Essentially if you don't have a reason to keep a bunch of data around, it's probably prudent to get rid of it. There is real potiential for this to kick Google in the ass. If they have a policy of co-operating with law enforcment investigations (which they do) there is the chance that the results of some potientially over-reaching investigation leaks out.
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses (*) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected (*) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it (*) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses ( ) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email (*) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(*) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(*) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Actually that's about the only point of the ISS that actually makes any sense. Actually running an oxygen generator for long periods to see if it actually works. That's actually necessary to test out for a Mars mission.
:)
5 "Actually-ies" in 3 sentences. (emPhahsis is mine)
Idea: I want play skirt star to become, can however not guitar, but program tracker music. Since skirt star need a guitar, no meal remained for me: Mod tracker f?ger Amiga 500 + guitar neck.
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First: John Dvorak, I forgot all about his guy. I used to read his stuff all the time like 5 years ago. Didn't he work for PC World or something?
Anyway: I use the Google Desktop search to find things hiding in Outlook. It does not work with Firefox (yet) but that's cool, b/c I don't want to search my browser cache anyway.
But if you take the desktop search tool that runs in a browser, you could get away with using nothing else OS related. Sure you would use your Office Apps, your browser, your mp3 player, but looking for files, you could begin to use your desktop like a DMS.
Wouldn't that still allow the car to function as a carrier? Typhoid Mary never got sick but because of her many people were exposed to serious disease and became sick.
Because it is just sitting in the inbox, unexecuted. This is not yet a worm that can be spread by doing nothing.
Cabir is transmitted as an SIS file (Symbian distribution file), disguised to be a Caribe Security Manager utility. If the infected file is launched, the telephone screen will display the inscription "Caribe".
The worm penetrates the system and will then be activated each time the phone is started. Cabir scans for all accessible phones using Bluetooth technology, and sends a copy of itself to the first one found.
Anti-virus companies have been warning for some time that mobile networks could be the next targets of virus authors. Mikko Hyppönen, director of anti-virus research at F-Secure, said several months ago that there was a danger of viruses spreading into GPRS networks through USB ports, and that pocket-PC devices would be easy targets for virus coders.
Here is a snip from the press release that is really exciting. I used to read Justin's Links and was always facinated by the features and funtions of mobile tech in Asia. I know there will could be a wave of enthusiastic early adopters. Especially if SK-Earthlink launches well in big cities.
"The wireless and Internet worlds are colliding, and neither will be the same again," said EarthLink founder and director Sky Dayton who will serve as chief executive officer of the SK-EarthLink joint venture. "In South Korea, kids on the street are using their mobile phones to listen to music, watch TV, videoconference, locate their friends, and access the Internet--as well as make voice calls--as opposed to the U.S. where the mobile experience is primarily about talking on the phone. Americans are living in the past. Utilizing emerging 3G networks and harnessing the explosive growth of Wi-Fi, SK-EarthLink will take the wireless experience in the U.S. to a new level."
I agree that Americans are living in the past, with the small exteptions of the T-Mobile Sidekick and the N-Gage the vast majority of mobile phone users or just talking or texting.
They're not the "new" Apple, they're more comparable to the Apple of the mid 1980's.
That's an excellent point. Gah! I can't even mention Apple without getting flagged a troll.
My abbreviated point was that Sega had a better console, but still lost out. The narrative is similar for Apple. I own a few Sega consoles and a few Macs. I'm working on convincing my wife we *need* a Mac Mini.
As for no good games from Sega: Super Monkey Ball is an instant classic. I do tend to agree though, that Sega is fading into history. Hopefully they can go out as a classic.
They got pwned in the console market (despite better games and platform) And now they are getting pwned in the software market as well? (despite very good games)
I agree completely. I don't think Powell did anything of benefit for the country during his tenure. He made a bunch of crazy christians happy I suppose. But I think he pissed off more people than he pleased with the censorship crusade.
Did anyone read about Fox pixelating a cartoon butt that they aired 5 years ago, so as not to get FCC complaints?
I just con my way into having the cashier run her card for me. I always fiegn forgetting it, and rattle off a few old phone numbers. I used to use my old phone number, but now someone else has it, and when I used it, I would get these ten% off coupons. I felt bad, like I was stealing from the other person or something, and stopped.
I was there at 7:30AM. There was a short ten minute line at my polling place in Sacramento. I had to show ID as I was a first time registrant in Sacramento County. (I wonder if my wife and I are considered first time voters, for reporting purposes?)
Anyway, we spent an hour last night going through each balot measure and I created a "cheat-sheet" in Excel. (How geek is that?)
I must say, I'm nervous on how it is all going to turn out. At least I don't wait as long as some others, many polls close at 4PM PST.
What Intel and Vaporware? Never! They have to compete with the likes of IBM:
In other news: IBM is preparing a dual-core version of its 90nm PowerPC 970FX processor - aka the G5. Codenamed Antares, the chip will be delivered - likely in sample form - to Apple later this summer.
Didn't Microsoft have a similar payout in one of its settlement cases? At least people can use software, nonoby, and I mean nobody can use 300 copies of a crap CD that didn't sell very well to begin with. What a rip-off!
It seems to me that there is some level of sophisitication to these spammer sites. I'm guessing they are really ripping off the poor shmucks who sign up.
With the broad copyright laws we have now, this would destroy innovators. Imagine having to ask around to all the big media companies for permission before publishing your story of "An ordinary girl who discovers she is actually royalty"
The kid is clever. I'm glad that MS relented, despite the fact MS knew they would win in court. Mike Rowe - Although we will forget all about you in like 3 months, good luck!
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I agree to an extent.
Essentially if you don't have a reason to keep a bunch of data around, it's probably prudent to get rid of it. There is real potiential for this to kick Google in the ass. If they have a policy of co-operating with law enforcment investigations (which they do) there is the chance that the results of some potientially over-reaching investigation leaks out.
Your post advocates a
(*) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
(*) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
(*) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
(*) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
( ) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
(*) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(*) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(*) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
A couple near the bottom of the GIS in the parent are actual Longhorn screenshots: Here and Here
Idea: I want play skirt star to become, can however not guitar, but program tracker music. Since skirt star need a guitar, no meal remained for me: Mod tracker f?ger Amiga 500 + guitar neck.
Anyway, I'll watch it on video.
1. Does Google Desktop Search share the contents of my computer with anyone?
No. Your Google Desktop index and copies are currently stored only on your computer. The content is not shared with Google or anyone else without your explicit permission.
2. What does Google Desktop Search do with the information on my computer?
After a successful installation, Google Desktop Search creates an index to make your email, files, chats and web history searchable. This index enables Google Desktop Search to find the information you're looking for in less than a second. In addition to the index itself, Google Desktop Search stores copies of the items it finds on your computer's hard drive. This lets you view older versions of files you've changed as well as web pages you've visited, even when you're not connected to the Internet. Your Google Desktop Search index and copies are currently stored only on your computer.
3. How do I prevent items from appearing in Google Desktop Search results?
If you want to prevent something from being found by Google Desktop Search, you can do any or all of the following:
* Remove specific items from Google Desktop Search results by clicking on the "Remove" link on a results page.
* Prevent specific web pages, files and directories from ever being indexed or copied into Google Desktop Search by selecting specific items for Desktop Search to ignore in Preferences.
* Pause Google Desktop Search to stop it from indexing and copying what you view during the pause period by clicking the "Pause Indexing" item in the task tray menu.
* Prevent whole categories of items from being indexed and copied into Google Desktop Search, including email, chats, different file types, as well as web pages in general or secure (https) web pages in particular. This can be set in Preferences.
Note that deleting an email from your email client does NOT delete its copy from Google Desktop Search. Nor does deleting a document or spreadsheet remove the stored copy of that document or spreadsheet that Google Desktop Search has created. This enables you to retrieve copies of things that you may have accidentally changed or deleted. If you want to delete the Google Desktop Search copy as well, you have to do so from within Google Desktop Search.
4. It looks like I'm going to a website when I do a search. Is my personal data being sent to someone?
No. What looks like a website is actually a page generated by your computer. The information on this page that is from your computer is not available on the web for others to view.
5. I see results that include information from my personal files when I do web searches on Google. Does that mean my information is now available online to anyone?
No. Your personal information is visible only to you, and only when you do a search from your own computer. When you do a web search on Google, two things happen. A request goes out to the Google computers to do a general web search there. Meanwhile, on your computer, Google Desktop Search checks its index for items that match the keywords you've entered. When the web results come back to your computer, the Google Desktop Search program grabs them and adds in the results from its index. All these modifications happen on your own computer, not on the Google computers.
6. What if someone looks at my computer screen and sees my personal search results on Google? How do I protect my privacy in that situation?
We've included ways to protect your information when you're out in public. When doing a web search on Google that includes Google Desktop Search results on the results page, you can hide the Google Desktop Search results by clicking on the "Hide" link. This removes Google Desktop Search results from the results page you're looking at, but any future searches will again include Google Desktop Search results on their results pages (see details in the user guide). You can permanently prevent Google Desktop Search items from
Anyway: I use the Google Desktop search to find things hiding in Outlook. It does not work with Firefox (yet) but that's cool, b/c I don't want to search my browser cache anyway.
But if you take the desktop search tool that runs in a browser, you could get away with using nothing else OS related. Sure you would use your Office Apps, your browser, your mp3 player, but looking for files, you could begin to use your desktop like a DMS.
Nice speculation, John (and welcome back)
Because it is just sitting in the inbox, unexecuted. This is not yet a worm that can be spread by doing nothing.
This is the guy who wrote the Lasco variant and posted source code online: Marcos Velasco
The worm penetrates the system and will then be activated each time the phone is started. Cabir scans for all accessible phones using Bluetooth technology, and sends a copy of itself to the first one found.
Here is a link Caribe
Anti-virus companies have been warning for some time that mobile networks could be the next targets of virus authors. Mikko Hyppönen, director of anti-virus research at F-Secure, said several months ago that there was a danger of viruses spreading into GPRS networks through USB ports, and that pocket-PC devices would be easy targets for virus coders.
"The wireless and Internet worlds are colliding, and neither will be the same again," said EarthLink founder and director Sky Dayton who will serve as chief executive officer of the SK-EarthLink joint venture. "In South Korea, kids on the street are using their mobile phones to listen to music, watch TV, videoconference, locate their friends, and access the Internet--as well as make voice calls--as opposed to the U.S. where the mobile experience is primarily about talking on the phone. Americans are living in the past. Utilizing emerging 3G networks and harnessing the explosive growth of Wi-Fi, SK-EarthLink will take the wireless experience in the U.S. to a new level."
I agree that Americans are living in the past, with the small exteptions of the T-Mobile Sidekick and the N-Gage the vast majority of mobile phone users or just talking or texting.
That's an excellent point. Gah! I can't even mention Apple without getting flagged a troll.
My abbreviated point was that Sega had a better console, but still lost out. The narrative is similar for Apple. I own a few Sega consoles and a few Macs. I'm working on convincing my wife we *need* a Mac Mini.
As for no good games from Sega: Super Monkey Ball is an instant classic. I do tend to agree though, that Sega is fading into history. Hopefully they can go out as a classic.
They got pwned in the console market (despite better games and platform) And now they are getting pwned in the software market as well? (despite very good games)
Is Sega the new Apple?
LOL, Weak, but I did smile....
I agree completely. I don't think Powell did anything of benefit for the country during his tenure. He made a bunch of crazy christians happy I suppose. But I think he pissed off more people than he pleased with the censorship crusade.
Did anyone read about Fox pixelating a cartoon butt that they aired 5 years ago, so as not to get FCC complaints?
The laugh I'm having is that it reminds me of Monty Python and the People's front of Judea vs. The Judean Peoples Front.
That said, I think should be enough....
I just con my way into having the cashier run her card for me. I always fiegn forgetting it, and rattle off a few old phone numbers. I used to use my old phone number, but now someone else has it, and when I used it, I would get these ten% off coupons. I felt bad, like I was stealing from the other person or something, and stopped.
I was there at 7:30AM. There was a short ten minute line at my polling place in Sacramento. I had to show ID as I was a first time registrant in Sacramento County. (I wonder if my wife and I are considered first time voters, for reporting purposes?)
Anyway, we spent an hour last night going through each balot measure and I created a "cheat-sheet" in Excel. (How geek is that?)
I must say, I'm nervous on how it is all going to turn out. At least I don't wait as long as some others, many polls close at 4PM PST.
What Intel and Vaporware? Never! They have to compete with the likes of IBM:
In other news: IBM is preparing a dual-core version of its 90nm PowerPC 970FX processor - aka the G5. Codenamed Antares, the chip will be delivered - likely in sample form - to Apple later this summer.
News article here
Didn't Microsoft have a similar payout in one of its settlement cases? At least people can use software, nonoby, and I mean nobody can use 300 copies of a crap CD that didn't sell very well to begin with. What a rip-off!
They might as well have sent them 10,000 AOL CDs.
Did the Honey Pot Hunter link on the screenshot get anyone else's attention?
screenshot
It seems to me that there is some level of sophisitication to these spammer sites. I'm guessing they are really ripping off the poor shmucks who sign up.
With the broad copyright laws we have now, this would destroy innovators. Imagine having to ask around to all the big media companies for permission before publishing your story of "An ordinary girl who discovers she is actually royalty"
Call me old school.
ENIAC
The kid is clever. I'm glad that MS relented, despite the fact MS knew they would win in court. Mike Rowe - Although we will forget all about you in like 3 months, good luck!