A very good friend of mine had an account on my system when he was killed (hit by a bus while bike riding). That was almost 9 years ago, and it wasn't that long ago that I finally removed the account. Though it was only the first couple of years that I really couldn't bring myself to do it, after that, I pretty much forgot about it until I was doing some housekeeping. But I still had to tell myself "get over it already".
What's worse is that it was slashdotted before it even went public! As a subscriber, I got to see while still "red" and though the base page loaded, it was very slow.
Yes it sucks that there's spam and spyware and adware out there. But there are other ways to solve this problem without giving government yet another quantum of totalitarian authority.
I agree about taking responsibility and limiting new laws, and the way spyware should be handled is to make it illegal to include it without telling people it's there. That way people can. I just found out that Trillian Pro calls home whenever it starts up. If I'd realized that, I wouldn't have bought it, and I'm going to be demanding my money back.
Is that why I have two loyalty cards on my keyring and three more in my wallet?
When Safeway started doing their stupid club card, I stopped shopping at Safeway. When for various reasons I need to, I enter the phone number of a friend who's dad used to work for them, so had one.
When Albertson's, the store most convenient for me, started theirs, I drove a little farther, to a Thriftway, though it had less of a selection, for most shopping. Though it was nice that they would just give it to you without having to fill out anything. When I just needed a couple of things and the "preferred savings" wouldn't be a factor anyhow, I'd just go to Albertson's. Lo, they gave me another! So, I started shopping there again, and each time, they gave me another. I've got a good dozen now;-) They've since stopped that, but if you don't have one, the checkers have a default one they use, so it doesn't penalize you to not use their card. I'm a happy Albertson's shopper again, until they change that.
They couldn't even leave the 3 Laws alone! ack phhht! I'm going to wait for the p2p version. I couldn't stomach actually contributing money to this perversion.
At only 51KW per 100,000 people, I don't think this is going to be practical without some major improvements. Even the Portland system (which I didn't know about, and I *live* here!) only puts out 170KW for $1.3million capital costs, not counting operational costs. At $60K savings per year, that's over 20 years to pay back, and I have a suspicion that the $60K "savings" are more than eaten up in operating costs. No wonder I haven't heard about it...
It makes a lot more sense for dairies, which have a tremendous waste problem (BTW, there's a space in that URL you need to get rid of to make the link work, between the s and t in "digester").
By "requiring certs" I mean "requiring a cert signed by a trusted entity". Though I suppose they could sell or issue anonymous certs that are certified to not be spammers... then people might trust them...
Those certs will simply not be trusted for purposes of accepting email. Thawte has a very thorough process for getting a cert with your name in it. Even their "Freemail" certs require some level of data input, but it's not verified. It takes enough time to keep it from being a viable option for spammers though.
Requiring certs would spell the end of anonymous mail, but spam has already done that, and the Beagle virus has shown another reason why everyone (ISPs in particular in this case) should digitally sign their email.
Calm down now... I do understand the reasons for it, I just think it's just bad training for the users. Yes, they can trust the person when they called the ISP, but what happens when someone calls them and pretends to be the ISP and they're already used to giving their ISP their password? All I'm suggesting is that we need to see if we can come up with a better solution to the problem...
Obviously our experiences are different, and I admit mine is probably the more unusual --- I run a small ISP and most interaction is by email. The only phone calls I get are when email won't work for some reason, usually password problems.
I think that's a really bad policy because it trains the users to give out their password to someone they think is the ISP which makes them very vulnerable to social engineering. I can see the ID value, but there needs to be a better way, maybe some sort of challenge response system, though that would be hard to implement in a simple way. And of course, it is totally useless in the most common case where you want to validate that the user is who they say they are: when they've forgotten their password and need it reset (which is one reason why I also strongly recommend that people never save their passwords and let the system remember them).
I tell my users never to give their password to anyone *including* me (it's amazing how many just automatically send it). If I need to verify someone, I use caller id. It's not perfect, but it's "good enough" for my environment.
I've always told users to never click on a link in email --- *always* go to the known URL manually to login. If there's something important for you, they'll tell you when you login.
What I don't understand is why the light from then hasn't already passed us? Assuming the big bang and an expanding universe, back then, the universe was small. What makes up what we are now was in there somewhere. Let's say the universe is 13.7 billion years old like the report says, and we're looking at 13 billion years ago. That means this is when the universe was 700 million years old. Assuming it expanded at the speed of light, it would be 700 million light years radius. Since nothing is supposed to be able to actually go that fast, it would actually be much smaller, and light should have passed that edge long ago.
There's also the issue of which direction was the center, and where's the edge? Assuming what we are now was not in the center of the big bang, there should be a direction that is the shortest distance to the edge that is leading the expansion way for us, and in the opposite direction, through the center of the big bang point, off to the other side, should be the farthest away point --- a full radius of the universe, plus our distance from the center. But it's far enough way that it'll be billions of years before that light gets here.
It's enough to give one a headache... I think I'll just go Trip the Rift.
GSM is pretty much the standard everywhere else, but in the US, there are several standards, and GSM is the only one with SIM cards that I know of. I'd like to switch to GSM, but they're still rolling it out and it doesn't go many of the places I use my cell phone, so I'm staying on AT&T's older digital technology.
I would love to have tivo for radio, as there's a number of shows I like to listen to on NPR: radio reader, garrison keeler(?), shickele mix, etc. I rarely get to because about the only time I have to listen to the radio is when I'm driving. I need to record these to cd for then...
I've been using careerbuilder.com for a few months, and not gotten a peep out of any of the places I've submitted to, but it's always possible they just don't like me or my introduction for some reason... I do like the automatic notices of jobs matching some criteria...
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The embalming point is an interesting one: as I understand it, embalming involves ripping out all the innards and flooding the shell with formaldehyde or something equally toxic. Doesn't sound like a good state for revival, but on the other hand, you need something still left to revive by the time it gets there...
Although the DTivo can't record off the air, you're better off getting the local channels over it anyhow, unless you get really good reception on all of them. And I think you'll still get better quality over the satellite, as even good over-the-air has more interference than the occasional glitch from rain (which at it's worst has been a couple seconds of typical digital compression/dropout artifacts for me). The two tuners are really worth it too, and often, it's actually cheaper than any other Tivo (Best Buy and others frequently have them for $100 w/year or two service requirement, but what else are you going to do with it?)
I certainly hope the author wasn't a Linux zealot trying to harm SCO.
Indeed. Personally, I think the Open Source community should set up a fund to add to the reward SCO is offering because of the black eye it gives the community if he was.
A friend invited me into Friendster and I got on to see what it was like, but being that restrictive, there was no one to link to or find anything about, and all the friends I already have, I talk to with email or voice just fine and Friendster really offers nothing to even give me a reason to invite them, so what's the point? Something like that is for finding *new* friends, so I haven't been back. Don't see any reason to even be interested in Google's version...
The article wasn't clear if Gstream addresses this problem, but one of the things I've been looking for is X-server based audio. I have a variety of types of systems and try to run or two desktops. Since Windows and Mac won't remote natively, they're the ones I'm currently stuck with, and my unix systems, being capable of it, are off in another room somewhere and I get to them using a local X-server or ssh. But that means no Unix multimedia, because no audio.
I got my first chance to play with an ipod over New Year's, and maybe I'm not a Machead, but the thing was *far* from inuitive. Give me a standard 4-arrow rocker any day...
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A very good friend of mine had an account on my system when he was killed (hit by a bus while bike riding). That was almost 9 years ago, and it wasn't that long ago that I finally removed the account. Though it was only the first couple of years that I really couldn't bring myself to do it, after that, I pretty much forgot about it until I was doing some housekeeping. But I still had to tell myself "get over it already".
What's worse is that it was slashdotted before it even went public! As a subscriber, I got to see while still "red" and though the base page loaded, it was very slow.
I assumed it was a one time registration. I don't recall being told that it would do it, and I have uninstalled it.
I agree about taking responsibility and limiting new laws, and the way spyware should be handled is to make it illegal to include it without telling people it's there. That way people can. I just found out that Trillian Pro calls home whenever it starts up. If I'd realized that, I wouldn't have bought it, and I'm going to be demanding my money back.
When Safeway started doing their stupid club card, I stopped shopping at Safeway. When for various reasons I need to, I enter the phone number of a friend who's dad used to work for them, so had one.
When Albertson's, the store most convenient for me, started theirs, I drove a little farther, to a Thriftway, though it had less of a selection, for most shopping. Though it was nice that they would just give it to you without having to fill out anything. When I just needed a couple of things and the "preferred savings" wouldn't be a factor anyhow, I'd just go to Albertson's. Lo, they gave me another! So, I started shopping there again, and each time, they gave me another. I've got a good dozen now ;-) They've since stopped that, but if you don't have one, the checkers have a default one they use, so it doesn't penalize you to not use their card. I'm a happy Albertson's shopper again, until they change that.
They couldn't even leave the 3 Laws alone! ack phhht! I'm going to wait for the p2p version. I couldn't stomach actually contributing money to this perversion.
At only 51KW per 100,000 people, I don't think this is going to be practical without some major improvements. Even the Portland system (which I didn't know about, and I *live* here!) only puts out 170KW for $1.3million capital costs, not counting operational costs. At $60K savings per year, that's over 20 years to pay back, and I have a suspicion that the $60K "savings" are more than eaten up in operating costs. No wonder I haven't heard about it...
It makes a lot more sense for dairies, which have a tremendous waste problem (BTW, there's a space in that URL you need to get rid of to make the link work, between the s and t in "digester").
By "requiring certs" I mean "requiring a cert signed by a trusted entity". Though I suppose they could sell or issue anonymous certs that are certified to not be spammers... then people might trust them...
Those certs will simply not be trusted for purposes of accepting email. Thawte has a very thorough process for getting a cert with your name in it. Even their "Freemail" certs require some level of data input, but it's not verified. It takes enough time to keep it from being a viable option for spammers though.
Requiring certs would spell the end of anonymous mail, but spam has already done that, and the Beagle virus has shown another reason why everyone (ISPs in particular in this case) should digitally sign their email.
He's also wrong about using certificates:
1. certs don't require a connection to the cert authority. You get their CA cert ahead of time and then trust certs signed by it.
2. Responsible CA's won't grant certs to spammers because people will stop trusting their certs
3. If spam does come in signed, then they are trackable and the backlash will quickly shut them down.
Calm down now... I do understand the reasons for it, I just think it's just bad training for the users. Yes, they can trust the person when they called the ISP, but what happens when someone calls them and pretends to be the ISP and they're already used to giving their ISP their password? All I'm suggesting is that we need to see if we can come up with a better solution to the problem...
Obviously our experiences are different, and I admit mine is probably the more unusual --- I run a small ISP and most interaction is by email. The only phone calls I get are when email won't work for some reason, usually password problems.
I think that's a really bad policy because it trains the users to give out their password to someone they think is the ISP which makes them very vulnerable to social engineering. I can see the ID value, but there needs to be a better way, maybe some sort of challenge response system, though that would be hard to implement in a simple way. And of course, it is totally useless in the most common case where you want to validate that the user is who they say they are: when they've forgotten their password and need it reset (which is one reason why I also strongly recommend that people never save their passwords and let the system remember them).
I tell my users never to give their password to anyone *including* me (it's amazing how many just automatically send it). If I need to verify someone, I use caller id. It's not perfect, but it's "good enough" for my environment.
I've always told users to never click on a link in email --- *always* go to the known URL manually to login. If there's something important for you, they'll tell you when you login.
What I don't understand is why the light from then hasn't already passed us? Assuming the big bang and an expanding universe, back then, the universe was small. What makes up what we are now was in there somewhere. Let's say the universe is 13.7 billion years old like the report says, and we're looking at 13 billion years ago. That means this is when the universe was 700 million years old. Assuming it expanded at the speed of light, it would be 700 million light years radius. Since nothing is supposed to be able to actually go that fast, it would actually be much smaller, and light should have passed that edge long ago.
There's also the issue of which direction was the center, and where's the edge? Assuming what we are now was not in the center of the big bang, there should be a direction that is the shortest distance to the edge that is leading the expansion way for us, and in the opposite direction, through the center of the big bang point, off to the other side, should be the farthest away point --- a full radius of the universe, plus our distance from the center. But it's far enough way that it'll be billions of years before that light gets here.
It's enough to give one a headache... I think I'll just go Trip the Rift.
GSM is pretty much the standard everywhere else, but in the US, there are several standards, and GSM is the only one with SIM cards that I know of. I'd like to switch to GSM, but they're still rolling it out and it doesn't go many of the places I use my cell phone, so I'm staying on AT&T's older digital technology.
I would love to have tivo for radio, as there's a number of shows I like to listen to on NPR: radio reader, garrison keeler(?), shickele mix, etc. I rarely get to because about the only time I have to listen to the radio is when I'm driving. I need to record these to cd for then...
I've been using careerbuilder.com for a few months, and not gotten a peep out of any of the places I've submitted to, but it's always possible they just don't like me or my introduction for some reason... I do like the automatic notices of jobs matching some criteria...
The embalming point is an interesting one: as I understand it, embalming involves ripping out all the innards and flooding the shell with formaldehyde or something equally toxic. Doesn't sound like a good state for revival, but on the other hand, you need something still left to revive by the time it gets there...
Although the DTivo can't record off the air, you're better off getting the local channels over it anyhow, unless you get really good reception on all of them. And I think you'll still get better quality over the satellite, as even good over-the-air has more interference than the occasional glitch from rain (which at it's worst has been a couple seconds of typical digital compression/dropout artifacts for me). The two tuners are really worth it too, and often, it's actually cheaper than any other Tivo (Best Buy and others frequently have them for $100 w/year or two service requirement, but what else are you going to do with it?)
Indeed. Personally, I think the Open Source community should set up a fund to add to the reward SCO is offering because of the black eye it gives the community if he was.
A friend invited me into Friendster and I got on to see what it was like, but being that restrictive, there was no one to link to or find anything about, and all the friends I already have, I talk to with email or voice just fine and Friendster really offers nothing to even give me a reason to invite them, so what's the point? Something like that is for finding *new* friends, so I haven't been back. Don't see any reason to even be interested in Google's version...
It deliberately fried a wire because it wants a human to key in the final sequence directly...
I didn't think that had gone anywhere, as I never see anything about it. I'll have to give it a try.
The article wasn't clear if Gstream addresses this problem, but one of the things I've been looking for is X-server based audio. I have a variety of types of systems and try to run or two desktops. Since Windows and Mac won't remote natively, they're the ones I'm currently stuck with, and my unix systems, being capable of it, are off in another room somewhere and I get to them using a local X-server or ssh. But that means no Unix multimedia, because no audio.
I got my first chance to play with an ipod over New Year's, and maybe I'm not a Machead, but the thing was *far* from inuitive. Give me a standard 4-arrow rocker any day...