That's like asking the postal service to deliver less junk mail.
Don't be a dumb-ass. It's like asking the postal service to stop delivering junk mail *for free*.
The distinction is *very* important. Spammers don't pay to spam, they do it for free. Everyone else pays for them instead. That's why it is different than the post office.
As an ISP, even if my end users block all the spam that comes to them, and stop asking me to block, I still have to pay for the extra bandwidth to pass these unwanted messages on. So no matter what my end-users do the spammers cost me money.
As long as it takes, or some reasonable length of time, which is to be included in the article. No response by press time is cop-out for losers who don't want their subjects to respond.
If you can't publish how long you waited, then it wasn't long enough.
Obviously the customer was upset when their customers couldn't receive so we found out what was the cause and closed the relay. Mind you, this wasn't some little fly-by-night web company that had the open relay. This was a VERY large company that is well-known in Europe and the US. Sure, spam is spam, but you would think that the RBL people would have enough sense to realize that this was a simpole configuration issue and not willfull spamming on the part of the company.
It seems to me despite your obviously biased viewpoint, that the RBL did what it was designed to do. It forced a company to secure its servers, so they could not be used for spam anymore.
In a way it's good that at this time, the birth of the Net, there is a behemoth who can dictate common standards. Without MS I fear the Net would degenerate into conflicting and incompatible rulesets.
I don't know what you are snorting, but you simply don't make any sense. Microsoft has and will always continue to fight any standard that doesn't inherent give them an advantage.
The Internet worked before Microsoft arrived. If Microsoft were to go out of business tomorrow the internet would continue to work.
Microsoft is a divisive force in the marketplace, and will remain so until swift and dramatic action is taken to show them the error of their ways.
XSL is the Extensible Style Language, and XLT doesn't exist AFAIK, but XSLT is the XSL Transformation Language, which can be used to automatically transform XML into other languages like HTML.
No, many of his supporters in Palm Beach are old. You know, those people you might have called Grandparents at one point. Being old, many suffer from poor eyesite. In addition, they changed the format of the ballot against the explicit laws of the State of Florida. Taking a look at the ballot it's pretty easy to see how people can make mistakes and less than 100% are going to catch them. So there are a few legitimate problems when you consider the actual constituency of Palm Beach.
The problem is worse than that. By posting the names of young children, particularly young girls, and asking the general public which girl is the best to rape, they are not only invading their privacy but also ripping away that's child's sense of security.
Those polls are an implicit threat of deeply personal violence.
Unfortunately, the only real solution is for the people running the site to monitor it closely.
Of all the things i dislike about bush it's that. here he is with his checkered past and does he have any compassion or understanding?
The answer to this is pretty simple, George doesn't get to make policy. The Republicans are running him because his name is George Bush and the media likes him. The people in charge of the party make all the decisions, his job to talk when they pull the strings.
Yes, election campaigns should be publically funded. Every potential candidate who actually has a chance to win recieving the same public funding, same access to the media, debates and everything else. If the candidate fails to achieve 10% of the popular vote, the candidate has to pay back all the money after the election.
This should be extended to senators and congressman when they run for elections.
Theoretially the winner should pander to the people who payed to get him elected, the American people.;)
Of course, American politics would probably be a lot less interesting after such a reform...
"No, I came to this conclusion from his own campaign-finance related scandals, and his position relative to the various scandals plauging the current administration. I don't have to listen to commentary or punditry to feel nervous about his trustworthiness."
And when someone else warns you that the "scandals" may be smoke and mirrors designed to make you nervous, you dismiss it out of hand, because of course, it's impossible that you might ever be deceived by the people who work someone who has billions riding on the candidate of his choice.
The simple fact is that you are unwilling to
accept that someone may have tricked you. That make you double the fool.
The sooner the dumb world gets over the 2-year old mentality of "this information is exclusively mine", and starts exchanging ideas for the better of ALL humanity, the sooner we'll have a better world.
Intellectual Property Rights are not about ownership or control, or even the ethical correctness of owning information, they are economic incentives to ensure that people continue to create new and unique inventions and information works.
Copyrights only protect an expression of information, it does not protect the information. Otherwise I couldn't add 2+3 without infringing on a book I read when I was 5.
Patents grant limited protection against having the information within used by another company. Why? Because that information is automatically published and added to the world repetoir of knowledge, and patents expire. The current implementation of the idea may be faulty but the idea behind the patent system is till a good one.
Trade secret laws prevent the misuse of secret information which is given to a person under an agreement of confidentiality.
Let's say I reverse engineer the recipe for a popular soda. Does that mean I'm illegally using intellectual property?
Not unless that recipe is patented, in which case you didn't need to reverse engineer it. The information was already available at the patent office.
If I _INDEPENDENTLY_ discover the same knowledge, that knowledge is NO longer PROPRIETARY.
Yes. Unless of course that information has been patented and published. In that case, unfortunately, the original discoverer or inventor was granted protection from all competitors for 17 years in exchange for sharing that information with the rest of the world.
Quality can be defined in a number of ways, from bugs per KLOC to errors per hour of operation.
Quality management systems, like CMM, are about establishing methods to measure the quality of code.
They are not about ensuring you create good code (that's normally a side effect), they're about making sure you know how good your are and what if anything you are doing wrong.
When properly implemented these systems allow you (and your manager) to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the guy in the next cubicle is an idiot. Once that's done, he can be replaced with someone slightly less clueless.
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That's like asking the postal service to deliver less junk mail.
Don't be a dumb-ass. It's like asking the postal service to stop delivering junk mail *for free*.
The distinction is *very* important. Spammers don't pay to spam, they do it for free. Everyone else pays for them instead. That's why it is different than the post office.
As an ISP, even if my end users block all the spam that comes to them, and stop asking me to block, I still have to pay for the extra bandwidth to pass these unwanted messages on. So no matter what my end-users do the spammers cost me money.
As long as it takes, or some reasonable length of time, which is to be included in the article. No response by press time is cop-out for losers who don't want their subjects to respond.
If you can't publish how long you waited, then it wasn't long enough.
Obviously the customer was upset when their customers couldn't receive so we found out what was the cause and closed the relay. Mind you, this wasn't some little fly-by-night web company that had the open relay. This was a VERY large company that is well-known in Europe and the US. Sure, spam is spam, but you would think that the RBL people would have enough sense to realize that this was a simpole configuration issue and not willfull spamming on the part of the company.
It seems to me despite your obviously biased viewpoint, that the RBL did what it was designed to do. It forced a company to secure its servers, so they could not be used for spam anymore.
In a way it's good that at this time, the birth of the Net, there is a behemoth who can dictate common standards. Without MS I fear the Net would degenerate into conflicting and incompatible rulesets.
I don't know what you are snorting, but you simply don't make any sense. Microsoft has and will always continue to fight any standard that doesn't inherent give them an advantage.
The Internet worked before Microsoft arrived. If Microsoft were to go out of business tomorrow the internet would continue to work.
Microsoft is a divisive force in the marketplace, and will remain so until swift and dramatic action is taken to show them the error of their ways.
"i've never heard of XSL, or XLT"
XSL is the Extensible Style Language, and XLT doesn't exist AFAIK, but XSLT is the XSL Transformation Language, which can be used to automatically transform XML into other languages like HTML.
I installed Netscape 6 without news and email. Choose custom installation and don't install the news and email.
I would like very much to see how you feel that AOL is any less immoral than microsoft.
While AOL wishes it could be an anti-competive monopoly, Microsoft is an anti-competive monopoly.
QED.
No, many of his supporters in Palm Beach are old. You know, those people you might have called Grandparents at one point. Being old, many suffer from poor eyesite. In addition, they changed the format of the ballot against the explicit laws of the State of Florida. Taking a look at the ballot it's pretty easy to see how people can make mistakes and less than 100% are going to catch them. So there are a few legitimate problems when you consider the actual constituency of Palm Beach.
The problem is worse than that. By posting the names of young children, particularly young girls, and asking the general public which girl is the best to rape, they are not only invading their privacy but also ripping away that's child's sense of security.
Those polls are an implicit threat of deeply personal violence.
Unfortunately, the only real solution is for the people running the site to monitor it closely.
Of all the things i dislike about bush it's that. here he is with his checkered past and does he have any compassion or understanding?
The answer to this is pretty simple, George doesn't get to make policy. The Republicans are running him because his name is George Bush and the media likes him. The people in charge of the party make all the decisions, his job to talk when they pull the strings.
Anyone else got any bright ideas?
Yes, election campaigns should be publically funded. Every potential candidate who actually has a chance to win recieving the same public funding, same access to the media, debates and everything else. If the candidate fails to achieve 10% of the popular vote, the candidate has to pay back all the money after the election.
This should be extended to senators and congressman when they run for elections.
Theoretially the winner should pander to the people who payed to get him elected, the American people. ;)
Of course, American politics would probably be a lot less interesting after such a reform...
"No, I came to this conclusion from his own campaign-finance related scandals, and his position relative to the various scandals plauging the current administration. I don't have to listen to commentary or punditry to feel nervous about his trustworthiness."
And when someone else warns you that the "scandals" may be smoke and mirrors designed to make you nervous, you dismiss it out of hand, because of course, it's impossible that you might ever be deceived by the people who work someone who has billions riding on the candidate of his choice.
The simple fact is that you are unwilling to accept that someone may have tricked you. That make you double the fool.
The sooner the dumb world gets over the 2-year old mentality of "this information is exclusively mine", and starts exchanging ideas for the better of ALL humanity, the sooner we'll have a better world.
Intellectual Property Rights are not about ownership or control, or even the ethical correctness of owning information, they are economic incentives to ensure that people continue to create new and unique inventions and information works.
Copyrights only protect an expression of information, it does not protect the information. Otherwise I couldn't add 2+3 without infringing on a book I read when I was 5.
Patents grant limited protection against having the information within used by another company. Why? Because that information is automatically published and added to the world repetoir of knowledge, and patents expire. The current implementation of the idea may be faulty but the idea behind the patent system is till a good one.
Trade secret laws prevent the misuse of secret information which is given to a person under an agreement of confidentiality.
Let's say I reverse engineer the recipe for a popular soda. Does that mean I'm illegally using intellectual property?
Not unless that recipe is patented, in which case you didn't need to reverse engineer it. The information was already available at the patent office.
If I _INDEPENDENTLY_ discover the same knowledge, that knowledge is NO longer PROPRIETARY.
Yes. Unless of course that information has been patented and published. In that case, unfortunately, the original discoverer or inventor was granted protection from all competitors for 17 years in exchange for sharing that information with the rest of the world.
Quality can be defined in a number of ways, from bugs per KLOC to errors per hour of operation.
Quality management systems, like CMM, are about establishing methods to measure the quality of code.
They are not about ensuring you create good code (that's normally a side effect), they're about making sure you know how good your are and what if anything you are doing wrong.
When properly implemented these systems allow you (and your manager) to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the guy in the next cubicle is an idiot. Once that's done, he can be replaced with someone slightly less clueless.