I don't know if anyone has realized it yet, the biggest distributor of spam is computer-illiterate or unknowing customers.
One of the biggest reasons spam takes up a massive amount of our SMTP bandwidth is because of the fact users will forward what they don't know as spam to their friends. Their friends will then do the same, the recievers of forwarded messages the same as well (another big waste of our bandwidth is the headers in messages that have been forwarded >=100 times, most originating from spammers). I would go so far as to say these cases account for at least %50 of the problem.
My question to you:
What do we do about these cases? Try to educate the user who in and of him/herself account for %80 of the real problem (the gross congestion of unsolicited ads/spam)? Or the criminals that will almost certainly keep adding fuel to the flame, in shackles or not?
To what I've had happen to a customer before. He had the ambition (admirably, he actually started to learn about his computer himself, being 48 and totally computer illiterate) to install WinXP on his little tug boat box I built for him. Being a dialup user who had failing hopes for broadband, he had the general idea down as far as connecting to the internet.
Somewhere either He went wrong or a virus he previously contracted decided to get naughty. Did almost the exact same thing. I ended up booting the damn thing up in Safe mode and disabling his modem, dialup prompt, internet related drivers and everything so that I could see what the hell went wrong.
Strangely, a quick runover with McAffee and ScanDisk did the trick. I checked the logs and didn't see anything corrected. I just re-enabled everything and all was fine.
I would personally just check your settings, if that doesn't work than go through and reinstall your modem and protocol drivers. Mind you all this should be done in safe mode.
Despite all the content geared at older audiences in Adult Swim, it still boils down to the same thing. CN is still for kids.
Adding Trigun is great, don't get me wrong, but it still won't be as good for the older ones who know what was edited out. They'll feel it detracts from the experience. Hell, I feel editing detracts from the experience, too.
An all Anime channel, that's when I'll start watching TV again.
Shitty. Do not come to Colorado, there are almost literally NO jobs here. For a 17 year old who's best area is getting in trouble with bosses, anyway.
Aside from that, check hospitals. They LOVE software engineers. I believe many of the ones that would be interested, however, are in your area. Go figure.
Another good bet would be colleges and other schools, all the vocational schools pay very well to be able to say that their students are "working with the professionals". A friend of mine is making about 400k a year working at DeVry, all he teaches is Software Management (Whatever that is, I mean c'mon, "Software Management?").
But aside from that, this company actually did not send this e-mail solicited.
In otherwords, it wasn't a confirmation letter, it was an invitation. As well, if the e-mail had stated specifically that it was a confirmation and that the user had to have given them reason to send the e-mail, this case wouldn't have gotten as far as the court steps.
4 miles? That's all fine and dandy, but think of the implications aside from being able to connect in "pocketed" areas.
Too many "off-limits" zones in the suburbs of major cities for this to be any good. Considering the fact that upwards of %80 of the people that'd benefit from this live in such suburbs. PD's, FD's, Hospitals, etc. are all considered to be zones absolutely off limits to any such interference this would cause (suburbs are totally PACKED with these, There are 3 PD's and 2 FD's, as well as 2 Hospitals within a 4 mile radius of my house). That's FCC regulation that's been around since the '30s, and they're sure as hell not going to change them now.
Given the method they'd have to use to make sure they aren't broadcasting in that area, you end up with 1 or 2 degree swaths of no service areas eminating from the tower. May not sound big, but after a mile or so it gets to be the width of a city block.
I'm all for this, but a better solution would be to use smaller and cheaper arrays. Just find a way to lower the latency and it'd be even better.
The fact remains that the research still isn't being done.
Sure, Bush put limits on stem cell research mainly because of the religious outcry. If he hadn't, many of those scientists still wouldn't have proper funding to conduct the type of research that could yield the results you speak of.
We're talking testing, MAJOR testing. Testing that before yielding results, could cost hundreds of millions. Think the drug companies would pay for that? I don't. Think the government would? Not enough.
At this point in time, it's not the government holding science back. It's the funding. Same with our space program.
Properly funded, we could have had a base on the moon by now. We are already capable of doing it, we just need to test it. That testing is in the same dilemma as the stem cell research.
It all comes down to resources, not law or limit. Half of our HIV inhibiting drugs wouldn't be around if all the research was done legally;)
This has only been observed in rodent specimens. However similar mammals are across the neural make-up spectrum, there is still little proof that this might work in a human brain.
Being more complex, our brain might not be susceptible to such treatment. I'll be keeping an eye on this effort, however; for it could yield some effective treatments for some of the most common mental disorders. These would be depression, anxiety, bi-polar disease, etc..
I appreciate this man's writing, he is thorough and insightful. His statements about the science world give you an idea about the "empirical" knowledge going around in the scientific community today, some slightly false and some completely fabricated.
I agree with his opinion on scientists under stress, for a paid scientist is just like any other working individual; mindful of their family and bills. He has done an excellent job of humanizing the average Joe scientist.
At that, I literally clapped when I got to the part about physics. He said what I've been saying all along, Physics is the Open Source of the science community.
Keep posting articles from this man, whoever is reading, I would like to see more of his work.
As I drink more caffiene-laiden mud (That's how I like my coffee), I seem to recall hearing about a couple of College students from Kansas solving this problem.
I don't have a link handy, and I'm too tired to google. Anybody else recall the same?
As I said, I'm no math wiz, haven't any credits under my name past Mat121 (College Algebra, being interested in calc based phys that'll change). But it seems that problem like these are solved not by the math, but the logic.
That's one of the great things about being young and dumb like me, everything is open to interpretation.
I take a look at the science fiction books that I read years back and I look at now. Soon my favorite science fiction books will become not just speculation, but reality. Things like mechanical butterflies aren't something to be scoffed at like I assume some will, but something to be hailed.
I yearn for the days that these little mettalic insects can be seen fluttering in flocks towards fires or car accidents, offering those minded to it a warning of danger or peril.
I feel good right now, the technologically advanced world I want for my children could be at hand sooner than I thought.
I agree with you completely, GOOGLE is detrimenting their own usefulness by doing this.
The fact that they used to be a solid tool instead of a community is the reason so many people like to use it. It was sharp, easy to swing, and hard to break.
Why add bells and whistles to a hammer? I sure as hell don't use hammers with lights built into them, automatic nail loaders, etc..
Some things are best kept simple, GOOGLE would be one of them.
If his area is anything like where I live (near Denver, Colorado), he can't hope to find another ISP that is reasonable.
Well, at least not one that can handle the amount of traffic he might expect.
Around here, there are 2 ISP's that I (an average Joe computer nerd) can run a sturdy server through. One of them is probably as strict as his and the other couldn't even handle enough traffic to let me get/.ed
Moronically, the highschool I was currently attending. I was the "Assistant Admin" (i WAS the admin, don't let the name fool you).
My principal started getting sick and tired of her front desk people having all of their time wasted by students asking their student numbers (also their password).
She came to me saying to take all passwords off, period. The only exception, mine.
It took 400 flunking students getting straight A report cards magically to set her straight.
At least they make aware the glaring weakness in their merchandise. The fact that you have to remove the patch to get rid of the weakness, yet open up others is irrelevant. Any knobhead with an IQ higher than his inseam can figure out away to get around this security hole themselves.
Aside from that, every patch in and of itself is a glaring security hole. You don't think that by examining the code in the patch you can get a general idea for how the program itself works? That's how most weaknesses are found (by the slinky malicious cracker anyway).
It all comes down to the Admin. For if he is well-minded and concerned greatly with security, none of the security holes we learn about would have much chance of being used against you.
Security cameras should be welcome in our consumer lives. Aside from the people who carry intent to break the law, the rest of us don't really have to worry.
They serve as an alibi if need be, proof of our law-abiding citizenship.
Now, as for our private lives, that is our business and our business alone.
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That would be the customers.
I don't know if anyone has realized it yet, the biggest distributor of spam is computer-illiterate or unknowing customers.
One of the biggest reasons spam takes up a massive amount of our SMTP bandwidth is because of the fact users will forward what they don't know as spam to their friends. Their friends will then do the same, the recievers of forwarded messages the same as well (another big waste of our bandwidth is the headers in messages that have been forwarded >=100 times, most originating from spammers). I would go so far as to say these cases account for at least %50 of the problem.
My question to you:
What do we do about these cases? Try to educate the user who in and of him/herself account for %80 of the real problem (the gross congestion of unsolicited ads/spam)? Or the criminals that will almost certainly keep adding fuel to the flame, in shackles or not?
Something is hitting my retina ;)
We may be a marvel of evolution, but to say that our eyes are advanced enough to detect that which has no mass is rather quite silly.
Light has mass, my friend. Proof to that is attached directly to what you call your brain.
You have a very valid point.
;)
While it may be fractal in nature, you can ultimately find volume via measuring it's displacement.
Problem is, most methods of measuring the displacement value of a snowflake are very....destructive.
The problem is not finding volume or mass, but finding said values without destroying the object
To what I've had happen to a customer before. He had the ambition (admirably, he actually started to learn about his computer himself, being 48 and totally computer illiterate) to install WinXP on his little tug boat box I built for him. Being a dialup user who had failing hopes for broadband, he had the general idea down as far as connecting to the internet.
Somewhere either He went wrong or a virus he previously contracted decided to get naughty. Did almost the exact same thing. I ended up booting the damn thing up in Safe mode and disabling his modem, dialup prompt, internet related drivers and everything so that I could see what the hell went wrong.
Strangely, a quick runover with McAffee and ScanDisk did the trick. I checked the logs and didn't see anything corrected. I just re-enabled everything and all was fine.
I would personally just check your settings, if that doesn't work than go through and reinstall your modem and protocol drivers. Mind you all this should be done in safe mode.
Despite all the content geared at older audiences in Adult Swim, it still boils down to the same thing. CN is still for kids.
Adding Trigun is great, don't get me wrong, but it still won't be as good for the older ones who know what was edited out. They'll feel it detracts from the experience. Hell, I feel editing detracts from the experience, too.
An all Anime channel, that's when I'll start watching TV again.
Shitty. Do not come to Colorado, there are almost literally NO jobs here. For a 17 year old who's best area is getting in trouble with bosses, anyway.
Aside from that, check hospitals. They LOVE software engineers. I believe many of the ones that would be interested, however, are in your area. Go figure.
Another good bet would be colleges and other schools, all the vocational schools pay very well to be able to say that their students are "working with the professionals". A friend of mine is making about 400k a year working at DeVry, all he teaches is Software Management (Whatever that is, I mean c'mon, "Software Management?").
But aside from that, this company actually did not send this e-mail solicited.
In otherwords, it wasn't a confirmation letter, it was an invitation. As well, if the e-mail had stated specifically that it was a confirmation and that the user had to have given them reason to send the e-mail, this case wouldn't have gotten as far as the court steps.
4 miles? That's all fine and dandy, but think of the implications aside from being able to connect in "pocketed" areas.
Too many "off-limits" zones in the suburbs of major cities for this to be any good. Considering the fact that upwards of %80 of the people that'd benefit from this live in such suburbs. PD's, FD's, Hospitals, etc. are all considered to be zones absolutely off limits to any such interference this would cause (suburbs are totally PACKED with these, There are 3 PD's and 2 FD's, as well as 2 Hospitals within a 4 mile radius of my house). That's FCC regulation that's been around since the '30s, and they're sure as hell not going to change them now.
Given the method they'd have to use to make sure they aren't broadcasting in that area, you end up with 1 or 2 degree swaths of no service areas eminating from the tower. May not sound big, but after a mile or so it gets to be the width of a city block.
I'm all for this, but a better solution would be to use smaller and cheaper arrays. Just find a way to lower the latency and it'd be even better.
Of course I've heard of it.
Any self respecting geek has heard of it.
Ever read Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card? Thought so. However he didn't refer to quantum mechanics, he referred to Philotics.
Look it up, Philotics is interesting stuff.
Hey, if it hadn't been for my highschool screwing me over on my credits, I'd be finished with Trig and Calc 1 by now.
I know I don't know shit. Didn't I say that earlier?
The fact remains that the research still isn't being done.
;)
Sure, Bush put limits on stem cell research mainly because of the religious outcry. If he hadn't, many of those scientists still wouldn't have proper funding to conduct the type of research that could yield the results you speak of.
We're talking testing, MAJOR testing. Testing that before yielding results, could cost hundreds of millions. Think the drug companies would pay for that? I don't. Think the government would? Not enough.
At this point in time, it's not the government holding science back. It's the funding. Same with our space program.
Properly funded, we could have had a base on the moon by now. We are already capable of doing it, we just need to test it. That testing is in the same dilemma as the stem cell research.
It all comes down to resources, not law or limit. Half of our HIV inhibiting drugs wouldn't be around if all the research was done legally
This has only been observed in rodent specimens. However similar mammals are across the neural make-up spectrum, there is still little proof that this might work in a human brain.
Being more complex, our brain might not be susceptible to such treatment. I'll be keeping an eye on this effort, however; for it could yield some effective treatments for some of the most common mental disorders. These would be depression, anxiety, bi-polar disease, etc..
Being Bi-Polar myself, this would be welcome.
I appreciate this man's writing, he is thorough and insightful. His statements about the science world give you an idea about the "empirical" knowledge going around in the scientific community today, some slightly false and some completely fabricated.
I agree with his opinion on scientists under stress, for a paid scientist is just like any other working individual; mindful of their family and bills. He has done an excellent job of humanizing the average Joe scientist.
At that, I literally clapped when I got to the part about physics. He said what I've been saying all along, Physics is the Open Source of the science community.
Keep posting articles from this man, whoever is reading, I would like to see more of his work.
As I drink more caffiene-laiden mud (That's how I like my coffee), I seem to recall hearing about a couple of College students from Kansas solving this problem.
I don't have a link handy, and I'm too tired to google. Anybody else recall the same?
Define the General (or trigger var?), then.
As I said, I'm no math wiz, haven't any credits under my name past Mat121 (College Algebra, being interested in calc based phys that'll change). But it seems that problem like these are solved not by the math, but the logic.
That's one of the great things about being young and dumb like me, everything is open to interpretation.
Define a straight line.....
Seriously, the straight line might just be the solution to that problem.
That thought just popped up in my head, feel free to flame me for being open.
God how much I'm delighted to hear about this.
I take a look at the science fiction books that I read years back and I look at now. Soon my favorite science fiction books will become not just speculation, but reality. Things like mechanical butterflies aren't something to be scoffed at like I assume some will, but something to be hailed.
I yearn for the days that these little mettalic insects can be seen fluttering in flocks towards fires or car accidents, offering those minded to it a warning of danger or peril.
I feel good right now, the technologically advanced world I want for my children could be at hand sooner than I thought.
I agree with you completely, GOOGLE is detrimenting their own usefulness by doing this.
The fact that they used to be a solid tool instead of a community is the reason so many people like to use it. It was sharp, easy to swing, and hard to break.
Why add bells and whistles to a hammer? I sure as hell don't use hammers with lights built into them, automatic nail loaders, etc..
Some things are best kept simple, GOOGLE would be one of them.
go to another ISP?
/.ed
If his area is anything like where I live (near Denver, Colorado), he can't hope to find another ISP that is reasonable.
Well, at least not one that can handle the amount of traffic he might expect.
Around here, there are 2 ISP's that I (an average Joe computer nerd) can run a sturdy server through. One of them is probably as strict as his and the other couldn't even handle enough traffic to let me get
Yes, I have.
Moronically, the highschool I was currently attending. I was the "Assistant Admin" (i WAS the admin, don't let the name fool you).
My principal started getting sick and tired of her front desk people having all of their time wasted by students asking their student numbers (also their password).
She came to me saying to take all passwords off, period. The only exception, mine.
It took 400 flunking students getting straight A report cards magically to set her straight.
At least they make aware the glaring weakness in their merchandise. The fact that you have to remove the patch to get rid of the weakness, yet open up others is irrelevant. Any knobhead with an IQ higher than his inseam can figure out away to get around this security hole themselves.
Aside from that, every patch in and of itself is a glaring security hole. You don't think that by examining the code in the patch you can get a general idea for how the program itself works? That's how most weaknesses are found (by the slinky malicious cracker anyway).
It all comes down to the Admin. For if he is well-minded and concerned greatly with security, none of the security holes we learn about would have much chance of being used against you.
Finally time that someone in the higher echelons of education stand up to the US government.
I feel rather ecstatic about this, someone is finally making a point.
I was rather angry at Bush when he decided to limit stem cell research. I felt that his decision was affected directly by his religious beliefs.
Science and religion don't mix. Looks like someone is finally trying to seperate them.
Aside from extreme paranoia.
Security cameras should be welcome in our consumer lives. Aside from the people who carry intent to break the law, the rest of us don't really have to worry.
They serve as an alibi if need be, proof of our law-abiding citizenship.
Now, as for our private lives, that is our business and our business alone.
But that is not the focus here.
I order a porn movie for a friend.
TiVo starts recommending porn......
Girlfriend comes home to playboy channel........
I come home to redneck style vasectomy.......
(And just for shits and grins)
PROFIT!!!!
Looks greek to me.....
*ducks and runs*