That is true as well.. and it's not just larger isps. Spamcop has a short enough turn around time to block the spam mid run(something wich RBL and friends are too slow to do).
Actually having 2 diffrent past employers experiment with it I can tell you first hand that is exactly correct.
The smaller lists are more likely to be a list of previous customers or otherwise targeted.
The larger lists on the other hand are likely to be spidered off websites and ripped from newspostings then minimally cleaned to find the easy to spot bad addresses.
The larger lists are also more likely to get people so pissed off about spam that they are likely to do something about it that involves a loss of resources on the spammer's side.
Our current isp(group telecom) guaruntees 5 9's of reliabillity and it's pretty much a joke. Weve already burned through several years worth of downtime (granted only a coupple hours a month) and who knows what will happen to our "guarunteed service" if/when they finish their slide into bankrupcy.
Mostly ignored?? What planet have you been on for the past several years?
Linux has never been ignored and it can actually be a more desireable breakin from a kiddy prespective since it's much easier to make use of a broken Linux/unix box thanks to the inherent flexability and added bragging abillity to have broken something widely thought to be more secure.
I see regular scans on my servers for wuftpd telnet and open bsd's ftp spectific holes. In fact last year I realised I hadn't secured a freebsd install while I was on the bus home. The next day I rushed in to secure but it was already rooted.(thankfully nothing installed yet)
Running Linux, Freebsd or even OpenBSD has *never* been an excuse for slacking off on keeping servers updated/secured.
MS mastered the CD so they should have checked the contents before they did so. Odds are both parties here are at fault one for introducing it and the other for not finding it.
It's just extremly funny and mostly harmless this time unfortunatly it's not the first time MS shipped a product with a virus.
Quite a few schools. You would be supprised where you can find them. I even had a former isp use an LC-II for pop3 email(although I found this more stable than the next isp's use of NT for the same thing).
Web browsing on dialup sucks. That's on top of the fact that if I were to use it for too many hours out of the day the isp is likely to complain about it.
The $20 I'm paying for broadband is about what I'd pay for dialup ISP anyhow. On top of that I'd actually have to bother getting a phone line and since since I need to be pageable 24 hours for work I'd *still* need a cell phone.
Or the cable cos get to lower prices for non hogs and gain more customers and of course DSL will probably go the same way.
I don't understand why people think they deserve flat rate when the cable cos all have to pay per useage for their uplink.
Why should I have to pay extra so you can download mp3s, movies and iso files when all I ever use my connection for is web browsing, irc, email and SSH? I'm quite happy paying $20 a month instead.
With Videotron I pay $20 a month and pay extra for over use. I actually like it this way because I do all of my downloading from the office anyhow and this way I don't subsidise other people's high b/w use.
Did I mention that's $20 CDN? I'm paying less than 1/3 of what you are when you toss in the exchange rate.
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That is true as well.. and it's not just larger isps. Spamcop has a short enough turn around time to block the spam mid run(something wich RBL and friends are too slow to do).
Actually having 2 diffrent past employers experiment with it I can tell you first hand that is exactly correct.
The smaller lists are more likely to be a list of previous customers or otherwise targeted.
The larger lists on the other hand are likely to be spidered off websites and ripped from newspostings then minimally cleaned to find the easy to spot bad addresses.
The larger lists are also more likely to get people so pissed off about spam that they are likely to do something about it that involves a loss of resources on the spammer's side.
My 2 most common uses of encryption:
SSL: so my credit card info can't be seen by a third party.
SSH: so my root passwords can't be seen by a third party.
How can you possibly argue against encryption?
Lets think about that logically for a second...
What exactly makes you think criminals and terrorists are going to hand over thier keys for escrow?
I don't think this is an invasion of privacy so much as a complete waste of money and a source of unneeded complexity.
Actually that's not true. I used to think that as well but then somone pointed me to the laws in question.
We have a specific exemption for open source or free software. Commercial apps still have regulation (although less ornerous than the US)
Actually that was more of a problem with the old VM not being stable enough and Linus taking a risk on a new one.
Our current isp(group telecom) guaruntees 5 9's of reliabillity and it's pretty much a joke. Weve already burned through several years worth of downtime (granted only a coupple hours a month) and who knows what will happen to our "guarunteed service" if/when they finish their slide into bankrupcy.
Actually most OS have can be rigged to do a proper shutdown if the fans stop provided the motherboard supports it.
If MS does that we win.. think about it.
Why don't more people use Linux? no commercial apps.
Why don't we have commercial apps? Not enough people use Linux.
It's a circular problem that would be fixed the minute somone has a working emulator.
Installed base == native apps.
My parent's house has a woodstove and paper junk mail was a good means of lowering heating costs.
Lets see spam do that.
You may want to doubble check that it's actually using DMA instead of PIO. That setting alone has caused more coasters than anything else I've seen.
Mostly ignored?? What planet have you been on for the past several years?
Linux has never been ignored and it can actually be a more desireable breakin from a kiddy prespective since it's much easier to make use of a broken Linux/unix box thanks to the inherent flexability and added bragging abillity to have broken something widely thought to be more secure.
I see regular scans on my servers for wuftpd telnet and open bsd's ftp spectific holes. In fact last year I realised I hadn't secured a freebsd install while I was on the bus home. The next day I rushed in to secure but it was already rooted.(thankfully nothing installed yet)
Running Linux, Freebsd or even OpenBSD has *never* been an excuse for slacking off on keeping servers updated/secured.
The rules only state that you have to prevent yourself from breeding. With his exposure to that much radiation he may very well be a contestant.
you can't be Serious.
MS mastered the CD so they should have checked the contents before they did so. Odds are both parties here are at fault one for introducing it and the other for not finding it.
It's just extremly funny and mostly harmless this time unfortunatly it's not the first time MS shipped a product with a virus.
Quite a few schools. You would be supprised where you can find them. I even had a former isp use an LC-II for pop3 email(although I found this more stable than the next isp's use of NT for the same thing).
Except that Klez will go right by mcafee and AV programs tend to make people let their guard down.
It's funny but where I work the systems with AV installed get infected by klez more often.
How many Viruses are there for Mac ?
Bell = Bell Canada
It's either the largest or second largest Telco in Canada(I forget and Telus has been growing)
Web browsing on dialup sucks. That's on top of the fact that if I were to use it for too many hours out of the day the isp is likely to complain about it.
The $20 I'm paying for broadband is about what I'd pay for dialup ISP anyhow. On top of that I'd actually have to bother getting a phone line and since since I need to be pageable 24 hours for work I'd *still* need a cell phone.
Or the cable cos get to lower prices for non hogs and gain more customers and of course DSL will probably go the same way.
I don't understand why people think they deserve flat rate when the cable cos all have to pay per useage for their uplink.
Why should I have to pay extra so you can download mp3s, movies and iso files when all I ever use my connection for is web browsing, irc, email and SSH? I'm quite happy paying $20 a month instead.
You want it you pay for it.. it's only fair.
With Videotron I pay $20 a month and pay extra for over use. I actually like it this way because I do all of my downloading from the office anyhow and this way I don't subsidise other people's high b/w use.
Did I mention that's $20 CDN? I'm paying less than 1/3 of what you are when you toss in the exchange rate.
If I fork the kernel I have a working product and the worst that happens is that I end up out of date.
If I fork ICANN I have domain names that no one can see.
One is a lot easier than the other.
Because if linus no longer does what we want we just fork the kernel and tell him to go to hell.
There is no such option with ICANN.
We have this it's called CVV2(the number should be on the back of your card) unfortunatly not everyone uses it yet.