I used to poll SPEWS, as I really, really, hate spam. However we quickly got reports form our users about false positives. While my attitude was "Then your friends should switch ISPs", my users were not happy with that response. After some discussions, I stopped using SPEWS. I may poll it again as an advisory (i.e. marking, but not blocking messages).
However, currently I am polling the Spamhaus SBL and XBL, and me and the users are very, very happy. The XBL catches loads of spam, and we did not have a single false positive.
On this years IFA in Berlin (huge consumer video fair, basically) I had the opportunity to talk to engineers of "some company" who are designing a wireless home entertainment system. Not only is it clear, technically, why DRM makes this all harder, but it was clear that designing all the wireless audio and video was loads of fun to them. Those were geeks like us, showing off their toys like little kids. But DRM to them was a headache. Besides, they want to sell hardware and could not care less where you got the content to play.
>The airline that carries the most passengers - Lufthansa.
As I hold Lufthansa stock I would be happy if it was as you say - but I seriously doubt LH carries the most passengers. Last time I checked the worlds largest airline company was United Airlines. I am happily proven wrong on the point, however.
Not exactly. The poem in question was written by Pastor Martin Niemoeller, and most certainly contains a line about Jews.
On a personal note: I - of course - do not know exactly what Niemoeller's thoughts were. But I do know that he was and adamant pacifist and thus seriously doubt it would ever have crossed his mind to start the poem with "First the came for the gun-owners..."
As far as I recollect, the Supreme Court has made a perfectly clear distiction between "Free Speech" and "Commercial Speech". The later is not free, its freedom stops right at my inbox. And no, I feel I can not be forced to listen to anyone's views at my expense either. Publish it on your site? Print in in a paper? Whatever your heart desires. Walk into my house and speak? Put it into my inbox? Nope, no way.
The parent post phrased this very well: Free Speech my Ass!
But looking at the pictures and the review of the expo I am beginning to doubt I am a geek at all. A part of me is trying to shout "Geez! Get a life!";)
I can vivedly remeber unpacking my first Macintosh, must have been 1984 or something. The package included a little, user installable switch, and this is what the Mac Handbook had to say about it:
"Programmer's Switch The switch causes a reset or an interrupt. If you do not know what a reset or an interrupt is, you do not need it."
It is interesting how a headline can change things... German c't magazine - not suspicious of being pro-software patents - believes that the "good" (i.e. "anti-patent") amendments outweigh the "bad" ones. Their headline is something like "EU Parliament Stops Software Patents.
I would advise you not to get on to the rocket to mars yet, but wait for a thorough analysis of the laws actually passed.
Generally I agree, but wish to stress a point: Another poster has brought up HIV, and here is the real comparison. HIV is deadly, just as Marburg/Ebola Virii. However, HIV relies on the normal behavior of the host to spread (sexual contact), whereas Marburg/Ebola causes the host to bleed heavily from all imaginable orifices and so to quickly spread. Both are "survival strategies", are both get the attention of "all of Man's medical defenses" - to no real result in either case. And we can count ourselves lucky that no Ebola strain affecting humans has become airborne...
I posted this before on a slightly different subject... I wanted to keep an open AP for everyone to use. After a casual talk over a few beers with a lawyer friend of mine, I secured my AP tightly. This of course is for German laws, but I imagine US laws are similar
As far as I know the story, Porsche was "reluctant" to give 4 (four) cars (total value about $1.000.000) to whoever decides what is a legal street car here. While Bill apparently was almost willing to buy them too, the story seems that it was not necessary.
Would you have a list of the various legal and non-legal "non-crash" cars? What are the requirements.
And if I please may rant a little bit: The 959 is good enough for the Autobahn, it is good enough for you. Crash data for the car exists, the Kraftfahrtbundesamt has strict specs for giving the "street legal" verdict.
As I have some software to write, there is little time for a reply. But the largest battle over intellectual property is not, as McBride states, between commercial vendors and the open source community, but between commercial vendors and software pirates - those people who make binary copies of commercial software.
McBride tries to lure us into thinking, he is doing everyone a favor here. No, he is not. Unless he produces more evidence to convince me otherwise, it seems that the real issue is if IBM has violated a licence granted by SCO. If so, it is SCO's good right to sue IBM, and if it shows that the breach of contract has caused massive damage to SCO's revenue then IBM will have to reach deeeeep into their pockets. But it would be prudent to show the Linux community which pieces of SCO code are in the product, so that they can stop using them if they would not like a licence. Excuse me, but holy crap, this is like someone says: "You are using stolen goods. You must pay for them!" "Which good is it, I will gladly return it." "We can't say. Pay up!"
Most of what I have has been payed by my work for commercial, closed source software. And I have used commercial implementations of UNIX Systems (A/UX, IRIX), for my own perverted entertainment. OpenSource remains no more than a hobby to me. But SCO is not doing anyone in the "Closed Source Community" a favor. He is either funded by Microsoft, or completely out of his mind.
Alex
Like all the other people critical of SCO's actions, I am of course on IBM's payroll, but please don't tell anyone!
I have recently removed the spamcop block list for this reason. Even though I consider myself a blacklist-maniac-anti-spam-zealot, sometimes things _really_ hit the wrong people. And I would not say that unless taking a detailed look at the problem.
However, I still support manual blacklisting of hard core spammers. This does decrease their "sales per spam" ratio, hopefully to the point where spamming just is no longer commerical viable.
"Would it account for GOOD MOVIES doing better as well?" For crying out loud: Of course not! Neither because of good scripting, acting, filming, directing, blah. No, good movies do better because of the very hard work of the movie-industry executives.
Just like software does great because of the hard-working CEO, and bad because of the economy, stupid engineers, or the consumers text-messaging each other how bad the software is.
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I used to poll SPEWS, as I really, really, hate spam.
However we quickly got reports form our users about false positives. While my attitude was "Then your friends should switch ISPs", my users were not happy with that response.
After some discussions, I stopped using SPEWS. I may poll it again as an advisory (i.e. marking, but not blocking messages).
However, currently I am polling the Spamhaus SBL and XBL, and me and the users are very, very happy. The XBL catches loads of spam, and we did not have a single false positive.
Alex
Well, this may not be a solution to most of us, but I keep certain calendars on my own webDav server, and edit them right there (using a text editor).
But that is - as I said - not the solution you are looking for.
Bye
Alex
Was I entirely out of the loop? I did not notice that before, and thought this was the original ad...
Or am I just drinking too much?
Alex
Well said, especially "Don't burn yourself out on it. Just pick your favorite pet peeve and go after it.". Just one word of caution:
"Do you get a spam with an 800 number? Call it & tell them you are pissed. It's their dime."
As far as I know, they have your number afterwards (regardless of your caller ID settings), so best to use a payphone for that.
Alex
Did anyone else think, in the "missing trailer", when they showed the text 'In 1999 The Matrix Has You'
"Shouldn't that be 'In Soviet Russia'?"
Could not resist, sorry.
Alex
On this years IFA in Berlin (huge consumer video fair, basically) I had the opportunity to talk to engineers of "some company" who are designing a wireless home entertainment system.
Not only is it clear, technically, why DRM makes this all harder, but it was clear that designing all the wireless audio and video was loads of fun to them. Those were geeks like us, showing off their toys like little kids. But DRM to them was a headache.
Besides, they want to sell hardware and could not care less where you got the content to play.
Just my 0.02
Alex
>The airline that carries the most passengers - Lufthansa.
As I hold Lufthansa stock I would be happy if it was as you say - but I seriously doubt LH carries the most passengers. Last time I checked the worlds largest airline company was United Airlines. I am happily proven wrong on the point, however.
Alex
Not exactly. The poem in question was written by Pastor Martin Niemoeller, and most certainly contains a line about Jews.
On a personal note: I - of course - do not know exactly what Niemoeller's thoughts were. But I do know that he was and adamant pacifist and thus seriously doubt it would ever have crossed his mind to start the poem with "First the came for the gun-owners..."
Alex
As far as I recollect, the Supreme Court has made a perfectly clear distiction between "Free Speech" and "Commercial Speech". The later is not free, its freedom stops right at my inbox.
And no, I feel I can not be forced to listen to anyone's views at my expense either. Publish it on your site? Print in in a paper? Whatever your heart desires. Walk into my house and speak? Put it into my inbox? Nope, no way.
The parent post phrased this very well: Free Speech my Ass!
Alex
Well, that... sounds _way_ cool! ;)
Yes, Compute! was great...
;)
But looking at the pictures and the review of the expo I am beginning to doubt I am a geek at all.
A part of me is trying to shout "Geez! Get a life!"
Alex
I can vivedly remeber unpacking my first Macintosh, must have been 1984 or something. The package included a little, user installable switch, and this is what the Mac Handbook had to say about it:
"Programmer's Switch
The switch causes a reset or an interrupt. If you do not know what a reset or an interrupt is, you do not need it."
I could not have said it better...
Alex
And the Mac OS X client "fire" (see elsewhere in this post) credits the Gaim people for helping them with the protocol.
Alex
It is interesting how a headline can change things... German c't magazine - not suspicious of being pro-software patents - believes that the "good" (i.e. "anti-patent") amendments outweigh the "bad" ones. Their headline is something like "EU Parliament Stops Software Patents.
I would advise you not to get on to the rocket to mars yet, but wait for a thorough analysis of the laws actually passed.
Just my 0.02,
Alex
Generally I agree, but wish to stress a point:
Another poster has brought up HIV, and here is the real comparison. HIV is deadly, just as Marburg/Ebola Virii. However, HIV relies on the normal behavior of the host to spread (sexual contact), whereas Marburg/Ebola causes the host to bleed heavily from all imaginable orifices and so to quickly spread.
Both are "survival strategies", are both get the attention of "all of Man's medical defenses" - to no real result in either case.
And we can count ourselves lucky that no Ebola strain affecting humans has become airborne...
Alex
I posted this before on a slightly different subject...
I wanted to keep an open AP for everyone to use. After a casual talk over a few beers with a lawyer friend of mine, I secured my AP tightly. This of course is for German laws, but I imagine US laws are similar
Alex
As far as I know the story, Porsche was "reluctant" to give 4 (four) cars (total value about $1.000.000) to whoever decides what is a legal street car here.
While Bill apparently was almost willing to buy them too, the story seems that it was not necessary.
IANACI, so I have no real clue.
Alex
Would you have a list of the various legal and non-legal "non-crash" cars? What are the requirements.
And if I please may rant a little bit: The 959 is good enough for the Autobahn, it is good enough for you. Crash data for the car exists, the Kraftfahrtbundesamt has strict specs for giving the "street legal" verdict.
Alex
As I have some software to write, there is little time for a reply.
But the largest battle over intellectual property is not, as McBride states, between commercial vendors and the open source community, but between commercial vendors and software pirates - those people who make binary copies of commercial software.
McBride tries to lure us into thinking, he is doing everyone a favor here. No, he is not.
Unless he produces more evidence to convince me otherwise, it seems that the real issue is if IBM has violated a licence granted by SCO. If so, it is SCO's good right to sue IBM, and if it shows that the breach of contract has caused massive damage to SCO's revenue then IBM will have to reach deeeeep into their pockets.
But it would be prudent to show the Linux community which pieces of SCO code are in the product, so that they can stop using them if they would not like a licence.
Excuse me, but holy crap, this is like someone says: "You are using stolen goods. You must pay for them!" "Which good is it, I will gladly return it." "We can't say. Pay up!"
Most of what I have has been payed by my work for commercial, closed source software. And I have used commercial implementations of UNIX Systems (A/UX, IRIX), for my own perverted entertainment. OpenSource remains no more than a hobby to me.
But SCO is not doing anyone in the "Closed Source Community" a favor. He is either funded by Microsoft, or completely out of his mind.
Alex
Like all the other people critical of SCO's actions, I am of course on IBM's payroll, but please don't tell anyone!
As far as I can tell, this is pretty much it.
I have recently removed the spamcop block list for this reason. Even though I consider myself a blacklist-maniac-anti-spam-zealot, sometimes things _really_ hit the wrong people. And I would not say that unless taking a detailed look at the problem.
However, I still support manual blacklisting of hard core spammers. This does decrease their "sales per spam" ratio, hopefully to the point where spamming just is no longer commerical viable.
My late-night 0.02
Alex
Just like income is taxed, or alcohol, or cigarettes, or any purchase via sales tax.
Alex
And shiney red robes!
They quote as I know it, and as it probably applies in the SCO case:
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean their not out to get you.
Alex
You can't be working in a big corporation...
;)
"Would it account for GOOD MOVIES doing better as well?"
For crying out loud: Of course not! Neither because of good scripting, acting, filming, directing, blah. No, good movies do better because of the very hard work of the movie-industry executives.
Just like software does great because of the hard-working CEO, and bad because of the economy, stupid engineers, or the consumers text-messaging each other how bad the software is.
Alex