I use SORBS professionally. It works. It stops spam. The few times IP space from our customers got listed, they got delisted within 24 hours after contacting SORBS by e-mail. All it cost me was registering an account for my employer at SORBS.
As usual in the discussion on blocklisting, Slashdot is being overrun by, ehm, 'legitimate biznizmen' and their supporters, and people who know jack shit about blocklisting and its history, but believe those who shout the loudest.
Any mail admin who's depending in any significant way on the anti-spam wasteland of SORBS should be on their way to apply for jobs at local fast food restaurants as soon as possible.
My boss and our customers pay me to keep spam away. I've not had any complaints whatsoever. So why should I care about what a random spam-supporter on Slashdot says?
Actually, I wouldn't mind taxing the free newspapers to clean up the mess left by them. They've gotten away with having the municipality and the public transport companies pay for that externality for far too long in my opinion.
All this yammering does nothing to disguise the simple fact that producing CO2 by burning carbon is the exact opposite of CO2 sequestration. So your parent poster was right, and you're just being needlessly pedantic.
Search is overrated. It only works when you have the right search terms.
However, when you are looking for something that you know the author was adressing somewhere in Chapter 3, but you don't know the exact wording anymore, nothing beats opening a book and browsing quickly through the chapter. Something which is still rather hard to do in electronic form, due to its sequential nature.
I love the way electronic information works. Fast retrieval and searching are definitely pluses. However, to ignore the obvious benefits of a book (random access, portability) is throwing away the baby with the bathwater.
Now just why would they hype a product that's not even ready for market yet? Including using videos that are acknowledged to possibly not show real capabilities?
Eh. He is trolling. This stupid point ("The devs should drop everything and create a system just like I want") keeps coming up, and it keeps getting refuted.
If, after years of Slashdot and Linux, you once again bring up that stupid flamebait argument, there is only one conclusion: you're trolling.
Yes and no. Ideally, the developers have a development environment, including a LAN and their own servers, that they maintain themselves. However, once their work must be rolled out in production, it had damn well better fit with the company IT policy.
The amount of freedom developers expect is sometimes ridiculous. If I got a Euro for every time some application comes with instructions to just enter an ANY rule in the firewall, because the developer couldn't be arsed to implement a decent network protocol, I'd be able to retire.
I have news for you: UTM is old news. Vendors have been selling this stuff for years already. And yes, the complaint remains: a mish-mash of badly integrated components that eat up a significant part of your performance.
I admin these things for a living, and they're a pain. Their management interfaces suck, the false negative rate sucks, and turning on the various protection methods eats up to 80% of your bandwidth.
Don't be fucking stupid, and crack open a history book for once.
America became a superpower because it was the only one standing at the end of World War II without its economic infrastructure in rubble. Oh, and that economic infrastructure, that had a huge boom in the wartime years? That was a planned economy.
Really, I sometimes wonder how libertards like you even manage to breed.
I was going to post a detailed rebuttal, even giving you some of your points, but if your level of debate is calling names before any substantial argument can be made, you know what? You can just fuck off.
And this frees Google from exercising due diligence how? Trademarks are registered, so it is a small thing to run an order for a keyword against the database of registered trademarks, and to deny it if the buyer isn't the holder of the trademark. I think I have to agree with the plaintiff here: Google should be liable for trademark abuse of its AdWords scheme.
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I use SORBS. Spam gets stopped. My users and customers are happy. I get paid to do this.
Sorry, but that's the very definition of professional.
Mart
Actually, they do. Because I am not the one dropping mail. Get a clue about SMTP before you comment, OK?
Mart
And because some people don't know a word, we just give up.
You know, sometimes I get so damn tired of this country.
Mart
I use SORBS professionally. It works. It stops spam. The few times IP space from our customers got listed, they got delisted within 24 hours after contacting SORBS by e-mail. All it cost me was registering an account for my employer at SORBS.
As usual in the discussion on blocklisting, Slashdot is being overrun by, ehm, 'legitimate biznizmen' and their supporters, and people who know jack shit about blocklisting and its history, but believe those who shout the loudest.
Mart
My boss and our customers pay me to keep spam away. I've not had any complaints whatsoever. So why should I care about what a random spam-supporter on Slashdot says?
Mart
So talk to your provider. They're the ones misrepresenting your IP space.
But that name says it all really. You're just a spammer, aren't you?
Mart
Actually, I wouldn't mind taxing the free newspapers to clean up the mess left by them. They've gotten away with having the municipality and the public transport companies pay for that externality for far too long in my opinion.
Mart
As I said, needless pedantry.
Mart
All this yammering does nothing to disguise the simple fact that producing CO2 by burning carbon is the exact opposite of CO2 sequestration. So your parent poster was right, and you're just being needlessly pedantic.
Mart
Search is overrated. It only works when you have the right search terms.
However, when you are looking for something that you know the author was adressing somewhere in Chapter 3, but you don't know the exact wording anymore, nothing beats opening a book and browsing quickly through the chapter. Something which is still rather hard to do in electronic form, due to its sequential nature.
I love the way electronic information works. Fast retrieval and searching are definitely pluses. However, to ignore the obvious benefits of a book (random access, portability) is throwing away the baby with the bathwater.
Mart
You've just stated that Sturgeon's Law holds for the Internet. Bravo. What's next, are you going to tell us the Earth orbits the Sun?
Mart
And you're an idiot, because that was not remotely what I said. Here's a hint, peabrain: 'ready for market' does not equal 'on the shelves'.
Mart
Now just why would they hype a product that's not even ready for market yet? Including using videos that are acknowledged to possibly not show real capabilities?
Hey, it worked for Pen Windows, didn't it?
Mart
Have we read the same article? Rob's big point was that Microsoft's earlier plugin did preserve the formulas.
Mart
Eh. He is trolling. This stupid point ("The devs should drop everything and create a system just like I want") keeps coming up, and it keeps getting refuted.
If, after years of Slashdot and Linux, you once again bring up that stupid flamebait argument, there is only one conclusion: you're trolling.
Mart
Yes and no. Ideally, the developers have a development environment, including a LAN and their own servers, that they maintain themselves. However, once their work must be rolled out in production, it had damn well better fit with the company IT policy.
The amount of freedom developers expect is sometimes ridiculous. If I got a Euro for every time some application comes with instructions to just enter an ANY rule in the firewall, because the developer couldn't be arsed to implement a decent network protocol, I'd be able to retire.
Mart
Compared to a service that doesn't exist at all, all of them.
Mart
I have news for you: UTM is old news. Vendors have been selling this stuff for years already. And yes, the complaint remains: a mish-mash of badly integrated components that eat up a significant part of your performance.
I admin these things for a living, and they're a pain. Their management interfaces suck, the false negative rate sucks, and turning on the various protection methods eats up to 80% of your bandwidth.
Mart
Don't be fucking stupid, and crack open a history book for once.
America became a superpower because it was the only one standing at the end of World War II without its economic infrastructure in rubble. Oh, and that economic infrastructure, that had a huge boom in the wartime years? That was a planned economy.
Really, I sometimes wonder how libertards like you even manage to breed.
Mart
Or:
3. "He's been sharing copyrighted video. Obviously, that makes him a pirate, so he must have been sharing our copyrighted music as well."
Given the press releases coming out of the copyright cartels, it is no stretch to infer that they really think like this.
Mart
Here's a tip: highlight the URL as usual in your terminal or wherever, bring your FireFox to the front, and middle-click on a blank spot on the page.
This has worked since the earliest days of Netscape on Unix. It may even go back to Mosaic, but that's before my time, so I can't comment.
Mart
I was going to post a detailed rebuttal, even giving you some of your points, but if your level of debate is calling names before any substantial argument can be made, you know what? You can just fuck off.
Mart
Such as?
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It is so good to see people brilliantly disprove 2000 years worth of philosophy and theology.
Mart
And this frees Google from exercising due diligence how? Trademarks are registered, so it is a small thing to run an order for a keyword against the database of registered trademarks, and to deny it if the buyer isn't the holder of the trademark. I think I have to agree with the plaintiff here: Google should be liable for trademark abuse of its AdWords scheme.
Mart