I think the web could use something like this. Some kind of generic logon that's free, or very cheap anyway, and which is used for general low security sites such as message boards so you don't have to log on to each one.
I'm not sure this is the right one though. It seems a bit vague and needs to be a lot more open about policies and security considerations.
So when I pursuade everyone to use *my* root servers instead of the current ones and sell them domain then the people who have wasted their money on this are not going to be happy.
Ok, so it's not likely I'll do this, but someone might. The current "official" DNS system is nothing special. Anyone can run one
From what I can gather they did have redundany here in that they had two banks of flash memory. And writing to either of those banks caused the reboot problem.
The problem at the moment is that there is little point building hydrogen powered vehicles because there is no ready source of hydrogen - and little point building a hyrdrogen distibution system because there are no vehicles to use it.
This breaks the deadlock by letting hyrdogen powered vehicles run on existing fuel. Once there are enough it will make economic sense to distribute hydrogen from other sources instead.
I don't see anything wrong with this particular change. Even if they'd not announced it it wouldn't have broken anything that should have been using it.
The lookup will be cached by your dns resolver and by your ISP's dns servers so there will be very little additional load on AOLs servers.
And once people start using this it should free up a lot of people in their abuse department to deal with people *actually* sending spam from aol.
It's a good thing !
It lets you publish a list of IP addresses from which your domain sends mail from.
People can then refuse mail with that domain address unless it comes from one of those addresses.
In this case, if you are using spf enabled mail software you can be certain that if you get an email with an @aol.com address that it actually came from aol.
Not a solution for spam, but like many things it is one of many measures which will help.
Not quite on topic but -
The best way to deal with unwanted callers is to make a game of how long you can keep them on the line. Listen to enough of what they have to say to make them think you're interested and then say "hold on a moment - there is someone at the door..." and then go watch TV or something. If you want to try really hard to win the game come back every minute or so and say "sorry about this - hang on just another moment".
Well.... The files are small and you have to do a DNS lookup *anyway* to reach the site they are on so maybe it's not toally stupid.... But it's probably a very bad idea to encourage this kind of thing
Surely the estimated probability now will already have taken that into account? Or is the one in 900k chance quoted not a true reflection of what astronomers feel is the likelihood?
Not really - Assuming it's going to miss - then better observations and calculations will get closer and closer to this as they become more accurate.
Apart from the obvious technical problems that would make this unworkable I see one problem with having a tax on email and that is that once taxes are established, even in a "good" cause they because revenue raisers. I could see the amount starting to go up each year. And if I use something other than smtp via an isp to send my email, what happens then? It would probably become illegal to send messages other than via the proper taxed email system. You'd be a criminal for using ICQ as you'd be avoiding paying tax.
>Full Screen Superstitial is guaranteed to play perfectly for every consumer, every time
Er, no...
I get an advert like this on a web site I just close my brower and never go back to that site.
No. It speeds it up. If nothing else it means that the memory can be used a disk cache to speed up the slowest part of your system instead of being wasted storing program code that may never be used at all.
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I think the web could use something like this. Some kind of generic logon that's free, or very cheap anyway, and which is used for general low security sites such as message boards so you don't have to log on to each one. I'm not sure this is the right one though. It seems a bit vague and needs to be a lot more open about policies and security considerations.
Sorry but MB is 2^20 and MiB is something weird and made up that nobody understands or wants.
So when I pursuade everyone to use *my* root servers instead of the current ones and sell them domain then the people who have wasted their money on this are not going to be happy. Ok, so it's not likely I'll do this, but someone might. The current "official" DNS system is nothing special. Anyone can run one
Amnesty say all kinds of things. And most of them are complete rubbish.
From what I can gather they did have redundany here in that they had two banks of flash memory. And writing to either of those banks caused the reboot problem.
The problem at the moment is that there is little point building hydrogen powered vehicles because there is no ready source of hydrogen - and little point building a hyrdrogen distibution system because there are no vehicles to use it. This breaks the deadlock by letting hyrdogen powered vehicles run on existing fuel. Once there are enough it will make economic sense to distribute hydrogen from other sources instead.
I don't see anything wrong with this particular change. Even if they'd not announced it it wouldn't have broken anything that should have been using it.
The lookup will be cached by your dns resolver and by your ISP's dns servers so there will be very little additional load on AOLs servers. And once people start using this it should free up a lot of people in their abuse department to deal with people *actually* sending spam from aol. It's a good thing !
It lets you publish a list of IP addresses from which your domain sends mail from. People can then refuse mail with that domain address unless it comes from one of those addresses. In this case, if you are using spf enabled mail software you can be certain that if you get an email with an @aol.com address that it actually came from aol. Not a solution for spam, but like many things it is one of many measures which will help.
Or you could just use a better ISP?
Not quite on topic but - The best way to deal with unwanted callers is to make a game of how long you can keep them on the line. Listen to enough of what they have to say to make them think you're interested and then say "hold on a moment - there is someone at the door..." and then go watch TV or something. If you want to try really hard to win the game come back every minute or so and say "sorry about this - hang on just another moment".
No, it takes 10 seconds to *send* the email. Not to verify it when it's received.
Why do you say it's only good for exchange server? It could be implemented on anything just as easily.
and frankly a lot of those films are really dull and have no business being in the list at all.
It's not a cure but it's another small tool which might help a little.
Well.... The files are small and you have to do a DNS lookup *anyway* to reach the site they are on so maybe it's not toally stupid.... But it's probably a very bad idea to encourage this kind of thing
Agreed. If it had not been for the newworthy US blackout nobody would have even heard of all the others.
Yes - they now get to intercept and read any misaddressed email if they wish
The sad thing is that they may well turn out to be using even more illegally licensed software now if sco manage to actually win.
Apart from the obvious technical problems that would make this unworkable I see one problem with having a tax on email and that is that once taxes are established, even in a "good" cause they because revenue raisers. I could see the amount starting to go up each year. And if I use something other than smtp via an isp to send my email, what happens then? It would probably become illegal to send messages other than via the proper taxed email system. You'd be a criminal for using ICQ as you'd be avoiding paying tax.
>Full Screen Superstitial is guaranteed to play perfectly for every consumer, every time Er, no... I get an advert like this on a web site I just close my brower and never go back to that site.
No. It speeds it up. If nothing else it means that the memory can be used a disk cache to speed up the slowest part of your system instead of being wasted storing program code that may never be used at all.
Well why not? Is it better that your resources sit there idle helping nobody at all to do anything?