You ignore false positives. A company can send out legitimate mass email, each delivered to the email address that the subscriber specified when signing up, but if one subscriber forgets he signed up for that mass-mailing, then under your scheme the company would be one step towards being black-listed, irrespective of how many people received the email and were happy to do so.
Yes, there are good guys who send out mass emails, and also bad guys, which just goes to show that the good guys don't have a monopoly on effective ideas.
Any system that involves people saying "This message I got just now is spam" also has to involve people (perhaps other people, perhaps the original people who realise they were wrong) saying "No, this isn't spam".
Not only is that an old advisory, but it refers to Verisign's plans to implement wildcard DNS for internationalised domain names (IDN), which is an earlier evil.
There was a discussion about this on the Nominet mailing lists recently. The most convincing reason is Northern Ireland.
The official name of the UK is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. "Great Britain" is the island that includes England, Wales, Scotland and the multitude of little islands, which includes the Isle of Wight (part of England), the Isle of Man (not really part of the UK at all), and doesn't include the Channel Islands (which are closest to Normandy, which the French refer to as the Anglo-Norman islands, but otherwise are as British as the Isle of Man).
"GB" would be a useful code, except that it excludes Northern Ireland, and if you've followed Northern Irish history at all you'll know that the the protestants / Unionists in Northern Ireland are very fond of being part of the UK, and would vehemently protest to the UK being known by a code, "GB", that explicitly did not include them.
So, way before ICANN's official policy to use the ISO country codes for ccTLDs, and even though Ukraine had a strong claim to.uk, the powers that be decided on using.uk for British domains, and it's stuck ever since.
Nominet has never allowed blah.uk to be registered. Nominet was set up to be the registrar for.co.uk,.org.uk,.net.uk,.ltd.uk and.plc.uk, all of which are intended for different things..co.uk and.org.uk are open for all,.net.uk,.ltd.uk and.plc.uk are restricted respectively to ISPs/large Internet companies*, limited companies and public limited companies. To register under.ltd.uk and.plc.uk your company name must match certain conditions - mostly to do with being ultimately the same, barring hyphenation and punctuation, as the domain name you're trying to register.
There's more information about the the various.uk SLDs and who administers them at Nominet's website.
Why make people register under.co.uk or.org.uk (or others) rather than under.uk? For the same reason as we make people register blah.com or blah.org rather than just blah. To make the namespace larger (most trivially), but also so if you go to blah.org.uk you expect it to be non-profit making body, if you go to blah.co.uk you expect it to be a trading company, and if you go to blah.me.uk (a new SLD introduced recently), you expect it to be a site about Mr or Mrs Blah.
There's further intricacies (there always are) but that'll do for now.
You can easily cache bitmap renditions of vector icons such as these if that makes things quicker. OTOH, if you've got something like Mac OS X's magnification of icons, it might be quicker to re-render vector graphics every time.
That's an implementation detail, though. The main point is that you can design an icon without thinking of which resolution it's going to be rendered at. That also means future-proofing your design - icons have been getting bigger and bigger as screens get larger. Compare the icons used in Mac OS 9 / Windows 95 to the ones used in Mac OS X / XP. The old ones are *much* smaller, and look ugly when scaled up.
That's not necessarily a solution either. If you don't check that messageID is correctly quoted and escaped, you run the risk of letting them insert SQL meta characters.
For instance, consider what happens when you replace form.messageID with, say, "666; DELETE FROM forum; #" (omit the quotes). The resulting SQL ends up as (line feeds inserted for clarity):
UPDATE forum SET comment = form.comment WHERE messageID=666; DELETE FROM forum; # AND userID = cookie.userID
And suddenly your table is gone. (If you don't know the name of the table, you as a malicious cracker can keep on plugging likely-looking values into the script until it starts breaking.)
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With the exception of Open Office, you've just described Mac OS X.
(I know, I know.)
Which makes it even more interesting to speculate on what Apple's next software announcement is going to be. Notice how AppleWorks hasn't been upgraded for ages?
I'd like a time-limited version of bookmarks. If you stumble across a site, you can say "Remember this." A few days later, your software asks you "Do you really want to remember these web pages?" - and if you say you do, they get moved to your bookmarks / favourites. I you don't, they get deleted.
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I'm typing this on a Mac, but with a bunch of other kit on this desk - a Microsoft mouse, an ADSL router, a TV and a video recorder. And compared to that lot, the Apple keyboard, monitor and G4 tower look resplendent - they're just better designed, they look nicer, they have nice touches like the fact that the iBook, when put to sleep, has a power light that pulses. (Freaked me out at first, when I was trying to get to sleep and wondered where that glowing pulsating light was coming from...)
I think people who talk about building their own Mac should remember one of the most interesting things about owning a Mac - i.e., the case. And the design that comes with it.
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You ignore false positives. A company can send out legitimate mass email, each delivered to the email address that the subscriber specified when signing up, but if one subscriber forgets he signed up for that mass-mailing, then under your scheme the company would be one step towards being black-listed, irrespective of how many people received the email and were happy to do so.
Yes, there are good guys who send out mass emails, and also bad guys, which just goes to show that the good guys don't have a monopoly on effective ideas.
Any system that involves people saying "This message I got just now is spam" also has to involve people (perhaps other people, perhaps the original people who realise they were wrong) saying "No, this isn't spam".
Not only is that an old advisory, but it refers to Verisign's plans to implement wildcard DNS for internationalised domain names (IDN), which is an earlier evil.
There was a discussion about this on the Nominet mailing lists recently. The most convincing reason is Northern Ireland.
.uk, the powers that be decided on using .uk for British domains, and it's stuck ever since.
The official name of the UK is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. "Great Britain" is the island that includes England, Wales, Scotland and the multitude of little islands, which includes the Isle of Wight (part of England), the Isle of Man (not really part of the UK at all), and doesn't include the Channel Islands (which are closest to Normandy, which the French refer to as the Anglo-Norman islands, but otherwise are as British as the Isle of Man).
"GB" would be a useful code, except that it excludes Northern Ireland, and if you've followed Northern Irish history at all you'll know that the the protestants / Unionists in Northern Ireland are very fond of being part of the UK, and would vehemently protest to the UK being known by a code, "GB", that explicitly did not include them.
So, way before ICANN's official policy to use the ISO country codes for ccTLDs, and even though Ukraine had a strong claim to
Nominet has never allowed blah.uk to be registered. Nominet was set up to be the registrar for .co.uk, .org.uk, .net.uk, .ltd.uk and .plc.uk, all of which are intended for different things. .co.uk and .org.uk are open for all, .net.uk, .ltd.uk and .plc.uk are restricted respectively to ISPs/large Internet companies*, limited companies and public limited companies. To register under .ltd.uk and .plc.uk your company name must match certain conditions - mostly to do with being ultimately the same, barring hyphenation and punctuation, as the domain name you're trying to register.
.uk SLDs and who administers them at Nominet's website.
.co.uk or .org.uk (or others) rather than under .uk? For the same reason as we make people register blah.com or blah.org rather than just blah. To make the namespace larger (most trivially), but also so if you go to blah.org.uk you expect it to be non-profit making body, if you go to blah.co.uk you expect it to be a trading company, and if you go to blah.me.uk (a new SLD introduced recently), you expect it to be a site about Mr or Mrs Blah.
There's more information about the the various
Why make people register under
There's further intricacies (there always are) but that'll do for now.
You can easily cache bitmap renditions of vector icons such as these if that makes things quicker. OTOH, if you've got something like Mac OS X's magnification of icons, it might be quicker to re-render vector graphics every time.
That's an implementation detail, though. The main point is that you can design an icon without thinking of which resolution it's going to be rendered at. That also means future-proofing your design - icons have been getting bigger and bigger as screens get larger. Compare the icons used in Mac OS 9 / Windows 95 to the ones used in Mac OS X / XP. The old ones are *much* smaller, and look ugly when scaled up.
For instance, consider what happens when you replace form.messageID with, say, "666; DELETE FROM forum; #" (omit the quotes). The resulting SQL ends up as (line feeds inserted for clarity):
And suddenly your table is gone. (If you don't know the name of the table, you as a malicious cracker can keep on plugging likely-looking values into the script until it starts breaking.)
With the exception of Open Office, you've just described Mac OS X.
(I know, I know.)
Which makes it even more interesting to speculate on what Apple's next software announcement is going to be. Notice how AppleWorks hasn't been upgraded for ages?
I'd like a time-limited version of bookmarks. If you stumble across a site, you can say "Remember this." A few days later, your software asks you "Do you really want to remember these web pages?" - and if you say you do, they get moved to your bookmarks / favourites. I you don't, they get deleted.
I'm typing this on a Mac, but with a bunch of other kit on this desk - a Microsoft mouse, an ADSL router, a TV and a video recorder. And compared to that lot, the Apple keyboard, monitor and G4 tower look resplendent - they're just better designed, they look nicer, they have nice touches like the fact that the iBook, when put to sleep, has a power light that pulses. (Freaked me out at first, when I was trying to get to sleep and wondered where that glowing pulsating light was coming from...)
I think people who talk about building their own Mac should remember one of the most interesting things about owning a Mac - i.e., the case. And the design that comes with it.