Well DUH!!! The RIAA would be just as happy if you flooded the p2p networks with bogus files for them. They've been trying to do that themselves for years.
Many (most?) viruses are some variation of script, and most users won't accept the inconvenience of having to get their two-minute hack scripts signed.
Besides, given Microsoft's track record how long would it be until we see a 'cross-script signing vulnerability' or some other flaw that lets unsigned scripts run as if signed..
the site takes.40,
the labels take.30 and
the labels take another 12 cents from the artist's share to recoup "production advances" and "independent promotion"
The artist gets shit until they've sold the first few million CD's. Only then, they get to keep their 12c.
My ISP however will not pass any e-mail that doesn't contain their own domain-name in the "from" e-mail address.
Are you sure they're not just checking for domains that _exist_? I know my local mailserver won't accept mail unless the hostname in MAIL FROM can resolve. That's the default config under freebsd, and it drops about a third of spam right there.
Only an idiot would run an "opt in" system which didn't use the ISP's "from" and just took the user-specified "from" field. To do so would mean that ANYONE could subscribe or unsubscribe you from their services, which would be idiotic and completely defeat the purpose.
All the list I'm on (intentionally, at least) use double-opt-in. You subscribe under any address you feel like, and they send back a token. If the address you gave them isn't yours, you can't reply with the correct token so the address you provided doesn't get subscribed.
For unsubscribing, most will accept a single unsub request. Very few people know or care what mailing lists I'm subscribed to, and I can't think of any valid reason someone might go to the trouble of unsubbing me from a mailing list. Even if they did I'd get the confirmation of it and just subscribe again.. a trivial inconvenience.
Also; where exactly is "The ISP's From"?
Most (not all) mailservers attach the IP address; I've yet to see any mail server (not ONE) that looks up the associated username for an SMTP session. Everything else in those headers is user-supplied; "HELO/EHLO", "MAIL FROM", dates, message-id's, mailer info, etc, and trivial to mess with.. go read the rfcs.
Possibly the biggest thing that would improve usability, in my experience; When a user double-clicks an icon, make it DO SOMETHING immediately. Switch to an hourglass pointer or whatever, and keep it until the window actually opens. This is probably the only major issue my wife and kids have with Linux. They can't tell if the double-click did anything, so they doubleclick again until the windows(s) start opening.
Also, you'll need putty's sftp client if you want to do it right. That's another exe you need to download. And don't forget to enable sftp on your server as well.
I use scp for copying files. Usually between *nix boxes, but there's pscp (command line) and WinSCP (GUI) if you're on a windows box.
Oh, and if you're somewhere where you can't install software for whatever reason, there's a java SSH client too. This needs to be hosted from the same IP you're connecting to because of java's security model, which might be a problem for a cable-modem user.
I hard coded one of my boxes to a specific IP then port forward from port XXXX to port 21 at my internal IP of 192.168.1.205. Only my friends and I know it's there and can access it. Very handy.
Nice, but I strongly suggest you use SSH instead, particularly since you're on a cable connection.
You can download a windows client called putty. It's a small, standalone.exe so you can easily grab it when you need it, and drop it in the trash when you're finished.
Oh shut up. I didn't want a simple, practical answer. I want laws. I want public lynchings. Think of the children!!!
Besides, Sue and I already get quite enough goatpr0nspam of our own, and it's getting steadily worse. Not that long ago I used to get a few spams a day. Now I get over a hundred, and a few spams a day make it past spamassassin. How bad does it have to get before we say enough!?
Cool. I'll pretend to be a kid to be rid of spam, no problem.
Exactly what I've always thought. If there was a ".kids" domain that didn't get spam (or at least, less highly offensive spam), every adult I know would move their own private email onto it.. I sure would.
Now think about this...that creep trying to lure children to him is doing something illegal. We're asking here whether adult spam to children (or those who could potentially be children) should also be illegal. How comfortable would you be if some guy was calling your house phone and saying innapropriate things and receive the reply, "we can't do anything about it, it's legal for him to do that, just don't let your child answer the phone." from the police?
This is the best analogy I've read yet. That's exactly how I feel.
If email has become a "broadcast media" (which is probably true, and offensive in it's own right) then perhaps we need to start applying the same rules that get applied to other "broadcast media".
I'm a parent. I'm horrified. I'd love for Destiny to be making penpals and contributing to some of the many kid-friendly sites that exist (find them yourselves, I'm not about to feed our favorites to the trolls) but I know from past experience that if she puts it anywhere on the web she'll be getting 30-50 spams a day in no time, many of them highly offensive, and increasingly many of them carefully crafted to get past spamassassin.
Apparently (someone mentioned this on IRC the other day) you can PXE-boot the installer. I'm not sure how, it's not the kind of thing I've ever needed to do..
Customer: "Yeah, I like this shirt, but I'm not sure you guys are selling it at the best price. I'm just gonna take the shirt with me while I shop around, mmm 'k?"
Shops don't let you do this, for fairly obvious reasons. Airlines do.
Is this another case of using new laws to support a broken business model? Perhaps a better solution would be that you have to pay a non-refundable deposit when you make a booking. Enough to either discourage the practise, or recover the cost of an empty seat.
You can provide (or sell) web-based services using GPL'd code and make whatever propriatory modifications you like.
I've been told that RMS considers this to be in violation of the spirit of the GPL but since you're not actually distributing any code, the GPL doesn't apply.
Yeah, but anyway. "people who think they know binary, but don't" is a subset of "people who don't know binary"
Perhaps there's 100 kinds of people;
00 - people who don't know binary, and know it.
01 - people who think they know binary, but actually don't.
10 - people who think they don't know binary, but actually do..
11 - people who do know binary.
00 The ones that understand trinary 01 those who don't 02 people who mistake it for binary. 10 And people who repeat the joke without realising there should be four options.
Your cellphone puts out half a watt at 800MHz already. Most people are quite comfortable with that. Emergency service workers, couriers, etc. have been using handheld radios that transmit 5W or more for years and most of them don't even think about it.
I'm not sure what power the current generation of Inventory-control tags use, but they've been known to interfere with pacemakers and defibulators. Cellphones and portable radios generally don't, so it must be a fair whack of RF..
An RFID chip needs only a few mw to operate. A quick search-around suggests the reader will be transmitting less than a watt. I think I could live with that.
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Yeah, I was right.. there's a link to caltech further down which actually describes what they're talking about. Good to know that nobody but the reporters really think we're all still using xmodem/kermit like one-packet-and-wait protocols
I can only assume that the 'description' of how normal TCP works has been 'simplified to the point of being wrong' by reporters, because it is totally wrong. The description of 'why fastTCP is better' then proceeds to describe 'normal tcp as it actually works.'
Any then they totally confuse the issue by mentioning that you can use multiple high speed links in parallel to get higher overall bandwidth. Boy am I impressed.
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Well DUH!!! The RIAA would be just as happy if you flooded the p2p networks with bogus files for them. They've been trying to do that themselves for years.
plus it'd put the kaibosh on virus's pretty hard
Many (most?) viruses are some variation of script, and most users won't accept the inconvenience of having to get their two-minute hack scripts signed.
Besides, given Microsoft's track record how long would it be until we see a 'cross-script signing vulnerability' or some other flaw that lets unsigned scripts run as if signed..
If it's anything like regular CD sales;
.40, .30 and
the site takes
the labels take
the labels take another 12 cents from the artist's share to recoup "production advances" and "independent promotion"
The artist gets shit until they've sold the first few million CD's. Only then, they get to keep their 12c.
My ISP however will not pass any e-mail that doesn't contain their own domain-name in the "from" e-mail address.
Are you sure they're not just checking for domains that _exist_? I know my local mailserver won't accept mail unless the hostname in MAIL FROM can resolve. That's the default config under freebsd, and it drops about a third of spam right there.
Only an idiot would run an "opt in" system which didn't use the ISP's "from" and just took the user-specified "from" field. To do so would mean that ANYONE could subscribe or unsubscribe you from their services, which would be idiotic and completely defeat the purpose.
All the list I'm on (intentionally, at least) use double-opt-in. You subscribe under any address you feel like, and they send back a token. If the address you gave them isn't yours, you can't reply with the correct token so the address you provided doesn't get subscribed.
For unsubscribing, most will accept a single unsub request. Very few people know or care what mailing lists I'm subscribed to, and I can't think of any valid reason someone might go to the trouble of unsubbing me from a mailing list. Even if they did I'd get the confirmation of it and just subscribe again.. a trivial inconvenience.
Also; where exactly is "The ISP's From"?
Most (not all) mailservers attach the IP address; I've yet to see any mail server (not ONE) that looks up the associated username for an SMTP session. Everything else in those headers is user-supplied; "HELO/EHLO", "MAIL FROM", dates, message-id's, mailer info, etc, and trivial to mess with.. go read the rfcs.
Possibly the biggest thing that would improve usability, in my experience; When a user double-clicks an icon, make it DO SOMETHING immediately. Switch to an hourglass pointer or whatever, and keep it until the window actually opens. This is probably the only major issue my wife and kids have with Linux. They can't tell if the double-click did anything, so they doubleclick again until the windows(s) start opening.
Also, you'll need putty's sftp client if you want to do it right. That's another exe you need to download. And don't forget to enable sftp on your server as well.
I use scp for copying files. Usually between *nix boxes, but there's pscp (command line) and WinSCP (GUI) if you're on a windows box.
Does sftp do anything winSCP can't?
Oh, and if you're somewhere where you can't install software for whatever reason, there's a java SSH client too. This needs to be hosted from the same IP you're connecting to because of java's security model, which might be a problem for a cable-modem user.
I hard coded one of my boxes to a specific IP then port forward from port XXXX to port 21 at my internal IP of 192.168.1.205. Only my friends and I know it's there and can access it. Very handy.
.exe so you can easily grab it when you need it, and drop it in the trash when you're finished.
Nice, but I strongly suggest you use SSH instead, particularly since you're on a cable connection.
You can download a windows client called putty. It's a small, standalone
Oh shut up. I didn't want a simple, practical answer. I want laws. I want public lynchings. Think of the children!!!
Besides, Sue and I already get quite enough goatpr0nspam of our own, and it's getting steadily worse. Not that long ago I used to get a few spams a day. Now I get over a hundred, and a few spams a day make it past spamassassin. How bad does it have to get before we say enough!?
Cool. I'll pretend to be a kid to be rid of spam, no problem.
Exactly what I've always thought. If there was a ".kids" domain that didn't get spam (or at least, less highly offensive spam), every adult I know would move their own private email onto it.. I sure would.
Now think about this...that creep trying to lure children to him is doing something illegal. We're asking here whether adult spam to children (or those who could potentially be children) should also be illegal. How comfortable would you be if some guy was calling your house phone and saying innapropriate things and receive the reply, "we can't do anything about it, it's legal for him to do that, just don't let your child answer the phone." from the police?
This is the best analogy I've read yet. That's exactly how I feel.
If email has become a "broadcast media" (which is probably true, and offensive in it's own right) then perhaps we need to start applying the same rules that get applied to other "broadcast media".
I'm a parent. I'm horrified. I'd love for Destiny to be making penpals and contributing to some of the many kid-friendly sites that exist (find them yourselves, I'm not about to feed our favorites to the trolls) but I know from past experience that if she puts it anywhere on the web she'll be getting 30-50 spams a day in no time, many of them highly offensive, and increasingly many of them carefully crafted to get past spamassassin.
What can I do?
Apparently (someone mentioned this on IRC the other day) you can PXE-boot the installer. I'm not sure how, it's not the kind of thing I've ever needed to do..
Happy now?
There's a changelog if you want to roll back to the earlier version..
/~esr/jargon/html/0/code-404.html was not found on this server.
The page for '404' is very informative;
Not Found
The requested URL
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Damn right.. since MS's own New, Broader Shared Source licence would have been so much more appropriate..
"You may not distribute this software in source or object form for commercial purposes under any circumstances."
Customer: "Yeah, I like this shirt, but I'm not sure you guys are selling it at the best price. I'm just gonna take the shirt with me while I shop around, mmm 'k?"
Shops don't let you do this, for fairly obvious reasons. Airlines do.
Is this another case of using new laws to support a broken business model? Perhaps a better solution would be that you have to pay a non-refundable deposit when you make a booking. Enough to either discourage the practise, or recover the cost of an empty seat.
You can provide (or sell) web-based services using GPL'd code and make whatever propriatory modifications you like.
I've been told that RMS considers this to be in violation of the spirit of the GPL but since you're not actually distributing any code, the GPL doesn't apply.
Yeah, but anyway. "people who think they know binary, but don't" is a subset of "people who don't know binary"
Perhaps there's 100 kinds of people;
00 - people who don't know binary, and know it.
01 - people who think they know binary, but actually don't.
10 - people who think they don't know binary, but actually do..
11 - people who do know binary.
"Page not found"...any other ideas?
Try again without the slashcode-induced ga p.
Atually no there shouldn't... 10 types of people means we either start from 01 or stop counting at 02..
The off-by-one bug strikes again..
There are 10 types of people;
00 The ones that understand trinary
01 those who don't
02 people who mistake it for binary.
10 And people who repeat the joke without realising there should be four options.
Your cellphone puts out half a watt at 800MHz already. Most people are quite comfortable with that. Emergency service workers, couriers, etc. have been using handheld radios that transmit 5W or more for years and most of them don't even think about it.
I'm not sure what power the current generation of Inventory-control tags use, but they've been known to interfere with pacemakers and defibulators. Cellphones and portable radios generally don't, so it must be a fair whack of RF..
An RFID chip needs only a few mw to operate. A quick search-around suggests the reader will be transmitting less than a watt. I think I could live with that.
apparently no.
Yeah, I was right.. there's a link to caltech further down which actually describes what they're talking about. Good to know that nobody but the reporters really think we're all still using xmodem/kermit like one-packet-and-wait protocols
I can only assume that the 'description' of how normal TCP works has been 'simplified to the point of being wrong' by reporters, because it is totally wrong. The description of 'why fastTCP is better' then proceeds to describe 'normal tcp as it actually works.'
Any then they totally confuse the issue by mentioning that you can use multiple high speed links in parallel to get higher overall bandwidth. Boy am I impressed.