Strange, because USA is still #1 in all 3 categories listed (scroll down) on spamhaus.org Besides - who cares where the exploited servers are? Soon (my guess is - less than 6 months) the majority of spams will be sent via zombies taken over by some worm or virus. These computers will be spread all over the world. The only solution is to nip it in the butt. Make spam illegal (as it is in Europe) and sue the pants of the spammers. Enough of those stupid atempts to pretend something is being done. We all know that the spammers are from Gods own country - hijacking machines whereever it's easiest. /me sets mode -rant
I hope the image search will include a "safe mode" like the "real" google image search to filter out explicit nudity. I mean - my girlfriend uses my computer as well - and if she found those pictures I've stored in "./.././ex-girlfriends/" I'm toast.
I mean - if this was on a *nix system, it would index only the files I've got read permissions to. But on a windows system, there's no such (working) thing, so it would index everything. Could this pose a problem in a multiuser environment? Not to mention temporary files?
I've been looking for something like this for a long time. Unfortunately, plogging doesn't satisfy my every need. So - let me ask the project managers of slashdot (I know you're out there) - what do you use as project collaboration/management tool? Someone posted a link to "Basecamp" which seemed ok (unfortunately it require credit information just to try a free demo). Are there other tools like that? How do they measure up?
I've been thinking about wiki, but it's a tad to difficult to be useful - my teams usually consists of developers, DB people, graphic designers, customers etc. They'd never learn the simple wiki markup.
If people knew how easy it was to "break" simple means of protection, we'd see far less in the media.
If you film a person in backlight, his face will be dark when you see him on tv. Cranking up the contrast (in most cases, just the contrast on the tv will do) shows the face clearly.
If you pixelize the face of a person, he's not recognizeable. But unless he stands completely still, his movements will give enough info to calculate the originating pixels after a couple of minutes.
If you apply a standard mixer filter to a persons voice, it sounds dark and unrecognizeable... Until you run the reverse algorithm.
If you black out sentences with a marker, it's often just a question of holding the paper up agains the light to read it.
I never understood this behaviour anyway. Why show a person on TV that obvoiously not want to be recoznized (however carefully concealed by the production)?
As for documents - I'm pretty sure most documents are available electronically. Why not just delete the stuff you don't want people to see?
It would be neither legal nor ethical for Slashdot to mirror/cache content for articles posted on slashdot.
So you're saying that freecache and google are illegal?
Many site relies on banner ad revenue. Caching content would deprive those sites from the revenue generated by traffic. Plus there is the whole copyright issue.
If you don't cache the images, the banners will still show (as google does it).
Site already/.'ed (when will slashdot ever learn to use a cache - either freecahce or make their own?)
Anyway, all rants aside, here's the conclusion from the tests (there were some graphs as well but I couldn't make sense of them anyway):
CONCLUSION
For those of you still reading, congrats! The conclusion is obvious by the "Total Time For All Benchmarks Test." The best journaling file system to choose based upon these results would be: JFS, ReiserFS or XFS depending on your needs and what types of files you are dealing with. I was quite surprised how slow ext3 was overall, as many distributions use this file system as their default file system. Overall, one should choose the best file system based upon the properties of the files they are dealing with for the best performance possible
This should be obligatory reading, followed by this . It's amazing how many people are paying search engine optimizers to tell them what these links says.
So what does the Sun Java Desktop gives me if I buy it? These are the key features:
Desktop Features
o A GNOME desktop environment
o StarOffice Productivity Suite
o Mozilla web browser
o Evolution mail directory and calendar clients
o Instant Messaging support for multiple services
o Linux operating system
o Java System Update Services
o Globalization, Internationalization and Localization Support
Developer Tools
o Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) v1.4.2_04, including the Java SDK
o Sun Java Studio Standard 5 update 1 Technology Preview
o NetBeans IDE version 3.6
System Management Tools and Client Configuration Tools
o The Java Desktop System Configuration Manager
o Sun Control Station 2.1
o The Remote Desktop Takeover
With a few exceptions, such as the System management tools, most of these features can be found in a normal linux system. I'm obviously missing something here? (I hope - enlighten me please)
"A new generation of spam is born with the launch of FreeFi's new Wi-Fi advertising network....
Excuse me, but that's not spam. It's like calling the ads on the side of slashdot for spam. It's not. Spam is something you didn't ask for. You do indeed ask for these ads when you chose to use their free service.
I hate spam as much as the next guy, so no reason to cry wolf!
Let me start by saying that I don't know what I'm talking about - I'm just speculating.
Anyway, we've read a lot about how Microsoft regrets that they didn't go into the search engine market sooner, and that now Google is so far ahead it will be hard to beat. "If you can't beat them...." Does this IPO mean that anyone can buy the stocks? As many as they like? So what prevents Microsoft (with their million of dollars) to just buy the stock majority of Google and call it a day?
It's true that Amiga once ruled the earth. But today, it has long been surpassed. Except for one thing. Back in the amiga days I mounted a piece of RAM as a disk, using it for temporary downloads etc. I have yet to see a ramdisk for win32 that works just as seemless.
Only 45 hits on Google if you search for "linspire" at the time of writing. I wonder how many hits there will be tomorrow at the same time. Anyway, they seemed to have known this for quite some time. From a whois on linspire.com and linspire.org:
Man - I can't even watch a movie or listen to music without feeling like a criminal. It's time we invented a new form of entertainment. Open source entertainment with a GPL like license. In the 90's it was "information wants to be free". In the new millenium, entertainment wants to be free. (That's not free as in beer)
Standard disclaimer - I am an entertainer, and I do both "freeware" shows (open mic nite) and paid shows.
Real is indeed its own worst enemy. The technology behind the product is great! But:
The hiding of the free player
The non-standard installer
The annoying "messages" that cannot be turned off
are all reasons why people don't use their product any more. If they woke up and smelled the coffee, they could easily win back market shares.
I have mixed feelings about this. At first I thought "if linux is better than windows, why try to be windows". But then I realised, that this is exactly what I'd show people whom I wanted to convert to linux. For most people, the GUI is Windows. They don't know about kernel stuff or hardware compatibility issues (if it works). If they saw this, with a properly wordes sales pitch "free, no viruses, cool geek factor" etc, I think a "sale" would be easier.
I do have concerns about the legal side of the project, but other posters has already made good comments about that.
Yes I believe this is a step in the right direction. As a matter of fact, I believe it's about fscking time they cleaned up their act. I don't know what percentage of those with fake info are spammers, but I do know, that 99% of the spammers has fake whois information. This makes it pretty hard to track them down, and hit them where it hurts - on their pouch. Spammers couldn't care less about losing an account or two - there's only one thing that can hurt them - that's going after them and their money. Fake whois information was an effective shield against that.
I think this is a great idea, although I'd like to be able to check boxes of stuff I don't like to see. Imagine being able to tick off commercial sites as a negative. Then, when I'm searching for info on my new digital camera I won't have to wade through dozens of commercial sites offering it for sale.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, soldiers who abuse prisoners can receive a lot more than a year in prison.
No - the maximum penalty under the military law he was charged is one year.
Strange, because USA is still #1 in all 3 categories listed (scroll down) on spamhaus.org
/me sets mode -rant
Besides - who cares where the exploited servers are? Soon (my guess is - less than 6 months) the majority of spams will be sent via zombies taken over by some worm or virus. These computers will be spread all over the world. The only solution is to nip it in the butt. Make spam illegal (as it is in Europe) and sue the pants of the spammers. Enough of those stupid atempts to pretend something is being done. We all know that the spammers are from Gods own country - hijacking machines whereever it's easiest.
I hope the image search will include a "safe mode" like the "real" google image search to filter out explicit nudity. I mean - my girlfriend uses my computer as well - and if she found those pictures I've stored in " ./ ../. /ex-girlfriends/" I'm toast.
I mean - if this was on a *nix system, it would index only the files I've got read permissions to. But on a windows system, there's no such (working) thing, so it would index everything. Could this pose a problem in a multiuser environment? Not to mention temporary files?
By the way - my girlfriend doesn't read slashdot.
I've been looking for something like this for a long time. Unfortunately, plogging doesn't satisfy my every need. So - let me ask the project managers of slashdot (I know you're out there) - what do you use as project collaboration/management tool? Someone posted a link to "Basecamp" which seemed ok (unfortunately it require credit information just to try a free demo). Are there other tools like that? How do they measure up?
I've been thinking about wiki, but it's a tad to difficult to be useful - my teams usually consists of developers, DB people, graphic designers, customers etc. They'd never learn the simple wiki markup.
If people knew how easy it was to "break" simple means of protection, we'd see far less in the media.
If you film a person in backlight, his face will be dark when you see him on tv. Cranking up the contrast (in most cases, just the contrast on the tv will do) shows the face clearly.
If you pixelize the face of a person, he's not recognizeable. But unless he stands completely still, his movements will give enough info to calculate the originating pixels after a couple of minutes.
If you apply a standard mixer filter to a persons voice, it sounds dark and unrecognizeable... Until you run the reverse algorithm.
If you black out sentences with a marker, it's often just a question of holding the paper up agains the light to read it.
I never understood this behaviour anyway. Why show a person on TV that obvoiously not want to be recoznized (however carefully concealed by the production)?
As for documents - I'm pretty sure most documents are available electronically. Why not just delete the stuff you don't want people to see?
Gee - it seems like only yesterday I was flamed for proposing the exact same thing....
This question has been answered over and over.
/. editor saying that.
I must have missed the memo
And the answer is: never.
Please give me a link to a
It would be neither legal nor ethical for Slashdot to mirror/cache content for articles posted on slashdot.
So you're saying that freecache and google are illegal?
Many site relies on banner ad revenue. Caching content would deprive those sites from the revenue generated by traffic. Plus there is the whole copyright issue.
If you don't cache the images, the banners will still show (as google does it).
Site already /.'ed (when will slashdot ever learn to use a cache - either freecahce or make their own?)
Anyway, all rants aside, here's the conclusion from the tests (there were some graphs as well but I couldn't make sense of them anyway):
CONCLUSION
For those of you still reading, congrats! The conclusion is obvious by the "Total Time For All Benchmarks Test." The best journaling file system to choose based upon these results would be: JFS, ReiserFS or XFS depending on your needs and what types of files you are dealing with. I was quite surprised how slow ext3 was overall, as many distributions use this file system as their default file system. Overall, one should choose the best file system based upon the properties of the files they are dealing with for the best performance possible
This should be obligatory reading, followed by this . It's amazing how many people are paying search engine optimizers to tell them what these links says.
Poor webserver is already bending over backwards. Find your mirror here.
So what does the Sun Java Desktop gives me if I buy it? These are the key features:
Desktop Features
o A GNOME desktop environment
o StarOffice Productivity Suite
o Mozilla web browser
o Evolution mail directory and calendar clients
o Instant Messaging support for multiple services
o Linux operating system
o Java System Update Services
o Globalization, Internationalization and Localization Support
Developer Tools
o Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) v1.4.2_04, including the Java SDK
o Sun Java Studio Standard 5 update 1 Technology Preview
o NetBeans IDE version 3.6
System Management Tools and Client Configuration Tools
o The Java Desktop System Configuration Manager
o Sun Control Station 2.1
o The Remote Desktop Takeover
With a few exceptions, such as the System management tools, most of these features can be found in a normal linux system. I'm obviously missing something here? (I hope - enlighten me please)
"A new generation of spam is born with the launch of FreeFi's new Wi-Fi advertising network....
Excuse me, but that's not spam. It's like calling the ads on the side of slashdot for spam. It's not. Spam is something you didn't ask for. You do indeed ask for these ads when you chose to use their free service.
I hate spam as much as the next guy, so no reason to cry wolf!
Let me start by saying that I don't know what I'm talking about - I'm just speculating.
Anyway, we've read a lot about how Microsoft regrets that they didn't go into the search engine market sooner, and that now Google is so far ahead it will be hard to beat. "If you can't beat them...." Does this IPO mean that anyone can buy the stocks? As many as they like? So what prevents Microsoft (with their million of dollars) to just buy the stock majority of Google and call it a day?
It's true that Amiga once ruled the earth. But today, it has long been surpassed. Except for one thing. Back in the amiga days I mounted a piece of RAM as a disk, using it for temporary downloads etc. I have yet to see a ramdisk for win32 that works just as seemless.
Funny mental images - A penis enlargement spam translated to sign language :)
Only 45 hits on Google if you search for "linspire" at the time of writing. I wonder how many hits there will be tomorrow at the same time.
Anyway, they seemed to have known this for quite some time. From a whois on linspire.com and linspire.org:
Record created on 15-Jan-2004.
Personally, I'd rather see smart drivers in stupid cars.
Really - the solution to drowsy drivers shouldn't be of a technical nature, but of educational nature. If you're drowsy don't drive the fsckin car .
Man - I can't even watch a movie or listen to music without feeling like a criminal. It's time we invented a new form of entertainment. Open source entertainment with a GPL like license. In the 90's it was "information wants to be free". In the new millenium, entertainment wants to be free. (That's not free as in beer)
Standard disclaimer - I am an entertainer, and I do both "freeware" shows (open mic nite) and paid shows.
The hiding of the free player
The non-standard installer
The annoying "messages" that cannot be turned off
are all reasons why people don't use their product any more. If they woke up and smelled the coffee, they could easily win back market shares.
I read the article - what did it say after "blah blah blah blah"?
I have mixed feelings about this. At first I thought "if linux is better than windows, why try to be windows". But then I realised, that this is exactly what I'd show people whom I wanted to convert to linux. For most people, the GUI is Windows. They don't know about kernel stuff or hardware compatibility issues (if it works). If they saw this, with a properly wordes sales pitch "free, no viruses, cool geek factor" etc, I think a "sale" would be easier.
I do have concerns about the legal side of the project, but other posters has already made good comments about that.
Yes I believe this is a step in the right direction. As a matter of fact, I believe it's about fscking time they cleaned up their act. I don't know what percentage of those with fake info are spammers, but I do know, that 99% of the spammers has fake whois information. This makes it pretty hard to track them down, and hit them where it hurts - on their pouch. Spammers couldn't care less about losing an account or two - there's only one thing that can hurt them - that's going after them and their money. Fake whois information was an effective shield against that.
Darn - for a minute there I thought it read PMS limit . I'd sure like such a tool. Especially in...(counting)... 8 days.
I think this is a great idea, although I'd like to be able to check boxes of stuff I don't like to see. Imagine being able to tick off commercial sites as a negative. Then, when I'm searching for info on my new digital camera I won't have to wade through dozens of commercial sites offering it for sale.
Or Steven Spielbergs special effects team working on his next SciFi movie