I developed spam filtering infrastructure a few years back while I worked at an ISP.
Password protecting a zip archive still allows for a directory listing. Most filterers that reject email based on filename simply preform a zip contents list, and reject based on the results. Most filtering solutions will separately attempt to extract the ZIP for virus scanning.
Although I don't have any direct experience with it, a zip password and encrypting the filenames you mentioned should allow your email to bypass the file restrictions. A WinRAR self extracting archive may also work, though many full featured filtering solutions will preform the same kind of scans on RAR archives as well.
The point is, I wouldn't rely on encrypting the zipfile alone.
It's worth noting that a SUV driving down the road carrying significantly more energy than a person in a smaller car. For comparison:
The 3/4 ton 4x4 Chevy suburban SUV has a curb weight of 6385lbs (not counting mom and her 2.4 kids.)
At 40MPH it carries 463,030 joules of energy.
At 75MPH it carries 1,627,800 joules of energy.
My old Porsche 944 weighs 2,932 lbs without having me in it.
At approximately 460,000 joules, I be going 59 MPh in that 40 zone.
At approximately 1,600,000 joules, I would be going 111MPh.
Remember also that on the freeway I'm just as concerned about the guy weaving through traffic, the lady who forgot to signal, and the truck with the blind spot as I am about the guy passing me at 100MPh in the left lane.
I'd rather deal with an alert driver doing 110 than a person who is distracted by kids, pets, a cell phone or traffic.
To someone making $15k per year at a crumby job, the risk/reward analysis will probably fall into the pro-spamming category.
I think that anyone capable of operating a world class spamming organization would be qualified for a job that makes far more than $15K per year. Prison being what it is, I think most would rather do something that contributes to society for their $60K/year.
First of all, a seatbelt isn't 'restricting your life.' Asking you to wear one isn't demanding that you give up an essential liberty, nor is it asking you to forgo your pursuit of happiness. Wearing your seatbelt is a small annoyance at best.
Second, it is unreasonable to expect other drivers not to make mistakes. If everyone was a good driver, I could safely fly down the freeway at 140 in traffic. The speed limit of 65 gives me traction and time to respond to other people's boneheaded moves. If you pay attention to the traffic laws, you start to notice that most of them are designed tolerate other people's ineptitude (including seat belt laws.)
Third, as a motorcyclist, I understand how easy it is for someone else to kill me without doing something especially stupid.
I realize that most driver's can't accurately gauge my speed or distance.
I realize that many people will miss me in their mirrors.
I understand that not everyone reacts correctly when I try to pass them.
I understand that people don't always use their blinkers.
I understand that many people lack collision avoidance skills.
I protect myself against other people's mistakes by understanding where they happen, and taking steps to avoid dangerous situations. I am aware of other people's inept driving and I always have a plan to deal with it. I don't simply drive down the road, expecting everyone else in the world to obey the law and drive carefully.
Here's my position: Major accidents are often made up of a large series of small mistakes by both drivers. Liability assigns the full blame of both parties to a single individual.
I don't have a choice whether or not the sun hits my eyes. You have actively made a choice to be less safe when you drive without your seatbelt.
If I intentionally run you down, I think I should be responsible for the full million dollars if you aren't wearing a belt. But I don't think I should be responsible for your suffering and $700,000 when I make a common human error and you intentionally chose to forgo an essential safety device for the sake of a small amount of personal comfort.
Because I'm liable for your dumb, self destructiveness.
I personally carry $300,000 in protection against bodily injury liability in the event of an accident.
If I am found at fault in a collision, I am responsible for all of your damages and medical bills. Your seatbelt can easily make the difference between a $200,000 stay in the hospital, and a $1,000,000 wrongful death verdict.
In my experience, most anti seatbelt and anti helmet people talk about personal responsibility up until the moment that they get hit. Then, it's someone else's job to pay for their facial reconstruction surgery, speech therapy, and years of physical therapy.
I ride motorcycles for fun, and I do it at speeds that would probably get me flamed. I understand risk, and I don't think life should be perfectly safe. I think that personal responsibility means either protecting one's self as best possible, or paying your own bills when your teeshirt, shorts and flip flops are dragged over the pavement at 80 miles per hour.
I'm seeing soooo much mis-information in these threads it's ridiculous. The dynamic range is being compressed, yes. This doesn't make your cds "louder" than a "quiet" cd, it reduces the dynamic range between the sounds so loud doesn't sound so "loud" as quiet.
Main Entry: loud
Pronunciation: 'laud
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hlud; akin to Old High German hlut loud, Latin inclutus famous, Greek klytos, Sanskrit srnoti he hears 1 a : marked by intensity or volume of soundb : producing a loud sound
You might want to check the dictionary before implying that everyone else is ignorant based on a trivial technical detail.
No wonder the new audio format discs haven't taken off.
This statement is 100% incorrect. Super Audio CD and in some cases, DVD Audio do not suffer from the compression problems so prevalent in recent CDs. This is because the primary market for these disks are folks who have better sound systems, and care about the difference in audio quality.
A while back I preformed a direct comparison between a CD and a SACD using Sting's 'brand new day' album. The CD was easily least 10DB (10X) louder, and completely lacked the distinct bass line of the SACD version. It was interesting to note that when played without eliminating the CD version's volume advantage (by ramping the volume up from the minimum during playback,) other listeners in the room felt that they liked the CD version better.
Even though it's relatively trivial to run under windows 2000, officially supporting Windows 2K would require re-qualifying the game for that platform. Basically, that would mean repeating all the testing preformed on Vista/XP on another platform.
Remember that testing a game requires considerable time with different drivers, and video cards.
When you consider the cost and time required, putting a 2K stamp on the box might not make sense.
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Seriously though, if you're interested in the details behind this comment, see the article about it in wikipedia.
Increased weight leads to increased rolling resistance. This is due to the demands of a stronger drive train (with bigger bearings) and more wheel flexation (a large contributor to mechanical losses.)
The world needs more Splashdown fans! For those aren't familiar with Splashdown; you owe it to yourself to give them a listen. Most of their songs are available online.
I highly recommend 50%, Ironspy, and Games you Play. Anything from the Blueshift CD is amazing.
As a side note, I was a little disappointed by Universal Hall Pass but I did think it was worth checking out. Melissa is a great singer.
Dude, Pluto not being a planet is the biggest science news of the last 5 years. I don't know about you, but I spent a chunk of my childhood education learning about my very educated mother, and her nine pizzas. Changing a fundamental fact that we all learned to be true and believed throughout our lives is something scientific that involves almost everyone in America, rather than just us geeks.
Rather than complaining about it, I suggest you see it as an opportunity to explain what a planet is, or try to excite people about other, more important astronomical discoveries.
I volunteered to teach a class for about 45 students at a local high school. Mind you, we're talking about an extremely wealthy highschool. At the less well to do schools things were far worse. While I was there I taught PE to school kids.
Based on this experience, I'd like to share a teacher's perspective on what happened.
Unfortunatly, a lot of kids really do use sickness as an excuse to get out of class, leave, and basically do whatever they want. Imagine for example that someone started yelling "Rape!" every time there was someone around them that they didn't like: At first it works, then it gets old, then it gets ignored, then they get treated like a liar every time they try it. Suddenly if there really is a case of rape, no one comes to help. The boy who cried wolf screwes things for everyone who has a genuine problem.
From the administration and security guard's perspective, I'm pretty confident that they genuinely regret the way they handled things. Perhaps they even wanted to appologize. The problem is that we live in the most lawsuit happy country in the world and an appology of any sort amounts to a confession of guilt and the end of their carreer.
In my experience when people fight each other to get on top, everyone loses. Sure you could get a million bucks by sueing a teacher. But they expect that, and they will treat you like dirt to save their own ass. If they weren't affraid of you, I bet they would treat you a hell of a lot better.
So, who's fault is it? Who cares.
The important question is: who's going to go out of their way to fix it.
I didn't RTFA so this may be covered or off topic, but...
IMO there is a big difference between posting information and posting exploits. If I write a convienent tool to hack something, then publish if for script kiddies everywhere does that improve or reduce security for everyone?
If I descover a new way of breaking into a car and tell everyone, isn't that different than selling the tools to do so?
I agree that spreading the information is valuble. I don't believe that spreading the cracks to use said information is right.
Everything you listed makes it more accessable, IMO. Your average Nascar fan is a lot more likely to appreciate a good ol' gunfight than a lot of . I couldn't personally tell you why it failed, but I can tell you it wasn't because the show was too good for it's own good.
If you're not going to be changing anything, zip tying it all up might make sense.
Exactly. And I'll bet you that most of the pristine wiring jobs we see in this post are in use by clustering centers, where nothing really changes at all.
The Napster brand still has a lot of power with investors. Napster recieved the kind of attention that google also had, making it look very promising to anyone who had a spare million in cash laying around. With the success of iTunes, the online music market seemed very interesting.
Although the Napster name did not attract a lot of the old members, it did give them an edge on signing up new members. How many successful no-name music services are out there, after all? It seems a hard market to break into.
FWIW, I think that buying the Napster name gave them a shot at success. That may have made the price worth it.
The Ford Focus didn't suddenly become expensive the moment that Ford released the $150,000 Ford GT.
I think it's great that Tivo has a new ultra high end model, for those with ultra high end TVs and ultra high end sound systems. The release of this unit did not degrade your Tivo. If anything it will help new technology trickle down into more economical units.
A supercar compliments your $4,000,000 house and trophy wife the way a $800 Tivo compliments your home theater.
And if nothing else, they aren't trying to sell you a $100 "Monster" cable.
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I developed spam filtering infrastructure a few years back while I worked at an ISP.
Password protecting a zip archive still allows for a directory listing. Most filterers that reject email based on filename simply preform a zip contents list, and reject based on the results. Most filtering solutions will separately attempt to extract the ZIP for virus scanning.
Although I don't have any direct experience with it, a zip password and encrypting the filenames you mentioned should allow your email to bypass the file restrictions. A WinRAR self extracting archive may also work, though many full featured filtering solutions will preform the same kind of scans on RAR archives as well.
The point is, I wouldn't rely on encrypting the zipfile alone.
It's worth noting that a SUV driving down the road carrying significantly more energy than a person in a smaller car. For comparison:
The 3/4 ton 4x4 Chevy suburban SUV has a curb weight of 6385lbs (not counting mom and her 2.4 kids.)
At 40MPH it carries 463,030 joules of energy.
At 75MPH it carries 1,627,800 joules of energy.
My old Porsche 944 weighs 2,932 lbs without having me in it.
At approximately 460,000 joules, I be going 59 MPh in that 40 zone.
At approximately 1,600,000 joules, I would be going 111MPh.
Remember also that on the freeway I'm just as concerned about the guy weaving through traffic, the lady who forgot to signal, and the truck with the blind spot as I am about the guy passing me at 100MPh in the left lane.
I'd rather deal with an alert driver doing 110 than a person who is distracted by kids, pets, a cell phone or traffic.
First of all, a seatbelt isn't 'restricting your life.' Asking you to wear one isn't demanding that you give up an essential liberty, nor is it asking you to forgo your pursuit of happiness. Wearing your seatbelt is a small annoyance at best.
Second, it is unreasonable to expect other drivers not to make mistakes. If everyone was a good driver, I could safely fly down the freeway at 140 in traffic. The speed limit of 65 gives me traction and time to respond to other people's boneheaded moves. If you pay attention to the traffic laws, you start to notice that most of them are designed tolerate other people's ineptitude (including seat belt laws.)
Third, as a motorcyclist, I understand how easy it is for someone else to kill me without doing something especially stupid.
I realize that most driver's can't accurately gauge my speed or distance.
I realize that many people will miss me in their mirrors.
I understand that not everyone reacts correctly when I try to pass them.
I understand that people don't always use their blinkers.
I understand that many people lack collision avoidance skills.
I protect myself against other people's mistakes by understanding where they happen, and taking steps to avoid dangerous situations. I am aware of other people's inept driving and I always have a plan to deal with it. I don't simply drive down the road, expecting everyone else in the world to obey the law and drive carefully.
Here's my position: Major accidents are often made up of a large series of small mistakes by both drivers. Liability assigns the full blame of both parties to a single individual.
I don't have a choice whether or not the sun hits my eyes. You have actively made a choice to be less safe when you drive without your seatbelt.
If I intentionally run you down, I think I should be responsible for the full million dollars if you aren't wearing a belt. But I don't think I should be responsible for your suffering and $700,000 when I make a common human error and you intentionally chose to forgo an essential safety device for the sake of a small amount of personal comfort.
Because I'm liable for your dumb, self destructiveness.
I personally carry $300,000 in protection against bodily injury liability in the event of an accident.
If I am found at fault in a collision, I am responsible for all of your damages and medical bills. Your seatbelt can easily make the difference between a $200,000 stay in the hospital, and a $1,000,000 wrongful death verdict.
In my experience, most anti seatbelt and anti helmet people talk about personal responsibility up until the moment that they get hit. Then, it's someone else's job to pay for their facial reconstruction surgery, speech therapy, and years of physical therapy.
I ride motorcycles for fun, and I do it at speeds that would probably get me flamed. I understand risk, and I don't think life should be perfectly safe. I think that personal responsibility means either protecting one's self as best possible, or paying your own bills when your teeshirt, shorts and flip flops are dragged over the pavement at 80 miles per hour.
Let me be the first to ask... Did he happen to be hanging from telephone wire when this incident occurred?
Pronunciation: 'laud
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hlud; akin to Old High German hlut loud, Latin inclutus famous, Greek klytos, Sanskrit srnoti he hears
1 a : marked by intensity or volume of sound b : producing a loud sound
You might want to check the dictionary before implying that everyone else is ignorant based on a trivial technical detail.
This statement is 100% incorrect. Super Audio CD and in some cases, DVD Audio do not suffer from the compression problems so prevalent in recent CDs. This is because the primary market for these disks are folks who have better sound systems, and care about the difference in audio quality.
A while back I preformed a direct comparison between a CD and a SACD using Sting's 'brand new day' album. The CD was easily least 10DB (10X) louder, and completely lacked the distinct bass line of the SACD version. It was interesting to note that when played without eliminating the CD version's volume advantage (by ramping the volume up from the minimum during playback,) other listeners in the room felt that they liked the CD version better.
Even though it's relatively trivial to run under windows 2000, officially supporting Windows 2K would require re-qualifying the game for that platform. Basically, that would mean repeating all the testing preformed on Vista/XP on another platform.
Remember that testing a game requires considerable time with different drivers, and video cards.
When you consider the cost and time required, putting a 2K stamp on the box might not make sense.
Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. (help, get involved!)
Unverifiable material may be challenged and removed.
This article has been tagged since July 2007.
Among the wrong information collected on this page are the name at birth of Bill Clinton and the definition of the NP problems in mathematics."
Seriously though, if you're interested in the details behind this comment, see the article about it in wikipedia.
Increased weight leads to increased rolling resistance. This is due to the demands of a stronger drive train (with bigger bearings) and more wheel flexation (a large contributor to mechanical losses.)
Trust me, the Snapfish employees don't want to see you naked either.
You can hear this effect on computer speakers in many cases, but only a range of 2 ft. Maybe the regulation should be restricted to pilots?
The world needs more Splashdown fans! For those aren't familiar with Splashdown; you owe it to yourself to give them a listen. Most of their songs are available online.
I highly recommend 50%, Ironspy, and Games you Play. Anything from the Blueshift CD is amazing.
As a side note, I was a little disappointed by Universal Hall Pass but I did think it was worth checking out. Melissa is a great singer.
Dude, Pluto not being a planet is the biggest science news of the last 5 years. I don't know about you, but I spent a chunk of my childhood education learning about my very educated mother, and her nine pizzas. Changing a fundamental fact that we all learned to be true and believed throughout our lives is something scientific that involves almost everyone in America, rather than just us geeks.
Rather than complaining about it, I suggest you see it as an opportunity to explain what a planet is, or try to excite people about other, more important astronomical discoveries.
Holy crapshit. I think you've found the missing "???."
1. Steal underpants.
2. Short sell fruit of the loom stock.
3. Profit!
Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: No one enjoys it, and the frog rarely survives.
I volunteered to teach a class for about 45 students at a local high school. Mind you, we're talking about an extremely wealthy highschool. At the less well to do schools things were far worse. While I was there I taught PE to school kids.
Based on this experience, I'd like to share a teacher's perspective on what happened.
Unfortunatly, a lot of kids really do use sickness as an excuse to get out of class, leave, and basically do whatever they want. Imagine for example that someone started yelling "Rape!" every time there was someone around them that they didn't like: At first it works, then it gets old, then it gets ignored, then they get treated like a liar every time they try it. Suddenly if there really is a case of rape, no one comes to help. The boy who cried wolf screwes things for everyone who has a genuine problem.
From the administration and security guard's perspective, I'm pretty confident that they genuinely regret the way they handled things. Perhaps they even wanted to appologize. The problem is that we live in the most lawsuit happy country in the world and an appology of any sort amounts to a confession of guilt and the end of their carreer.
In my experience when people fight each other to get on top, everyone loses. Sure you could get a million bucks by sueing a teacher. But they expect that, and they will treat you like dirt to save their own ass. If they weren't affraid of you, I bet they would treat you a hell of a lot better.
So, who's fault is it? Who cares.
The important question is: who's going to go out of their way to fix it.
I hope this helps. : )
I didn't RTFA so this may be covered or off topic, but...
IMO there is a big difference between posting information and posting exploits. If I write a convienent tool to hack something, then publish if for script kiddies everywhere does that improve or reduce security for everyone?
If I descover a new way of breaking into a car and tell everyone, isn't that different than selling the tools to do so?
I agree that spreading the information is valuble. I don't believe that spreading the cracks to use said information is right.
Sorry, what?
Everything you listed makes it more accessable, IMO. Your average Nascar fan is a lot more likely to appreciate a good ol' gunfight than a lot of . I couldn't personally tell you why it failed, but I can tell you it wasn't because the show was too good for it's own good.
The Napster brand still has a lot of power with investors. Napster recieved the kind of attention that google also had, making it look very promising to anyone who had a spare million in cash laying around. With the success of iTunes, the online music market seemed very interesting. Although the Napster name did not attract a lot of the old members, it did give them an edge on signing up new members. How many successful no-name music services are out there, after all? It seems a hard market to break into. FWIW, I think that buying the Napster name gave them a shot at success. That may have made the price worth it.
Perhaps the problem is that the military shouldn't be using anything at all?
I highly doubt there would have been much outcry about using weapons like these during WW2.
To use a car anology:
The Ford Focus didn't suddenly become expensive the moment that Ford released the $150,000 Ford GT.
I think it's great that Tivo has a new ultra high end model, for those with ultra high end TVs and ultra high end sound systems. The release of this unit did not degrade your Tivo. If anything it will help new technology trickle down into more economical units.
A supercar compliments your $4,000,000 house and trophy wife the way a $800 Tivo compliments your home theater.
And if nothing else, they aren't trying to sell you a $100 "Monster" cable.