Ah, but he isn't giving away 95% of his wealth. Or at least, not in the straightforward sense of the phrase.
He's actually investing 95% of his wealth in "foundations". The foundations then invest the money in places like the stock market. The profits they make from other people then get spent on charity.
So none of Gates' money actually gets given away. It stays with the foundation. It's just leverage to extract charity funds from other people.
If you block by IP, it'll discourage them from trying any more tricks. If they switch the IP every day, and more and more of their IP addresses are permanently blocked from resolving on huge chunks of the Internet, sooner or later they'll run out of IP addresses. Which would be highly amusing.
Another difference is that modern MTAs are written to deal with Internet e-mail specifically, whereas Sendmail has a generalized parser configurable to deal with pretty much any syntax you want--with all the horrendous complexity and potential for buffer overflows that implies.
Plus sendmail rewrites headers even if it doesn't need to, which is just plain dumb and causes all kinds of problems.
Debian, Gentoo and the like have already ditched sendmail. The only reason commercial distributions like RedHat keep it around is name recognition, I suspect.
Something you seem to have missed is that Linux is open source, making it much easier to find exploitable holes. Imagine how many exploits would be uncovered in Windows if we could read the source code.
Yeah, and judging from your buying the "milk is poison" tinfoil hat conspiracy theory, you wouldn't recognize reality if it rubbed itself up against your face spraying reality musk.
I swear, if Redhat ever actually gets into the black, I'm switching to Apple, stat. Fuck market share--I want something where nobody will bother me with free tech support requests.
My idea of tech support for RedHat users is telling them to install a distribution that doesn't completely suck for desktop use. If they insist on something RPM-based, they should at least use Mandrake.
The only sensible place for RedHat is business servers, multiprocessor RAID systems in big black boxes. I use it for that. Only for that. And it's still painful.
Actually, I think the moral argument is pretty good too. As discussed above, telemarketers make money by selling people things they wouldn't otherwise buy, using high pressure tactics and abusing people's goodwill.
I don't see a hell of a lot of moral difference between gently mugging granny for $50, and pressure-selling her $3000 of windows she doesn't want or need.
Of course we're blaming the users. The users choose to purchase PCs running Windows.
When people choose to buy Pop-Tarts, microwave them, and then eat them, we feel they have nobody to blame but themselves for the burns. Yet somehow when they buy Windows, ignore the safety directions that tell them to keep up to date with software updates, and hose the Internet, everyone seems reluctant to blame the idiots.
Windows is not necessary. I've never purchased any Microsoft software, and I'm doing just fine. In my view, anyone who decides to spend money on a PC running Windows deserves what they get. It's not like it's some big secret that Windows is full of bugs, hard to use and unreliable--just read any PC magazine, or look at the shelves full of books like "1001 Windows Annoyances" and "How To Get Out Of DLL Hell".
I bounce any "you have a virus" notification with a 5xx error, as I don't run Windows. Let the fuckwit admin whose system is sending the mail get buried under the bounces.
Pretty soon it looks like I'll have to start bouncing "mailbox full" notifications similarly.
I bought the O'Reilly Java Enterprise CD Bookshelf.
The key factor: the content is in an open format. It's just HTML. So I've been able to stick it on a private web server, index it all, and I can access it from wherever I'm working.
I'd buy the D&D 3.5E hardbacks if they were available as e-books.
Hmm, my feeling about F-Zero GX was that the controls were awful. There was no sense that the vehicle had any momentum at all. Maybe it's partly the Nintendo controllers that are the problem.
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Episode I was such a turkey you could have carved it up for Thanksgiving. I didn't even bother to rent Episode II.
It's sad that George Lucas, who gave us the truly brilliant THX-1138, has devolved from great artist to talentless hack.
Ah, but he isn't giving away 95% of his wealth. Or at least, not in the straightforward sense of the phrase.
He's actually investing 95% of his wealth in "foundations". The foundations then invest the money in places like the stock market. The profits they make from other people then get spent on charity.
So none of Gates' money actually gets given away. It stays with the foundation. It's just leverage to extract charity funds from other people.
I think a million a year trust fund counts as "rich". It's certainly in the top 1%.
If you block by IP, it'll discourage them from trying any more tricks. If they switch the IP every day, and more and more of their IP addresses are permanently blocked from resolving on huge chunks of the Internet, sooner or later they'll run out of IP addresses. Which would be highly amusing.
Yeah, Norton Internet Security and other similar programs explicitly block referer headers to protect the user's privacy.
And it's not like nobody runs Norton.
Eh, I think smail was a perfectly good real MTA back in 1991. Sendmail's been superfluous for a long time.
Another difference is that modern MTAs are written to deal with Internet e-mail specifically, whereas Sendmail has a generalized parser configurable to deal with pretty much any syntax you want--with all the horrendous complexity and potential for buffer overflows that implies.
Plus sendmail rewrites headers even if it doesn't need to, which is just plain dumb and causes all kinds of problems.
Debian, Gentoo and the like have already ditched sendmail. The only reason commercial distributions like RedHat keep it around is name recognition, I suspect.
Yes.
Debian: apt-get update
Gentoo: emerge sync
RedHat: up2date, or autorpm, or apt-get update
SuSE: you, or autorpm
Mandrake: urpmi update
You can get autorpm to e-mail you a daily summary too.
They're sending 550 for mail to Postmaster too, which is a breach of the RFCs.
Specifically, RFC 1123 section 5.2.7.
Something you seem to have missed is that Linux is open source, making it much easier to find exploitable holes. Imagine how many exploits would be uncovered in Windows if we could read the source code.
In fact, you don't need to imagine it. Microsoft are on the record as stating that it's one of the reasons why they can't possibly reveal Windows source mode widely.
Apple did.
Yeah, and judging from your buying the "milk is poison" tinfoil hat conspiracy theory, you wouldn't recognize reality if it rubbed itself up against your face spraying reality musk.
Oh, I get it. It has "inner beauty".
Which is supposed to be a reasonable excuse for ignoring 20 years of user interface development and usability studies.
1986 called, they want their screen shot back.
My idea of tech support for RedHat users is telling them to install a distribution that doesn't completely suck for desktop use. If they insist on something RPM-based, they should at least use Mandrake.
The only sensible place for RedHat is business servers, multiprocessor RAID systems in big black boxes. I use it for that. Only for that. And it's still painful.
Wow, two songs I could sing along to. That's better than I expected.
When is Mark Mothersbaugh going to release DEVO Karaoke discs?
Dear dumbass:
Go to Apple.com.
Actually, I think the moral argument is pretty good too. As discussed above, telemarketers make money by selling people things they wouldn't otherwise buy, using high pressure tactics and abusing people's goodwill.
I don't see a hell of a lot of moral difference between gently mugging granny for $50, and pressure-selling her $3000 of windows she doesn't want or need.
I have some junk I was going to sell on eBay. Why not call him up and see if he wants to buy it first?
In fact, why don't we all do it?
I mean, that's exactly what telemarketers do, so they can hardly complain if we do it to them, can they?
So don't call and be abusive. Don't call and argue. No, call and try to sell him stuff.
"Hey, Mr Rocca, I was wondering if you need a new 17" computer monitor..."
Flash as a built-in browser feature? Sure, I can see Macromedia releasing source code so it can be incorporated into Mozilla. Yeah, that'll happen.
Yeah, well, the urban poor would be better off with fewer badly fed, badly behaved and unhealthy children, too.
Of course we're blaming the users. The users choose to purchase PCs running Windows.
When people choose to buy Pop-Tarts, microwave them, and then eat them, we feel they have nobody to blame but themselves for the burns. Yet somehow when they buy Windows, ignore the safety directions that tell them to keep up to date with software updates, and hose the Internet, everyone seems reluctant to blame the idiots.
Windows is not necessary. I've never purchased any Microsoft software, and I'm doing just fine. In my view, anyone who decides to spend money on a PC running Windows deserves what they get. It's not like it's some big secret that Windows is full of bugs, hard to use and unreliable--just read any PC magazine, or look at the shelves full of books like "1001 Windows Annoyances" and "How To Get Out Of DLL Hell".
I bounce any "you have a virus" notification with a 5xx error, as I don't run Windows. Let the fuckwit admin whose system is sending the mail get buried under the bounces.
Pretty soon it looks like I'll have to start bouncing "mailbox full" notifications similarly.
I bought the O'Reilly Java Enterprise CD Bookshelf.
The key factor: the content is in an open format. It's just HTML. So I've been able to stick it on a private web server, index it all, and I can access it from wherever I'm working.
I'd buy the D&D 3.5E hardbacks if they were available as e-books.
Hmm, my feeling about F-Zero GX was that the controls were awful. There was no sense that the vehicle had any momentum at all. Maybe it's partly the Nintendo controllers that are the problem.