Spammers don't use their own ISP's e-mail servers. They connect directly to "relays" (mis-configured e-mail systems, often in asian countries), and relay the spam through them.
So as far as your local Cable or DSL provider can tell, they aren't doing anything different than anyone else using up a bit of bandwidth.
Sorry. There are tons of people who have been working at killing spam from all available angles for over 10 years (I was one of them). But there's just too many stupid people in the world to close it all up. Too many SOBs in far off lands running open relays, too many courts ruling against blacklists, too many people running blacklists poorly, too many stupid ISPs who don't have the time, money, or willingness/resolve/guts to do something productive.
So, due to the overwhelming stupiditiy of humanity, you're screwed.
I'm not. I have the good sense to stay away from companies, friends, and systems who would use my e-mail address inappropritaely and result in me getting spam. As such, I've never gotten A SINGLE SPAM in the e-mail address that I've had for 5 years now.
Having this type of judgement skills is rare. I work in a company full of smart people, and few of them are capable of this. All it takes is one mistake, and plonk, you're screwed. .
> I have in excess of 25 GB of MP3 files which have taken years to collect hence my need for reliable storage.
Backing up such data *is* problematic.
An EXCELLENT cheap (near zero cost) fun off-site redundant storage solution is to get together with some friends and pass around a high-capacity hard-drive! You get all your friends mp3's, your friends get all of yours, and each one of you is a completely redundant off-site backup of all your wonderful mp3s! Sneakernet rules!
Ok ok, you're incremental backup isn't "nightly" but rather becomes "monthly", but hey, you can always do the weekly incrementals to a CDR/CDRW and use that after the initial big burst of "traffic".
. Bah, I was slightly mistaken. We do have a picture of the Apollo 17 Lunar Module on the surface taken from a spacecraft in orbit around the Moon - but it was taken from the Apollo 17 Command Module:
There *are* pictures taken from an orbiting satelite that show a tiny dot and a shadow that is one of the moon landers. I've got the image at home, I can't find it right now using google. I don't think it was Hubble, I think it was one of the Satelites that recently mapped the surface of the moon again.
What just supprised the heck out of me, was the results of my searches on Google!!!
HALF OF ALL GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS wrt the apollo moon landings, are either webpages refuting the claims that the landings were fake, or sights reporting on the "fake moon landings"!!!!!
What's the difference between A) Having two pages, one where a person downloads Linux with the source, and another page where one downloads binary-only drivers - and B) A single page where you download Linux with it's source and the binary-only drivers..
I don't understand the functional difference.
If nVidia's drivers were derivative of GPL'd source code then they would have no right to distribute them at all, with or without the Kernel.
Right, but they aren't derivative of the GPL. They just created a driver. Why does "only distributing the driver" protect them?
Unfortunately, it is mentioned. On the tech specs reduced speed when running under battery is listed as footnote 2.
But are "footnotes" good enough? They might not be. If you go buy a car, and the dealer tells you something that is factually incorrect, you can still get the deal quashed as "unfair or deceptive" despite the fact that what the dealer said is contradicted in some fine print somewhere in the manual.
So, my read is that *if* the big-ass titles and what not are so big and prevelant, and can be construed to create a reasonable expectation that it is a real full-speed all-the-time part, it might over-ride any fine print.
Any affirmation of fact or promise or description of the goods creates an express warranty which is breached if the goods sold and delivered do not conform to the factual affirmation or description or if the promise made is broken.
You can't say in big huge text "2 GHz" and have a tiny obscure linked footnote that says "only when cooled using Liquid Nitrogen, runs at 750 MHz when at STP".
You have the most screwed up logic and agruments on every single point.
Not sure if I agree with that. Real conflict still generally build up over time. Even for the Iraq situation the US took quite a few months (a year?) to build up its forces surrounding Iraq before it began the offensive.
No it doesn't!! You think you're going to be able to predict the next war far enough in advance, *and* get political buy in from everybody to quadruple the military budget and somehow magically get 3 more batallions of recruits recruited and trained in time? What are you NUTS? Just where the hell do you get the EXPERIENCE and HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE to second guess every single military historian and experienced military leader the western world has?
The constant criticism of the Canadian military, and calls for multi-billion dollar budget increases, might have some of its roots in the arms industry- An industry that wants to make us believe that we need loads of high tech equipment to sit rotting in warehouses.... Our individual soldiers are paid quite well (I was surprized when a friend recently joined to see the pay rates), have fantastic personal equipment and good bases.
The calls are only constant because there is CONSTANTLY something so decrepid that at all times there is at least one thing that needs emergency attention!!! That's NOT a good standard operating procedure! Waiting until a military system becomes a hazard and a deathtrap for 10 years is not the right way to figure out that it's time to upgrade.
You can't use the stupid politician's intransigence and political hot potato handling of the chopper program to argue that we don't really need flyable choppers on the decks of our ships.
Rotting in warehouses??? WTF? The buying programs have been cut to the bone, we don't have a single system that isn't unavailable for extended periods of time because we don't have enough of them! That includes our "big new modern navy", which is right on the razors edge of being too small to participate.
Our individual soldiers are NOT paid quite well, and only have fantastic personal equipment because we finally managed to convince the government to buy them new equipment, the same equipment people like you rallied against as being "un-needed" and "arms-industry sales tactics"!
it was a self-pursued role,
NO IT WASN'T! The Americans would LOVE to not have to pay for it all by themselves. If you don't think fighting people like Sadam Hussein, Al-Qaida, North Korea, or a future unstable China (think ahead stupid) is worth anything, come out and say it!
You don't want to spend money on the Military, but you keep pointing out our "fabulous equipment", which is entirely a result of us HAVING SPENT money on the military despite the prior opposition of people like you. WTF?
We are a relatively small country, and the simple reality is that our military will always pale aside the US'
That is the stupidest most useless comment ever. Taken to it's non-logical extereme, we might as well not pay ANY ATTENTION what so ever to JUST HOW SMALL we are, PROPORTIONALLY, compared to ANYBODY! Why? Why should we spend 2 times less per person to keep the world free than the Finnish or Belgians!??
Actually the causative factor for us leaving Afghanistan was probably the death of 4 soldiers by friendly fire
NO IT WASN'T. You're pulling this stuff out of your ASS!!!
I'm not saying that coltan production hasn't caused hell in Central Africa. It has. But 2001 demand for Ta2O5 was 2600 tons, of which ONLY 2-400 tons were produced in Central Africa. That's only 10 percent. A FAR FAR cry from 80 percent.
Production has been ramping up in Australia by SoG, they were expecting to produce 1200 tons this year, and are expected to reach 2600 tons per year by 2006.
So there is a huge alternative to "conflict coltan". You just need to make sure that you buy your Ta caps from people who only get their raw material from a non-central-african source.
. I've read in-depth technical analyses of the Apollo fire, and I have an MSc in Physics.
Before that, *no-one* knew that a spark in one place could cause a fire TWO FEET AWAY.
(You get little hot bits of burnt dust floating around in a pure oxygen atmosphere, and they keep themselves hot enough to set something else afire quite a ways away. Of course things are *easier* to set fire to in that atmosphere as well.)
Altimiters are usually "dials", even if "electronic dials". I'd imagine that perhaps they don't have a method of instantly setting it to zero, but rather they have to have it wind down to zero. Seeing the altimiter wind down to zero really quick would, well, cause even worse problems.
"Am I descending *really fast*, or is my altimiter broken? Ummmmm......"
If it was possible to live a health lifetime that's N times as long as we currently enjoy, *and* if it was possible to have children near the end of that longer life, then you could still have children. Just not at the beginning of your life. Instead near the end. Win win!
> That's the point. The GPL works for you, at the expense of others.
This statement is only applicable since we're talking about publicly owned code and how we want the public to have access to said code outside of the group that developed it.
In the standard case of "individual/corporation develops GPL code on own", the "others" don't have nor deserve any inalienable rights.
> You assume your interests should take precedence over the public good. They don't.
In this discussion, the people you refer to using the term "your interests" *are* the public, the people who funded the code. This entire discussion is about what will maximize the public good.
It's as close to debating socialism as we'll ever get here;)
If he's a taxpayer, it *is* his code to start with!
To the person who quoted "public domain status is compatible with the GNU GPL".
True, but that means you can use and integrate public-domain code into a GPL project. It does NOT imply that public-domain is as "good and useful" a license, from an overall perspective, as GPL or BSD.
Does the Athlon have a hardware command like this? I know that Intel's chips do... but I suspect it's only the newest Athlons that do, older ones do not have it and so get no benefit.
True, and he probably doesn't need 500,000 clients, so no big deal. Better that his efforts go to analyzing the output than trying to make something so perfectly stable and run that it attracts more CPUs than his group can handle...
I think I used the word buggy too many times, I was never driven to anger. It just wasn't worth it to keep running it, as far as I was concerned. No hard feelings and no harm done, well not too much. My time is in fact relatively cheap;)
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Short Depth monitors (like the Viewsonic PS790) have horrible quality problems. You either have abberations (one color shifted a pixel off) near the edges of the screen (which on a 19inch are pretty big) and a sharp center, or you have the same problem or a vague fuzziness in the center of the screen while having sharp edges. There's a big reason they dropped "short depth" as a "big feature point" and are now all over "flat", and quality and warranty-cost issues are part of it.
AND to top it all off, "short depth" wrt tubes means 17 inches deep instead of 18.5 inches. Ooooh, so much more compact.
I ran folding for a couple months a year ago. I tried again in the spring for a couple weeks.
Each time I quit and removed it from my system.
Buggy installs, buggy software, buggy server statistics, unoptimized code, and a direct quote from Vijay that said "I don't care" about those issues because he already had enough people running the client for his purposes. Or at least that's my opinion of and the feeling that I was left with.
...In other news today John Markeov was fired from his position as head of Metropolis facilities security, due to the overall lack of security and predictable procedures revelaed by Action 5 last week. The Office of Homeland Security is conducting a review of the city's security measures, and until the review is complete the State Police will be overseeing and providing security at the city's critical facilities.
The head of homeland security has announced a bottoms-up review of the security measures and emergency plans undertaken by cities around the country... . . Here in Toronto an intrusion by someone at a water facility in the month following 9-11, and the news reporters follow ups, revealed that most of Toronto's water facilities are unguarded, and under-instrumented in that no electronic intrusion detection systems are in place (less security than most home security systems).
Heh, yup. I had to watch a friend in 4th year physics dunk his fingers into and out-of liquid nitrogen really fast a few times before I was brave enough to try it myself.
As advertised, the flash-boiled liquid nitrogen insulates your fingers for a fraction of a second. You can't keep doing it though, lest your tissue cool down too much, and who knows *exactly* how slow/fast you can do it without injury, and no-one was willing to try and find out:)
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But please!! Keep making the old stuff. I can't even walk to walmart or target or shopko anymore and buy a tub of decent pieces when I run short of 2 x 4's. They don't sell them anymore. I'm stuck with online sales only now.
How about Mega Bloks? I bought a big huge Battleship box full of 780 pieces for like $30 CDN. That works out to around 2.5 cents USD per piece, and this ship is almost entirely "standard" type blocks. Unbelievable value as compared to the "premium overpriced" Lego brand bricks.
Boy I sure am tempted by that Lego brand Star Destroyer though;)
Slashdot Mirror
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Uh, no, sorry, doesn't work that way.
Spammers don't use their own ISP's e-mail servers. They connect directly to "relays" (mis-configured e-mail systems, often in asian countries), and relay the spam through them.
So as far as your local Cable or DSL provider can tell, they aren't doing anything different than anyone else using up a bit of bandwidth.
Sorry. There are tons of people who have been working at killing spam from all available angles for over 10 years (I was one of them). But there's just too many stupid people in the world to close it all up. Too many SOBs in far off lands running open relays, too many courts ruling against blacklists, too many people running blacklists poorly, too many stupid ISPs who don't have the time, money, or willingness/resolve/guts to do something productive.
So, due to the overwhelming stupiditiy of humanity, you're screwed.
I'm not. I have the good sense to stay away from companies, friends, and systems who would use my e-mail address inappropritaely and result in me getting spam. As such, I've never gotten A SINGLE SPAM in the e-mail address that I've had for 5 years now.
Having this type of judgement skills is rare. I work in a company full of smart people, and few of them are capable of this. All it takes is one mistake, and plonk, you're screwed.
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Dang it. Only 42k per page. Makes it pretty hard to slashdot.
Come on people, we can do better!!!
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Nahh, that was all the people in Ireland getting pissed off that they can't see anything on the web outside of Ireland.
> I have in excess of 25 GB of MP3 files which have taken years to collect hence my need for reliable storage.
Backing up such data *is* problematic.
An EXCELLENT cheap (near zero cost) fun off-site redundant storage solution is to get together with some friends and pass around a high-capacity hard-drive! You get all your friends mp3's, your friends get all of yours, and each one of you is a completely redundant off-site backup of all your wonderful mp3s! Sneakernet rules!
Ok ok, you're incremental backup isn't "nightly" but rather becomes "monthly", but hey, you can always do the weekly incrementals to a CDR/CDRW and use that after the initial big burst of "traffic".
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It also refuses to render with Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 on NT 4.
And the UseNix site (html version) can not be used without a username and password.
Move along, nothing to see here.
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Bah, I was slightly mistaken. We do have a picture of the Apollo 17 Lunar Module on the surface taken from a spacecraft in orbit around the Moon - but it was taken from the Apollo 17 Command Module:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap020628.html
This of course would never satisfy the disbelievers. Oh well. Very cool pic.
There *are* pictures taken from an orbiting satelite that show a tiny dot and a shadow that is one of the moon landers. I've got the image at home, I can't find it right now using google. I don't think it was Hubble, I think it was one of the Satelites that recently mapped the surface of the moon again.
What just supprised the heck out of me, was the results of my searches on Google!!!
HALF OF ALL GOOGLE SEARCH RESULTS wrt the apollo moon landings, are either webpages refuting the claims that the landings were fake, or sights reporting on the "fake moon landings"!!!!!
FFS.
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What??
What's the difference between A) Having two pages, one where a person downloads Linux with the source, and another page where one downloads binary-only drivers - and B) A single page where you download Linux with it's source and the binary-only drivers..
I don't understand the functional difference.
If nVidia's drivers were derivative of GPL'd source code then they would have no right to distribute them at all, with or without the Kernel.
Right, but they aren't derivative of the GPL. They just created a driver. Why does "only distributing the driver" protect them?
Unfortunately, it is mentioned. On the tech specs reduced speed when running under battery is listed as footnote 2.
But are "footnotes" good enough? They might not be. If you go buy a car, and the dealer tells you something that is factually incorrect, you can still get the deal quashed as "unfair or deceptive" despite the fact that what the dealer said is contradicted in some fine print somewhere in the manual.
So, my read is that *if* the big-ass titles and what not are so big and prevelant, and can be construed to create a reasonable expectation that it is a real full-speed all-the-time part, it might over-ride any fine print.
Any affirmation of fact or promise or description of the goods creates an express warranty which is breached if the goods sold and delivered do not conform to the factual affirmation or description or if the promise made is broken.
You can't say in big huge text "2 GHz" and have a tiny obscure linked footnote that says "only when cooled using Liquid Nitrogen, runs at 750 MHz when at STP".
You have the most screwed up logic and agruments on every single point.
Not sure if I agree with that. Real conflict still generally build up over time. Even for the Iraq situation the US took quite a few months (a year?) to build up its forces surrounding Iraq before it began the offensive.
No it doesn't!! You think you're going to be able to predict the next war far enough in advance, *and* get political buy in from everybody to quadruple the military budget and somehow magically get 3 more batallions of recruits recruited and trained in time? What are you NUTS? Just where the hell do you get the EXPERIENCE and HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE to second guess every single military historian and experienced military leader the western world has?
The constant criticism of the Canadian military, and calls for multi-billion dollar budget increases, might have some of its roots in the arms industry- An industry that wants to make us believe that we need loads of high tech equipment to sit rotting in warehouses.... Our individual soldiers are paid quite well (I was surprized when a friend recently joined to see the pay rates), have fantastic personal equipment and good bases.
The calls are only constant because there is CONSTANTLY something so decrepid that at all times there is at least one thing that needs emergency attention!!! That's NOT a good standard operating procedure! Waiting until a military system becomes a hazard and a deathtrap for 10 years is not the right way to figure out that it's time to upgrade.
You can't use the stupid politician's intransigence and political hot potato handling of the chopper program to argue that we don't really need flyable choppers on the decks of our ships.
Rotting in warehouses??? WTF? The buying programs have been cut to the bone, we don't have a single system that isn't unavailable for extended periods of time because we don't have enough of them! That includes our "big new modern navy", which is right on the razors edge of being too small to participate.
Our individual soldiers are NOT paid quite well, and only have fantastic personal equipment because we finally managed to convince the government to buy them new equipment, the same equipment people like you rallied against as being "un-needed" and "arms-industry sales tactics"!
it was a self-pursued role,
NO IT WASN'T! The Americans would LOVE to not have to pay for it all by themselves. If you don't think fighting people like Sadam Hussein, Al-Qaida, North Korea, or a future unstable China (think ahead stupid) is worth anything, come out and say it!
You don't want to spend money on the Military, but you keep pointing out our "fabulous equipment", which is entirely a result of us HAVING SPENT money on the military despite the prior opposition of people like you. WTF?
We are a relatively small country, and the simple reality is that our military will always pale aside the US'
That is the stupidest most useless comment ever. Taken to it's non-logical extereme, we might as well not pay ANY ATTENTION what so ever to JUST HOW SMALL we are, PROPORTIONALLY, compared to ANYBODY! Why? Why should we spend 2 times less per person to keep the world free than the Finnish or Belgians!??
Actually the causative factor for us leaving Afghanistan was probably the death of 4 soldiers by friendly fire
NO IT WASN'T. You're pulling this stuff out of your ASS!!!
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I call bullshit.
I'm not saying that coltan production hasn't caused hell in Central Africa. It has. But 2001 demand for Ta2O5 was 2600 tons, of which ONLY 2-400 tons were produced in Central Africa. That's only 10 percent. A FAR FAR cry from 80 percent.
http://www.roskill.co.uk/tantalum.html
Production has been ramping up in Australia by SoG, they were expecting to produce 1200 tons this year, and are expected to reach 2600 tons per year by 2006.
http://www.sog.com.au/web/aboutsgwindex.htm
So there is a huge alternative to "conflict coltan". You just need to make sure that you buy your Ta caps from people who only get their raw material from a non-central-african source.
What, you want to force them to put radioactive smoke-detector like sources and radiation meters inside the machines to obtain true randomness?
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I've read in-depth technical analyses of the Apollo fire, and I have an MSc in Physics.
Before that, *no-one* knew that a spark in one place could cause a fire TWO FEET AWAY.
(You get little hot bits of burnt dust floating around in a pure oxygen atmosphere, and they keep themselves hot enough to set something else afire quite a ways away. Of course things are *easier* to set fire to in that atmosphere as well.)
I'll take a guess.
Altimiters are usually "dials", even if "electronic dials". I'd imagine that perhaps they don't have a method of instantly setting it to zero, but rather they have to have it wind down to zero. Seeing the altimiter wind down to zero really quick would, well, cause even worse problems.
"Am I descending *really fast*, or is my altimiter broken? Ummmmm......"
Bah!
If it was possible to live a health lifetime that's N times as long as we currently enjoy, *and* if it was possible to have children near the end of that longer life, then you could still have children. Just not at the beginning of your life. Instead near the end. Win win!
Because the NYT is such a fine piece of journalism, so *frequently* full of good stories.
> That's the point. The GPL works for you, at the expense of others.
;)
This statement is only applicable since we're talking about publicly owned code and how we want the public to have access to said code outside of the group that developed it.
In the standard case of "individual/corporation develops GPL code on own", the "others" don't have nor deserve any inalienable rights.
> You assume your interests should take precedence over the public good. They don't.
In this discussion, the people you refer to using the term "your interests" *are* the public, the people who funded the code. This entire discussion is about what will maximize the public good.
It's as close to debating socialism as we'll ever get here
If he's a taxpayer, it *is* his code to start with!
To the person who quoted "public domain status is compatible with the GNU GPL".
True, but that means you can use and integrate public-domain code into a GPL project. It does NOT imply that public-domain is as "good and useful" a license, from an overall perspective, as GPL or BSD.
Does the Athlon have a hardware command like this? I know that Intel's chips do... but I suspect it's only the newest Athlons that do, older ones do not have it and so get no benefit.
> Vijay means well
;)
True, and he probably doesn't need 500,000 clients, so no big deal. Better that his efforts go to analyzing the output than trying to make something so perfectly stable and run that it attracts more CPUs than his group can handle...
I think I used the word buggy too many times, I was never driven to anger. It just wasn't worth it to keep running it, as far as I was concerned. No hard feelings and no harm done, well not too much. My time is in fact relatively cheap
Short Depth monitors (like the Viewsonic PS790) have horrible quality problems. You either have abberations (one color shifted a pixel off) near the edges of the screen (which on a 19inch are pretty big) and a sharp center, or you have the same problem or a vague fuzziness in the center of the screen while having sharp edges. There's a big reason they dropped "short depth" as a "big feature point" and are now all over "flat", and quality and warranty-cost issues are part of it.
AND to top it all off, "short depth" wrt tubes means 17 inches deep instead of 18.5 inches. Ooooh, so much more compact.
I ran folding for a couple months a year ago. I tried again in the spring for a couple weeks.
Each time I quit and removed it from my system.
Buggy installs, buggy software, buggy server statistics, unoptimized code, and a direct quote from Vijay that said "I don't care" about those issues because he already had enough people running the client for his purposes. Or at least that's my opinion of and the feeling that I was left with.
The head of homeland security has announced a bottoms-up review of the security measures and emergency plans undertaken by cities around the country...
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Here in Toronto an intrusion by someone at a water facility in the month following 9-11, and the news reporters follow ups, revealed that most of Toronto's water facilities are unguarded, and under-instrumented in that no electronic intrusion detection systems are in place (less security than most home security systems).
Heh, yup. I had to watch a friend in 4th year physics dunk his fingers into and out-of liquid nitrogen really fast a few times before I was brave enough to try it myself.
As advertised, the flash-boiled liquid nitrogen insulates your fingers for a fraction of a second. You can't keep doing it though, lest your tissue cool down too much, and who knows *exactly* how slow/fast you can do it without injury, and no-one was willing to try and find out
But please!! Keep making the old stuff. I can't even walk to walmart or target or shopko anymore and buy a tub of decent pieces when I run short of 2 x 4's. They don't sell them anymore. I'm stuck with online sales only now.
;)
How about Mega Bloks? I bought a big huge Battleship box full of 780 pieces for like $30 CDN. That works out to around 2.5 cents USD per piece, and this ship is almost entirely "standard" type blocks. Unbelievable value as compared to the "premium overpriced" Lego brand bricks.
Boy I sure am tempted by that Lego brand Star Destroyer though