I'm not sure what your problem with Hotmail is (other than, I suppose, that it's run by the Bane of Slashdot). It's very reliable, and uses https for the login at least.
You have to deal with a single banner on each page, but hey, look at Slashdot.
grab a laptop, and head off to some tropical island
You call that a vacation? Last time I was on vacation, I didn't touch a computer or read a newspaper for 10 days. Work was the last thing on my mind. That's R&R.
If they don't know enough to hire a backup admin, just go on vacation. Don't plan or prepare anything, just leave one day as though it were any other day, and spend three weeks on some island with no phone service.
When you return, they will have fired you and replaced your position with another admin. This is your chance to convince them to hire YOU as the backup. Now you can take vacation whenever you want!
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other words, why didn't you list Marxist and
Black-Panthers as groups which promote "bad"
speech?
Because Marxist/Black Panther literature was not recently banned from Yahoo due to requests by the French and German governments, or if it was, I was not aware of it.
I understand your point that a lot of arguments come from a limited perspective; however, I think you're looking too hard in this case.
What the hell are you talking about? I was referring to Yahoo's recent decision to ban Nazi/KKK materials due to pressure from governments outside the U.S.
The difference you point out is not between speech and mail, it's between "hate speech" (which has been specifically addressed by the courts), and advertising speech (which spam is, to some degree).
It's just as illegal to racially attack someone in person, on the phone, through mail, etc. I don't know of an email precedent, but it's likely it would be treated the same way.
Along the same lines, there's no clear distinction between spam and traditional direct advertising (telemarketing, junk mail). They intrude on you whether you like it or not, and are protected by law.
It would be nice to not have to deal with spam, but I don't see this happening in the U.S. anytime soon.
The first amendment (free speech) is one of America's most basic tenets; something people do not take lightly. That's why you can still buy Nazi memorobilia, KKK literature, etc. It's generally accepted in this country that limitations on speech are very damaging, and should only be applied in extreme circumstances.
Limiting any kind of electronic communication could quickly become a slipperly slope, and free-speech advocates would most likely fight this (even though it would mean having to deal with spam).
If you can prove a spammer cost your company money through time wasted, network resources clogged, etc. just use the current U.S. legal system: sue the spammer.
Six months of jail time? That seems more than a little extreme to me. Fines would be much more suited to the crime.
Yes, I get spam too, and yes, I hate it too, but realistically, the bother of having to delete some extra emails every day does not deserve the same kind of punishment as, say, rapists, car thieves, bank robbers, etc. The world's prisons are crowded enough.
That's nothing! While I was waiting for 2.4 to compile, I hijacked a loaded military jet, made a beeline to Redmond, and rained fiery kamikaze death while screaming "VAPORWARE THIS, MUTHAFUCKAS!!"
Now I'm Satan's lil' man-bitch for all eternity. At least I have built-in USB support.
If I recall correctly from the mid-80s, that rip is supposed to go "yo mama, yo daddy, yo greasy-greasy-granny with the hole in her panty goin' beep-beep-beep down Sesame Street".
Though I can't fault Fox on facts, this article gets pretty sensational when it comes to the supposed "risk" of virus activity caused by spam HTML.
This may allow a creator of one of these new breed script virii to better target mailboxes, but the weak link remains the same: the user who opens the attachment. In the past, virii relied on technical holes for their propagation; now it's simply the gullibility of a large number of users. Besides, the victims of these scripts are not targeted by the author except in the very beginning of an outbreak; rather, they (voluntarily or not) send the message along to each other. So the better-aimed shotgun that "web bugs" might create would really make little or no difference in the spread of a modern email worm.
By the way, did anyone else notice Fox News is printing an expose on 'Web Bugs'? I suppose that's print in the "printf" sense, not the "ink-on-paper" sense;)
Regardless of chip design or performance, AMD is still seen by many as a bargain chip-maker, and Transmeta is seen as a new idea that hasn't really taken off, not to mention defective.
It only makes sense for these two underdogs to join together to take on Intel, but they've got a lot of catching up to do in the public eye before they become a serious threat.
Oh, yawn. Hieroglyphics were probably considered "fairly sophisticated" back in the day, and when papyrus came along, boy, that was technology.
The Future will probably have some machine that automagically reads and decodes anything. I just wonder what they'll think about the fact that there are 10,000 AOL CDs for each living person on Earth . . .
Does anybody know if VMWare benefits from being run on a cluster (Beowolf or other)?
It doesn't. Software has to be written specifically for parallelism (this even includes the software running on the virtual Windows machine).
It would be conceivably possible to design VMWare to emulate a multiprocessor environment, then use some different Linux boxes to emulate the different processors, but this approach would have two problems:
The latency caused by the cluster would be unbearable, and would probably negate any benefits gained. No network is going to match the speed of an internal PC bus.
The Windows software still would only run on one of the virtual processors, unless it was designed to run on more than one. Even if it is designed for a multiprocess environment, you would benefit more from just buying a nice multiprocessor box.
I see your point about assigning one effect to each processor, essentially running a serial chain as an "almost parallel, but with tiny lag" system. However, some effects take much more processing time than others, so this wouldn't distribute resources very well.
Ideally, a "clustered" solution should be as symetrical as possible. The daisy-chain system would give the "simple delay" processor a vacation, while the "stereo chorus" processor bottlenecks the whole system. This is where the clever algorithm comes in.
All in all, I agree most with the previous posts that specialized DSP hardware could handle this much better than some hacked-up Linux boxes.
Interesting idea, but you couldn't split it up quite so simply. Effects on a signal are not parallel, but additive (serial). For example, if you take a signal, and put reverb then delay on it, each tap of the delay has its own reverb. In other words, if you processed the effects separately, then mixed the signals, you would not get the same overall effect at all.
Realtime multiprocessing would be possible, I'm sure, but would need some pretty clever algorithms to get anything near realtime (maybe each processor takes care of a single sample at a time, round-robin fashion).
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Isn't this what pinch hitters are for?
Yeah, fuck it. Let's just stop all research, and declare that humanity has reached the pinnacle of all possible knowledge.
I'm not sure what your problem with Hotmail is (other than, I suppose, that it's run by the Bane of Slashdot). It's very reliable, and uses https for the login at least.
You have to deal with a single banner on each page, but hey, look at Slashdot.
Good point. Sorry, I overlooked the "compromise" part.
You call that a vacation? Last time I was on vacation, I didn't touch a computer or read a newspaper for 10 days. Work was the last thing on my mind. That's R&R.
When you return, they will have fired you and replaced your position with another admin. This is your chance to convince them to hire YOU as the backup. Now you can take vacation whenever you want!
Because Marxist/Black Panther literature was not recently banned from Yahoo due to requests by the French and German governments, or if it was, I was not aware of it.
I understand your point that a lot of arguments come from a limited perspective; however, I think you're looking too hard in this case.
What the hell are you talking about? I was referring to Yahoo's recent decision to ban Nazi/KKK materials due to pressure from governments outside the U.S.
It's just as illegal to racially attack someone in person, on the phone, through mail, etc. I don't know of an email precedent, but it's likely it would be treated the same way.
Along the same lines, there's no clear distinction between spam and traditional direct advertising (telemarketing, junk mail). They intrude on you whether you like it or not, and are protected by law.
The first amendment (free speech) is one of America's most basic tenets; something people do not take lightly. That's why you can still buy Nazi memorobilia, KKK literature, etc. It's generally accepted in this country that limitations on speech are very damaging, and should only be applied in extreme circumstances.
Limiting any kind of electronic communication could quickly become a slipperly slope, and free-speech advocates would most likely fight this (even though it would mean having to deal with spam).
If you can prove a spammer cost your company money through time wasted, network resources clogged, etc. just use the current U.S. legal system: sue the spammer.
Yes, I get spam too, and yes, I hate it too, but realistically, the bother of having to delete some extra emails every day does not deserve the same kind of punishment as, say, rapists, car thieves, bank robbers, etc. The world's prisons are crowded enough.
The discs aren't worth it, man.
Notice they're using americium . . . we all knew America was supposed to win the space race ;)
Now I'm Satan's lil' man-bitch for all eternity. At least I have built-in USB support.
If I recall correctly from the mid-80s, that rip is supposed to go "yo mama, yo daddy, yo greasy-greasy-granny with the hole in her panty goin' beep-beep-beep down Sesame Street".
Wow, you must be one of the 1% of Linux users who actually do something with it besides wallowing in geek ecstasy on the home PC!
This may allow a creator of one of these new breed script virii to better target mailboxes, but the weak link remains the same: the user who opens the attachment. In the past, virii relied on technical holes for their propagation; now it's simply the gullibility of a large number of users. Besides, the victims of these scripts are not targeted by the author except in the very beginning of an outbreak; rather, they (voluntarily or not) send the message along to each other. So the better-aimed shotgun that "web bugs" might create would really make little or no difference in the spread of a modern email worm.
By the way, did anyone else notice Fox News is printing an expose on 'Web Bugs'? I suppose that's print in the "printf" sense, not the "ink-on-paper" sense ;)
It only makes sense for these two underdogs to join together to take on Intel, but they've got a lot of catching up to do in the public eye before they become a serious threat.
How long until we see the "Top 101 things to do with all those pesky AOL cable modems"?
The Future will probably have some machine that automagically reads and decodes anything. I just wonder what they'll think about the fact that there are 10,000 AOL CDs for each living person on Earth . . .
Amen. You can get some incredible effects through software post-processing, but if you want realtime, you gotta lay down some bucks.
It doesn't. Software has to be written specifically for parallelism (this even includes the software running on the virtual Windows machine).
It would be conceivably possible to design VMWare to emulate a multiprocessor environment, then use some different Linux boxes to emulate the different processors, but this approach would have two problems:
Ideally, a "clustered" solution should be as symetrical as possible. The daisy-chain system would give the "simple delay" processor a vacation, while the "stereo chorus" processor bottlenecks the whole system. This is where the clever algorithm comes in.
All in all, I agree most with the previous posts that specialized DSP hardware could handle this much better than some hacked-up Linux boxes.
Realtime multiprocessing would be possible, I'm sure, but would need some pretty clever algorithms to get anything near realtime (maybe each processor takes care of a single sample at a time, round-robin fashion).
Only 1/2 an MLOC? What a bunch of wussies.