In a 20 person company, if you are dilligent, you can, in all liklihood hire trustworthy people. No so easy in a 20,000-person company. Some of them will be dishonest. Sorry, it's just human nature.
And that is exactly why you can't trust stuff to a company with that many people. Companies just don't scale to this size.
I would personally be very interested in seeing english compared to dutch or german. In those languages (i'm a native dutch speaker) the word order is much more flexible and the determining verb often comes very late in the sentence. In german this is more prominent than in dutch.
But the SharedSource license doesn't allow actual modification of the source code. It's a license which allows looking-only, you can't modify the source and then use the modifications in-house. You can't even change it and send the changes back, that is just now allowed.
Another reason for GPL being better in this case is if Pixar decides to stop working on the product or takes a different route. If that happens and the product was GPL everybody could keep working on a forked last version. This ensures that the product will stick around even if the company doesn't work on it anymore.
And who, exactly, is holding a gun to your head forcing you to visit only the "big media" controlled news sites? Last I checked, I can go to Arabnews.com if I want to get an alternative view on Iraq developments.
But arabnews.com is "big media", just not american big media. arabnews.com is owned by "Saudi Research and Marketing Group" which owns the newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat which they claim is a leading arab newspaper (see http://www.hhsaudi.com/about.html)
Here's what I wonder...has backwards-compatibility caused hardware to get so kludgy that things would actually run faster if we designed a brand new system and ran an Intel-compatible VM in firmware? I think yes...and that would provide the perfect opportunity for companies to transition to a new platform over a number of years.
No... do you? But think about it this way. Even if the UN ambassadors are not as well paid (and their salaries do come from their respective countries) as the "average politician" in their countries, you can rest assured that they ARE paid much much more than the "average citizen" that they claim to represent. Such is the same with any politician. Pols are ALWAYS paid more than they are worth, and always make far more than the people they represent.
The dutch socialist party takes the salary from their politicians and pays them an average salary (couldn't find how much directly). The money which is left over is used for campaigns and party activities.
So there are politicians which are a notable exception here.
The nigerian spammers are most of the time not actually operating from nigeria. They are often asylum seekers in Europe (some actually mention this in their mails). Seen some nice ones from the Netherlands at least (i noticed because i live in the netherlands).
It's one thing that an agency can do it, but as you said these boxes are no-access for employees. If this is in my email headers there is probably a way for the mail admins of the world to collect this info as well (and prove it was me).
Click on the link in my sig for my method of dealing with spam which is highly effective that doesn't destroy the privacy of the sender or cost money.
Good read. I don't agree with it though.
I think that bayesian filtering and header interpretation do have a use. To make spam blocking based on the mail more effective it could be combined with the link/image checking that you propose.
Maybe it can be added as a separate module to spamassasin.
One important point to note is that Debian GNU/Linux comes with a lot of (optional) software, like multiple browsers, multiple desktop environments (KDE/Gnome/GNUStep?), editors, databases, etc. This means that a vulnerability in one of these pieces of software might count as a debian vulnerability.
Windows comes with a very limited set of software and other software is available separately (Oracle database, Mozilla, Photoshop). This means that those won't count towards a windows vulnerability.
Windows might still have less vulnerabilities (but i'm not counting on it).
[grin] It sort of guesses wrong on purpose if it doesn't know - my theory is that people are more likely to correct it if it's wildly wrong than slightly wrong:-)
Especially important in this case because it has to travel longer distances. It seems to be mostly used for longer distance which would give a lower signal/noise ratio.
I am in serious need of more bandwidth and hardware power. If anyone has a Co-Located system on a nice network to donate to this project for a few months, I would be very happy!
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In a 20 person company, if you are dilligent, you can, in all liklihood hire trustworthy people. No so easy in a 20,000-person company. Some of them will be dishonest. Sorry, it's just human nature.
And that is exactly why you can't trust stuff to a company with that many people. Companies just don't scale to this size.
I'd like to name Patrick Volkerding who created Slackware. Slackware is a brilliant (and oldest still going) linux distribution.
Currently i'm using slackware 10.
I just searched around on google and these documents come up
Word Order in German
Kathol's analysis of German Word Order
But the SharedSource license doesn't allow actual modification of the source code. It's a license which allows looking-only, you can't modify the source and then use the modifications in-house. You can't even change it and send the changes back, that is just now allowed.
Another reason for GPL being better in this case is if Pixar decides to stop working on the product or takes a different route. If that happens and the product was GPL everybody could keep working on a forked last version. This ensures that the product will stick around even if the company doesn't work on it anymore.
But arabnews.com is "big media", just not american big media. arabnews.com is owned by "Saudi Research and Marketing Group" which owns the newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat which they claim is a leading arab newspaper (see http://www.hhsaudi.com/about.html)
Well you probably still have some releases to get used to the idea ;-)
My god, what a load of bullshit on that one page. The person who wrote that must be insane.
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Some scandinavian countries (sweden and finland?) have this system where a traffic fine is based on income if i remember correctly.
Seems fair to me.
Here's what I wonder...has backwards-compatibility caused hardware to get so kludgy that things would actually run faster if we designed a brand new system and ran an Intel-compatible VM in firmware? I think yes...and that would provide the perfect opportunity for companies to transition to a new platform over a number of years.
Check out Transmeta.
Thanks for looking it up.
No... do you? But think about it this way. Even if the UN ambassadors are not as well paid (and their salaries do come from their respective countries) as the "average politician" in their countries, you can rest assured that they ARE paid much much more than the "average citizen" that they claim to represent. Such is the same with any politician. Pols are ALWAYS paid more than they are worth, and always make far more than the people they represent.
The dutch socialist party takes the salary from their politicians and pays them an average salary (couldn't find how much directly). The money which is left over is used for campaigns and party activities.
So there are politicians which are a notable exception here.
He's a webdesigner.
The nigerian spammers are most of the time not actually operating from nigeria. They are often asylum seekers in Europe (some actually mention this in their mails). Seen some nice ones from the Netherlands at least (i noticed because i live in the netherlands).
It's one thing that an agency can do it, but as you said these boxes are no-access for employees. If this is in my email headers there is probably a way for the mail admins of the world to collect this info as well (and prove it was me).
So if anonymous is good, this makes it worse.
Click on the link in my sig for my method of dealing with spam which is highly effective that doesn't destroy the privacy of the sender or cost money.
Good read. I don't agree with it though.
I think that bayesian filtering and header interpretation do have a use. To make spam blocking based on the mail more effective it could be combined with the link/image checking that you propose.
Maybe it can be added as a separate module to spamassasin.
One important point to note is that Debian GNU/Linux comes with a lot of (optional) software, like multiple browsers, multiple desktop environments (KDE/Gnome/GNUStep?), editors, databases, etc. This means that a vulnerability in one of these pieces of software might count as a debian vulnerability.
Windows comes with a very limited set of software and other software is available separately (Oracle database, Mozilla, Photoshop). This means that those won't count towards a windows vulnerability.
Windows might still have less vulnerabilities (but i'm not counting on it).
like would "diff -r /usr/src/linux-2.4.23-patched /usr/src/linux-2.4.24" come back with any differences?
No changes at all. This is going to be identical.
Protitution _is_ legal in the Netherlands. Crack and heroin is still illegal though.
[grin] It sort of guesses wrong on purpose if it doesn't know - my theory is that people are more likely to correct it if it's wildly wrong than slightly wrong :-)
brilliant
Actually the page www.fys.ku.dk redirects to http://www.fys.ku.dk/afg/NyAFG/frame.asp?afd=OL which seems to be running on IIS 5
I still think this report stinks but let's get our facts straight.
Port80 follows redirects and Netcraft doesn't.
This system will not support chinese/japanese charsets for this.
This just adds the Latin-1 part of unicode to the DNS system.
i18n-ified
internationalization-ified? Wow.
Especially important in this case because it has to travel longer distances. It seems to be mostly used for longer distance which would give a lower signal/noise ratio.
I am in serious need of more bandwidth and hardware power. If anyone has a Co-Located system on a nice network to donate to this project for a few months, I would be very happy!
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