From the article : Mr. Soto routinely comes home to some 150 e-mail pitches, and he loves getting them all.
It's been said before : "Spam is not a problem, just hit delete, it takes less than a second".
In this case, the guy takes the time to read the messages. Ok, it means he can handle more spams than most internet users. But everyone has a limit. And every mailbox has a limit. How would he react if he had 1500 emails a day ? 15000 ?
Spammers have no limits, they send billions of messages : This article says AOL blocked 500 billion messages in 2003 and it's increasing.
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There are a lot of "simple" solutions against spam like the one you describe. The problem with the server solutions - where the servers of the sender and receiver make some kind of negotiation to decide if the email is legit. - is that it only works if every server on the net is upgraded and that will never happen.
For example, let's say you receive an email from babar@domain.ii (imaginary tld). With your scheme, your server asks authorize.domain.il but domain.il hasn't upgraded and still use old simple email server. Email is discarded. That means no user from domain.ii can send you email.
This should be a "Ask slashdot". What can we do to support individuals who are harrassed by SCO ? Whether they will suffer or not, we should do something. I feel that as a personal attack.
One of the first music album I bought was Dire Straits "Brothers in Arms". It was a LP. Some years after, I bought the cassette and then the compact disc. I won't buy it online.
A quality music webshop should offer the right to use whatever sound format is appropriate at any moment in time and without added cost - except the cost of media.
If I buy a mp3 rather poorly encoded today, should I pay the same price for a better quality file one year later and again some years later for a new super audio format and so on.
This situation (change of media) is happening now with the DVDs. Lots of people are renewing their collection of movies at a high price.
The media companies are using this scheme for selling more by releasing "collector" DVDs, "re-sampled" CDs, etc. With digital music this would be easy for them to go further.
As the texts are in french, here are the interesting points about this story:
1. There are not one but MULTIPLE lawsuits on that matter in France. The lawsuit ruled this june was brought by the "Consommation Logement et Cadre de Vie" (CCLV) association against EMI. There are pending lawsuits against sony and BMG. Then there is another french consumers association ("UFC Que Choisir") who sued EMI France, Warner France, Universal Pictures Video, Fnac and Auchan (the two latter are distributors).
2. The court just tested CDs of ONE artist and constated they could not be READ by some devices although the system was stated to prevent COPY.
3. The ruling stated that EMI had one month to put a label on that CD stating : "Warning, this CD cannot be read on every reader or autoradio".
6. Another article about the situation in Belgium where I read that an asshole from IFPI says "there is only 4 to 8 complains for 10 thousand CD" so it is not a problem. Lawsuit coming...
We have two great Desktop Environments - thats one too much.
So what do you suggest ? Handcuff gnome developers ? Erase gnome of every computer ? As long as someone wants to create open source software, there is nothing you can do. The choice is up to the user and not to marketers/managers/financials or whatsoever.
Louvain-la-Neuve (LLN) is a city in Belgium that has been built from scratch 30 years ago to create a new university. As it would be mostly a city for students, all the street are for pedestrian (or bikes) only. But there are a lot of parking places around and under the city. I go there a few times a year and it is very convenient. I leave my car under the town and one minute later, I am in the center. It is much faster than any other town I know.
Of course LLN is rather small but the concept can be extended. LLN is still growing fast these days.
but if I'm going to run my own distribution, I'm going to make a sensible directory structure:/users,/apps,/system,/hardware,/downloads,/logs,/servers,/shared, and more. Then, using symlinks, we're going to recreate the current basic layout of the standard Linux/BSD filesystem to assist developers in porting applications. For example, our system would probably include the following the symlinks:/home ->/users/var ->/logs
well that distribution exists, I have it. It's any distro where you type, as root : "ln -s/home/users" etc.
No need to make another distro for that. When people will understand that a linux distro is fully customizable we'll have no more need of yet another distro.
In fact, you are not required by law to give your SSN, and no one can force you to.
What are you supposed to show when police want to check something with you ? (say you are caught in a fight) Let's suppose you don't have a driving license. And what if you don't have SSN ?
Gotta love it when my SSN is on every card I have as a "subscriber number". Makes it that much easier to hijack my identity if my wallet is stolen.
So it's better to have an ID card for identification purposes than using another "card" that was not devised for ident. purpose, don't you think ?
I don't see the problem of having an ID card. Lots of democratic countries use IDs and in the US, you use your social security card, don't you ? And you have the driving licence.
How are you supposed to do when you want to contract something if you can't prove who you are ?
Offering to mirror articles on non-commercial sites locally for a week or so would be a good start.
I think we can wait a thousand years or so before the slashdot team creates such a feature, even for subscribers (imagine how frustrating it must be for subscribers when they preview a site and it's already slashdotted).
So let's move and make such a mirror by ourselves. All we need is a URL - say http://www.mysite.net/mirror/ - and when a site - say http://obscure-url.com/slashed.html - is slashdotted, the reader can read the mirror on http://www.mysite/mirror/obscure-url.com/slashed.h tml
The site owner could even redirect the page and choose to mirror it. Otherwise, a benevolent member of the community would access the mirror site and ask to mirror.
Wether the image is one pixel or larger, to avoid that, never enable html while reading mail or read your email offline or read your email in html but whithout downloading anything.
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From the article : Mr. Soto routinely comes home to some 150 e-mail pitches, and he loves getting them all.
It's been said before : "Spam is not a problem, just hit delete, it takes less than a second".
In this case, the guy takes the time to read the messages. Ok, it means he can handle more spams than most internet users. But everyone has a limit. And every mailbox has a limit. How would he react if he had 1500 emails a day ? 15000 ?
Spammers have no limits, they send billions of messages : This article says AOL blocked 500 billion messages in 2003 and it's increasing.
European music and artists : independent (mp3).
ecompil : universal (wma)
a cool label
epitonic : good independent site (mp3)
This is just a selection from google
Better than "Gates on Spam", we have Cream on Gates.
There are a lot of "simple" solutions against spam like the one you describe. The problem with the server solutions - where the servers of the sender and receiver make some kind of negotiation to decide if the email is legit. - is that it only works if every server on the net is upgraded and that will never happen.
For example, let's say you receive an email from babar@domain.ii (imaginary tld). With your scheme, your server asks authorize.domain.il but domain.il hasn't upgraded and still use old simple email server. Email is discarded. That means no user from domain.ii can send you email.
bzzzt the internet is broken.
It would make sense if they offered free and paid hosting with their expertise in large indexing.
Yes they bought a company int blogs, don't remember which one, but full or limited hosting would certainly be popular.
The most nasty virus/worm in the recent years was blaster which would reboot a winXP after a minute of connecting the net. That needed action.
Most other virus, besides propagating, doesn't do anything so the infected victims doesn't need to erase it from their windows.
Considering the speed of mydoom propagation, the next time we'll have a nasty virus/worm, we'll have some fun !
PLUS $$$$ lost when writing comments about this on slashdot, those comments being so long that no one reads them entirely :)
I thought that kind of guy would never be arrested but fight until dead or suicide himself like hitler inn Berlin in 1945.
But maybe it's a dupe, I mean an actor don't know how you call it.
It would be interesting to know what language they used. From the rules :
Use Java, C++, C# or VB.NET. Pick any of these programming languages to code your solutions. All are acceptable and none is given an advantage.
My bet : C++
Five years ago, I decided that I wont'ever pay for a m$ product. No ipaq for me as hp ships them with m$ operating system. I'll stick with sony clie.
This should be a "Ask slashdot". What can we do to support individuals who are harrassed by SCO ? Whether they will suffer or not, we should do something. I feel that as a personal attack.
Ideas ?
This is the article a few days ago ...
Will the continued use of bittorrent by warez kiddies destroy its reputation as a good way to get legitimate files?
No. It's like asking : "Will the continued use of guns by criminals destroy its reputation as a good way to protect oneself ?"
One of the first music album I bought was Dire Straits "Brothers in Arms". It was a LP. Some years after, I bought the cassette and then the compact disc. I won't buy it online.
A quality music webshop should offer the right to use whatever sound format is appropriate at any moment in time and without added cost - except the cost of media.
If I buy a mp3 rather poorly encoded today, should I pay the same price for a better quality file one year later and again some years later for a new super audio format and so on.
This situation (change of media) is happening now with the DVDs. Lots of people are renewing their collection of movies at a high price.
The media companies are using this scheme for selling more by releasing "collector" DVDs, "re-sampled" CDs, etc. With digital music this would be easy for them to go further.
I won't buy 2 or 3 times the same music.
As the texts are in french, here are the interesting points about this story :
...
1. There are not one but MULTIPLE lawsuits on that matter in France. The lawsuit ruled this june was brought by the "Consommation Logement et Cadre de Vie" (CCLV) association against EMI. There are pending lawsuits against sony and BMG. Then there is another french consumers association ("UFC Que Choisir") who sued EMI France, Warner France, Universal Pictures Video, Fnac and Auchan (the two latter are distributors).
2. The court just tested CDs of ONE artist and constated they could not be READ by some devices although the system was stated to prevent COPY.
3. The ruling stated that EMI had one month to put a label on that CD stating : "Warning, this CD cannot be read on every reader or autoradio".
4. EMI appealed.
5. the judgement is on this site.
6. Another article about the situation in Belgium where I read that an asshole from IFPI says "there is only 4 to 8 complains for 10 thousand CD" so it is not a problem. Lawsuit coming
We have two great Desktop Environments - thats one too much.
So what do you suggest ? Handcuff gnome developers ? Erase gnome of every computer ? As long as someone wants to create open source software, there is nothing you can do. The choice is up to the user and not to marketers/managers/financials or whatsoever.
That's good.
Louvain-la-Neuve (LLN) is a city in Belgium that has been built from scratch 30 years ago to create a new university. As it would be mostly a city for students, all the street are for pedestrian (or bikes) only. But there are a lot of parking places around and under the city. I go there a few times a year and it is very convenient. I leave my car under the town and one minute later, I am in the center. It is much faster than any other town I know.
Of course LLN is rather small but the concept can be extended. LLN is still growing fast these days.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/misterhouse/
http://www.misterhouse.net:81/
I have read the beginning of the article until :
/users, /apps, /system, /hardware, /downloads, /logs, /servers, /shared, and more. Then, using symlinks, we're going to recreate the current basic layout of the standard Linux/BSD filesystem to assist developers in porting applications. For example, our system would probably include the following the symlinks: /home -> /users /var -> /logs
/home /users" etc.
but if I'm going to run my own distribution, I'm going to make a sensible directory structure:
well that distribution exists, I have it. It's any distro where you type, as root : "ln -s
No need to make another distro for that. When people will understand that a linux distro is fully customizable we'll have no more need of yet another distro.
In fact, you are not required by law to give your SSN, and no one can force you to.
What are you supposed to show when police want to check something with you ? (say you are caught in a fight) Let's suppose you don't have a driving license. And what if you don't have SSN ?
Gotta love it when my SSN is on every card I have as a "subscriber number". Makes it that much easier to hijack my identity if my wallet is stolen.
So it's better to have an ID card for identification purposes than using another "card" that was not devised for ident. purpose, don't you think ?
I don't see the problem of having an ID card. Lots of democratic countries use IDs and in the US, you use your social security card, don't you ?
And you have the driving licence.
How are you supposed to do when you want to contract something if you can't prove who you are ?
Offering to mirror articles on non-commercial sites locally for a week or so would be a good start.
h tml
I think we can wait a thousand years or so before the slashdot team creates such a feature, even for subscribers (imagine how frustrating it must be for subscribers when they preview a site and it's already slashdotted).
So let's move and make such a mirror by ourselves. All we need is a URL - say http://www.mysite.net/mirror/ - and when a site - say http://obscure-url.com/slashed.html - is slashdotted, the reader can read the mirror on http://www.mysite/mirror/obscure-url.com/slashed.
The site owner could even redirect the page and choose to mirror it. Otherwise, a benevolent member of the community would access the mirror site and ask to mirror.
Any other ideas ?
Great movie ! I was about to post it but I did a search and found your comment.
This movie is one of the first with Cameron Diaz. There is also Ron Perlman who acts a cynical senator.
The music is excellent, I bought the CD.
The movie is not distributed on DVD, sadly.
You can ask google to delete any post that you have made. They explain the whole thing there : http://www.google.com/contact/groups.html.
Wether the image is one pixel or larger, to avoid that, never enable html while reading mail or read your email offline or read your email in html but whithout downloading anything.