Stopped working with IT years ago. No time to write RFC's. Always wondered why nobody fixes email instead of creating more and more advanced filters. Fix the problem, not the symptom. The basic layout is simple. Maybe so obvious that someone has a patent on it....
Email is SMTP. There is no practically way to police it like the article describes. The author simply doesn't know how email works. What we need is a new message standard. An Advanced Mail Transfer Protocol. It should include: 1. Encryption system where mail server publish the public keys. Mail server can also hold the recipient private key. This way an email can easily be signed. My server can check signature to see if the mail really comes from whoever says is the sender.
2. Approved senders AKA friends request. On many social media sites you have the option to only get contacted by those in your contact list. Email should work like this to. I should be able to lock my email account from getting mail from anyone I haven't approved.
This could be implemented with backward compatibility with regular SMTP. All regular unsigned SMTP mail will just be marked as just that. Simple and untrusted. As the net upgrades to AMTP2 there will be a point where the majority is over on the new protocol and spam as we know it will die.
I've heard many people proclaim that photoshop is superior to the Gimp because Gimp only supports 8-bits colors. The same people often have their digital camera set to store their pictures in jpeg, which is 8 bit. Nobody I know with a compact digital camera has their camera set to save the photos in anything else than jpeg. Many people I know with digital SLRs still has their cameras set to store in jpeg. The point here is that jpeg is 8-bit per channel. Unless your shooting in tiff or raw, there is no need for 16-bit channels.
Currently I rarely use 12/16bit channel photo editing. The reason is that it's to slow (ok I admit, my computer is 3 years old, but hey! I use linux, haven't had the need to upgrade for three years, and I'll probably use my computers for 2-3 years more untill next upgrade). I convert my RAW files to 8 bit channels with Ufraw. In the raw conversion I adjust colors, white balance and exposure, then I only use Gimp to do minor changes, cropping and the like.
What I really would like, is adjustment layers. That I miss. CMYK is really a non issue unless one need real color proofing and do proffesional work.
For each pirated copy of windows, one more computer doesn't run an alternative OS. This is one of the factors keeping the userbase of Linux down. It's a mystery to me why people choose a pirated version of Windows instead an open and free version of a Linux distribution. I guess ignorance is not bliss.
Of course a "perfect system" which encrypts everything _can_ be designed. However, when in a remote location in Africa a master / visa creditcard comes in handy. Not every part of the world has a reliable fast internet connection or phone line for verification. In case of fraud, I'll get my money back (err...it's credit, I don't even have to pay it in the first place). This makes this a problem for the financial institutions, not the customers. The only problem I'll have is a mild inconvenience of denying the charge to my credit card. The benefits of the insecure system outweighs the cons, at least for now from a consumers standpoint.
I'd like to listen to the music I buy or legally download from the internet on my linux powered computer, or my mp3 player. I'd also like to be able to watch my DVD on my computer. I use OSS because I DON'T INFRINGE ON COPYRIGHT. Most of my windows-friends use pirated software.
In my view the OSS crowd has a higher moral standard. Don't mix the OSS crowd with the P2P crowd. They are not the same. The P2P crowd use mostly windows computers with pirated closed source software.
And I release many of my pictures under CC license. Share alike, non-commercial. I wouldn't like anyone using them commercially without permission either.
Whatever you choose there is one thing you will need if you are going to desert areas and beaches. Ziplock bags. Sand get in all your clothes and bags. Buy ziploc bags to protect cameras and laptops.
I'd take any old laptop, and if it should get stolen, broken or otherwise rendered useless, you can always get a new cheap ones here to for about $1200. Burn 2 DVD's of backup. Then mail one back home. It will probably arrive safely, but don't count on it. Forget about uploading backups over the internet, at least for your 4Gb memory card. The internet lines from developing countries to abroad is overloaded and slow.
Oh, and when you go to the Namib desert, do the "Livin desert tour" in Swakopmund. Don't go quadbiking, it's killing all the wildlife in the desert.
That's the beauty of it. How the program behaves is what makes its value. If you like to use Excel that is your freedom. If your spreadsheet program can't open or save to standard documents formats, complain to the maker.
Microsoft will have to either implement ODF, or loose the sale of MS-Office to all Norwegian offical offices. My guess is that we will see ODF support in Office before 1st January 2009, and that is a good thing.
Myself I use OpenOffice, so this really doesn't affect me much:-)
People send me word documents, and more and more I get.docx documents. I send out documents in odf if others are supposed to read and maybe edit. If they can't read it I send them a pdf, and if the complain about not beein able to edit I maybe send them a.doc file.
It may be being difficult, but I see it as education. People need to be aware of standards. These days people seems to get the point when getting.docx files their office 2003 can't open, and they come to me for help...
This is no problem where I live. By law I have the right to access all my medical records, and the hospital is allready storing my records and X-rays digital. I trust the the hospitals more than Google anyway:-)
I live in a country with free health care, so I have control over my health care information. It's a part of what makes a democracy:-)
Since the rise of filesharing of music as MP3 the CD sales has dropped. On the upside more people than ever are going out to conserts and listen to live music. It makes perfect sense. Music is more available, so people spend more time and money at it. Not just buying CD's, but going out to see the artists. As a results the artist is making more money, the record industry less.
I won't cry for their loss. Even though it has been a demand for buying online music for a decade now, I still can't buy music online without some DRM I have to buypass so I can transfer it to my mp3 player. I've stopped buying music. I don't download illegal music. As a result I have becomed less interested in music, and spend less money on it.
Plugins was introduced by html 3.2 on the 14th of january 1997. That's prior art to any of the patents by more than 3 years. It cannot be patented.
HTML 3.2 adds widely deployed features such as tables, applets and text flow around images, while providing full backwards compatibility with the existing standard HTML 2.0.
This is exactly why I didn't buy a Dell laptop. I knew I would never run MS Windows on it, so I purchased a ECS laptop, without Windows. Running linux allows me to integrate my laptop closer width my colleges network.
Is it really leagal for any hardware vendor to bundle an OS without giving the customers a choice. Isn't this a more serious issue than MS bundeling IE with theri OS.
I mean it wouldn't be ok if I had to buy a SuSE proffessional license with my laptop either....
Yet another mouse design! Whhy is it that the ordinary mouse has remained virtually unchanged. It's a good design. The problem is not which way you hold the mouse, but wether your elbow has any support. I have one wish:
Give me a mouse i can use with my FEET so I can use the keyboard with both HANDS!!!
2.4 Third Parties. You acknowledge and agree that the Skype Software may be incorporated into, and may incorporate itself, software and other technology owned and controlled by third parties. Skype emphasizes that it will only incorporate such third party software or technology for the purpose of (a) adding new or additional functionality or (b) improving the technical performance of the Skype Software. Any such third party software or technology that is incorporated in the Skype Software falls under the scope of this Agreement. Any and all other third party software or technology that may be distributed together with the Skype Software will be subject to you explicitly accepting a license agreement with that third party. You acknowledge and agree that you will not enter into a contractual relationship with Skype or its Affiliates regarding such third party software or technology and you will look solely to the applicable third party and not to Skype or its Affiliates to enforce any of your rights....do you still want to install this software? No spyware? Sure...not YET! When it's grown enough they will put spyware in Skype. There are open standards and open source. Businesses should use *, not Skype.
This only proves that they don't know what they are talking about.
Monitor the internet...everyone can do that today. (well, maybe some p2p clients blocks certian organisations IPs to prevent them from monitoring their content:-p, isn't much the UN can do about that:)) Restrict and remove access to internet resources...everyone can do that to. Just a question of controling the national ISPs and outlawing using foreign ISP via phone/satelite lines.
Whoever is suggesting this must belive there are a central governing of the internet, so duh...good luck.
The US aint going to give a shit about what the UN says anyway, as long at it doesn't suit them. They've proven that many times before. (Look at who is vetoing sanctions against Israel...)
Gator is a virus, spreading from countless servers on the internet. It's a worm, it's a trojan...it's evil....
Since it tries to sneak into your computer in many ways, and comes with no uninstall option, why can't some big company sue gator for billions worth of damage?
Hey, even M$ can sue them for giving windoze a bad reputation because the software is so badly written it crashs windoze boxes.
More probably "Death of the phone"
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It's only a matter of time before someone figures out that contact registers, generic phone/pda setup and profiles all will be stored online. Phones and pda's will become terminal, online on the internet.
Then, why should you call someone through the telephone network, when they allready are online?
This future developement will be the one thing that kicks off IPv6.
A spam email usually gives you an option to BUY something.
If 0.1% of those of us recieving spam mail placed a false order (or 100 000), the companies advertising through spam would get no value out of it. It would costs them money. Their customer and order systems would get spammed.
If it was impossible to make money from sending out spam, then the spam will stop.
The only way to stop people from using NAT, is to no deliver IP from the cable modem. I remember Novell had a solution with a ipx/ip gateway at the server, enabling the clients to browse with pure IPX. That'll stopp NAT. Of course you won't be able to use other apps like ssh, irc and like, but most people only want to browse porn anyway...
Linux in text mode is far nicer than widoze. I have a Dell latitude 266mhz. If I boot it up with windows, plug out the cdrom and floppy, I can go about 4 hours of MS-word/exel/winmine/etc.
Running linux in text mode, I'll work easy for 8-12 hours. If I haven't seen a power outlet for 8 hours, I'm probably not using my pc anyway.
The last I heard, IBM-Norway were running 100mbit/s TR at their head office. Don't know if that's the case anymore. At high utilization cheap 100mb switches will slow down due to cpu utilization. However, anyone updated on if IBM has done something about the single point of failure problems with TR in the 100/1000 mbit/s versions?
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Come on...we have all read the book. This is not news! :-)
Stopped working with IT years ago. No time to write RFC's. Always wondered why nobody fixes email instead of creating more and more advanced filters. Fix the problem, not the symptom.
The basic layout is simple. Maybe so obvious that someone has a patent on it....
Email is SMTP. There is no practically way to police it like the article describes. The author simply doesn't know how email works. What we need is a new message standard. An Advanced Mail Transfer Protocol. It should include:
1. Encryption system where mail server publish the public keys. Mail server can also hold the recipient private key. This way an email can easily be signed. My server can check signature to see if the mail really comes from whoever says is the sender.
2. Approved senders AKA friends request. On many social media sites you have the option to only get contacted by those in your contact list. Email should work like this to. I should be able to lock my email account from getting mail from anyone I haven't approved.
This could be implemented with backward compatibility with regular SMTP. All regular unsigned SMTP mail will just be marked as just that. Simple and untrusted. As the net upgrades to AMTP2 there will be a point where the majority is over on the new protocol and spam as we know it will die.
I've heard many people proclaim that photoshop is superior to the Gimp because Gimp only supports 8-bits colors. The same people often have their digital camera set to store their pictures in jpeg, which is 8 bit. Nobody I know with a compact digital camera has their camera set to save the photos in anything else than jpeg. Many people I know with digital SLRs still has their cameras set to store in jpeg. The point here is that jpeg is 8-bit per channel. Unless your shooting in tiff or raw, there is no need for 16-bit channels.
Currently I rarely use 12/16bit channel photo editing. The reason is that it's to slow (ok I admit, my computer is 3 years old, but hey! I use linux, haven't had the need to upgrade for three years, and I'll probably use my computers for 2-3 years more untill next upgrade). I convert my RAW files to 8 bit channels with Ufraw. In the raw conversion I adjust colors, white balance and exposure, then I only use Gimp to do minor changes, cropping and the like.
What I really would like, is adjustment layers. That I miss. CMYK is really a non issue unless one need real color proofing and do proffesional work.
For each pirated copy of windows, one more computer doesn't run an alternative OS.
This is one of the factors keeping the userbase of Linux down. It's a mystery to me why people choose a pirated version of Windows instead an open and free version of a Linux distribution. I guess ignorance is not bliss.
Of course a "perfect system" which encrypts everything _can_ be designed. However, when in a remote location in Africa a master / visa creditcard comes in handy. Not every part of the world has a reliable fast internet connection or phone line for verification. In case of fraud, I'll get my money back (err...it's credit, I don't even have to pay it in the first place). This makes this a problem for the financial institutions, not the customers. The only problem I'll have is a mild inconvenience of denying the charge to my credit card. The benefits of the insecure system outweighs the cons, at least for now from a consumers standpoint.
I'd like to listen to the music I buy or legally download from the internet on my linux powered computer, or my mp3 player.
I'd also like to be able to watch my DVD on my computer.
I use OSS because I DON'T INFRINGE ON COPYRIGHT. Most of my windows-friends use pirated software.
In my view the OSS crowd has a higher moral standard. Don't mix the OSS crowd with the P2P crowd. They are not the same. The P2P crowd use mostly windows computers with pirated closed source software.
And I release many of my pictures under CC license. Share alike, non-commercial. I wouldn't like anyone using them commercially without permission either.
Whatever you choose there is one thing you will need if you are going to desert areas and beaches. Ziplock bags.
Sand get in all your clothes and bags. Buy ziploc bags to protect cameras and laptops.
I'd take any old laptop, and if it should get stolen, broken or otherwise rendered useless, you can always get a new cheap ones here to for about $1200. Burn 2 DVD's of backup. Then mail one back home. It will probably arrive safely, but don't count on it. Forget about uploading backups over the internet, at least for your 4Gb memory card. The internet lines from developing countries to abroad is overloaded and slow.
Oh, and when you go to the Namib desert, do the "Livin desert tour" in Swakopmund. Don't go quadbiking, it's killing all the wildlife in the desert.
That's the beauty of it. How the program behaves is what makes its value. If you like to use Excel that is your freedom. If your spreadsheet program can't open or save to standard documents formats, complain to the maker.
:-)
Microsoft will have to either implement ODF, or loose the sale of MS-Office to all Norwegian offical offices.
My guess is that we will see ODF support in Office before 1st January 2009, and that is a good thing.
Myself I use OpenOffice, so this really doesn't affect me much
Yeah...much like the home made OS by a guy named Linus back in 1991. It worked but that's it. Like it ever had potential for anything more....ha!
:-)
This chopper is v0.11, looking forward to see his version v1.0
People send me word documents, and more and more I get .docx documents. I send out documents in odf if others are supposed to read and maybe edit. If they can't read it I send them a pdf, and if the complain about not beein able to edit I maybe send them a .doc file.
.docx files their office 2003 can't open, and they come to me for help...
.odt file for them :-D
It may be being difficult, but I see it as education. People need to be aware of standards. These days people seems to get the point when getting
I'll convert it to a
This is no problem where I live. By law I have the right to access all my medical records, and the hospital is allready storing my records and X-rays digital. I trust the the hospitals more than Google anyway :-)
:-)
I live in a country with free health care, so I have control over my health care information. It's a part of what makes a democracy
Since the rise of filesharing of music as MP3 the CD sales has dropped. On the upside more people than ever are going out to conserts and listen to live music. It makes perfect sense. Music is more available, so people spend more time and money at it. Not just buying CD's, but going out to see the artists. As a results the artist is making more money, the record industry less.
I won't cry for their loss. Even though it has been a demand for buying online music for a decade now, I still can't buy music online without some DRM I have to buypass so I can transfer it to my mp3 player. I've stopped buying music. I don't download illegal music. As a result I have becomed less interested in music, and spend less money on it.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32/
This is exactly why I didn't buy a Dell laptop. I knew I would never run MS Windows on it, so I purchased a ECS laptop, without Windows. Running linux allows me to integrate my laptop closer width my colleges network.
Is it really leagal for any hardware vendor to bundle an OS without giving the customers a choice. Isn't this a more serious issue than MS bundeling IE with theri OS.
I mean it wouldn't be ok if I had to buy a SuSE proffessional license with my laptop either....
Yet another mouse design!
Whhy is it that the ordinary mouse has remained virtually unchanged. It's a good design. The problem is not which way you hold the mouse, but wether your elbow has any support.
I have one wish:
Give me a mouse i can use with my FEET so I can use the keyboard with both HANDS!!!
That would be a revolution...
CoolTechZone....What is that? Who is the author? /. ??? Don't feed the trolls....
Why is this story at
Read this section of Skypes EULA:
...do you still want to install this software? No spyware? Sure...not YET! When it's grown enough they will put spyware in Skype. There are open standards and open source. Businesses should use *, not Skype.
2.4 Third Parties. You acknowledge and agree that the Skype Software may be incorporated into, and may incorporate itself, software and other technology owned and controlled by third parties. Skype emphasizes that it will only incorporate such third party software or technology for the purpose of (a) adding new or additional functionality or (b) improving the technical performance of the Skype Software. Any such third party software or technology that is incorporated in the Skype Software falls under the scope of this Agreement. Any and all other third party software or technology that may be distributed together with the Skype Software will be subject to you explicitly accepting a license agreement with that third party. You acknowledge and agree that you will not enter into a contractual relationship with Skype or its Affiliates regarding such third party software or technology and you will look solely to the applicable third party and not to Skype or its Affiliates to enforce any of your rights.
This only proves that they don't know what they are talking about.
:-p, isn't much the UN can do about that :))
Monitor the internet...everyone can do that today. (well, maybe some p2p clients blocks certian organisations IPs to prevent them from monitoring their content
Restrict and remove access to internet resources...everyone can do that to. Just a question of controling the national ISPs and outlawing using foreign ISP via phone/satelite lines.
Whoever is suggesting this must belive there are a central governing of the internet, so duh...good luck.
The US aint going to give a shit about what the UN says anyway, as long at it doesn't suit them. They've proven that many times before. (Look at who is vetoing sanctions against Israel...)
This is just plain FUD for the non techies...
Gator is a virus, spreading from countless servers on the internet.
It's a worm, it's a trojan...it's evil....
Since it tries to sneak into your computer in many ways, and comes with no uninstall option, why can't some big company sue gator for billions worth of damage?
Hey, even M$ can sue them for giving windoze a bad reputation because the software is so badly written it crashs windoze boxes.
It's only a matter of time before someone figures out that contact registers, generic phone/pda setup and profiles all will be stored online.
Phones and pda's will become terminal, online on the internet.
Then, why should you call someone through the telephone network, when they allready are online?
This future developement will be the one thing that kicks off IPv6.
A spam email usually gives you an option to BUY something.
If 0.1% of those of us recieving spam mail placed a false order (or 100 000), the companies advertising through spam would get no value out of it. It would costs them money. Their customer and order systems would get spammed.
If it was impossible to make money from sending out spam, then the spam will stop.
The only way to stop spammers is SABOTAGE!
The only way to stop people from using NAT, is to no deliver IP from the cable modem. I remember Novell had a solution with a ipx/ip gateway at the server, enabling the clients to browse with pure IPX. That'll stopp NAT. Of course you won't be able to use other apps like ssh, irc and like, but most people only want to browse porn anyway...
Linux in text mode is far nicer than widoze. I have a Dell latitude 266mhz. If I boot it up with windows, plug out the cdrom and floppy, I can go about 4 hours of MS-word/exel/winmine/etc.
Running linux in text mode, I'll work easy for 8-12 hours. If I haven't seen a power outlet for 8 hours, I'm probably not using my pc anyway.
The last I heard, IBM-Norway were running 100mbit/s TR at their head office. Don't know if that's the case anymore. At high utilization cheap 100mb switches will slow down due to cpu utilization. However, anyone updated on if IBM has done something about the single point of failure problems with TR in the 100/1000 mbit/s versions?