The only advantage I can see is that you can bookmark within an AAC file.
That is hardly dependant on the audioformat or container. I enjoy bookmarking my MP3, OGG and FLAC files with my ancient Rio Karma.
I would strongly advice against using them. They take some of the radiation energy to make them light up, which makes the phone think that the coverage is worse than it is which in turn makes the phone crank up its transmitting power.
In effect, the phone radiates more than necessary and the battery gets drained faster.
...and it was that extra radiation that was required for the leds to blink. So outside the blinking antenna, radiation level is same than without the leds.
I upgraded my mp3 player setup by purchasing decent earphones (IEMs), Shure e2c. That resulted me removing every 128kbs encoded album from the player. With the stock earbuds, I could not hear any difference in the technical quality between those tracks encoded with 128kbs and those encoded with higher bitrates. With the new ones, the difference was not only audible, but very disturbing.
btw. I would not call myself as "golden ear", but I certainly can spot mp3 artifacts caused by too low bit rate. 192 kbs is ok, but personally, just in case I happend to upgrade my gear good enough, I've started to use lame --preset extreme when encoding.
Get a life. You don't need dust removal technology. When's the last time *anyone* has complained about dust on their digital sensor? NEVER.
Actually, basically everyone with a DSLR without dust removal has complained about this. See, in a normal camera you have hardly any moving parts
Not to discredit the parent poster: I've managed to get dust on my canon powershot s60 point-and-shoot digital camera. Now that sucks, cause cleaning that is something I will not try to do at home. Service center will bill approx 60euro (~ $75) for cleaning it, that's about 25% of the camera's original cost. (Used ones are about 150euro/$180 range).
My next DSLR will has to have some kind of dust removal mechanism.
Minimum likely cost using low-ball $25 million per airport figure and only major airports: US$1 billion How much does it take to run old fashioned _INTELLIGENCE_ agency, with lots of under cover agents (aka spies)?
Greylisting may work fine for you, as long as you accept that your mails may be delayed undefined time. Think about some major mail hub. If all the mail it tries to trasmit is greylisted, then it will have huge amount of mail in its outgoing queues.
Even now it's normal to have huge number of mail in outgoing queues, mostly bounces to spam. Those are tried deliver every once and a while. So add your mail to the queue and be prepared to wait retransmission from 5 minutes to even few days. (seen that happend).
Do I care? Of course not - It's for a good cause! It improves security
There's always a chance that terrorists smuggle tweapons in their rectums. That's why people should be randomly taken to rectal search. I'm sure you wouldn't care, it's for good cause and you have nothing to hide in your ass.
If someone is sending out 50 emails per second then block them. If they are sending one every 2 minutes, then don't.
These days it's rare to see someone sending spam with huge volumes. Usually when something like that is noticed, it's legimate emailing. Instead I've noticed that many zombies send email very slow in order to "stay under radar". If you have enough bots, and boy net is full of them, then you can afford to send out email at the speed of 1kb/sec per zombie..
> Windows XP doesn't swap, it uses a page file, which preemptively makes copies of the least used pages in your ram to your disk
I have 1 gig of memory in my home PC and not that many applications or services running on it, it should have lots of free memory. One day it swapped about 30 secods when I tried to get minimized processes back to foreground. That kind of pissed me off and I started to investigate why does my PC swap, how to read the memory information given by task manager and do I need more memory. Unfortunately, I can't find the URL any longer, but it was some m$ developer forum (think it had something to do with sql server), where I read that the swapping algorithm is optimized for systems with 128 or 256 megs of ram. For systems with more ram, it's too agressive. You can see that yourself: Have some applications open. Look at task manager, processes view. Sort processes by memory usage. open opera, word or some other app that uses nice amount of memory. Now press the minimize button. The process is no longer listed using that big amount of ram and windows will swap it out. Doesn't matter how much you have free ram! That's totally stupid! Since then I've set my system to run without swap file and had no problems and enjoyed increased speed.
even audiophiles are unable to distinguish between CD quality and LAME encoded 192 kbps MP3 files. Those who say they are able to aren't using double-blind tests or have super-human mutant ears
It's easy to test it yourself (if you have windows). winabx is a program for performing ABX-style listening tests. ie. You can change the sample "on the fly" and you should identify if the music played is sample A or sample B. After some runs it will tell you if you really identify the samples or if you are just guessing. I found out that with the genre I listen to vorbis encoded with -q4 is enough for me. Earlier I used -q7, which I know now to be overkill for me.
I actually think spam is a good way to motivate ISPs to upgrade themselves. If their mail servers die every few days because of the load spam inflicts, they upgrade their servers. That means new features (or more uptime) for you! Bandwidth is the same way... spam uses a lot of bandwidth so the Big ISPs have to upgrade their links.
One simple question: where do the ISPs get the money to do the upgrades? Who pays for that? (Oh, that was actually 2 questions..) Getting more bandwidth because there is lots of spam doesn't mean you get to enjoy faster connections. It means you get more spam faster.
Just don't give your email to anyone who asks, and you'll avoid spam. I hear putting numbers in your username helps against dictionary attacks (jrockway in in a dictionary, but jrockw2 isn't).
I also heard that time machine helps agains spam. You go back in time, before any spam was ever mailed and remove all the usenet postings you've made with your own address so that spammers in future (from that point, past in present point) will not harvest it and put it to millions CD where it will stay forever.
And to the original topic: I stopped using catch-all address on the very monday I had some 90k messages waiting my inbox.
I work at a Finnish ISP and we have an automated system that monitors user traffic. Not the content, but the amount. There are lots of rulesets, which may trigger the action. For example scanning X amount of ports in second (like some viruses do). When users computer is determined to be infected/owned by the system, all outbound http connections are directed to a page telling their system is infected and general information on what to do next. All outbound smtp connections are replied by similar kind of error message (and 500 series reply). Besides getting those replies, the customer is basically disconnected from the net. (s)he can't connect anywhere and can't be connected to.
The system lets the user out of isolation 30 minutes after the reason for isolation has disappeared. Though there are some users who get into isolation, out of it, back again all day long. One has to wonder what the users is doing with the computer? Just having it on, warming the house? Cause they can't surf the net, they can't send email...
This system has reduced outbound spam drastically!
And the best part is, we don't have to find out who is infected (dynamic IPs) and then try to contact the end user (many times not the one who pays..).
What we need is a P2P client using all those windows zombies which spammers currently use. That will eat up bandwith from the zombies -> less BW for spam. Also that way RIAA/MPAA start paying attention to zombies, after all they are used for file trading and cloaking the real "criminals" identities. When RIAA/MPAA etc start sending the subpoenas, the ISPs will start working to get rid of those zombies..
Does anyone know if I can configure emule to use zombie as proxy..?
Not sure if this is meant to be funny or insightful..
Heres how:
1. Spend 10 bucks, buy a domain name (eg xyz.com).
2. Set up a few email aliases to point to your real email. eg:
It's easier to use sneakemail. it's a service that masks your real email, allows you to create new email addresses to give out. You can attach comments to those addresses so the minute you get mail, you know for example where the email address was used. Here's an example:
From: "david_holkins-at-yahoo.com |news-10-2002/1.0-Allow|"
The original from is david_holkins@yahoo.com. The spam was sent to my news address, address I had created on Oct 2002. Using these addresses I have busted one website for giving my address out though they first claimed they had nothing to do with it. When the address starts to get enough spam you either add filters to it (at sneakemail) or just delete it.
If you have several cars with 4 people in it, all having there cell phone turned on, then it might look like a traffic jam, or at least very condensed traffic, but it might not be the case.
They measure how long it takes for a random cell phone to get from point A to point B. So they don't actually measure the cell phone density, but what's the average speed of "cell phone mass". When traffic increases close to jam levels, speeds go down..
Finland prohibits release of whois information, so it's impossible to identify spammers from Finland.
Where did you get to this conclusion? OK, I'm not the expert on whois information, but as I can look for any finnish.fi domain, who owns it, and then use The Business Information Service which tells you if an enterprise has been registered or what the address of an enterprise is. And if I'm not mistaken, only registered enterprises can apply for.fi domains, so the information is always available.
I'm pretty confident that it's very hard for finnish person to spam from finland without his/her identy being obtainable. Perhaps with prepaid GSM account and using free ISP. Though at least the one I've tried sent the password to snailmail address given during registration, which makes it harder to hide your identity.
but for a company to spam anonymously, I think it's impossible (unless of course using open proxies in china etc).
The internet may have been self policing, but not any longer. The "internet" reaction to against spammers was introduction of blacklist and internet death penalties etc. Those would have propably worked except there is too much money in the net: Blacklisted companies throw law suits agains blacklists etc. Big companies (=uunet) care only about money and do nothing about the problem and at the same time they are too big to be blacklisted.
yeah, there has to be legislation, most preferably something like: "You can't sue someone just offering a list of spammers." Though I doubt we will ever see that...
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Yeah, catch-alls are great. That is up to the minute someone starts dictionary attack on your domain.
The only advantage I can see is that you can bookmark within an AAC file.
That is hardly dependant on the audioformat or container. I enjoy bookmarking my MP3, OGG and FLAC files with my ancient Rio Karma.
I upgraded my mp3 player setup by purchasing decent earphones (IEMs), Shure e2c. That resulted me removing every 128kbs encoded album from the player. With the stock earbuds, I could not hear any difference in the technical quality between those tracks encoded with 128kbs and those encoded with higher bitrates. With the new ones, the difference was not only audible, but very disturbing.
btw. I would not call myself as "golden ear", but I certainly can spot mp3 artifacts caused by too low bit rate. 192 kbs is ok, but personally, just in case I happend to upgrade my gear good enough, I've started to use lame --preset extreme when encoding.
His logic is similar to those losers who cheat with the online games: I'm sure others cheat too, so it's just fair that I cheat.
Sure, there are such people, but no, not everyone is. One should not make assupmtions that others share same morales as you do.
Using electricity for heating is not always as cheap as other methods of heating.
At least in Finland, heating with electricity is more expensive than heating with central heat system (kaukolämpö).
I'm worried.... How long till they come and arrest Kevin Bacon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_ Bacon
Minimum likely cost using low-ball $25 million per airport figure and only major airports: US$1 billion
How much does it take to run old fashioned _INTELLIGENCE_ agency, with lots of under cover agents (aka spies)?
> I can't imagine that 320 people have 420GB of business data
"Please see attached file for details:
invitation.pps"
Do I need to say more?
Greylisting may work fine for you, as long as you accept that your mails may be delayed undefined time. Think about some major mail hub. If all the mail it tries to trasmit is greylisted, then it will have huge amount of mail in its outgoing queues.
Even now it's normal to have huge number of mail in outgoing queues, mostly bounces to spam. Those are tried deliver every once and a while. So add your mail to the queue and be prepared to wait retransmission from 5 minutes to even few days. (seen that happend).
Do I care? Of course not - It's for a good cause! It improves security
There's always a chance that terrorists smuggle tweapons in their rectums. That's why people should be randomly taken to rectal search. I'm sure you wouldn't care, it's for good cause and you have nothing to hide in your ass.
It's a joke.
The Brits take their humour seriously, one shouldn't joke about it...
If someone is sending out 50 emails per second then block them. If they are sending one every 2 minutes, then don't.
These days it's rare to see someone sending spam with huge volumes. Usually when something like that is noticed, it's legimate emailing. Instead I've noticed that many zombies send email very slow in order to "stay under radar". If you have enough bots, and boy net is full of them, then you can afford to send out email at the speed of 1kb/sec per zombie..
> Windows XP doesn't swap, it uses a page file, which preemptively makes copies of the least used pages in your ram to your disk
I have 1 gig of memory in my home PC and not that many applications or services running on it, it should have lots of free memory. One day it swapped about 30 secods when I tried to get minimized processes back to foreground. That kind of pissed me off and I started to investigate why does my PC swap, how to read the memory information given by task manager and do I need more memory.
Unfortunately, I can't find the URL any longer, but it was some m$ developer forum (think it had something to do with sql server), where I read that the swapping algorithm is optimized for systems with 128 or 256 megs of ram. For systems with more ram, it's too agressive. You can see that yourself: Have some applications open. Look at task manager, processes view. Sort processes by memory usage. open opera, word or some other app that uses nice amount of memory. Now press the minimize button. The process is no longer listed using that big amount of ram and windows will swap it out. Doesn't matter how much you have free ram! That's totally stupid! Since then I've set my system to run without swap file and had no problems and enjoyed increased speed.
s/swap/page
It's easy to test it yourself (if you have windows). winabx is a program for performing ABX-style listening tests. ie. You can change the sample "on the fly" and you should identify if the music played is sample A or sample B. After some runs it will tell you if you really identify the samples or if you are just guessing. I found out that with the genre I listen to vorbis encoded with -q4 is enough for me. Earlier I used -q7, which I know now to be overkill for me.
Are you trolling?
I actually think spam is a good way to motivate ISPs to upgrade themselves. If their mail servers die every few days because of the load spam inflicts, they upgrade their servers. That means new features (or more uptime) for you! Bandwidth is the same way... spam uses a lot of bandwidth so the Big ISPs have to upgrade their links.
One simple question: where do the ISPs get the money to do the upgrades? Who pays for that? (Oh, that was actually 2 questions..)
Getting more bandwidth because there is lots of spam doesn't mean you get to enjoy faster connections. It means you get more spam faster.
Just don't give your email to anyone who asks, and you'll avoid spam. I hear putting numbers in your username helps against dictionary attacks (jrockway in in a dictionary, but jrockw2 isn't).
I also heard that time machine helps agains spam. You go back in time, before any spam was ever mailed and remove all the usenet postings you've made with your own address so that spammers in future (from that point, past in present point) will not harvest it and put it to millions CD where it will stay forever.
And to the original topic: I stopped using catch-all address on the very monday I had some 90k messages waiting my inbox.
The system lets the user out of isolation 30 minutes after the reason for isolation has disappeared. Though there are some users who get into isolation, out of it, back again all day long. One has to wonder what the users is doing with the computer? Just having it on, warming the house? Cause they can't surf the net, they can't send email...
This system has reduced outbound spam drastically! And the best part is, we don't have to find out who is infected (dynamic IPs) and then try to contact the end user (many times not the one who pays..).
here's the manufacturer's slide show (don't slashdot him to death..)
HEUREKA!
I just came up with a solution to spam!
What we need is a P2P client using all those windows zombies which spammers currently use. That will eat up bandwith from the zombies -> less BW for spam. Also that way RIAA/MPAA start paying attention to zombies, after all they are used for file trading and cloaking the real "criminals" identities. When RIAA/MPAA etc start sending the subpoenas, the ISPs will start working to get rid of those zombies..
Does anyone know if I can configure emule to use zombie as proxy..?
Not sure if this is meant to be funny or insightful..
Take any big US xdsl provider and they don't give rat's butt about those complains. Been there, done that, got bored.
1. Spend 10 bucks, buy a domain name (eg xyz.com).
2. Set up a few email aliases to point to your real email. eg:
It's easier to use sneakemail. it's a service that masks your real email, allows you to create new email addresses to give out. You can attach comments to those addresses so the minute you get mail, you know for example where the email address was used. Here's an example: From: "david_holkins-at-yahoo.com |news-10-2002/1.0-Allow|"
The original from is david_holkins@yahoo.com. The spam was sent to my news address, address I had created on Oct 2002. Using these addresses I have busted one website for giving my address out though they first claimed they had nothing to do with it. When the address starts to get enough spam you either add filters to it (at sneakemail) or just delete it.
They measure how long it takes for a random cell phone to get from point A to point B. So they don't actually measure the cell phone density, but what's the average speed of "cell phone mass". When traffic increases close to jam levels, speeds go down..
Finland prohibits release of whois information, so it's impossible to identify spammers from Finland.
.fi domain, who owns it, and then use The Business Information Service which tells you if an enterprise has been registered or what the address of an enterprise is. And if I'm not mistaken, only registered enterprises can apply for .fi domains, so the information is always available.
Where did you get to this conclusion? OK, I'm not the expert on whois information, but as I can look for any finnish
I'm pretty confident that it's very hard for finnish person to spam from finland without his/her identy being obtainable. Perhaps with prepaid GSM account and using free ISP. Though at least the one I've tried sent the password to snailmail address given during registration, which makes it harder to hide your identity.
but for a company to spam anonymously, I think it's impossible (unless of course using open proxies in china etc).
The internet may have been self policing, but not any longer. The "internet" reaction to against spammers was introduction of blacklist and internet death penalties etc. Those would have propably worked except there is too much money in the net: Blacklisted companies throw law suits agains blacklists etc. Big companies (=uunet) care only about money and do nothing about the problem and at the same time they are too big to be blacklisted.
yeah, there has to be legislation, most preferably something like: "You can't sue someone just offering a list of spammers." Though I doubt we will ever see that...