Governments (regardless of party affiliation) love to have power.
Here's my current.sig: "Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take
everything you have... The course of history shows that as a government
grows, liberty decreases." -- Thomas Jefferson
With spam filters your just precipitating in a arms race.
True, but the purpose of a spam filter is to only let legitimate email through. If that encourages spammers to start writing legitimate emails, great! You might argue that they are writing legitimate looking emails, but SpamAssassin has always been 1 step ahead of them.
With spam stallers like sa-exim and tarproxy
your are stalling the spammers smtp connection
and the effect is that the spammer can't send
as much spam or that they drop you email from there email database.
I agree. However, you still need to first figure out they are a spammer, right?
Isn't this what the electoral college was meant for? Supposely the founding fathers didn't believe that the common person would have enough knowledge to make an informed vote, so the electoral college would do it for them.
This guy is saying that he knows better than the populace. Isn't that how it's supposed to work?
By the way, does anyone know when/why the electoral college became a winner-takes-all method? With the current system, candidates just focus on the major cities of large battleground states, trying to get 51% of the vote. I wouldn't be surprised if candidates increasingly win the election without the majority of the popular vote.
Nobody said the applications have to update every five minutes. They can still update infrequently, for the same quality of service (and cost) as before. Or am I missing something?
Next time ask them for their legal department, and an address where you can send a summons. I read about a guy who did this to Sony (when it was clear that they were in the wrong), and they moved *really* fast to fix the problem.
I run a home theater PC, and I rip all my DVDs to hard disk so that (1) they are all in one library location (with summary, cover art, etc), (2) shuffling DVDs won't damage them, (3) I can disable all the skip protection, or rip just the movie if I want.
A few years back I was a teaching assistant for a lab for CS 201 at the University of Virginia. This is a tough weed-out class that all the CS majors had to take. We had an undergraduate TA working with us--undergrads who had taken the class before often are a lot better than the grad students.
This one time he was helping some students with their code, and was impressed how they had done it.
That is, until he realized it was his code! Apparently someone had stolen his code from when he had taken it and kept it archived for later.
The problem is that your reliability goes DOWN because any drive failure will ruin the whole set. A 1 year MTBF for one drive becomes 4 months for a 3-drive RAID 0 system.:(
Here is a writeup of my experiences. I had RK (sharp knife) on my left eye, and Lasik (laser) on my right eye. The folks at the RK clinic were impressed by Lasik, saying that they wouldn't even know that I had surgery (2 days before!) if I hadn't told them.
With Lasik, expect fluctuation for a year after though. I was happy that I had RK on one eye, since it tended to be more stable. I couldn't use the computer otherwise...
Didn't Rambus? The FSF has also run into problems with the LZW patent.
Now if only they would find Osama...
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Bobby Fischer Found
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Gee, what a big win for the US. Found an aging chess player who was on the run for an act of civil disobedience.
If he were Martha Stewart, he would have gotten a slap on the wrist (and would have still appealed). As it is, I bet he was on some FBI shit list.
By the way, this same sort of thing happened recently with the IEEE and other professional organizations with respect to embargoed axis of evil (TM) countries. They reasoned that if you edit a paper submitted from Iran, you are providing a service to that country. A couple professional societies gave the Treasury Department the finger. In April they finally recently fixed that part of the law so that the organizations are in the clear again.
Government shouldn't block chess or science... Or crypto while I'm at it.:)
Amendment IX:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
This admits that there are other rights, but doesn't say that "everything else is a right". You still need to identify privacy as a right.
Amendment X:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
"Torvalds' recent announcement that, in the future, Linux kernel contributors will have to certify the origins of their code before it can become part of the kernel."
Why?
Why do open source projects have to prove this for each piece of code? Proprietary projects dont have to do this right? But open source projects always have the code available for the world to check over.
Surely Linus should just accept any code and leave it up to any companys who own and IP it may infringe on to chase it up? Thats why we have patents, copyright etc right?
Yes, in fact, Linus does have to worry about this, as does every proprietary software company. In fact, to be really safe, they have to check that any ideas that they come up with themselves haven't already been patented.
For example, let's say you're Reiser and you figure out an efficient way to do block allocation for large files. If you implement and release that idea in ReiserFS, you could be sued, and I could be sued if I use ReiserFS. The legal penalties are actually worse if you or I knew that the implementation was patent-infringing.
Stallman gave a keynote at the International Conference on Software Engineering in Edinburgh last week on this very subject. He's pushing the EU to disallow software patents. From what he was saying, it sounds like he's given up on the US.
In 5 or so years, I've only caught *one* company redistributing my email for spam. It seems easier in hindsight to just use one email address, then point all other addresses to the bitbucket to foil joe-jobbers.
As things are now, I have to check all bounce messages because I can't remember all the fake email addresses I've given out.
I for one am really disappointed in the Slashdot editors. You'd think that if they were to tempt us with "Koalas Gone Wild" they would at least mention some of their spring break and Mardi Gras antics.
I have some friends whose wedding ended with the celebration march from the end of The Empire Strikes Back. Too bad they weren't dressed like C3PO and R2D2.
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And if you don't adhere to the law by providing contact information, they'll email you.... um... arrest you when you finally tell them who you are.
if we could use the Slashdot effect to affect change in our federal goverment?
This guy is saying that he knows better than the populace. Isn't that how it's supposed to work?
By the way, does anyone know when/why the electoral college became a winner-takes-all method? With the current system, candidates just focus on the major cities of large battleground states, trying to get 51% of the vote. I wouldn't be surprised if candidates increasingly win the election without the majority of the popular vote.
Nobody said the applications have to update every five minutes. They can still update infrequently, for the same quality of service (and cost) as before. Or am I missing something?
Next time ask them for their legal department, and an address where you can send a summons. I read about a guy who did this to Sony (when it was clear that they were in the wrong), and they moved *really* fast to fix the problem.
I run a home theater PC, and I rip all my DVDs to hard disk so that (1) they are all in one library location (with summary, cover art, etc), (2) shuffling DVDs won't damage them, (3) I can disable all the skip protection, or rip just the movie if I want.
This one time he was helping some students with their code, and was impressed how they had done it.
That is, until he realized it was his code! Apparently someone had stolen his code from when he had taken it and kept it archived for later.
The problem is that your reliability goes DOWN because any drive failure will ruin the whole set. A 1 year MTBF for one drive becomes 4 months for a 3-drive RAID 0 system. :(
With Lasik, expect fluctuation for a year after though. I was happy that I had RK on one eye, since it tended to be more stable. I couldn't use the computer otherwise...
Didn't Rambus? The FSF has also run into problems with the LZW patent.
If he were Martha Stewart, he would have gotten a slap on the wrist (and would have still appealed). As it is, I bet he was on some FBI shit list.
By the way, this same sort of thing happened recently with the IEEE and other professional organizations with respect to embargoed axis of evil (TM) countries. They reasoned that if you edit a paper submitted from Iran, you are providing a service to that country. A couple professional societies gave the Treasury Department the finger. In April they finally recently fixed that part of the law so that the organizations are in the clear again.
Government shouldn't block chess or science... Or crypto while I'm at it. :)
Yeah, but any girlfriend worth her salt will require a Gmail account.
[It's a joke... Laugh. And yes, for the record, I was permanently scarred by kids making fun of my name in 2nd grade.]
For example, let's say you're Reiser and you figure out an efficient way to do block allocation for large files. If you implement and release that idea in ReiserFS, you could be sued, and I could be sued if I use ReiserFS. The legal penalties are actually worse if you or I knew that the implementation was patent-infringing.
Stallman gave a keynote at the International Conference on Software Engineering in Edinburgh last week on this very subject. He's pushing the EU to disallow software patents. From what he was saying, it sounds like he's given up on the US.
As things are now, I have to check all bounce messages because I can't remember all the fake email addresses I've given out.
I for one am really disappointed in the Slashdot editors. You'd think that if they were to tempt us with "Koalas Gone Wild" they would at least mention some of their spring break and Mardi Gras antics.
You forgot step 5: profit!!
Given that you can get an X1 projector for a lot less, why would you try to put a huge, expensive TV on your desktop? ;)
I have some friends whose wedding ended with the celebration march from the end of The Empire Strikes Back. Too bad they weren't dressed like C3PO and R2D2.