What is it, hmq7z4ty@p1dli.ru? Spammers send to random combinations of words and names nowadays...still, your point is valid.
I have two email addresses, one public and one private, which are 10 and 7 years old respectively.
The public one I give out to any old site, and is at least 99% spam, but is still managable with spam filters. Spam Assassin bit-buckets the definate offenders on the server, and then I have a trainable filter on my client to get the rest.
I almost never get spam on the private one. The fact that I only give it out to people I trust keeps it off the spam lists (and praying that it never gets harvested by an outlook virus:). As you mentioned, there is still the random name problem, but it is very easy for the server detect and black-list these types of spams, so only a few a year get through.
I have several friends who use the method you described and like it alot. If I was starting from scratch I would definately go that route. But at this point way too many legitamate people (more that I have kept track of) have my public email for me to change it. And way too many sketchy people also have it, so keeping it off of spam lists is pretty much futile:)
The design of the phone doesn't match any of Apples other products either. When I heard Motorolla was building it, I expected a white RAZR which would be more in keeping with the current iPods and the rest of the iSomething line of products.
This is just, well... boring. The ROKR E1 design is definately not up to the "shit your pants" standard that Apple has worked hard to acheive.
First off this article is garbage, so it is no surprise that people are coming to ridiculous conclusions if they are basing their facts on it. Someone already posted this quote but it bears repeating:
"The basic idea is that if someone uses software patents against a Free Software program under the GPL, he might lose the right to distribute that particular software, to use it for their products. We have no interest in restricting the way people can use and develop software."
In reality, the patent provisions that the FSF are considering for inclusion in the next version of the GPL are inspired by the ones in other Free software licenses including IBM very own CPL. They know as well as anyone else that patents pose a threat to Free Software and thus wrote their license in.
The FSF has stated that one of their goals in the next version of the GPL, is to eliminate some of the technical legal barriers between otherwise acceptable Free licenses, and have promised to allow plenty of feedback before settling down on anything. I'll wait for the draft to actually come out before making any judgment on it.
One of the problems is that many computer science programs don't include mainframes in their curricula anymore.
How many of the current mainframe gurus were taught mainframes as part of a curricula? I would expect not very many. In fact, most of the mainframe guru's I have met didn't even have an educational background in computers- computer science as a seperate course of study hadn't barely begun to get off the ground at that point, so they were mostly engineers, scientists and mathematicians who happened to get to work with mainfraimes as part of thier job or studies, and discovered they liked it.
Schools should not be teaching mainframes, nor should they be teaching MS Windows. They should be teaching CS fundamentals, and providing general-purpose software development experiance. I wasn't an expert in embedded software or Windows programming when I graduated college, having most of my programming experience on unix boxes. But that is what I am doing now, because a company hired me on as an intern and gave me the opportunity to gain experience in the field.
The problem is not with the schools but with the employers who were too short sighted to apprentice anyone under thier gurus.
what was so hard in the 1950/60's is easier with 21st century materials, engine technology and computer controls
Actually, SS1 does not have computer assisted controls. They made extensive use of computers while designing and training for the flight, but the ship itself is all manual. Part of what made SS1 so successfull, was that they reduced complexity down to a bare minimum in every regard.
I don't know if SS2 will be different. A large number of pilots doing constant flights containing passengers is different than a few test flights with some of the best pilots in the world, so they might concider the benifits of computer assisted controls to be worth the added complexity in that case.
When you have nothing better to do than spend all you time on a web forum finding people to make fun of so you look cooler in comparison:)
How pathetic is that? So I'm a dork - short of a miraculous touch by his noodly appendage, that's not gonna change. But I might as well enjoy it like these gamers, than waste life pretending to be cool.
Note: this is not necisarrily aimed at the parent.
Microsoft could choose not to implement this, thus allowing HD to be viewed on Legacy monitors.
No they couldn't. The DRM algorithms for HD content are patented and controlled by a media consortium. Furthermore the keys for the system are protected as trade-secrets. This consortium will refuse to license the algorithms or keys to anyone who does not sign a contract agreeing to play thier rules. It would be illegal for Microsoft to create an implementation that was not blessed by the patent/key holders.
So the choice that Microsoft and Apple have is to either play HDCP'd content the way they are told to play it (which is downgraded on non-HDCP monitors) or to not play it at all.
The very definition of open source software is that anyone is allowed to modify and distribute it. The GPL was created for the entire purpose of allowing this, so why would doing so be concidered "questionable legal dealings"? There are no legal ramifications whatsoever, except the possibility that they may have to change the name / logo of the project if Miro has trademarked it.
Yeah, as much as I would like to see this stuff happening in New Mexico, I think this space port plan that Richardson is putting forth is not going to succeed. While southern New Mexico has tons of empty space, which is great for the risk factor, it is in the middle of the middle of nowhere. There are several other places in the US that have big baren deserts or open oceans that are much nearer to large population centers. Places like south-east California, surrounding Houston, any coastal area (provided weather is not a concern).
Personally I think that Mojave is going to be the fist hub. A huge portion of your target market is right there is Southern California. Scaled already has relationships with all the regulatory people that could help or hurt them. They will probably expand to multiple sites after things get off the ground, but it just makes sense to start right where they are.
Regardless, unless other states really drag their feet, or are completely inflexable regarding taxes, I don't think NM has much of a chance of becoming a staging ground for commercial space flight.
So when the user types in bigboobies.com, it loads 111.222.333.005 (which works for everyone) and then they are redirected to 111.222.333.006 which is will be blocked if you are filtering the xxx TLD.
I'll take the free market and the ability to choose a crappy product vs. a good one, thank you very much. If you really want it, you can have the centrally mandated product that is guaranteed to cost exorbitant amounts, and has no guarantee of quality.
MS would be best off not suing under the DMCA, seeing as the SCOTUS was pretty firm in the Lexmark case about the DMCA not extending to interaction between components.
Yeah if they are smart they will sue them over patent infringement:
1) Create new "Trusted Computing" DRM system, and patent the algorithms. 2) Reject any devices / software that do not use the DRM system, and sue any who uses it without licencing it. 3) Profit!!
Instant DCMA-like legal leverage, without the limitations of proving copyright infringement. That's how the video/codec industry has worked for years, and they have never been overturned in court. Yes it is anti-competitive but that's what patents are all about - government granted monopolies.
True, but there is a big difference between creating a moc-up of a site using CSS, and actually modifying slashcode to generate it internally. Even so, this is a long-time in comming, and very welcome. Whoever worked on this this - thank you.
In several buildings where I have worked, there are a few lights in each (large) room near the exits that cannot be turned off. They are considered safety/security lights, and even remain on when the power is lost (fed by a generator). Something like this could likely be less expensive than the electricity used to keep them on all the time. They would likely give off less light than a normal bulb, so you would need more of them, although the security lights generally run dimmer than normal anyway.
I definitely agree that you won't see these in the home very often - they are more useful for certain industrial situations, and even there, their cost is such that they won't be replacing all florescent bulbs anytime soon. However, I don't see why they need to be that expensive, and I'd imagine the cost would go down significantly as volume of sales go up.
You are blaming reality TV shows on 9/11? Is there nothing that people won't blame on 9/11.
Besides, I really don't think your argument holds up. All sorts of classics were written in the mist and aftermath of war - just look at Walt Whitman, or T.S. Eliot. Art is inspired by life, and when things are difficult, is when it is most inspiring. Conflict doesn't distract from art it puts the difficult questions into sharp relief. It is when we are fat and happy that we are most distracted from the deep issues that make great literature.
Matters of unproven, unprovable faith belong in your chosen place of worship. Matters of proven, or at least provable fact belong in the secular classroom.
Thats the first time I have heard someone mention that criteria, and now that I think about it, it's a pretty good one - much better than simply inforcing seperation of church and state.
One of the things that I absolutely hated in high school, and to a lesser extent college, was that I couldn't have a resonable discussion with my science teacher about religion and philosophy and how they relate to science at the risk of him being fired. Even if he very clear about what was his opinion and what was science, and even if I acknowledged that I understood that and we were two adults having a discussion.
While at the same time, out "English" teachers had full reign to cram their own beliefs (mostly human secular) down our throats like they were facts. Disagreeing with them almost certainly meant getting a lower grade, even if you presented a well thought-out argument, because we weren't supposed to be discussing the merits of the belief - just re-expressing the beliefs in the books we read. In reality, this rule was never enforced if your paper agreed with the authors take on life, and papers which didn't praise the viewpoints of the author they were graded as dry and not grasping the "true brilliance of the work". But thats okay, because it's not religion.
It was a complete double standard. I really don't care if beliefs are a religious or not, they are still beliefs, and to allow one to be taught and ban the other is wrong. Personally, I do think it would be best to allow the teaching of beliefs, or rather the facts of what others believe (creationism would be in philosophy class not science), and even allowing teachers to express their own beliefs, so long as they are presented as such. So many people can't recogonise the difference between belief and fact (even half of the athiests I have met have problems with that, and they are self-proclaimed supporters of logic and rational thought). Therefore whether it is allowed or not it is going to happen, so why restrict those who can tell the difference, and can present opinions responsably.
Regardless, teachers discriminating on whether studends embrace (or at least pretend to embrace) any particular belief is criminal as far as I am concerned, and should be stopped.
IIRC, those photos were taken from the ISS, as the shuttle approached, and didn't nearly give a complete view of all the tiles - they were more of a quick check. The lidar can give a full surface check. It is also there to check the shuttle even if it isn't going to the ISS (although, I really don't think this NASA administration is going to risk any shuttle flights except to the ISS). And as you said, can check for smaller flaws.
I have no problem with a site that posts small excerpts and links to other people's news. I appreciate that there are people who take the time to go out and look for interesting things and post them. Then if I find the same things interesting I don't have to all that work. I love it when people (dj's) who are enthusiastic about music and actively seek out new stuff, and bring it to me every week. I like it when journalists do the same. I am even willing (and I do) support these people with money.
I do, however, have a problem with a site that posts small excerpts and links to other sites with small excerpts, which links to other sites with small excerpts and to get to the actual meat of the story you have to go play hopscotch through a bunch of worthless blogs, or do a google search. It defeats the entire purpose of an aggregator site which is to do the work of find interesting information, so I don't have to.
So, I don't have a problem with Roland's site. Heck, it seems to be better edited than Slashdot. I do have a problem with Slashdot constantly linking to it rather than to a direct source (or as direct of a source as they can find).
Permanent settlers, while having a significanly shorter life expectancy, would also undergo slightly excelerated evolution:)
Seriously though, what about the first europeans to the Americas. They were at least as likely to dye from malnutrition during the trip, not to mention all the hardships they faced when they got there. That is what it means to be a pioneer - to take risks and pave the way so others after you can go more safely.
Well, for starters they have to figure out what, if anything, is at address 0. Does the operating system handle calling a null function pointer any different than any other address? What does the loader put at (virtual) address 0? Will there be executable code there or data? If there is executable code what does it do? Are you effectively creating infinite recursion? If so, will it continue indefinately, or will it overflow the stack? The question has certainly piqued my curiosity to learn more about how the linker, loader and process initialization works on my system.
This actually seems like a more relevent question than most of the ones posted here. The submitter was lamenting that they didn't know low-level stuff about the OS, but most of the responses so far have given high-level algorithmic puzzles.
Except this isn't approved for many instances of depression. It is only approved for severe cases of clinical depression which most definately aren't caused by external causes.
I can't count the number of news stories that have run about some parenting group, lobbyiests, or politician attacking GTA for it's violence. They have hated that game from day one and have always spoke out against it. Everytime a (geek) teen commits a violent crime it is blamed on video games. Everytime a game comes out that pushes the limit on how voilent or graphic a video game can be, people get up in arms about. Video game violence is the whole reason we have the ESRB - Mortal Kombat not Leisure Suit Larry started this all.
The fact that the "Hot Coffee" incident has escalated has very little to do with sex being perceived as worse than violence. It is simply because a) no one has gone this far before in a mainstream game, and b) the perception (real or not) that Rockstar deliberately slipped this past the ESRB, knowing that it would be found eventually.
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What is it, hmq7z4ty@p1dli.ru? Spammers send to random combinations of words and names nowadays...still, your point is valid.
:). As you mentioned, there is still the random name problem, but it is very easy for the server detect and black-list these types of spams, so only a few a year get through.
:)
I have two email addresses, one public and one private, which are 10 and 7 years old respectively.
The public one I give out to any old site, and is at least 99% spam, but is still managable with spam filters. Spam Assassin bit-buckets the definate offenders on the server, and then I have a trainable filter on my client to get the rest.
I almost never get spam on the private one. The fact that I only give it out to people I trust keeps it off the spam lists (and praying that it never gets harvested by an outlook virus
I have several friends who use the method you described and like it alot. If I was starting from scratch I would definately go that route. But at this point way too many legitamate people (more that I have kept track of) have my public email for me to change it. And way too many sketchy people also have it, so keeping it off of spam lists is pretty much futile
The design of the phone doesn't match any of Apples other products either. When I heard Motorolla was building it, I expected a white RAZR which would be more in keeping with the current iPods and the rest of the iSomething line of products.
... boring. The ROKR E1 design is definately not up to the "shit your pants" standard that Apple has worked hard to acheive.
This is just, well
In reality, the patent provisions that the FSF are considering for inclusion in the next version of the GPL are inspired by the ones in other Free software licenses including IBM very own CPL. They know as well as anyone else that patents pose a threat to Free Software and thus wrote their license in.
The FSF has stated that one of their goals in the next version of the GPL, is to eliminate some of the technical legal barriers between otherwise acceptable Free licenses, and have promised to allow plenty of feedback before settling down on anything. I'll wait for the draft to actually come out before making any judgment on it.
One of the problems is that many computer science programs don't include mainframes in their curricula anymore.
How many of the current mainframe gurus were taught mainframes as part of a curricula? I would expect not very many. In fact, most of the mainframe guru's I have met didn't even have an educational background in computers- computer science as a seperate course of study hadn't barely begun to get off the ground at that point, so they were mostly engineers, scientists and mathematicians who happened to get to work with mainfraimes as part of thier job or studies, and discovered they liked it.
Schools should not be teaching mainframes, nor should they be teaching MS Windows. They should be teaching CS fundamentals, and providing general-purpose software development experiance. I wasn't an expert in embedded software or Windows programming when I graduated college, having most of my programming experience on unix boxes. But that is what I am doing now, because a company hired me on as an intern and gave me the opportunity to gain experience in the field.
The problem is not with the schools but with the employers who were too short sighted to apprentice anyone under thier gurus.
what was so hard in the 1950/60's is easier with 21st century materials, engine technology and computer controls
Actually, SS1 does not have computer assisted controls. They made extensive use of computers while designing and training for the flight, but the ship itself is all manual. Part of what made SS1 so successfull, was that they reduced complexity down to a bare minimum in every regard.
I don't know if SS2 will be different. A large number of pilots doing constant flights containing passengers is different than a few test flights with some of the best pilots in the world, so they might concider the benifits of computer assisted controls to be worth the added complexity in that case.
When you have nothing better to do than spend all you time on a web forum finding people to make fun of so you look cooler in comparison :)
How pathetic is that? So I'm a dork - short of a miraculous touch by his noodly appendage, that's not gonna change. But I might as well enjoy it like these gamers, than waste life pretending to be cool.
Note: this is not necisarrily aimed at the parent.
Could you please carry me and my car to the work everyday?
Here you go.
Microsoft could choose not to implement this, thus allowing HD to be viewed on Legacy monitors.
No they couldn't. The DRM algorithms for HD content are patented and controlled by a media consortium. Furthermore the keys for the system are protected as trade-secrets. This consortium will refuse to license the algorithms or keys to anyone who does not sign a contract agreeing to play thier rules. It would be illegal for Microsoft to create an implementation that was not blessed by the patent/key holders.
So the choice that Microsoft and Apple have is to either play HDCP'd content the way they are told to play it (which is downgraded on non-HDCP monitors) or to not play it at all.
The very definition of open source software is that anyone is allowed to modify and distribute it. The GPL was created for the entire purpose of allowing this, so why would doing so be concidered "questionable legal dealings"? There are no legal ramifications whatsoever, except the possibility that they may have to change the name / logo of the project if Miro has trademarked it.
Thanks. It's been a while since I have done anything with hosting, and had never heard of the host headers trick.
Yeah, as much as I would like to see this stuff happening in New Mexico, I think this space port plan that Richardson is putting forth is not going to succeed. While southern New Mexico has tons of empty space, which is great for the risk factor, it is in the middle of the middle of nowhere. There are several other places in the US that have big baren deserts or open oceans that are much nearer to large population centers. Places like south-east California, surrounding Houston, any coastal area (provided weather is not a concern).
Personally I think that Mojave is going to be the fist hub. A huge portion of your target market is right there is Southern California. Scaled already has relationships with all the regulatory people that could help or hurt them. They will probably expand to multiple sites after things get off the ground, but it just makes sense to start right where they are.
Regardless, unless other states really drag their feet, or are completely inflexable regarding taxes, I don't think NM has much of a chance of becoming a staging ground for commercial space flight.
I don't understand. Usually each domain name gets it's own IP, hence the redirect.
111.222.333.005 == bigboobies.com
111.222.333.006 == bigboobies.xxx
So when the user types in bigboobies.com, it loads 111.222.333.005 (which works for everyone) and then they are redirected to 111.222.333.006 which is will be blocked if you are filtering the xxx TLD.
That is the consumer.
I'll take the free market and the ability to choose a crappy product vs. a good one, thank you very much. If you really want it, you can have the centrally mandated product that is guaranteed to cost exorbitant amounts, and has no guarantee of quality.
MS would be best off not suing under the DMCA, seeing as the SCOTUS was pretty firm in the Lexmark case about the DMCA not extending to interaction between components.
Yeah if they are smart they will sue them over patent infringement:
1) Create new "Trusted Computing" DRM system, and patent the algorithms.
2) Reject any devices / software that do not use the DRM system, and sue any who uses it without licencing it.
3) Profit!!
Instant DCMA-like legal leverage, without the limitations of proving copyright infringement. That's how the video/codec industry has worked for years, and they have never been overturned in court. Yes it is anti-competitive but that's what patents are all about - government granted monopolies.
True, but there is a big difference between creating a moc-up of a site using CSS, and actually modifying slashcode to generate it internally. Even so, this is a long-time in comming, and very welcome. Whoever worked on this this - thank you.
In several buildings where I have worked, there are a few lights in each (large) room near the exits that cannot be turned off. They are considered safety/security lights, and even remain on when the power is lost (fed by a generator). Something like this could likely be less expensive than the electricity used to keep them on all the time. They would likely give off less light than a normal bulb, so you would need more of them, although the security lights generally run dimmer than normal anyway.
I definitely agree that you won't see these in the home very often - they are more useful for certain industrial situations, and even there, their cost is such that they won't be replacing all florescent bulbs anytime soon. However, I don't see why they need to be that expensive, and I'd imagine the cost would go down significantly as volume of sales go up.
You are blaming reality TV shows on 9/11? Is there nothing that people won't blame on 9/11.
Besides, I really don't think your argument holds up. All sorts of classics were written in the mist and aftermath of war - just look at Walt Whitman, or T.S. Eliot. Art is inspired by life, and when things are difficult, is when it is most inspiring. Conflict doesn't distract from art it puts the difficult questions into sharp relief. It is when we are fat and happy that we are most distracted from the deep issues that make great literature.
Matters of unproven, unprovable faith belong in your chosen place of worship. Matters of proven, or at least provable fact belong in the secular classroom.
Thats the first time I have heard someone mention that criteria, and now that I think about it, it's a pretty good one - much better than simply inforcing seperation of church and state.
One of the things that I absolutely hated in high school, and to a lesser extent college, was that I couldn't have a resonable discussion with my science teacher about religion and philosophy and how they relate to science at the risk of him being fired. Even if he very clear about what was his opinion and what was science, and even if I acknowledged that I understood that and we were two adults having a discussion.
While at the same time, out "English" teachers had full reign to cram their own beliefs (mostly human secular) down our throats like they were facts. Disagreeing with them almost certainly meant getting a lower grade, even if you presented a well thought-out argument, because we weren't supposed to be discussing the merits of the belief - just re-expressing the beliefs in the books we read. In reality, this rule was never enforced if your paper agreed with the authors take on life, and papers which didn't praise the viewpoints of the author they were graded as dry and not grasping the "true brilliance of the work". But thats okay, because it's not religion.
It was a complete double standard. I really don't care if beliefs are a religious or not, they are still beliefs, and to allow one to be taught and ban the other is wrong. Personally, I do think it would be best to allow the teaching of beliefs, or rather the facts of what others believe (creationism would be in philosophy class not science), and even allowing teachers to express their own beliefs, so long as they are presented as such. So many people can't recogonise the difference between belief and fact (even half of the athiests I have met have problems with that, and they are self-proclaimed supporters of logic and rational thought). Therefore whether it is allowed or not it is going to happen, so why restrict those who can tell the difference, and can present opinions responsably.
Regardless, teachers discriminating on whether studends embrace (or at least pretend to embrace) any particular belief is criminal as far as I am concerned, and should be stopped.
IIRC, those photos were taken from the ISS, as the shuttle approached, and didn't nearly give a complete view of all the tiles - they were more of a quick check. The lidar can give a full surface check. It is also there to check the shuttle even if it isn't going to the ISS (although, I really don't think this NASA administration is going to risk any shuttle flights except to the ISS). And as you said, can check for smaller flaws.
I have no problem with a site that posts small excerpts and links to other people's news. I appreciate that there are people who take the time to go out and look for interesting things and post them. Then if I find the same things interesting I don't have to all that work. I love it when people (dj's) who are enthusiastic about music and actively seek out new stuff, and bring it to me every week. I like it when journalists do the same. I am even willing (and I do) support these people with money.
I do, however, have a problem with a site that posts small excerpts and links to other sites with small excerpts, which links to other sites with small excerpts and to get to the actual meat of the story you have to go play hopscotch through a bunch of worthless blogs, or do a google search. It defeats the entire purpose of an aggregator site which is to do the work of find interesting information, so I don't have to.
So, I don't have a problem with Roland's site. Heck, it seems to be better edited than Slashdot. I do have a problem with Slashdot constantly linking to it rather than to a direct source (or as direct of a source as they can find).
Permanent settlers, while having a significanly shorter life expectancy, would also undergo slightly excelerated evolution :)
Seriously though, what about the first europeans to the Americas. They were at least as likely to dye from malnutrition during the trip, not to mention all the hardships they faced when they got there. That is what it means to be a pioneer - to take risks and pave the way so others after you can go more safely.
True, constant zero is defined to be an invalid address. Casting from an int would be more interesting, and is implementation dependant.
int i = 0;
((void(*)(void))i)();
Well, for starters they have to figure out what, if anything, is at address 0. Does the operating system handle calling a null function pointer any different than any other address? What does the loader put at (virtual) address 0? Will there be executable code there or data? If there is executable code what does it do? Are you effectively creating infinite recursion? If so, will it continue indefinately, or will it overflow the stack? The question has certainly piqued my curiosity to learn more about how the linker, loader and process initialization works on my system.
This actually seems like a more relevent question than most of the ones posted here. The submitter was lamenting that they didn't know low-level stuff about the OS, but most of the responses so far have given high-level algorithmic puzzles.
Except this isn't approved for many instances of depression. It is only approved for severe cases of clinical depression which most definately aren't caused by external causes.
I can't count the number of news stories that have run about some parenting group, lobbyiests, or politician attacking GTA for it's violence. They have hated that game from day one and have always spoke out against it. Everytime a (geek) teen commits a violent crime it is blamed on video games. Everytime a game comes out that pushes the limit on how voilent or graphic a video game can be, people get up in arms about. Video game violence is the whole reason we have the ESRB - Mortal Kombat not Leisure Suit Larry started this all.
The fact that the "Hot Coffee" incident has escalated has very little to do with sex being perceived as worse than violence. It is simply because a) no one has gone this far before in a mainstream game, and b) the perception (real or not) that Rockstar deliberately slipped this past the ESRB, knowing that it would be found eventually.