They should just stay the hell out of it. Every time a government gets involved in anything they just end up screwing it up and making it an expensive, bloated mess. Lets face it governments are made up of people who'd probably be completely unemployable anywhere else, so why should anyone listen to their "ideas" about the 'net. The 'net has grown nicely without government meddling; why not leave it that way?
I dispute this nonsense, since as we all know, the Earth is only a few thousand years old, not the 42,000 years old that this skellington is supposed to be!
Who's going to be flying the plane whilst the pilots are in the back working out which passengers they need to manhandle into the cargo hold? I'd think the ones with guns/explosives about their person would be prime suspects? Anyway, you could just leave everyone knocked out until the plane had landed.
The pilots could just have a switch to "knock out" all the passengers in a few seconds, so in the event of an attempted hijack, they could do this, and drop the hijackers into the hold, to freeze to death;-)
Who cares? Really, it's just a phone, and not even a very good one at that. Aside from the animated interface and (wow) touch-screen, it's hardly worth what Apple are asking. It doesn't even run Java apps; in fact, there's no way for any independent developer to write any code for it. As usual, Apple are just plain greedy; trying to sew up the market by controlling the hardware and the software on the device. Fair enough, it's theirs to do with as they please. Didn't work too well against Microsoft though, did it? The only good thing MS ever did was to prevent Apple from dominating the desktop and keeping a cast iron grip on the hardware and OS.
Jobs is a greedy fool. I have no idea why Apple have all these fan boyz, unless said boyz are simpletons who can be swayed by pretty boxes. I'm saying this all as a diehard Linux admin who also owns an Apple iMac, BTW...
Comcast routes smtp through port 587, not 25. I was scratching my head for a minute to figure out why, but then it dawned on my that it was to prevent bots from spewing spam on port 25.
This policy must have appeared a few minutes ago then, because comcast is an atrocious source of spam, all spewed through port 25. It's so bad that I routinely block comcast netblocks when adding packet filters to mail servers. I doubt I've ever seen a legitimate email from comcast.
I can see why you might be a little irritated, but I routinely block all asian address ranges - or as many as possible - on servers I admin for customers (all services, not just email). As the parent pointed out, I've also noticed the only traffic coming from there is spam or automated cracking attempts. It's nothing personal, just an obvious and effective way to prevent intrusion and at least some of the spam - it's like capping an open sewer outlet.
Well I tend to use the DOM with as little branching as possible (between Firefox, Safari and IE). I must admit I don't tend to spend much time looking into the problems Opera has with scripts, as most of my current code is for CMS GUIs (drag and drop, heavy Ajax interfaces) and clients don't tend to use Opera - actually they probably don't use Firefox either, but I do;-). The 3 main browsers all work with the code flawlessly. It'd be nice if Opera supported the DOM as well as the other browsers, but it just plain doesn't, and it's not worth branching code for no purpose.
I suspect I'm not alone in filtering out Opera - I started sniffing for it way back when (I believe) they introduced the "document.createElement()" stub code, which didn't actually create an element - pretty indefensible in my view as it meant checking the browser capabilities instead of sniffing was hampered. I think the last time I seriously tested it (may have been 7.5x) it left pixel trails in the browser when using DHTML to resize a div from a mouse drag unless I added code to keep changing the Z-index. There's no doubting it's probably the best browser for embedded devices, and renders CSS fine, but I can't see myself supporting it for any serious Javascript/Ajax work any time soon - if ever.
Do people actually USE Javascript in Opera?! It's not a bad browser for rendering CSS layouts, but its JS engine sucks and has always sucked. Basic AJAX (I hate that acronym, but it seems to be all over the place at the moment) simply fails with it to the point all the sites I work on actively sniff for Opera and remove Javascript beyond basic rollovers and form validation. This isn't a troll, as I still test CSS layouts with Opera to ensure templates look correct, but I doubt anyone uses it for its scripting capabilities!
In defence of London cabbies, it's hard to fault them on their ability to drive or navigate between two points. I've no idea how they manage to stand 8 hours a day of London traffic without becoming raging psychopaths though...
Believe me, anyone who's taken a cab in London probably won't have gotten the impression that a London cabbie's ability to memorize the locations of thousands of streets has anything to do with their towering intellects;-)
It's nice to see community achievements getting some positive recognition; especially when contrasted with the spectacle of the forcesofevil, who oppose freedom, being panned in the press and in court;-) It's a good end to the year!
Who would have thought it; we're not just a bunch of commie anti-capitalists and foil-hat wearing conspiracy theorists...
Funnily enough, the guy missed out the worst bug in Firefox (for anyone using a CMS anyway), which is that it auto-pre-fills any field in a domain named "password" with a single stored password. That might be ok for an end user, but when a CMS uses this field to say edit a user account, Firefox prefills that too, and if you don't realize, you've just set an admin password for the user (user can then request their password, and see yours, unless you generate random passwords on the fly). This recently caused me a headache as a client said every time she edited a user they could no longer login! The only "fix" is to globally disable auto-fill. There's no option to ignore specific sites... which would at least be a start...
If for some reason someone needs to SEND mail through their work server, they shouldn't be connecting across the internet to port 25; they should be using VPN.
What if I want to acess my work mail server from home? Or a clients? Or I just want to access the email that I've been using for years via pop/smtp?
Then the ISP would allow users requiring port 25 access to unblock it, after clicking through a disclaimer that they're not complete retards and will be disconnected if they spam. I think you'll find POP is on port 110, not 25 BTW...
Maybe they're not so stupid - these are the same people who'll be on Ebay making 500% profit on these things when xmas shoppers/early adopters can't buy them in the stores...
You wouldn't have to cut off access, just block all outgoing traffic from that customer and redirct any port 80 requests to a static webpage explaining to them (in big letters and monosyllabic words) why "their interweb is gone". Charge for support calls, and the ISP call centres would likely turn a profit! This would hopefully make the idiots take at least some care over security...
I've also noticed this, and wonder why the hell an obvious avenue hasn't been taken to stop this: Filter all outgoing port 25 traffic from DSL/model users to the ISP's mail relays and stop it there (based on sheer volume of mail - if some granny starts sending 10,000 emails a day, it's a pretty fair bet that it's not all legit).
There, all the botnet spam has stopped.
WTF is this simple thing taking so long to do? *IF* someone needs port 25 opened, then they could request it from the ISP; I use port 25; but for the overwhelming number of subscribers this is a non-issue.
Better still, if a customer started attempting to send vast amounts of spam, the ISP could track their other network connections, and maybe find out where the IRC server is that's being used to issue commands; from there, find the other connections to that server (if ISPs collaberated) and take it all offline.
Why not also check these pink sheet stocks being pumped, and suspend trading on any with no history (the ones I've checked almost always have virtually no trading history beyond the spammers buying huge blocks of shares prior to the spamvertisement. It amazes me that there are still morons out there buying stock based on the contents of a spam email!
may be crazy, but I'm the sort that believes the US Federal government should generally keep itself out of private business concerns unless necessary, and act ethically whenever possible...
You're not alone with copiers. I've worked in offices for a fair few years, and since most of them were as a programmer, I've never had to use a copier, and honestly don't have a clue how to use one! Once day I'll get caught out, I'm sure!
I've been looking at Ruby myself lately with a view to trying to get it used in some skunkware projects at my work. I like the language itself, but it is very slow. Much as I hope it'll succeed, I can't see running Ruby in the JVM making the performance situation any better.
BTW, any project with a lead developer named "Charles Nutter" deserves respect!!
Should have mentioned, I buy most of my albums from iTunes, not on CD. It's convenient, and so long as I can burn and rip the music back, I'll continue using it. The day Apple add an update to prevent that, that'll be the last day I ever buy anything from there.
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You may not have noticed that the site is actually hosted on Linux, and the pages are served via php/apache but disguised to look like .Net too ;-)
They should just stay the hell out of it. Every time a government gets involved in anything they just end up screwing it up and making it an expensive, bloated mess. Lets face it governments are made up of people who'd probably be completely unemployable anywhere else, so why should anyone listen to their "ideas" about the 'net. The 'net has grown nicely without government meddling; why not leave it that way?
I dispute this nonsense, since as we all know, the Earth is only a few thousand years old, not the 42,000 years old that this skellington is supposed to be!
Who's going to be flying the plane whilst the pilots are in the back working out which passengers they need to manhandle into the cargo hold?
I'd think the ones with guns/explosives about their person would be prime suspects? Anyway, you could just leave everyone knocked out until the plane had landed.
The pilots could just have a switch to "knock out" all the passengers in a few seconds, so in the event of an attempted hijack, they could do this, and drop the hijackers into the hold, to freeze to death ;-)
...it was still in line to sell over a million units by June 30...
I didn't realise there were that many stupid people out there... then I remember the guy that was voted into the Whitehouse *again*...
Who cares? Really, it's just a phone, and not even a very good one at that. Aside from the animated interface and (wow) touch-screen, it's hardly worth what Apple are asking. It doesn't even run Java apps; in fact, there's no way for any independent developer to write any code for it. As usual, Apple are just plain greedy; trying to sew up the market by controlling the hardware and the software on the device. Fair enough, it's theirs to do with as they please. Didn't work too well against Microsoft though, did it? The only good thing MS ever did was to prevent Apple from dominating the desktop and keeping a cast iron grip on the hardware and OS.
Jobs is a greedy fool. I have no idea why Apple have all these fan boyz, unless said boyz are simpletons who can be swayed by pretty boxes. I'm saying this all as a diehard Linux admin who also owns an Apple iMac, BTW...
Comcast routes smtp through port 587, not 25. I was scratching my head for a minute to figure out why, but then it dawned on my that it was to prevent bots from spewing spam on port 25.
This policy must have appeared a few minutes ago then, because comcast is an atrocious source of spam, all spewed through port 25. It's so bad that I routinely block comcast netblocks when adding packet filters to mail servers. I doubt I've ever seen a legitimate email from comcast.
I can see why you might be a little irritated, but I routinely block all asian address ranges - or as many as possible - on servers I admin for customers (all services, not just email). As the parent pointed out, I've also noticed the only traffic coming from there is spam or automated cracking attempts. It's nothing personal, just an obvious and effective way to prevent intrusion and at least some of the spam - it's like capping an open sewer outlet.
Well I tend to use the DOM with as little branching as possible (between Firefox, Safari and IE). I must admit I don't tend to spend much time looking into the problems Opera has with scripts, as most of my current code is for CMS GUIs (drag and drop, heavy Ajax interfaces) and clients don't tend to use Opera - actually they probably don't use Firefox either, but I do ;-). The 3 main browsers all work with the code flawlessly. It'd be nice if Opera supported the DOM as well as the other browsers, but it just plain doesn't, and it's not worth branching code for no purpose.
I suspect I'm not alone in filtering out Opera - I started sniffing for it way back when (I believe) they introduced the "document.createElement()" stub code, which didn't actually create an element - pretty indefensible in my view as it meant checking the browser capabilities instead of sniffing was hampered. I think the last time I seriously tested it (may have been 7.5x) it left pixel trails in the browser when using DHTML to resize a div from a mouse drag unless I added code to keep changing the Z-index. There's no doubting it's probably the best browser for embedded devices, and renders CSS fine, but I can't see myself supporting it for any serious Javascript/Ajax work any time soon - if ever.
Do people actually USE Javascript in Opera?! It's not a bad browser for rendering CSS layouts, but its JS engine sucks and has always sucked. Basic AJAX (I hate that acronym, but it seems to be all over the place at the moment) simply fails with it to the point all the sites I work on actively sniff for Opera and remove Javascript beyond basic rollovers and form validation. This isn't a troll, as I still test CSS layouts with Opera to ensure templates look correct, but I doubt anyone uses it for its scripting capabilities!
In defence of London cabbies, it's hard to fault them on their ability to drive or navigate between two points. I've no idea how they manage to stand 8 hours a day of London traffic without becoming raging psychopaths though...
Believe me, anyone who's taken a cab in London probably won't have gotten the impression that a London cabbie's ability to memorize the locations of thousands of streets has anything to do with their towering intellects ;-)
It's nice to see community achievements getting some positive recognition; especially when contrasted with the spectacle of the forces of evil, who oppose freedom, being panned in the press and in court ;-) It's a good end to the year!
Who would have thought it; we're not just a bunch of commie anti-capitalists and foil-hat wearing conspiracy theorists...
Funnily enough, the guy missed out the worst bug in Firefox (for anyone using a CMS anyway), which is that it auto-pre-fills any field in a domain named "password" with a single stored password. That might be ok for an end user, but when a CMS uses this field to say edit a user account, Firefox prefills that too, and if you don't realize, you've just set an admin password for the user (user can then request their password, and see yours, unless you generate random passwords on the fly). This recently caused me a headache as a client said every time she edited a user they could no longer login! The only "fix" is to globally disable auto-fill. There's no option to ignore specific sites... which would at least be a start...
If for some reason someone needs to SEND mail through their work server, they shouldn't be connecting across the internet to port 25; they should be using VPN.
What if I want to acess my work mail server from home? Or a clients? Or I just want to access the email that I've been using for years via pop/smtp?
Then the ISP would allow users requiring port 25 access to unblock it, after clicking through a disclaimer that they're not complete retards and will be disconnected if they spam. I think you'll find POP is on port 110, not 25 BTW...
Maybe they're not so stupid - these are the same people who'll be on Ebay making 500% profit on these things when xmas shoppers/early adopters can't buy them in the stores...
You wouldn't have to cut off access, just block all outgoing traffic from that customer and redirct any port 80 requests to a static webpage explaining to them (in big letters and monosyllabic words) why "their interweb is gone". Charge for support calls, and the ISP call centres would likely turn a profit! This would hopefully make the idiots take at least some care over security...
I think your onto something there. In no time at all my spam will be a better read than the mail I get from my illiterate contacts.
;-)
It's "you're" - sorry, the irony was too much
I've also noticed this, and wonder why the hell an obvious avenue hasn't been taken to stop this: Filter all outgoing port 25 traffic from DSL/model users to the ISP's mail relays and stop it there (based on sheer volume of mail - if some granny starts sending 10,000 emails a day, it's a pretty fair bet that it's not all legit).
There, all the botnet spam has stopped.
WTF is this simple thing taking so long to do? *IF* someone needs port 25 opened, then they could request it from the ISP; I use port 25; but for the overwhelming number of subscribers this is a non-issue.
Better still, if a customer started attempting to send vast amounts of spam, the ISP could track their other network connections, and maybe find out where the IRC server is that's being used to issue commands; from there, find the other connections to that server (if ISPs collaberated) and take it all offline.
Why not also check these pink sheet stocks being pumped, and suspend trading on any with no history (the ones I've checked almost always have virtually no trading history beyond the spammers buying huge blocks of shares prior to the spamvertisement. It amazes me that there are still morons out there buying stock based on the contents of a spam email!
may be crazy, but I'm the sort that believes the US Federal government should generally keep itself out of private business concerns unless necessary, and act ethically whenever possible...
Boy, do you ever live in the wrong country...
You're not alone with copiers. I've worked in offices for a fair few years, and since most of them were as a programmer, I've never had to use a copier, and honestly don't have a clue how to use one! Once day I'll get caught out, I'm sure!
I've been looking at Ruby myself lately with a view to trying to get it used in some skunkware projects at my work. I like the language itself, but it is very slow. Much as I hope it'll succeed, I can't see running Ruby in the JVM making the performance situation any better.
BTW, any project with a lead developer named "Charles Nutter" deserves respect!!
Should have mentioned, I buy most of my albums from iTunes, not on CD. It's convenient, and so long as I can burn and rip the music back, I'll continue using it. The day Apple add an update to prevent that, that'll be the last day I ever buy anything from there.