That would be Fluorinert. Not a bad idea. NASA had a fluorinert-filled heatsink inside a mylar bag that I used once. Geez. Its still here. I need to clean out my desk more often.
Solaris source code has been available for a long time to qualified educational institutions, developers and computer hackers. Open Source doesn't mean free to copy in this case. They allow people to look at the source so that they can develop code and suggest improvements. They would be very upset if their code found its way into Linux, for example.
You can do that with a host table, you don't need DNS.
Oh. Its too big? Maybe you want a server somewhere. Oh. It needs to be reliable? Maybe you need master and slave servers. Oh. Now you want to distribute it across lots of servers? Now you want DHCP and dynamic updates? Now you want authentication and remote management?
You are correct. Most US patents get an initial rejection - a list of prior patents with similar-sounding words in the titles. Then your high-priced patent attorney answers each objection with why your patent is bigger, faster and cleaner. Then it gets accepted. The PTO makes no search of the literature in the field, trade magazines, or current practice, only prior patents.
How could this be fixed? Only hire experts in the field as examiners? Search google for each patent and trust the information that you get off the internet? Keep a big pile of old Scientific Americans, and Popular Science lying around at the PTO?
Nope. Overall seek is the sum of average seek + rotational latency + single sector i/o (to account for head settling time). Seagate calls it average read time, although I like to use writes when measuring it. Track-to-track seek is not very interesting, unless you're a disk manufacturer, or a salesman playing games with specs.
Brother. There's something I forget to mention. - Pi Patel
I use RCN also, but haven't had problems sending to friends on AOL. I checked http://www.openrbl.org/ and found out that smtp.rcn.com is only on one block list, which is in australia. I suspect AOL just doesn't like RCN because they are a competing ISP, otherwise they would whitelist their mail server. Complain to AOL.
The patent even refers to "Bayes rules", so it is implicitly accepting that there is prior art. As I read the patent, it is on the use of a specific set of multiple techniques to filter spam (one of which is Bayesian). This may not fail the prior art argument (they cite 32 older patents), but it sure fails the "obvious" test.
Carterphone sued to be able to connect customer-owned equipment to the telephone network. Once that sailed through the courts (heh) the market was opened up for cheap phone equipment.
You don't need to have 99%. You can just delete mail from spoofed SPF-compliant domains, from non-resolving domains, and from domains in blocklists. This will force the spammers to send "from" real, unblocked, non-SPF domains. These will quickly get lots of bounce messages from spam they didn't send and get added to block lists. This will encourage the holdout domain owners to use SPF. Critical mass ensues. All domains will end up using SPF if they want to send mail. If not, they end up in block lists.
I run a mailserver on a dynamic IP (cable modem) with my own domain name. For inbound mail you just need a dynamic DNS service. Lots of large companies block email listed as coming from dialups and cable modems, but relaying your mail through your ISP's smart host is one line in sendmail. Overall, I've found that ISPs are fairly competent if you read their guidelines carefully and are willing to get through voice mail hell when you need something.
I know that the majority of us are strongly opposed to software patents,
This might be true.
but where would HP be right now without patents?
This might be true also, but how is this related to the above? The problem with software patents is that they patent an algorithm, not an invention. I can get around a hardware patent by doing a function differently. I can't get around a software patent because it is written to define the function, not the expression of the function. In this way, they more resemble "business method" patents than hardware patents.
VCs will generally not invest in companies that don't own their own IP. I'm not saying they know everything, but, to paraphrase Vizzini "never bet against a VC when money is on the line".
DomainKeys is horrible. Not only do I have to do an extra DNS lookup on every mail message to get a key, I also have to do a cryptographic test. It adds no authentication better than SPF, since a spammer can generate cryptographic keys as easily as any other mail sender.
Microsoft expects that when certain folks start needing new features
that are not expressible in v=spf1, they can publish their records
in XML and all the clients out there will be able to read those
records.
I have a neighbor who gets delusional. It is always an odd experience talking to her in that state. One thing I've often wondered is whether its better to go along or to try and talk her out of the delusions.
If I start down the path of "I don't think that's true" she will immediately incorporate me into some paranoid belief about them-vs.-her. But if I go along with her delusion, it seems like a cop-out. What do other people do?
Who cares? You can only block the last hop. If it gets sent through an open relay, you can try tracking back in the headers, but you can't prove that any earlier headers are not forged.
Anyway, the only way to really track spam is to go after the sites mentioned in the spam. Websites, 800 numbers, mail addresses can be tracked down.
Quote #1 So at the time I started work on Linux in 1991, people assumed portability would come from a microkernel approach. You see, this was sort of the research darling at the time for computer scientists. However, I am a pragmatic person, and at the time I felt that microkernels (a) were experimental, (b) were obviously more complex than monolithic Kernels, and (c) executed notably slower than monolithic kernels.
Quote #2 Only stupid people think they should throw away old proven concepts.... This is how we get crap like microkernels.
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That would be Fluorinert. Not a bad idea. NASA had a fluorinert-filled heatsink inside a mylar bag that I used once. Geez. Its still here. I need to clean out my desk more often.
Solaris source code has been available for a long time to qualified educational institutions, developers and computer hackers. Open Source doesn't mean free to copy in this case. They allow people to look at the source so that they can develop code and suggest improvements. They would be very upset if their code found its way into Linux, for example.
If you want a game machine running Windows, get an XBox. Very cost effective. No setup hassles. Run Linux on your PC for doing real work.
get a request, look it up in a table
You can do that with a host table, you don't need DNS.
Oh. Its too big? Maybe you want a server somewhere.
Oh. It needs to be reliable? Maybe you need master and slave servers.
Oh. Now you want to distribute it across lots of servers? Now you want DHCP and dynamic updates? Now you want authentication and remote management?
Maybe its just more complex than you think.
You are correct. Most US patents get an initial rejection - a list of prior patents with similar-sounding words in the titles. Then your high-priced patent attorney answers each objection with why your patent is bigger, faster and cleaner. Then it gets accepted. The PTO makes no search of the literature in the field, trade magazines, or current practice, only prior patents.
How could this be fixed? Only hire experts in the field as examiners? Search google for each patent and trust the information that you get off the internet? Keep a big pile of old Scientific Americans, and Popular Science lying around at the PTO?
Nope. Overall seek is the sum of average seek + rotational latency + single sector i/o (to account for head settling time). Seagate calls it average read time, although I like to use writes when measuring it. Track-to-track seek is not very interesting, unless you're a disk manufacturer, or a salesman playing games with specs.
Brother. There's something I forget to mention. - Pi Patel
I use RCN also, but haven't had problems sending to friends on AOL. I checked http://www.openrbl.org/ and found out that smtp.rcn.com is only on one block list, which is in australia. I suspect AOL just doesn't like RCN because they are a competing ISP, otherwise they would whitelist their mail server. Complain to AOL.
Improved relatively little? Average overall seek times are:
5400 RPM 11 ms
7200 RPM 8 ms
10K RPM 5 ms
15K RPM 4 ms
Name another common mechanical device that has nearly tripled in speed in that period. (Source: seagate.com, all numbers are for 3.5" disks)
The patent even refers to "Bayes rules", so it is implicitly accepting that there is prior art. As I read the patent, it is on the use of a specific set of multiple techniques to filter spam (one of which is Bayesian). This may not fail the prior art argument (they cite 32 older patents), but it sure fails the "obvious" test.
patent
Carterphone sued to be able to connect customer-owned equipment to the telephone network. Once that sailed through the courts (heh) the market was opened up for cheap phone equipment.
From the article:
"How dim is Andromeda IX? At least twice as faint as the previous record holder,"
Obviously, they turned up the gain on their faintness detectors.
More in-depth is the original Press release from CalTech.
The baby planet is not the big discovery. The scientists find organic chemistry more interesting (they would).
If you just want small size, use PC/104 at 3.6" x 3.8" (90mm x 96mm). You get limited CPU speed, but you can make a tiny stack of modules.
You don't need to have 99%. You can just delete mail from spoofed SPF-compliant domains, from non-resolving domains, and from domains in blocklists. This will force the spammers to send "from" real, unblocked, non-SPF domains. These will quickly get lots of bounce messages from spam they didn't send and get added to block lists. This will encourage the holdout domain owners to use SPF. Critical mass ensues. All domains will end up using SPF if they want to send mail. If not, they end up in block lists.
I run a mailserver on a dynamic IP (cable modem) with my own domain name. For inbound mail you just need a dynamic DNS service. Lots of large companies block email listed as coming from dialups and cable modems, but relaying your mail through your ISP's smart host is one line in sendmail. Overall, I've found that ISPs are fairly competent if you read their guidelines carefully and are willing to get through voice mail hell when you need something.
I know that the majority of us are strongly opposed to software patents,
This might be true.
but where would HP be right now without patents?
This might be true also, but how is this related to the above? The problem with software patents is that they patent an algorithm, not an invention. I can get around a hardware patent by doing a function differently. I can't get around a software patent because it is written to define the function, not the expression of the function. In this way, they more resemble "business method" patents than hardware patents.
VCs will generally not invest in companies that don't own their own IP. I'm not saying they know everything, but, to paraphrase Vizzini "never bet against a VC when money is on the line".
ps -e |colrm 1 13 |sort |tail -10
00:00:00 xinetd
00:00:01 named
00:00:01 sshd
00:00:01 X
00:00:03 gdmgreeter
00:00:03 kscand/Normal
00:00:04 init
00:00:05 named
00:00:37 named
DomainKeys is horrible. Not only do I have to do an extra DNS lookup on every mail message to get a key, I also have to do a cryptographic test. It adds no authentication better than SPF, since a spammer can generate cryptographic keys as easily as any other mail sender.
That's fine. The goal of SPF is so you can't send mail claiming to be from paypal.com, or citibank.com. It isn't the end of all spam.
Microsoft expects that when certain folks start needing new features
that are not expressible in v=spf1, they can publish their records
in XML and all the clients out there will be able to read those
records.
"certain folks" like Outlook developers, maybe?
My neighbor, who is schizophrenic, smokes heavily and says it helps. Just anecdotal, but hey.
I have a neighbor who gets delusional. It is always an odd experience talking to her in that state. One thing I've often wondered is whether its better to go along or to try and talk her out of the delusions.
If I start down the path of "I don't think that's true" she will immediately incorporate me into some paranoid belief about them-vs.-her. But if I go along with her delusion, it seems like a cop-out. What do other people do?
Who cares? You can only block the last hop. If it gets sent through an open relay, you can try tracking back in the headers, but you can't prove that any earlier headers are not forged.
Anyway, the only way to really track spam is to go after the sites mentioned in the spam. Websites, 800 numbers, mail addresses can be tracked down.
Quote #1 So at the time I started work on Linux in 1991, people assumed portability would come from a microkernel approach. You see, this was sort of the research darling at the time for computer scientists. However, I am a pragmatic person, and at the time I felt that microkernels (a) were experimental, (b) were obviously more complex than monolithic Kernels, and (c) executed notably slower than monolithic kernels.
... This is how we get crap like microkernels.
Quote #2 Only stupid people think they should throw away old proven concepts.
-- Linus
Monolithic: UNIX, Linux
Micro: Minix, BeOS, Hurd, (supposedly AIX)