Whattya know, Dean scored the highest (only 59%) of any candidate with a snowball's chance in hell of election (the Libertarian candidate scored 100%, Al Sharpton 60%) on http://www.selectsmart.com/president/ for me. W. scored worse (29%) than any declared and viable candidate except for Lieberman (26%). LaRouche got 0%. So much for confusing Libertarians and LaRouchies.
In the general election I'll probably abstain or cast a protest vote for the Libertarian candidate, as I've done every election since becoming eligible to vote (1988). However, I'm glad to see Dean making waves, and I just might vote for him in the primary. I've been tempted by major party mavericks in the past -- I think I've voted for Paul Tsongas and/or Jerry Brown and Steve Forbes in past Dem and GOP primaries.
'Property' is not a pejorative unless you're coming from the far left. Both 'intellectual' and 'property' dignify the idea of controlling information. Thus my preference for 'monopoly', which is a prejorative across the political spectrum.
A nonrivalrous good is one such that an additional person can benefit from its use without reducing the benefit to others using the good. E.g., information.
For legal regimes that restrict the use of information in the manner than copyright and patent do, I prefer "information monopoly", though "expression monopoly" suggested by others here is perhaps even better.
Is that all that's required? I tried replacing getopt include with unistd, among other things to try to get http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/id3v2/id3v2-0.1.9.tar.gz to compile on OS X, and it still didn't. I don't have a Mac, this was on a friend's machine, so I don't have the error.
BTW, in order to get id3lib to compile (which id3v2 above depends on) I had to use these flags:
./configure CXX=g++2
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At $26, it is a bit steep (it comes out at 12.5 cents/page).
In 14 or 28 years it'll fall into the public domain.
WSM is one of the first books under the Creative Commons Founders' Copyrght.
Of course, the mailbox owner may well take the view that he'd rather have the computer waste 5 microseconds deleting a message than him waste 5 whole seconds doing it himself.
Well, a user can filter on the client side, and there's always cpu to spare on the client. Only downside vs. filtering on the mail server is that you've got to transfer the spam to the client. Which is a problem over modem, but not over DSL or better.
Anybody who hates spam enough to install a client-side filter is probably already one of the 999,990 people who wouldn't have fallen for the scam even if they had read the message.
Yeah. I didn't spell it out, but my point was that we need to get filtering built in and turned on by default in MUAs. Mozilla's "junk" button (as of 1.4a anyway) is a good start, though I don't know if it is prominent enough.
FWIW Pair, a reasonably large hosting company, offers SpamAssassin-based filtering. But a user has to turn it on. Maybe they're counting on most users not using SA. AFAIK their machines are all multirole web/shell/mail (I've had some accounts with them).
Also, if the local box doesn't have cpu to spare, a dedicated cpu farm for SA could be used. I guess your "Not easily" comment covers this.:)
You're right, spamassassin does seem to be pretty heavyweight. I hadn't ever bothered timing it on the command line before. It can be run in daemon mode, which would at least eliminate perl startup/script compilation costs.
I suppose on a really busy mail server SA would peg cpu. But I'm guessing most installations have plenty of cpu to spare for SA.
filtering works for you because you're the one implementing your own mail filters. You know what you consider to be wanted and unwanted messages, and you've set up SA with some particular ruleset(s) to match.
No, actually I've always used SA out of the box:
wget http://www.spamassassin.org/released/Mail-SpamAssa ssin-2.53.tar.gz
tar zxf Mail-SpamAssassin-2.53.tar.gz
cd Mail-*
perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~
make
make install
First two rules in.procmailrc:
:0fw
| $HOME/bin/spamassassin
:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
caughtspam
And it just works. No more spam. This is an ISP shell account.
You and others bring up good points concerning the reasons why large ISPs don't filter and/or make it easy for their users to do so.
However, I'm not sure that
The problem there is yet more processing time.
If spam is really a big problem, then facilitating individual customers' filtering is a selling point. And increase in cpu required is somewhat offset by reduced storage space needed for spam.
If the ISPs won't help, we simply need to get client-side filtering into the hands of as many people, usable, and used as much as possible, reducing the spammers' audience.
While I'm at it, I'm also surprisd that teergrubing isn't widely deployed, AFAIK.
I know not everyone uses SpamAssassin. I'm really wondering why many people, including some who ought to know, claim that filtering can't work. Have they really just not tried SpamAssassin, or do they know something I don't?
I've heard and read many people (including mail engineers at Y!Mail or Hotmail) claim that spam filtering doesn't work, can't work, the spammers will always be one step ahead, etc.
Why does filtering work for me? I have several old domains with published email addresses. I probably get 1000 spams a day. SpamAssassin catches 99.8% of it, and AFAICT the only false positives I've ever had were messages discussing HGH cranks.
So, why does filtering work for me when it is supposedly futile?
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Excellent tutorial overall, save the sniping at non-Shareaza Gnutella clients. The great thing about MAGNET is that it is client/network agnostic. Shareaza was the first client to support MAGNET and it's an excellent program, but it isn't the only one (at least Xolox does right now, with several others either recently or very soon to be added). The part about disallowing uploads to non-Shareaza clients is completely bogus -- allowing others to download a) doesn't prevent other Shareaza users from downloading and b) limits the number of people you'll be able to distribute content to in a cost effective P2P manner. BTW, you can share your content with any modern Gnutella client (i.e., allows download by hash), and it will be available to people using MAGNET, even if the sharing client doesn't support MAGNET yet.
"But it's a disgrace that you still can't print Web pages correctly," Nielsen says. "If you've ever printed any receipt from an e-commerce site, half the time the price is cut off. Why can't the browser say, 'I'm printing out on a higher-resolution device and I can easily shrink things to make them fit'?"
Mozilla has this, you'll see the option in the File|Page Setup dialog.
The new gray ranch-style home in one of Lafayette's most expensive areas has many selling points, not the least of which are 10-foot ceilings and granite kitchen countertops.
It also has a potentially huge detraction: It's a manufactured home.
Before you cringe, hear the rest of the description: With 2,600 square feet of living space, the house has a killer view of Mount Diablo, yet it's just across from BART and only minutes from downtown. It also has some other amenities such as bay windows, oak cabinets, a whirlpool tub, a large cobblestone patio and even planter shelves.
An added attraction: It was built in three days and cost about $200,000 less than if it had been built like most other houses.
It needs work, but Dillo is the fastest graphical browser I've ever used. As fast if not faster than a text-only browser like lynx, links or w3m. Galeon feels incredibly slow next to Dillo, and Galeon usually feels pretty fast to me.
I don't buy into the left-right spectrum. But most of the world does, and fascism is considered right wing. Let's ask google: "right-wing fascist", 979 pages, "left -wing fascist", 116 pages. Your creative color assignments look correct to me.
And it is still a free, democratic country, with a healthy
capitalist economy.
To my point: a socialist party in government, even for a long time, does not a socialist country make. It's the latter that has a strong affinity for dictatorship and despotism. Parties that call themsleves socialists but actually only tamper with the market around the edges through increased regulation and higher marginal tax rates pale in comparison as a threat.
Does election of a socialist party to government make a country socialist? Over time, it may become more socialist. The more unrestrained socialist experiments have turned despotic. Fortunately in Western Europe it never went that far.
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of joining the ACLU. I like them both, but the EFF is far more strapped.
In the general election I'll probably abstain or cast a protest vote for the Libertarian candidate, as I've done every election since becoming eligible to vote (1988). However, I'm glad to see Dean making waves, and I just might vote for him in the primary. I've been tempted by major party mavericks in the past -- I think I've voted for Paul Tsongas and/or Jerry Brown and Steve Forbes in past Dem and GOP primaries.
'Property' is not a pejorative unless you're coming from the far left. Both 'intellectual' and 'property' dignify the idea of controlling information. Thus my preference for 'monopoly', which is a prejorative across the political spectrum.
For legal regimes that restrict the use of information in the manner than copyright and patent do, I prefer "information monopoly", though "expression monopoly" suggested by others here is perhaps even better.
Is that all that's required? I tried replacing getopt include with unistd, among other things to try to get http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/id3v2/id3v2-0.1 .9.tar.gz to compile on OS X, and it still didn't. I don't have a Mac, this was on a friend's machine, so I don't have the error.
BTW, in order to get id3lib to compile (which id3v2 above depends on) I had to use these flags:
In 14 or 28 years it'll fall into the public domain. WSM is one of the first books under the Creative Commons Founders' Copyrght.
Well, a user can filter on the client side, and there's always cpu to spare on the client. Only downside vs. filtering on the mail server is that you've got to transfer the spam to the client. Which is a problem over modem, but not over DSL or better.
Anybody who hates spam enough to install a client-side filter is probably already one of the 999,990 people who wouldn't have fallen for the scam even if they had read the message.
Yeah. I didn't spell it out, but my point was that we need to get filtering built in and turned on by default in MUAs. Mozilla's "junk" button (as of 1.4a anyway) is a good start, though I don't know if it is prominent enough.
Also, if the local box doesn't have cpu to spare, a dedicated cpu farm for SA could be used. I guess your "Not easily" comment covers this. :)
I suppose on a really busy mail server SA would peg cpu. But I'm guessing most installations have plenty of cpu to spare for SA.
No, actually I've always used SA out of the box:
First two rules inYou and others bring up good points concerning the reasons why large ISPs don't filter and/or make it easy for their users to do so.
However, I'm not sure that
The problem there is yet more processing time.
If spam is really a big problem, then facilitating individual customers' filtering is a selling point. And increase in cpu required is somewhat offset by reduced storage space needed for spam.
If the ISPs won't help, we simply need to get client-side filtering into the hands of as many people, usable, and used as much as possible, reducing the spammers' audience.
While I'm at it, I'm also surprisd that teergrubing isn't widely deployed, AFAIK.
I know not everyone uses SpamAssassin. I'm really wondering why many people, including some who ought to know, claim that filtering can't work. Have they really just not tried SpamAssassin, or do they know something I don't?
Why does filtering work for me? I have several old domains with published email addresses. I probably get 1000 spams a day. SpamAssassin catches 99.8% of it, and AFAICT the only false positives I've ever had were messages discussing HGH cranks.
So, why does filtering work for me when it is supposedly futile?
10x speed improvement over what?
The Open Directory License, used by dmoz isn't a copyleft but was authored roughly for "DB data". At Bitzi we use the similar OpenBits License. One could also choose a Creative Commons license. Or maybe the GNU Free Documentation License. Also see the FSF's licenses page. I wouldn't get enthusiastic about any community contributed data project until license issues are clarified.
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Also, you forgot the first and biggest site with MAGNET links. Still, an excellent tutorial, thanks for writing it!
I don't know, but I'd love to. I'd also like to be able to have mozilla hand off MAGNET links to Lime, gtk-gnutella or the like.
It also has a potentially huge detraction: It's a manufactured home.
Before you cringe, hear the rest of the description: With 2,600 square feet of living space, the house has a killer view of Mount Diablo, yet it's just across from BART and only minutes from downtown. It also has some other amenities such as bay windows, oak cabinets, a whirlpool tub, a large cobblestone patio and even planter shelves.
An added attraction: It was built in three days and cost about $200,000 less than if it had been built like most other houses.
It needs work, but Dillo is the fastest graphical browser I've ever used. As fast if not faster than a text-only browser like lynx, links or w3m. Galeon feels incredibly slow next to Dillo, and Galeon usually feels pretty fast to me.
I don't buy into the left-right spectrum. But most of the world does, and fascism is considered right wing. Let's ask google: "right-wing fascist", 979 pages, "left -wing fascist", 116 pages. Your creative color assignments look correct to me.
Does election of a socialist party to government make a country socialist? Over time, it may become more socialist. The more unrestrained socialist experiments have turned despotic. Fortunately in Western Europe it never went that far.