The best way to isolate spammers is to require that the sender must continue to store the message...
This doesn't work too well with mobile or off-line mail clients, or mail forwarders. The receiver could not retrieve the message if the sender has gone off-line. Also, each mail forwarder would have to store potentially unlimited amounts of per message forwarding state.
Even a 500MHz cpu could do all this and run the ignition/injection system used to operate the engine.
$ Ignition key detected. $ Accelerator angle is 0 zegrees. Adjusting fuel injection rate... INTERRUPT HANDLER: Division by zero error. Trying to recover... $ New fuel injection rate 2147483647 gallons per second. $ Air intake insufficient. Connecting turbo charger to oxygen tanks... $ Done. $ Adjusting valves... $ Done. $ Fuel mix oxygenation below nominal but within acceptable parameters. $ Stand by for ignition... WHOOOSHHH!
It's the arrogant attitude that I have a problem with. Working on open source means working with a community. Sometimes that community includes commercial operations. Messing with them just because "you can" just doesn't seem like good diplomacy.
The commercial operations are a part of the community as well, hence they must be contributing to the atmosphere of arrogance. Seriously, if they had a good standing in the community they would be less likely to be walked over. The Linux community tends to have little patience for would be members who want things but are reluctant to contribute. This, I think, is completely understandable.
Let's see. How could my company, as a hardware manufacturer, get on the good side of the Linux community? How about we GPL our device drivers? What a great idea! It would work too.
Arrogance indeed. Users are so used to being customers that they don't know when they are receiving a gift.
It's weird how, after over ten years, many people still don't get Linux. Every single Linux developer does what he does does because he gets something out of it. Not because he want's you to get something out of it. That's the beauty of the GPL. It guarantees that everyone can do what they want with the code, as long as they give others the same courtesy.
If you want something, just do it. If you can't, find a way to motivate someone to do it for you. You have the same rights as everyone else, no more, no less.
About a year ago a certain Finnish TV channel did the same in an effort to track down Osama bin Laden. The poor postman is probably still out there in Afganistan, trying to catch the bastard.
A targeted anti-personnel mine comes to mind. Could be useful for taking out enemy commanders. A retreating force could leave these scattered in the bushes. Of course, they'd have to acquire some samples beforehand. Who does Saddam's laundry, by the way?
Many cable ISPs leave SNMP wide open, or use the same community strings for all their modems.
Yeah. If you can get at SNMP, you can pretty much do anything you want. Normally there is a separate network interface for the ISP's management network and SNMP is not directly accessible from subscriber equipment. However, if you manage to compromise one of the servers on the ISP's network chances are you can crack the network wide open.
You can reset the modem to get around that (you might need to hold the reset button down for 10 seconds to do a full reset). But MAC addresses are easy to change/spoof, so you could just make up a new MAC to go with each new IP.
True, but the point is you can't reset the modem whose IP address you're trying to hijack. This severely limits your window of opportunity (i.e., the other host has to be off-line long enough to release the address). In practise this means that hijacking TCP connections is not possible.
If you are in a position to intercept (as opposed to just sniffing them) the IP packets you can hijack the TCP connection before SSL kicks in and insert a transparent proxy into the connection. To do this you need to be on the same subnet with either one of the end hosts or have access to one of the routers on the path.
On any cable network, ARP spoofing is available, not just in this example. It is quite easy for someone to do this.
Depends on the equipment. Some cable routers allow only a limited number of IP address to MAC address mappings per modem and refuse to override an ARP table entry in the cable router with a different IP address once it has been created. Packets that do not have MAC and IP addresses matching the entries for the modem session get dropped.
Lack of humor? Donno, there is some pretty humorous stuff in the kernel.
Lack of humor is available as a separate patch. Linus has so far refused to integrate it into his tree, because it touches a lot of things, there is no conclusive evidence that it improves performance, and we don't need another source of instability right before the 2.6 release. For giggles, you can compile it as a module, though.
Yeah a HUD will work great when driving. Trying to read an email and drive 65mph at the same time?
Who says you have to read emails while driving? Think new applications. You could receive audiovisual driving instructions, alerts, traffic updates, etc. Traffic signs could broadcast a wireless signal so you see them a mile away no matter if they are covered in snow or grime.
In general, the main thing about about wearable computing is about improving the user interfaces. A T9 keypad and an LCD display the size of your thumb just don't cut it.
You could do the same thing with simple transcoding but this could be a lot more scalable.
It would be even cooler if they could disperse the signal in time (i.e. across several packets) and just drop every n'th packet in order to create a lower bitrate stream without making it sound choppy.
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Is anyone else scared that they claim one hundred and eleven patents on DRM?
I prefer products without DRM, which by the looks of it will be cheaper than DRM enabled products. Why should I be scared?
Bogofilter is pretty good, too.
The best way to isolate spammers is to require that the sender must continue to store the message...
This doesn't work too well with mobile or off-line mail clients, or mail forwarders. The receiver could not retrieve the message if the sender has gone off-line. Also, each mail forwarder would have to store potentially unlimited amounts of per message forwarding state.
Even a 500MHz cpu could do all this and run the ignition/injection system used to operate the engine.
$ Ignition key detected.
$ Accelerator angle is 0 zegrees. Adjusting fuel injection rate...
INTERRUPT HANDLER: Division by zero error. Trying to recover...
$ New fuel injection rate 2147483647 gallons per second.
$ Air intake insufficient. Connecting turbo charger to oxygen tanks...
$ Done.
$ Adjusting valves...
$ Done.
$ Fuel mix oxygenation below nominal but within acceptable parameters.
$ Stand by for ignition...
WHOOOSHHH!
It's the arrogant attitude that I have a problem with. Working on open source means working with a community. Sometimes that community includes commercial operations. Messing with them just because "you can" just doesn't seem like good diplomacy.
The commercial operations are a part of the community as well, hence they must be contributing to the atmosphere of arrogance. Seriously, if they had a good standing in the community they would be less likely to be walked over. The Linux community tends to have little patience for would be members who want things but are reluctant to contribute. This, I think, is completely understandable.
Let's see. How could my company, as a hardware manufacturer, get on the good side of the Linux community? How about we GPL our device drivers? What a great idea! It would work too.
What an arrogant attitude.
Arrogance indeed. Users are so used to being customers that they don't know when they are receiving a gift.
It's weird how, after over ten years, many people still don't get Linux. Every single Linux developer does what he does does because he gets something out of it. Not because he want's you to get something out of it. That's the beauty of the GPL. It guarantees that everyone can do what they want with the code, as long as they give others the same courtesy.
If you want something, just do it. If you can't, find a way to motivate someone to do it for you. You have the same rights as everyone else, no more, no less.
You know what? I'm not putting away $15,000 a year for my son's college tuition for nothing.
You know what? I could afford that but my parents never could have. I'm glad the issue never came up. Higher education is a basic right.
He is either very brave, or very stupid.
He's broke, on account of being ripped off by those nasty P2P criminals.
I found myself the proud recipient of... a bobble head doll of the company CEO!
Put the doll on your office desk, get yourself a wooden hammer, and use the doll as stress relief toy.
Incidentally, I got a new CEO for Cristmas.
About a year ago a certain Finnish TV channel did the same in an effort to track down Osama bin Laden. The poor postman is probably still out there in Afganistan, trying to catch the bastard.
A targeted anti-personnel mine comes to mind. Could be useful for taking out enemy commanders. A retreating force could leave these scattered in the bushes. Of course, they'd have to acquire some samples beforehand. Who does Saddam's laundry, by the way?
Many cable ISPs leave SNMP wide open, or use the same community strings for all their modems.
Yeah. If you can get at SNMP, you can pretty much do anything you want. Normally there is a separate network interface for the ISP's management network and SNMP is not directly accessible from subscriber equipment. However, if you manage to compromise one of the servers on the ISP's network chances are you can crack the network wide open.
You can reset the modem to get around that (you might need to hold the reset button down for 10 seconds to do a full reset). But MAC addresses are easy to change/spoof, so you could just make up a new MAC to go with each new IP.
True, but the point is you can't reset the modem whose IP address you're trying to hijack. This severely limits your window of opportunity (i.e., the other host has to be off-line long enough to release the address). In practise this means that hijacking TCP connections is not possible.
If you are in a position to intercept (as opposed to just sniffing them) the IP packets you can hijack the TCP connection before SSL kicks in and insert a transparent proxy into the connection. To do this you need to be on the same subnet with either one of the end hosts or have access to one of the routers on the path.
On any cable network, ARP spoofing is available, not just in this example. It is quite easy for someone to do this.
Depends on the equipment. Some cable routers allow only a limited number of IP address to MAC address mappings per modem and refuse to override an ARP table entry in the cable router with a different IP address once it has been created. Packets that do not have MAC and IP addresses matching the entries for the modem session get dropped.
It won't be until 2013 that they go open source.
M$ Windows is perfect for toys that suck. For other things, however, you need an OS that will stay up no matter how much you f*ck with it.
Sorry, my friend, but you're off by 20%. According to the UN, 97% of Americans can read. Not as many was we'd like, but far from 23% illiterate.
That depends on whether you count level 1 literacy (that's roughly equivalent to being able to recognize street signs) as being able to read.
You have a point, though. Data can read, unlike 23% of the American population.
Oh, great. So now we have to install crappers in the meeting rooms to get the LAN access.
The upside is, no more toilet breaks.
Lack of humor? Donno, there is some pretty humorous stuff in the kernel.
Lack of humor is available as a separate patch. Linus has so far refused to integrate it into his tree, because it touches a lot of things, there is no conclusive evidence that it improves performance, and we don't need another source of instability right before the 2.6 release. For giggles, you can compile it as a module, though.
Ok, now we know who to blame when there is a serious glitch.
Yeah a HUD will work great when driving. Trying to read an email and drive 65mph at the same time?
Who says you have to read emails while driving? Think new applications. You could receive audiovisual driving instructions, alerts, traffic updates, etc. Traffic signs could broadcast a wireless signal so you see them a mile away no matter if they are covered in snow or grime.
In general, the main thing about about wearable computing is about improving the user interfaces. A T9 keypad and an LCD display the size of your thumb just don't cut it.
"When you switch operating systems, millions of programs no longer work"
Oh yeah? What a bummer! On the other hand...
They also have relatively small hard disk drives of 10 gigabytes.
So you could only install two of them anyway. What a lucky break.
You could do the same thing with simple transcoding but this could be a lot more scalable.
It would be even cooler if they could disperse the signal in time (i.e. across several packets) and just drop every n'th packet in order to create a lower bitrate stream without making it sound choppy.
This is a great idea! If only my country could embed a chip inside of me and everyone in the U.S., then we can bring spam to a whole new level!!!
Let me get this straight. You want a subcutaneous chip that will turn yours and everybody else's brains into spiced pork and ham?
yeah. the car, it's invisible
If you pay oodles for product placement, wouldn't it be nice if people could actually see the product?