Well, at this time an SPF record is statistically more likely to BE a spammer than to be not a spammer.
So if SPF exists, it gets marked higher on the "spam" score.
Sad but true. It would have been a great tool.
If you have customers, you hate the thing. Try getting it set up when your users use "ip address" and "internets" interchangably to be the same thing.
For SPF to work, everybody in the world would have to stop accepting mail PERIOD unless it had SPF and when the dust cleared it would work. Unfortunately that transition will keep it from ever happening.
Someone needs to invent a plugin that can learn the IP addresses over time and add them to SPF, sort of like some of the client firewall programs do now.
The reason it's so vital to the plot to have Ender get picked on and retaliate beyond all possible reason (it's a tribute to Card's writing chops that we don't notice that the murders of Stilson and Bonzo are, well, kinda psychopathic) is that it's an adolescent revenge fantasy, with its dials all cranked to eleven.
I disagree with your interpretation of this event in the book.
It's not beyond reason, it is reason taken to the extreme. Logical, cold, calculation of the necessary action to bring about the desired end. Ender loses part of his humanity at that point in the book, and it shows how humanity has to take _away_ humanity from someone so humanity itself can fight a war to win.
Revenge is an emotional human trait. What Ender did in the shower was action suitable for a T-1000, not a human.
I think the inventor has a bad case of "engineering without an idea" going on.
Cars and roads are going to make this thing not work for many many reasons as have gone over in this thread. Plus, people who understand some physics will probably not like the things because it takes energy from me when I might want it still in my "moving car system".
BUT, it could be put to good use elsewhere.
For example at the ends of runways, and used to bleed energy off a plane _fast_ when probably you do really want to slow down all the time.
On long grades on rail. I don't know if there are consistantly "one way" tracks through mountains, but if there is a grade, the thing could be used to pipe electrcity to rail crossing lights out in the middle of nowhere. The lights aren't lit all the time, and when they are, there is a train commin'! So far, trains don't have regenerative braking. Plus, they dont really care if the surface is metal so wouldn't have control problems when passing onto a metal surface like a car would. And they are HEAVY and would have a lot of energy to provide.
I think the inventor needs to get with a bunch of people to work out the details for him as he's missing a whole lot of things with his toy.
In my personal experience, it's always been games or gaming that caused my joint problems.
Joystick use during ladder events, or just lots of gaming.
Once I backed off and quit for several days each week, it went away. (Used to have shooting pains going up the underside of both arms from wrist to armpit, plus crackly joints.)
Of course, I have previous damage from blue collar jobs too. I bet there's a lot of low-paid manual labor people that have more problems with it than you could ever get from using computers.... they just don't have fancy names for "my friggin arm hurts".
Finally a new market for all of those "limited lifespan" drives IBM made a few years ago.
"ServStor" 36 GB drive! Guaranteed to die within 10 months!
Seriously though, how is the law going to deal with the inevitable but accidental data loss of that stuff? Criminal charges for obstructing justice just for being unlucky enough to choose equipment that turns out to be flakey?
As a practical matter, it is true that accelleration is the same as gravity.
Note however that a gravity source (i.e. planet, star or moon) is a point source.
Acceleration of the rocket is a vector toward a plane.
So theoretically, one could tell the difference if the direction of accelleration could be measured with enough accuracy. A planet would produce vectors that are off of parallel (converging) a little bit (even diverging, gravity pull is not constant on the Earth's surface).
A rocket acceleration detector in two places in the rocket would give absolutely parallel readings. A the same two detectors on a planet would probably produce non-parallel readings.
Assuming the rocket is a perfect accelerator and it has a perfect guidance system.... etc.
Issac Newton did the point-source problem early in the history of calculus, so it's not a hard problem as far as the math goes.
That's not to say the fundamental point gravity = acceleration isn't true, just that the assertion that you can't tell under experimental conditions of a rocket or elevator and a planet is not true.
There are some industries that require keeping of information. As well as legal reasons to do so if there is a suit in progress, or you have "reasonable belief" a suit is pending. Destroying information then can be viewed as obstruction of justice and get you in jail.
But if you have a "policy" of removing stuff and do it before you know anything is pending, the lawyers can't do anything retroactively if the data is gone. So delete the logs (or don't generate them) and write it down that you do that and you are clear. Even if there was evidence in there, if you didn't know it was evidence they can't touch you.
You are mixing two different types of areas there.
The land-line mixups are poor implementation or upkeep of the database (think reverse DNS) that the phone switch operators are supposed to be keeping.
Some tech somewhere needs to understand the phone routing and add the entries into the database. When a phone number is moved, it doesn't always get updated. Likewise, the geographic data used to determine the center called based on the location isn't always accurate.
That's above and beyond the general PIA of databases in the first place.
My part-time ISP employer is going through this as it tries to become a CLEC to cut dial-up line costs, so I have learned some of this firsthand. You ALWAYS need to tell dispatch WHERE you are first, clearly and as accurately as you can. Don't depend on them knowing where you are.
Maybe the retards that did the study should sit down with a browser for an hour and figure out which ones are spammers and which aren't.
I am willing to guess, that just maybe... taking the domain adding www and http:/// in front would get them dunno... a web site that might have some info on it. Deciding spammer/not spammer should be easy.
Sure some users don't have domains, but how many will that be out of 900? 4?
Don't respond to the "offers to buy". Being willing to sell the domain is one of the criteria for getting the domain yanked from you via arbitration. Getting you to respond to one of those is the first step towards establishing "bad faith".
Lay it out.... cuz there's a lot of people here not as enlightened as you on the subject. You should take your omnipotent skills of divination and tell us when the Flying Spaghetti Monster will again fly this earth.
How bout this, NSI or any other company can simply wait until I use my Credit Card to pay again and use that address if they need to contact me. There is no reason for there to be an address, phone number, or anything else on the information other than "paid until XX Date".
If I want to say who I am, I will stick it on the home page of the site.
Uhm.... sodium chloride is indeed salt. One of many compounds called "salts".
Yes you can buy table salt with other compounds in it if you want. However, the chief component of sodium chloride is required for it to be sold as "salt" in a grocery store.
If you are changing the stuff with radiation, you are using too much radiation.
I like cheap wine. Drink whatever floats your particular boat I guess.
Your food snobbery doesn't change the physics of what happens during irradiation of food. Here's the Center For Disease Control's take on it;
CDC on Irradiation
You should expect that if you spout pseudo-science crap on Slashdot that someone will call you out on it.
Yeah, well I was thinking things like eggs, ground beef, and poultry where there is a significant risk even in industrialized nations of getting nasties in with the food.
Heck, I wish I had a "store" I could take my stuff to get it done. I'd be having beef tartar or "canibal sandwiches" every week.
"Canibal Sandwich" = hard roll, raw ground beef with raw egg cracked over top. Salt, pepper, onion powder and green onions or chives. Yum.
I don't think I would want my home computer(s) on the same local transformer loop on the electrical grid either.
UPSs and surge protectors can only do so much.
That guy is going to be using A LOT of power and have BIG magnets for that thing.
Maybe he should move his buisiness to I dunno... maybe a comercial park or something where that sort of stuff is better tolerated. A buisness running from a home that causes problems for the residents in a residential neighborhood needs to shut down or move IMO.
Vitamin C, for example is chemically fairly close to glucose and can be synthesized in large quantities.
If the food is getting enough radiation to break up vitamins, it's you are doing it wrong.
Radiation treatment kills LIVING cells, in particular bacteria and viruses and so on... stuff that makes you sick.
Sodium chloride or sodium iodide is the same no matter what the source. (Psst, that's why they call it that, because it IS that.) It doesn't matter if the atoms come from the moon, the ocean, or horseshit.
Parent is spouting typical left-wing holistic medicine hokum masquarading as "health".
Go watch Mythbusters for the "3 second rule" test when they used beef broth uniformly contaminate a surface.
It doesn't matter if it is sterile. It is only sterile if you are doing golden showers or other piss-porn. Once it hits something, bacteria quickly breed in it. Ever hear of pungi-sticks? That was piss they used to fill them with bacteria.
Go piss in a bucket and leave it in your bedroom for a night and you will realize that "fact" is useless nerd-wanking.
Piss is biologically active about.4 seconds after it leaves the pipe, no amount of pseudo-educated "knowledge" is going to change that.
Seriously, piss in a bucket and leave it in your room over night. I dare you.
BOINC has some promise I think. Though it doesn't really let you do "any" project, you have to find them and hook them up... which is a PIA and beyond most computer users I know.
I tried it out a few months back with the gravity waves detection project (I forgot the name). It had a cool graphic, but had problems.
BOINC wouldn't come out of standby after running overnight and crashed or locked up my XP. (Which is rare for this particular machine.) If it doesn't go away and release resources in less than a second, I consider it bad software.
Maybe there is a new version, but for the one I tried I was less than impressed.
Slashdot Mirror
Confirming what Herman states above.
A user on my network got this thing about two months ago. It's been around a little while.
(Spyware Sherriff installed, keylogger, IRC bot and swears up and down didn't do anything but visit a web page.)
Had to format the machine. At least it was ready for it.... but damn!
Yeah, so how am I supposed to sort my porn without thumbnails?
.wmf in the first place.
I'll take my chances, they still gotta get me to open a stupid
Well, at this time an SPF record is statistically more likely to BE a spammer than to be not a spammer.
So if SPF exists, it gets marked higher on the "spam" score.
Sad but true. It would have been a great tool.
If you have customers, you hate the thing. Try getting it set up when your users use "ip address" and "internets" interchangably to be the same thing.
For SPF to work, everybody in the world would have to stop accepting mail PERIOD unless it had SPF and when the dust cleared it would work. Unfortunately that transition will keep it from ever happening.
Someone needs to invent a plugin that can learn the IP addresses over time and add them to SPF, sort of like some of the client firewall programs do now.
The reason it's so vital to the plot to have Ender get picked on and retaliate beyond all possible reason (it's a tribute to Card's writing chops that we don't notice that the murders of Stilson and Bonzo are, well, kinda psychopathic) is that it's an adolescent revenge fantasy, with its dials all cranked to eleven.
I disagree with your interpretation of this event in the book.
It's not beyond reason, it is reason taken to the extreme. Logical, cold, calculation of the necessary action to bring about the desired end. Ender loses part of his humanity at that point in the book, and it shows how humanity has to take _away_ humanity from someone so humanity itself can fight a war to win.
Revenge is an emotional human trait. What Ender did in the shower was action suitable for a T-1000, not a human.
Never heard about that before.
Discovery channel has been saying it's hollow = boyant so the bear can swim with less effort.
It could do both I suppose.
You are absolutely right.
I think the inventor has a bad case of "engineering without an idea" going on.
Cars and roads are going to make this thing not work for many many reasons as have gone over in this thread. Plus, people who understand some physics will probably not like the things because it takes energy from me when I might want it still in my "moving car system".
BUT, it could be put to good use elsewhere.
For example at the ends of runways, and used to bleed energy off a plane _fast_ when probably you do really want to slow down all the time.
On long grades on rail. I don't know if there are consistantly "one way" tracks through mountains, but if there is a grade, the thing could be used to pipe electrcity to rail crossing lights out in the middle of nowhere. The lights aren't lit all the time, and when they are, there is a train commin'! So far, trains don't have regenerative braking. Plus, they dont really care if the surface is metal so wouldn't have control problems when passing onto a metal surface like a car would. And they are HEAVY and would have a lot of energy to provide.
I think the inventor needs to get with a bunch of people to work out the details for him as he's missing a whole lot of things with his toy.
In my personal experience, it's always been games or gaming that caused my joint problems.
Joystick use during ladder events, or just lots of gaming.
Once I backed off and quit for several days each week, it went away. (Used to have shooting pains going up the underside of both arms from wrist to armpit, plus crackly joints.)
Of course, I have previous damage from blue collar jobs too. I bet there's a lot of low-paid manual labor people that have more problems with it than you could ever get from using computers.... they just don't have fancy names for "my friggin arm hurts".
MAC address is only used for routing in the first device. In my case, it's the Linksys I use for my home network.
The Linksys, then adds it's own MAC, and so on down the line.
The final web server or anybody beyond your local network segment don't get the data.
The IP, the ISP already has of course.
Finally a new market for all of those "limited lifespan" drives IBM made a few years ago.
"ServStor" 36 GB drive! Guaranteed to die within 10 months!
Seriously though, how is the law going to deal with the inevitable but accidental data loss of that stuff? Criminal charges for obstructing justice just for being unlucky enough to choose equipment that turns out to be flakey?
As a practical matter, it is true that accelleration is the same as gravity.
Note however that a gravity source (i.e. planet, star or moon) is a point source.
Acceleration of the rocket is a vector toward a plane.
So theoretically, one could tell the difference if the direction of accelleration could be measured with enough accuracy. A planet would produce vectors that are off of parallel (converging) a little bit (even diverging, gravity pull is not constant on the Earth's surface).
A rocket acceleration detector in two places in the rocket would give absolutely parallel readings. A the same two detectors on a planet would probably produce non-parallel readings.
Assuming the rocket is a perfect accelerator and it has a perfect guidance system.... etc.
Issac Newton did the point-source problem early in the history of calculus, so it's not a hard problem as far as the math goes.
That's not to say the fundamental point gravity = acceleration isn't true, just that the assertion that you can't tell under experimental conditions of a rocket or elevator and a planet is not true.
Interesting assertion. Got any links for that?
There are some industries that require keeping of information. As well as legal reasons to do so if there is a suit in progress, or you have "reasonable belief" a suit is pending. Destroying information then can be viewed as obstruction of justice and get you in jail.
But if you have a "policy" of removing stuff and do it before you know anything is pending, the lawyers can't do anything retroactively if the data is gone. So delete the logs (or don't generate them) and write it down that you do that and you are clear. Even if there was evidence in there, if you didn't know it was evidence they can't touch you.
You are mixing two different types of areas there.
The land-line mixups are poor implementation or upkeep of the database (think reverse DNS) that the phone switch operators are supposed to be keeping.
Some tech somewhere needs to understand the phone routing and add the entries into the database. When a phone number is moved, it doesn't always get updated. Likewise, the geographic data used to determine the center called based on the location isn't always accurate.
That's above and beyond the general PIA of databases in the first place.
My part-time ISP employer is going through this as it tries to become a CLEC to cut dial-up line costs, so I have learned some of this firsthand. You ALWAYS need to tell dispatch WHERE you are first, clearly and as accurately as you can. Don't depend on them knowing where you are.
Maybe the retards that did the study should sit down with a browser for an hour and figure out which ones are spammers and which aren't.
I am willing to guess, that just maybe... taking the domain adding www and http:/// in front would get them dunno... a web site that might have some info on it. Deciding spammer/not spammer should be easy.
Sure some users don't have domains, but how many will that be out of 900? 4?
This study stinks of ID type science.
Don't respond to the "offers to buy". Being willing to sell the domain is one of the criteria for getting the domain yanked from you via arbitration. Getting you to respond to one of those is the first step towards establishing "bad faith".
Just delete or trash them.
Why?
Lay it out.... cuz there's a lot of people here not as enlightened as you on the subject. You should take your omnipotent skills of divination and tell us when the Flying Spaghetti Monster will again fly this earth.
How bout this, NSI or any other company can simply wait until I use my Credit Card to pay again and use that address if they need to contact me. There is no reason for there to be an address, phone number, or anything else on the information other than "paid until XX Date".
If I want to say who I am, I will stick it on the home page of the site.
The cashier may actually get a bonus on their paycheck for signing up X number of people in a month. Extended warranties work the same way.
So it is likely against their self interest to care if there is a fraud alert, as opposed to being simply indifferent.
Uhm.... sodium chloride is indeed salt. One of many compounds called "salts".
Yes you can buy table salt with other compounds in it if you want. However, the chief component of sodium chloride is required for it to be sold as "salt" in a grocery store.
If you are changing the stuff with radiation, you are using too much radiation.
I like cheap wine. Drink whatever floats your particular boat I guess.
Your food snobbery doesn't change the physics of what happens during irradiation of food. Here's the Center For Disease Control's take on it; CDC on Irradiation
You should expect that if you spout pseudo-science crap on Slashdot that someone will call you out on it.
Yeah, well I was thinking things like eggs, ground beef, and poultry where there is a significant risk even in industrialized nations of getting nasties in with the food.
Heck, I wish I had a "store" I could take my stuff to get it done. I'd be having beef tartar or "canibal sandwiches" every week.
"Canibal Sandwich" = hard roll, raw ground beef with raw egg cracked over top. Salt, pepper, onion powder and green onions or chives. Yum.
There's a difference between arguing "need" and "needs to be here".
The guy can do that in a comercial park somewhere in Anchorage rather than a residential neighborhood.
Problem solved.
I don't think I would want my home computer(s) on the same local transformer loop on the electrical grid either.
UPSs and surge protectors can only do so much.
That guy is going to be using A LOT of power and have BIG magnets for that thing.
Maybe he should move his buisiness to I dunno... maybe a comercial park or something where that sort of stuff is better tolerated. A buisness running from a home that causes problems for the residents in a residential neighborhood needs to shut down or move IMO.
Mod parent down as full of shiat.
Vitamin C, for example is chemically fairly close to glucose and can be synthesized in large quantities.
If the food is getting enough radiation to break up vitamins, it's you are doing it wrong.
Radiation treatment kills LIVING cells, in particular bacteria and viruses and so on... stuff that makes you sick.
Sodium chloride or sodium iodide is the same no matter what the source. (Psst, that's why they call it that, because it IS that.) It doesn't matter if the atoms come from the moon, the ocean, or horseshit.
Parent is spouting typical left-wing holistic medicine hokum masquarading as "health".
The theory of evolution does not try to explain how life arose.
Only how life changed onced it did arise.
Evolutionary principles can be tested on a simulation on a computer without trying to work in the simulation the programmer writing the simulation.
Read a book other than the bible for once.
Shove your straw man, the origin of life is not included in the theory of evolution.
There is no such thing as an "evolutionist" except in the perverted mind of a christo-facist.
You ARE a fundie. You talk, think and act like one. I call em like I see em.
Oh for fucks sake.
.4 seconds after it leaves the pipe, no amount of pseudo-educated "knowledge" is going to change that.
It is sterile. So is beef broth.
Go watch Mythbusters for the "3 second rule" test when they used beef broth uniformly contaminate a surface.
It doesn't matter if it is sterile. It is only sterile if you are doing golden showers or other piss-porn. Once it hits something, bacteria quickly breed in it. Ever hear of pungi-sticks? That was piss they used to fill them with bacteria.
Go piss in a bucket and leave it in your bedroom for a night and you will realize that "fact" is useless nerd-wanking.
Piss is biologically active about
Seriously, piss in a bucket and leave it in your room over night. I dare you.
BOINC has some promise I think. Though it doesn't really let you do "any" project, you have to find them and hook them up... which is a PIA and beyond most computer users I know.
I tried it out a few months back with the gravity waves detection project (I forgot the name). It had a cool graphic, but had problems.
BOINC wouldn't come out of standby after running overnight and crashed or locked up my XP. (Which is rare for this particular machine.) If it doesn't go away and release resources in less than a second, I consider it bad software.
Maybe there is a new version, but for the one I tried I was less than impressed.
Sharpie permenent marker would work just as well too. Plus it won't unbalance the disk as it spins.
Though, with that list of crap-music, I doubt I'll ever have to worry about running into this thing.