I manage mail for a fair number of domains, many of them more than 10 years old. I'm getting very good rejection rates with black lists. When combined with greylisting (which effectively gives time for new zombies to fall into the list before accepting mail from them), some RFC compliance checking and returnability, the rejection rates go very high indeed. The rest is usually catched by the end-user junk filters (I get an average of around ten spams a day in my junk inbox; not bad, considering that I have dozens of e-mail addresses, some of them in every spam "database" known to mankind)
The spam that finally gets through to my junk inbox therefore does not represent a typical pattern but, being the kind that gets through, it's perhaps worth mentioning that it belongs to one of these kinds:
The local kind, i.e., someone thinks it's a pretty neat idea to buy one of those databases to advertise their pizza business, the insurance they are an agent for, or their non-profit - yes, there are still people so naive out there. I call it the local kind because these are in local language and advertise local organizations.
The Nigeriam scam or similar scheme.
The Chinese agent/"manufacturer".
What allows these to sneak under the radar? They look quite legitimate because they are using some of: a reputable ISP's outbound MTAs, text-only or unsuspicious HTML,...
It's increasingly harder to tell them apart. And, to be practical, isn't it so minor a nuisance at those volume levels? I began battling spam, like everyone else, when it became a problem. Right now it no longer is a big one. When it becomes a problem again, we will see. Of course in the meantime the whole thing is constantly being tuned a bit here and there.
I hope, however, that lawmakers over the world come to their senses before the thing is back to the big problem category and allow prosecution of anybody who directly benefits from the spam (i.e., the spammers and the ones who sell the spamvertized thing). Until then, we will always be looking forward to that point where we have to re-invent the anti-spam measures once more...
That's probably why they're putting these protections in, more than anything else. Arse covering for their customers.;-)
I'd go one step further than that. I would think that they discovered a way to sell more, and they are simply doing it. If it fits with the company owner's moral convictions, all the best - they will do it better and sell more.
I should add as a disclaimer that I have been involved with ISPs for well over half of my professional life - currently I operate a small one - small wonder if I'm a bit biased!
This has been discussed ad nauseam, but like the guts of the Earth, it emerges as a volcano here or an earthquake there.
I have worked as a programmer. I can feel the pain of the companies who see the product of their hard work being used for free because some people think it's too expensive (some people wouldn't pay even a cent, but that's pricing). I can understand what they do: Anti-piracing measures. DRM is not new in a sense: Key disks, parallel port keys, code cards and other software protection methods have been with us almost as long as the PC.
But that is not the answer. Software protection is a nuisance for legitimate users and does not deter non-legitimate users. We have seen it even in company-critical software, like accounting or payroll; nevermind in games!
What is the solution, if you ask me? I lay no claim to the universal solution but for many software products, I even dare say most software, pricing is the key. Some people does, but the lower the price point, the less problems. I'm not willing to pay $50 or more for a game. Or $500 for a single-employee business accounting software. But I would happily pay (or wouldn't bother piracing if you will) something that costs say $9.99 and comes with Right Thing Satisfaction Guarantee (TM).
Maybe the pricing has been set so early in the spreadsheet that the suits won't change it no matter what. Or there are clever marketing guys that say that is the sweet spot. I don't know. I'd just bet a beer against them that they make more money at a lower price point. Same thing, incidentally, with music - but that's another story and must be told at some other time.
Apple probably doesn't care if they go on their own way and have a great success, say, making chips for controlling A/C units. But going to Google, whom they see as a big ship in collision course with them, can't end up in a happy "we're all friends" ending, can it?
Agreed. What should worry us is, how many fools are there? This is the same as asking, what is the potential market for the spammers? If it's small enough, the spammers - at least those who profit from foolishness- will go the same way as the scam artists: They still exist, but there are so few people that falls into a classic scam scheme these days that they are very few and have become something between criminals and a touristic attraction.
Sigh, I wish my unfinished OS/2 Warp installation on VMWare Fusion didn't hang so I could play a bit with it for nostalgia. To the credit of VMWare, that emulates perfectly what it used to do on more than one system.
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It ran useably with 4 megs, and it flew with 16. All versions.
I guess it works because the fly is scared of its large reflection in the bag when it comes close. It wouldn't work with opaque bags then, the demonstration of this is left as an exercise for the site occupants.
So this pretty much destroys copyright in Spain, right?
IANAL so please check with one, but it is my understanding from what a lawyer once told me that a key difference between the Spanish and the US legal systems is that the precedents set in court don't have nearly as much force in Spain as is in the US. In other words, next case will have to be fought all over again going back to reading the law.
If I understood the story correctly, it was the Romans who killed him for getting into politics in an age in which politics were a stinking and dangerous game. Not that things have changed much, come to think of it...
The sanest way to do it would be year-month-day, because then you could increase the precision of the time string to whatever you needed just by adding units to the right.
That's the way it is done in DNS zones, which is great. It's so great that even my petition ring has the date in that format. I believe the Japanese use it, but haven't bothered to research the fact.
Every time I read news like this, I can't help feeling that I'm so happy to live in a civilized country where guns can only be legally owned by security forces and very specific individuals for mighty good reasons.
What triggered my comment is your use of the word "disgrace". What I feel is a disgrace is that your country still lives mentally in the wild west. Don't get me wrong, I admire many things about your country guys, but I can't make any sense of your love of firearms.
You don't want idiots or criminals handling guns? Ban them for everyone. What about an individual's right to defend him/herself? Call the cops. It works very well for us.
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Does that everyone include Jar-Jar Binks?
...And don't forget how heated things come when TFA is written by one of the famous Steves out there. What if the exact same words had been published without a .sig? Would so many comments say hypocrite? Would there be so many comments, to start with?
I manage mail for a fair number of domains, many of them more than 10 years old. I'm getting very good rejection rates with black lists. When combined with greylisting (which effectively gives time for new zombies to fall into the list before accepting mail from them), some RFC compliance checking and returnability, the rejection rates go very high indeed. The rest is usually catched by the end-user junk filters (I get an average of around ten spams a day in my junk inbox; not bad, considering that I have dozens of e-mail addresses, some of them in every spam "database" known to mankind)
The spam that finally gets through to my junk inbox therefore does not represent a typical pattern but, being the kind that gets through, it's perhaps worth mentioning that it belongs to one of these kinds:
What allows these to sneak under the radar? They look quite legitimate because they are using some of: a reputable ISP's outbound MTAs, text-only or unsuspicious HTML,...
It's increasingly harder to tell them apart. And, to be practical, isn't it so minor a nuisance at those volume levels? I began battling spam, like everyone else, when it became a problem. Right now it no longer is a big one. When it becomes a problem again, we will see. Of course in the meantime the whole thing is constantly being tuned a bit here and there.
I hope, however, that lawmakers over the world come to their senses before the thing is back to the big problem category and allow prosecution of anybody who directly benefits from the spam (i.e., the spammers and the ones who sell the spamvertized thing). Until then, we will always be looking forward to that point where we have to re-invent the anti-spam measures once more...
Or most other civilized countries. Example: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/08/spanish_hacker_jailed/
That's probably why they're putting these protections in, more than anything else. Arse covering for their customers. ;-)
I'd go one step further than that. I would think that they discovered a way to sell more, and they are simply doing it. If it fits with the company owner's moral convictions, all the best - they will do it better and sell more.
I should add as a disclaimer that I have been involved with ISPs for well over half of my professional life - currently I operate a small one - small wonder if I'm a bit biased!
I'm sure it's not news to you, but EMC http://www.linuxcnc.org/ is quite capable and has all the advantages of the platform it runs on.
...If it becomes a priority. Yes, Simon Travaglia was right. That is the way.
This has been discussed ad nauseam, but like the guts of the Earth, it emerges as a volcano here or an earthquake there. I have worked as a programmer. I can feel the pain of the companies who see the product of their hard work being used for free because some people think it's too expensive (some people wouldn't pay even a cent, but that's pricing). I can understand what they do: Anti-piracing measures. DRM is not new in a sense: Key disks, parallel port keys, code cards and other software protection methods have been with us almost as long as the PC. But that is not the answer. Software protection is a nuisance for legitimate users and does not deter non-legitimate users. We have seen it even in company-critical software, like accounting or payroll; nevermind in games! What is the solution, if you ask me? I lay no claim to the universal solution but for many software products, I even dare say most software, pricing is the key. Some people does, but the lower the price point, the less problems. I'm not willing to pay $50 or more for a game. Or $500 for a single-employee business accounting software. But I would happily pay (or wouldn't bother piracing if you will) something that costs say $9.99 and comes with Right Thing Satisfaction Guarantee (TM). Maybe the pricing has been set so early in the spreadsheet that the suits won't change it no matter what. Or there are clever marketing guys that say that is the sweet spot. I don't know. I'd just bet a beer against them that they make more money at a lower price point. Same thing, incidentally, with music - but that's another story and must be told at some other time.
Why?
Apple probably doesn't care if they go on their own way and have a great success, say, making chips for controlling A/C units. But going to Google, whom they see as a big ship in collision course with them, can't end up in a happy "we're all friends" ending, can it?
I can feel a lawsuit coming...
there will always be fools who can't be educated.
Agreed. What should worry us is, how many fools are there? This is the same as asking, what is the potential market for the spammers? If it's small enough, the spammers - at least those who profit from foolishness- will go the same way as the scam artists: They still exist, but there are so few people that falls into a classic scam scheme these days that they are very few and have become something between criminals and a touristic attraction.
I think, but am too lazy to find references now to back it up, that OS/2 kernel was written in assembler.
Your sig suggests a promising career as a datacenter cool engineer
Sigh, I wish my unfinished OS/2 Warp installation on VMWare Fusion didn't hang so I could play a bit with it for nostalgia. To the credit of VMWare, that emulates perfectly what it used to do on more than one system.
It ran useably with 4 megs, and it flew with 16. All versions.
I guess it works because the fly is scared of its large reflection in the bag when it comes close. It wouldn't work with opaque bags then, the demonstration of this is left as an exercise for the site occupants.
So this pretty much destroys copyright in Spain, right?
IANAL so please check with one, but it is my understanding from what a lawyer once told me that a key difference between the Spanish and the US legal systems is that the precedents set in court don't have nearly as much force in Spain as is in the US. In other words, next case will have to be fought all over again going back to reading the law.
If I understood the story correctly, it was the Romans who killed him for getting into politics in an age in which politics were a stinking and dangerous game. Not that things have changed much, come to think of it...
The sanest way to do it would be year-month-day, because then you could increase the precision of the time string to whatever you needed just by adding units to the right.
That's the way it is done in DNS zones, which is great. It's so great that even my petition ring has the date in that format. I believe the Japanese use it, but haven't bothered to research the fact.
Every time I read news like this, I can't help feeling that I'm so happy to live in a civilized country where guns can only be legally owned by security forces and very specific individuals for mighty good reasons. What triggered my comment is your use of the word "disgrace". What I feel is a disgrace is that your country still lives mentally in the wild west. Don't get me wrong, I admire many things about your country guys, but I can't make any sense of your love of firearms. You don't want idiots or criminals handling guns? Ban them for everyone. What about an individual's right to defend him/herself? Call the cops. It works very well for us.
I can't wait for a team to show whether the same can be made to politicians.