if a mail server accepts my mail with a 200 code, then the mail *should* be delivered.
That's not actually the rule. The rule is: if a mail server accepts my mail with a 200 code, then the mail should be delivered *OR* a non-deliverable message should be constructed and returned to the envelope from address.
When you actually follow that rule, it's quite amazing how many folks get bent out of shape by the undeliverables returned when someone forges their address, even though they haven't bothered to use SPF to protect themselves.
A -savvy- open source move would be announcing a port of MS Office to SuSE. This "we want you to make your Linux software also run on Windows" move just increases the vulnerability of their cash cow.
It takes a lot of guts and a lot of just plain good sense to look at a failing IT project and say, "This isn't salvageable; dump it instead of throwing good money after bad." Good for them!
I am myself in favor of a "you only get charged for what you actually get".
High-end commercial bandwidth is sold on a 95th percentile basis. The way it works is this: every 5 minutes they measure how many bits you sent and received in the preceeding 5 minutes. At the end of the month they throw the top 5% of the samples away. The next highest sample is your 95th percentile usage.
Are you still in favor of that payment model if I tell you that commercial bandwidth today costs between $20/megabit and $300/megabit with the average price around $100/megabit? In other words, you can have your 15-meg FiOS line, but if you nail it at 15 megs for more than 36 hours in a month, you'd pay $1500.
Wasn't there also a Frenchman whose flight predated the Wright Brothers? I seem to remember that the key difference was the Wright Brothers got the whole process to work.
Obama and McCain lead among IT workers with 29% each. Clinton follows with 13%, just ahead of Huckabee (11%) and Ron Paul (9%).
Those results just means that IT workers are naive about the political process.
Let's take McCain first. McCain is not much of a computer user. He doesn't grok technology and he doesn't really care to. It's not important to him. Reform in the political process is important to McCain. Winning the war in Iraq is important to McCain. The Internet? Not important to McCain.
McCain's political reality is that he has a problem with his political base. He needs to motivate the bible belt to come out on election day and vote for him. This means that every single issue about which he doesn't care is going to be handed off to a social conservative. You only -thought- you saw a censor the Internet movement under Bush.
Now let's talk about Obama. Obama is surrounded by the B-list democrats. Clinton had the A-list locked up a year and a half ago. Obama's team is tech savvy with very little real-world experience. Many have never worked outside politics. They're like that guy you know who is smart but not nearly as smart as he thinks he is. Will they screw the pooch? Count on it. Are they tech-savvy enough to be really destructive? Oh yeah.
I'm pretty sure that the "limited times" were intended to be well inside the lifespan of the author/inventor. I wouldn't care so much about reselling my copy if I knew it would be public domain in 10 years anyway.
After the Cogent/Level 3 spat a few years ago, smarter network engineers realized it wasn't safe to use either Cogent or Level 3 as their sole Internet provider. Second provider? Sure. But not sole.
After this Cogent/Telia spat, no one with a brain will pick Cogent as their sole Internet provider.
This won't hurt Cogent too deeply. They charge so little for bandwidth that it's hard to resist picking them as your #2.
I just hope the folks making laptops don't take the noise reduction too far, like what happened with the server manufacturers. They turned down the fan speed to reduce the server noise but in doing so they increased the internal server temperatures. This reduced the reliability. I don't particularly mind the noise but I dislike having my stuff break.
It's hard enough to get a date as it is without pre-rejecting everybody who believes something beyond that which can be proven. Besides, show me a scientist who believes nothing beyond that which can be proven and I'll show you a liar.
Should we boycott bees because they sting? For better or worse, eNom was merely complying with properly offered court orders with a valid jurisdiction. Any US-based registrar would have done the same.
If you're going to do business in the US, you have to follow US law. That means when someone sues you have to actually show up in court. If that's a problem for you, don't do business in the US.
Schneier addresses the central fallacy of the "transparent society" idea promoted by David Brin
Brin doesn't suggest that the transparent society is a good thing; he suggests that it's inevitable so we should figure out which kind is the least offensive and make sure that's the one that happens.
Schneier demonstrates why the transparent society is undesirable, but this is not counter to Brin's claim. Schneier fails to offer argument which counters Brin's view of inevitability.
Yeah, I get why the firewire controller should be able to initiate a DMA transfer. What I don't understand is why another node on the firewire bus should be able to instruct a PC's firewire controller to initiate any old DMA transfer it wants. On a "stupid" scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being Einstein and 10 being a bootable cdrom in a campus computer lab, allowing a node on an external peripheral bus unchecked control of the host machine is about a 15.
Step 1 is user control for turning up the cooling features. If the user determines that the fans should run faster then the fans should run faster regardless of what the "holisitic" system thinks.
Seriously, this is the single biggest problem with the current HP DL360. The fans turn down to 30% and the memory overheats. A simple BIOS option to set the minimum fan speed to 60% would solve this.
It was things like SFP and GBIC optical modules. These are standards-compliant components; anyone can make them. Cheap ones can sell for $10. Cisco versions that have passed Cisco's quality control can sell for $200. The Chinese counterfeiters made cheap ones, put a "cisco" label on them and sold them on eBay and the like.
This one, for example, is very likely counterfeit. It's a real 1000baseSX SFP, but it's not a genuine Cisco product.
Wake me up when someone predicts human-level AI in 10 years. The prediction has stood at "another 20 years" since the idea of AI was conceived the better part of half a century ago.
I would imagine that the problem they have is with zombies where the infected machine sets up a web server on a high port and starts spamming. Cox is very diligent about policing spam coming from their network and filtering outbound email that links to a cox home subscriber by IP address is a very effective way to do this, without harming anyone who complies with the TOS.
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Pre-queue filter with only 1 unique IP connection at a time to mail server. Problem solved.
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if a mail server accepts my mail with a 200 code, then the mail *should* be delivered.
That's not actually the rule. The rule is: if a mail server accepts my mail with a 200 code, then the mail should be delivered *OR* a non-deliverable message should be constructed and returned to the envelope from address.
When you actually follow that rule, it's quite amazing how many folks get bent out of shape by the undeliverables returned when someone forges their address, even though they haven't bothered to use SPF to protect themselves.
A -savvy- open source move would be announcing a port of MS Office to SuSE. This "we want you to make your Linux software also run on Windows" move just increases the vulnerability of their cash cow.
It takes a lot of guts and a lot of just plain good sense to look at a failing IT project and say, "This isn't salvageable; dump it instead of throwing good money after bad." Good for them!
I am myself in favor of a "you only get charged for what you actually get".
High-end commercial bandwidth is sold on a 95th percentile basis. The way it works is this: every 5 minutes they measure how many bits you sent and received in the preceeding 5 minutes. At the end of the month they throw the top 5% of the samples away. The next highest sample is your 95th percentile usage.
Are you still in favor of that payment model if I tell you that commercial bandwidth today costs between $20/megabit and $300/megabit with the average price around $100/megabit? In other words, you can have your 15-meg FiOS line, but if you nail it at 15 megs for more than 36 hours in a month, you'd pay $1500.
Still sound like such a good deal?
Wasn't there also a Frenchman whose flight predated the Wright Brothers? I seem to remember that the key difference was the Wright Brothers got the whole process to work.
Obama and McCain lead among IT workers with 29% each. Clinton follows with 13%, just ahead of Huckabee (11%) and Ron Paul (9%).
Those results just means that IT workers are naive about the political process.
Let's take McCain first. McCain is not much of a computer user. He doesn't grok technology and he doesn't really care to. It's not important to him. Reform in the political process is important to McCain. Winning the war in Iraq is important to McCain. The Internet? Not important to McCain.
McCain's political reality is that he has a problem with his political base. He needs to motivate the bible belt to come out on election day and vote for him. This means that every single issue about which he doesn't care is going to be handed off to a social conservative. You only -thought- you saw a censor the Internet movement under Bush.
Now let's talk about Obama. Obama is surrounded by the B-list democrats. Clinton had the A-list locked up a year and a half ago. Obama's team is tech savvy with very little real-world experience. Many have never worked outside politics. They're like that guy you know who is smart but not nearly as smart as he thinks he is. Will they screw the pooch? Count on it. Are they tech-savvy enough to be really destructive? Oh yeah.
I'm pretty sure that the "limited times" were intended to be well inside the lifespan of the author/inventor. I wouldn't care so much about reselling my copy if I knew it would be public domain in 10 years anyway.
After the Cogent/Level 3 spat a few years ago, smarter network engineers realized it wasn't safe to use either Cogent or Level 3 as their sole Internet provider. Second provider? Sure. But not sole.
After this Cogent/Telia spat, no one with a brain will pick Cogent as their sole Internet provider.
This won't hurt Cogent too deeply. They charge so little for bandwidth that it's hard to resist picking them as your #2.
I just hope the folks making laptops don't take the noise reduction too far, like what happened with the server manufacturers. They turned down the fan speed to reduce the server noise but in doing so they increased the internal server temperatures. This reduced the reliability. I don't particularly mind the noise but I dislike having my stuff break.
It's hard enough to get a date as it is without pre-rejecting everybody who believes something beyond that which can be proven. Besides, show me a scientist who believes nothing beyond that which can be proven and I'll show you a liar.
Should we boycott bees because they sting? For better or worse, eNom was merely complying with properly offered court orders with a valid jurisdiction. Any US-based registrar would have done the same.
If you're going to do business in the US, you have to follow US law. That means when someone sues you have to actually show up in court. If that's a problem for you, don't do business in the US.
Schneier addresses the central fallacy of the "transparent society" idea promoted by David Brin
Brin doesn't suggest that the transparent society is a good thing; he suggests that it's inevitable so we should figure out which kind is the least offensive and make sure that's the one that happens.
Schneier demonstrates why the transparent society is undesirable, but this is not counter to Brin's claim. Schneier fails to offer argument which counters Brin's view of inevitability.
Yeah, I get why the firewire controller should be able to initiate a DMA transfer. What I don't understand is why another node on the firewire bus should be able to instruct a PC's firewire controller to initiate any old DMA transfer it wants. On a "stupid" scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being Einstein and 10 being a bootable cdrom in a campus computer lab, allowing a node on an external peripheral bus unchecked control of the host machine is about a 15.
So why exactly is it a desirable feature for a firewire node to be able to access another node's memory unsolicited?
Step 1 is user control for turning up the cooling features. If the user determines that the fans should run faster then the fans should run faster regardless of what the "holisitic" system thinks.
Seriously, this is the single biggest problem with the current HP DL360. The fans turn down to 30% and the memory overheats. A simple BIOS option to set the minimum fan speed to 60% would solve this.
It was things like SFP and GBIC optical modules. These are standards-compliant components; anyone can make them. Cheap ones can sell for $10. Cisco versions that have passed Cisco's quality control can sell for $200. The Chinese counterfeiters made cheap ones, put a "cisco" label on them and sold them on eBay and the like.
This one, for example, is very likely counterfeit. It's a real 1000baseSX SFP, but it's not a genuine Cisco product.
Imagine a home theater system sans cables.
Until you can figure out how to snatch lots of power from the ether, you'll have to keep dreaming about that one.
Besides, as noted at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_high_frequency, 60ghz is subject to attenuation due to resonance with oxygen molecules. How do you feel about watching TV with a gas mask?
OKay, so I can seriously power up my wireless mouse. What else is it good for?
* Develop carbon sequestration methods
We already have high-quality carbon sequestration methods. They're called "trees." All we have to do is plant more than we cut down.
* Manage the nitrogen cycle
* Enhance virtual reality
* Engineer the tools for scientific discovery
Weak. Weak!
* Make solar energy affordable
* Provide energy from fusion
* Engineer better medicines
* Reverse-engineer the brain
These are not engineering tasks; they're basic science tasks. Engineers will get nowhere with these; it'd be a waste of money.
* Prevent nuclear terror
* Restore and improve urban infrastructure
* Provide access to clean water
These are not engineering tasks; they are political tasks. Solve the political factors and the engineering tasks are long solved and well-understood.
* Advance health informatics
* Secure cyberspace
* Advance personalized learning
These at least fall within the domain of solvable engineering problems.
Wake me up when someone predicts human-level AI in 10 years. The prediction has stood at "another 20 years" since the idea of AI was conceived the better part of half a century ago.
Joysticks are still around. There are two of them on my Playstation 2 controller. They're smaller than they used to be but that's just evolution.
Well, I have Cox "business" Internet at home and have never had a problem.
If you've got a problem with X, then ban X.
I would imagine that the problem they have is with zombies where the infected machine sets up a web server on a high port and starts spamming. Cox is very diligent about policing spam coming from their network and filtering outbound email that links to a cox home subscriber by IP address is a very effective way to do this, without harming anyone who complies with the TOS.
It's a mixed metaphor:
I couldn't care less = I don't care
merged with
I could give a damn = I could care but I don't
and became
I could care less.