The best thing a flight attendent ever asked was if my laptop had memory. I said yes, so she said I couldn't use it during the entire flight. I insisted that it had nothing to do, but she insisted too that I couldn't use it.
Also, I remember Delta saying that you could use your laptop during the flight, but you couldn't use anything that you would connect to it. So if you had some external trackball, you couldn't use it...
Swiss banks were among the first to implement 128 bit ciphers over the web for maximum security. I know...that doesn't guarantee anything, but it's reassuring.Maan
As someone who lived in Europe, I'd like to know why you have this image of Europe (or maybe it's only the UK), that they have to censor everything? Is there a specific reason for it? Was that supposed to be a joke?
Hmmm...I wouldv'e thought that a compnay such as Linuxcare would have a better connection or server or whatever it is that's saturated. And, the story must've been posted in the past 10 minutes... All I have to say is: already???
It's true, they go out of their way to do this. But I really don't think it's against spammers. If a spammer is intelligent enough, he'll cut and paste the address from the page without going through the server.
The reason I think they're doing it is to show people who advertise that people are using their service. It's in addition to the web access log. Remember that dejanews is free, and they need to get their money somehow. Put yourself in the place of the advertiser looking for a popular web site. If you find out that many people use the service and e-mail people from it, it's a good argument...
I too think this is a good thing. They relaized that Mindcraft was Microsoft-sponsored using the ip address in deja news. Otherwise. it would become a completely anonymous news poster. And usenet is already anarchical enough...
Alright, so dejanews knows which ip address sent an e-mail to whom. Well, Rob right here on slashdot can know precisely at what time of the day i visited his site. Microsoft can have a detailed log of their visitors. Logging is something that any sensible sysadmin does. Someone who manages a service as important as dejanews' or any other site needs some info. It could be to improve performance in certain areas, or to show some people who work with ties (people with big salaries who decide where the money goes) that the thing they're paying for is worth it. They need to show advertisers (their main source of revenue) that their investment is not worthless.
It is true however that such info could have some use. But such things should remain confidential to the company and not be publiczed such as on zdnet. This stuff has been going on for more than a yer now, and it didn't bother anyone, even if they didn't know it. Why should they start today?
True. Maybe Dejanews should have said somewhere in the fine print that they were doing this (and actually, maybe they do). But don't say that because they log who you e-mail to infringes your privacy. Please...
Maan bsat@iprolink.ch
(I hope you don't mind that I log the e-mails I receive. Do you really wanna see this kind of disclaimers on sites...)
So if I understand correctly, this machine will be very useful for FERMI, if it is made to run the software they use over at top500, it would give worse results say than a ~300 nodes beowulf cluster?
I just love it when I see of Gates' statement just below an announcement that 4000 (a pretty big number) servers will be installed for a single company...
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The best thing a flight attendent ever asked was if my laptop had memory. I said yes, so she said I couldn't use it during the entire flight. I insisted that it had nothing to do, but she insisted too that I couldn't use it.
Also, I remember Delta saying that you could use your laptop during the flight, but you couldn't use anything that you would connect to it. So if you had some external trackball, you couldn't use it...
weird.
Maan
Swiss banks were among the first to implement 128 bit ciphers over the web for maximum security. I know...that doesn't guarantee anything, but it's reassuring.Maan
As someone who lived in Europe, I'd like to know why you have this image of Europe (or maybe it's only the UK), that they have to censor everything? Is there a specific reason for it? Was that supposed to be a joke?
Maan
Hmmm...I wouldv'e thought that a compnay such as Linuxcare would have a better connection or server or whatever it is that's saturated. And, the story must've been posted in the past 10 minutes... All I have to say is: already???
Maan
It's true, they go out of their way to do this. But I really don't think it's against spammers. If a spammer is intelligent enough, he'll cut and paste the address from the page without going through the server.
The reason I think they're doing it is to show people who advertise that people are using their service. It's in addition to the web access log. Remember that dejanews is free, and they need to get their money somehow. Put yourself in the place of the advertiser looking for a popular web site. If you find out that many people use the service and e-mail people from it, it's a good argument...
Maan
I too think this is a good thing. They relaized that Mindcraft was Microsoft-sponsored using the ip address in deja news. Otherwise. it would become a completely anonymous news poster. And usenet is already anarchical enough...
maan
Alright, so dejanews knows which ip address sent an e-mail to whom. Well, Rob right here on slashdot can know precisely at what time of the day i visited his site. Microsoft can have a detailed log of their visitors. Logging is something that any sensible sysadmin does. Someone who manages a service as important as dejanews' or any other site needs some info. It could be to improve performance in certain areas, or to show some people who work with ties (people with big salaries who decide where the money goes) that the thing they're paying for is worth it. They need to show advertisers (their main source of revenue) that their investment is not worthless.
It is true however that such info could have some use. But such things should remain confidential to the company and not be publiczed such as on zdnet. This stuff has been going on for more than a yer now, and it didn't bother anyone, even if they didn't know it. Why should they start today?
True. Maybe Dejanews should have said somewhere in the fine print that they were doing this (and actually, maybe they do). But don't say that because they log who you e-mail to infringes your privacy. Please...
Maan
bsat@iprolink.ch
(I hope you don't mind that I log the e-mails I receive. Do you really wanna see this kind of disclaimers on sites...)
So if I understand correctly, this machine will be very useful for FERMI, if it is made to run the software they use over at top500, it would give worse results say than a ~300 nodes beowulf cluster?
I just love it when I see of Gates' statement just below an announcement that 4000 (a pretty big number) servers will be installed for a single company...