It seems to me that the answer to spam is whitelists. I find I get very little non-spam from people who aren't in my address book (you just have to be diligent about keeping your whitelist up to date).
If a whitelist is the solution, you don't understand the problem.
A whitelist is pretty much like "bolting the barn door after the horses have eaten your children." You're basically just closing your eyes and saying "I don't see it, so therefore it doesn't hurt me."
Spam has two problems, and the concept of a whitelist (or email client "spam filter") only covers one: the nuisance factor (it's a pain in the ass to wade through all this spam.)
The second, much worse, problem is that spam costs the recipient money. Bandwidth isn't free - it costs money.. even if you don't directly pay for bandwidth, your ISP does, so it costs them money, which they charge to you (even if you don't see it broken down in your monthly bill.)
Any client-based anti-spam "solution" (such as your whitelist) is ignoring this: the bandwidth has already been consumed by the spam, so it's already been spent. Rejecting the email AFTER it's been delivered to your server only means that you don't see it - it doesn't mean that you're not paying for it, and THAT is the biggest problem with spam - you're paying for something you don't want.
While Joe Sixpack (to whom I am superior) might like watching his Budweiser ads, I feel that television advertising has absolutely no effect on me.
This may surprise you, but this statement is contradicting itself. By naming a specific brand, you are proving that television does have an effect on you.
The primary purpose of TV advertising is to create brand awareness - in other words, to let you know that a product exists, and to cause you to remember it. The mere fact that you mention a brand name in your sentence means that not only did the TV ad have an effect, it had it's intended effect.
The previous poster's comment about banner ads shows that he (and the people selling the banner ads) doesn't understand what most advertising is supposed to do - it's not supposed to make you stop everything you're doing and buy the product, it's supposed to let you know that the product exists (although there are exceptions to this rule.)
This is why banner ads are "failing" - they're not ineffective, it's how they're measured that's flawed. (Now, this is orthogonal as to whether people pay attention to them or not - which is a better measure of whether advertising is effective or not - if nobody's paying attention to them, then they're failing... but this isn't the same as the number of people who click on them.)
I doubt that a company can be on trial for buisness in other countries.
You may doubt it, but it's true. Do a google search for Bro-Tech, a company who's Canadian subsidiary sold water purifiers to Cuba; the principals were arrested in Philidelphia, and jailed.
The only way is to ban the products that are imported. This might will raise conserns in WTO, and could lead to counter bans from other countries.
Man! How naieve are you? Have you NO idea of how little respect the US has for other countries? I even said: "Just ask Canadian lumber companies and (now) farmers how far they're willing to go to protect US interests.
Maybe not in YOUR school, but elsewhere they're doing quite well.
Macs have been relegated to art departments since the early 90s.
Untrue. The company I work for supplies internet access to a school division, with 18 schools. One school has a PC lab (20 PCs) and a Mac lab (35 Macs), and every other school in the district uses Macs, and they use them for everything, including administration.
Maybe you should pull your head out of the sand and take a look around.
Return to the "good ole days"
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Fair IP Laws?
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The answer (at least to me) is pretty simple:
For copyright, set copyright dates in stone - fixed term (none of this "life of the author +X years.) Each work gets the same amount of protection, and there is no discrimination.
Second, return to a registration system. If you want copyright protection, you must register for it. You must register ALL incarnations of something to get copyright for any of them ie. you must register your source code AND runtime, if you want protection for the runtime. That way, once the work falls into the public domain, the public is guarateed access.
Third, registration would have to be renewed every so often (5 or 10 years.) This would prevent "IP hoarding", and eliminate the current problem with "abandonware."
For patents, I don't think the system is horribly flawed, it's just poorly implemented. Enforcement of the (original) rules needs to done. (ie. You can't patent something you can copyright, better checks for "originality", and for scientific merit.) If the idea is simple, but the implementation is difficult, no patent.
Trademarks? No opinion. Just don't start doing it like Germany ("Hi, I'm a lawyer, and you might be infringing on a trademark. You must now give me money for telling you this."), and we'll be OK.
If MS-Software is really that flawed the government should demand they fix their software until they can safely present at least their APIs, before they may go on selling any software.
No, what the government should do is immediately switch to open source.
"Your software is THAT insecure? My god, we must stop using it IMMEDIATELY."
A very large portion of hardware is made outside of the US, mainly in Asia. And they are not covered by any US law, granted they will make DRM based systems for the US, and in all likelyhood non-DRM based for the rest of the world.
Don't bet on it. Remember DeCSS? Adobe Ebooks? You can bet that the protectionist forces in the US will go after any company that tries to sell non-compliant hardware in another country. I imagine the argument would go something like this:
"It's illegal for a company to offer for sale a device which doesn't have the DRM circuitry. Since company X is doing business in the US, they are subject to US law, and since the law doesn't say 'offer for sale in the US', then they're subject to sanctions under the law."
Don't underestimate the insular and protectionist forces in power in the US. Just ask Canadian lumber companies and (now) farmers how far they're willing to go to protect US interests. (hint: they'll blatantly break an international treaty they pushed for.)
One (misconfigured) machine broadcasts data (say, NMB update) with a source address of the broadcast address - everybody on the segment replies, (which causes everybody on the segment, including the misconfigured one to reply again, ad infinitum) - result: segment meltdown.
As someone else pointed out, a traffic monitor would be your best bet - you don't need to capture all of it, just the first part, to see what's starting it up - then you can decide what to do.
of all those who complain about bnetd being attacked, how many of you paid for your game?
I paid for mine.. several times multiple copies of Diablo, Diablo2, Diablo2 LOD (all of these for myself and as gifts), and single copies of WC2 and StarCraft.
And they'll never see another cent from me if they don't drop the suit. (I was planning on buying WC3 and WoW - when it came out.)
Is it possible for a random newbie person-- such as the average former windows user at an american business-- assuming the OS installs right and they don't have to do any mucking about with drivers, to just sit down and start using the GUI portion of GNU/Linux without having to learn any of the command line?
Yes, it is.
In 2000, we hired a new web designer; she knew HTML, and did all of her work by hand. She used paintshop pro for graphics, and a text editor for the HTML.
She'd never touched Linux before, and it took her all of 5 minutes to learn what she needed to be productive under KDE (1.1) - it basically consisted of "here is how you log in, here is the icon for the text editor, and here is the icon for Gimp."
Is it possible to migrate an office, or possibly your mother, to Linux without it ever being necessary for them to learn how to use xterm?
Yes, it is. My mother's computer dual-boots between Windows and Linux, and she says that she very much enjoys Linux, as it doesn't crash. She primarily uses Wordperfect under Linux, and uses Windows to play scrabble and surf the web (she has a winmodem, so she's stuck there.)
Last October my step-father asked me to remove Windows from his computer, and install Linux; he used it like that until last week, when he bought a "home design" package (Windows-only), and asked me to install it for him (so now he dual-boots too.)
The short answer to your question is "Yes, it's possible for the average user to use Linux without having to use a command line."
If microsoft really wanted to stop non-ie browsers they'd stop any that said Linux in them first...
This statement makes a BIG assumption:
That MS coders know the "correct" way to do something..
Judging from their track record (like yesterday's "uberpatch" that didn't patch what it was supposed to), I'd say that maybe they DO want to block non-IE browsers, but it didn't occur to them that someone may be able to change their User-Agent: field.
You didn't buy it, you licensed it. The license applies restrictions to what you can do.
Well, I can't speak for the original poster, but Ibought mine.
I have a bill of sale, an nowhere on there is there any mention of this "license" you're talking about.
Now, the game displayed a "license" when I installed it, but seeing as that is attempting to add restrictions to a contract after the contract has been complete, it's irrelevant, and I ignored it, as is my right.
Your car and house anaogies aren't entirely parallel, because their cornerstone isn't intellectual property
They're not entirely parallel, but they are parallel enough. I paid money for something, it's mine. End of story.
I appeal to the geek masses - surely someone out there has already found where the reset line is.
The servers at the ISP where I work are all HP Netservers (running Linux:o) ; when I was setting them up, my boss insisted we have Watchdog cards installed (he was used to Windows, and thought Linux would have the same problems.)
I ran into the same problem you did - the reset line isn't accessible from the front panel. So I called HP, explained what I was trying to do, 10 minutes later a tech had emailed me what I needed to know. (not that it mattered - the watchdog cards have never been needed.)
So, the simplest solution is to ask them. You might be surprised.
I mean, how far do you go? Slide rule? Abacus? They are all computing devices.
BSA Rep: "I'm afraid you're not in compliance with your license agreement, because each of those children has ten fingers, which they use to compute basic mathematics. For your class of 20 first grade students, you will need to purchase an additional 200 licenses."
Slashdot Mirror
Don't any Slashdot nerds know how to spell?
:o)
You're new here, aren't you?
Semisid is more expensive than condoms.
:o)
And it tastes like fucking soap.
Methinks you've got the wrong end then
"Oral thermometer my eye! Bend over son, and think warm thoughts." -Grandpa Simpson
It seems to me that the answer to spam is whitelists. I find I get very little non-spam from people who aren't in my address book (you just have to be diligent about keeping your whitelist up to date).
If a whitelist is the solution, you don't understand the problem.
A whitelist is pretty much like "bolting the barn door after the horses have eaten your children." You're basically just closing your eyes and saying "I don't see it, so therefore it doesn't hurt me."
Spam has two problems, and the concept of a whitelist (or email client "spam filter") only covers one: the nuisance factor (it's a pain in the ass to wade through all this spam.)
The second, much worse, problem is that spam costs the recipient money. Bandwidth isn't free - it costs money.. even if you don't directly pay for bandwidth, your ISP does, so it costs them money, which they charge to you (even if you don't see it broken down in your monthly bill.)
Any client-based anti-spam "solution" (such as your whitelist) is ignoring this: the bandwidth has already been consumed by the spam, so it's already been spent. Rejecting the email AFTER it's been delivered to your server only means that you don't see it - it doesn't mean that you're not paying for it, and THAT is the biggest problem with spam - you're paying for something you don't want.
A vaccum inhospitable?! NEVER!
:o)
Yes, it's true! For proof, all you need to do is ask any cat. (My cat is terrified of the vacuum
While Joe Sixpack (to whom I am superior) might like watching his Budweiser ads, I feel that television advertising has absolutely no effect on me.
This may surprise you, but this statement is contradicting itself. By naming a specific brand, you are proving that television does have an effect on you.
The primary purpose of TV advertising is to create brand awareness - in other words, to let you know that a product exists, and to cause you to remember it. The mere fact that you mention a brand name in your sentence means that not only did the TV ad have an effect, it had it's intended effect.
The previous poster's comment about banner ads shows that he (and the people selling the banner ads) doesn't understand what most advertising is supposed to do - it's not supposed to make you stop everything you're doing and buy the product, it's supposed to let you know that the product exists (although there are exceptions to this rule.)
This is why banner ads are "failing" - they're not ineffective, it's how they're measured that's flawed. (Now, this is orthogonal as to whether people pay attention to them or not - which is a better measure of whether advertising is effective or not - if nobody's paying attention to them, then they're failing... but this isn't the same as the number of people who click on them.)
I doubt that a company can be on trial for buisness in other countries.
You may doubt it, but it's true. Do a google search for Bro-Tech, a company who's Canadian subsidiary sold water purifiers to Cuba; the principals were arrested in Philidelphia, and jailed.
The only way is to ban the products that are imported. This might will raise conserns in WTO, and could lead to counter bans from other countries.
Man! How naieve are you? Have you NO idea of how little respect the US has for other countries? I even said: "Just ask Canadian lumber companies and (now) farmers how far they're willing to go to protect US interests.
THE US SIMPLY DOESN'T CARE about treaties.
Mac dominance in schools? Not in the last decade.
Maybe not in YOUR school, but elsewhere they're doing quite well.
Macs have been relegated to art departments since the early 90s.
Untrue. The company I work for supplies internet access to a school division, with 18 schools. One school has a PC lab (20 PCs) and a Mac lab (35 Macs), and every other school in the district uses Macs, and they use them for everything, including administration.
Maybe you should pull your head out of the sand and take a look around.
"find the buffer overflow" is actually a Windows game .... some junior hacker seems to win a couple of times a month at the moment
Yes, and according to MS VP Jim Allchin, there are many more winners to come!
The answer (at least to me) is pretty simple:
For copyright, set copyright dates in stone - fixed term (none of this "life of the author +X years.) Each work gets the same amount of protection, and there is no discrimination.
Second, return to a registration system. If you want copyright protection, you must register for it. You must register ALL incarnations of something to get copyright for any of them ie. you must register your source code AND runtime, if you want protection for the runtime. That way, once the work falls into the public domain, the public is guarateed access.
Third, registration would have to be renewed every so often (5 or 10 years.) This would prevent "IP hoarding", and eliminate the current problem with "abandonware."
For patents, I don't think the system is horribly flawed, it's just poorly implemented. Enforcement of the (original) rules needs to done. (ie. You can't patent something you can copyright, better checks for "originality", and for scientific merit.) If the idea is simple, but the implementation is difficult, no patent.
Trademarks? No opinion. Just don't start doing it like Germany ("Hi, I'm a lawyer, and you might be infringing on a trademark. You must now give me money for telling you this."), and we'll be OK.
I wasn't aware that they had a bad reputation in the US. They certainly don't here in the UK.
:o)
Well, there's the problem. You're comparing them to British cars
(Disclaimer: I am British.)
If MS-Software is really that flawed the government should demand they fix their software until they can safely present at least their APIs, before they may go on selling any software.
No, what the government should do is immediately switch to open source.
"Your software is THAT insecure? My god, we must stop using it IMMEDIATELY."
A very large portion of hardware is made outside of the US, mainly in Asia. And they are not covered by any US law, granted they will make DRM based systems for the US, and in all likelyhood non-DRM based for the rest of the world.
Don't bet on it. Remember DeCSS? Adobe Ebooks? You can bet that the protectionist forces in the US will go after any company that tries to sell non-compliant hardware in another country. I imagine the argument would go something like this:
"It's illegal for a company to offer for sale a device which doesn't have the DRM circuitry. Since company X is doing business in the US, they are subject to US law, and since the law doesn't say 'offer for sale in the US', then they're subject to sanctions under the law."
Don't underestimate the insular and protectionist forces in power in the US. Just ask Canadian lumber companies and (now) farmers how far they're willing to go to protect US interests. (hint: they'll blatantly break an international treaty they pushed for.)
Sounds like a broadcast storm to me..
One (misconfigured) machine broadcasts data (say, NMB update) with a source address of the broadcast address - everybody on the segment replies, (which causes everybody on the segment, including the misconfigured one to reply again, ad infinitum) - result: segment meltdown.
As someone else pointed out, a traffic monitor would be your best bet - you don't need to capture all of it, just the first part, to see what's starting it up - then you can decide what to do.
of all those who complain about bnetd being attacked, how many of you paid for your game?
I paid for mine.. several times multiple copies of Diablo, Diablo2, Diablo2 LOD (all of these for myself and as gifts), and single copies of WC2 and StarCraft.
And they'll never see another cent from me if they don't drop the suit. (I was planning on buying WC3 and WoW - when it came out.)
Is it possible for a random newbie person-- such as the average former windows user at an american business-- assuming the OS installs right and they don't have to do any mucking about with drivers, to just sit down and start using the GUI portion of GNU/Linux without having to learn any of the command line?
Yes, it is.
In 2000, we hired a new web designer; she knew HTML, and did all of her work by hand. She used paintshop pro for graphics, and a text editor for the HTML.
She'd never touched Linux before, and it took her all of 5 minutes to learn what she needed to be productive under KDE (1.1) - it basically consisted of "here is how you log in, here is the icon for the text editor, and here is the icon for Gimp."
Is it possible to migrate an office, or possibly your mother, to Linux without it ever being necessary for them to learn how to use xterm?
Yes, it is. My mother's computer dual-boots between Windows and Linux, and she says that she very much enjoys Linux, as it doesn't crash. She primarily uses Wordperfect under Linux, and uses Windows to play scrabble and surf the web (she has a winmodem, so she's stuck there.)
Last October my step-father asked me to remove Windows from his computer, and install Linux; he used it like that until last week, when he bought a "home design" package (Windows-only), and asked me to install it for him (so now he dual-boots too.)
The short answer to your question is "Yes, it's possible for the average user to use Linux without having to use a command line."
the attacks on the USS Cole (2000) and the Pentagon (2001) were not terrorism?
No idea about Cole (sorry, doesn't ring a bell), but the Pentagon was a terrorist attack by his definition.
The original poster may have phrased the last part incorrectly, but he put it (mostly) correctly in the beginning:
Terrorists attack civilian populations
A more correct way of putting it would be terrorists attack noncombatant targets for the purpose of sowing terror in the general populace..
By this definition, the Pentagon was a Terrorist attack, since most of the people who work there are noncombatants.
If microsoft really wanted to stop non-ie browsers they'd stop any that said Linux in them first...
This statement makes a BIG assumption:
That MS coders know the "correct" way to do something..
Judging from their track record (like yesterday's "uberpatch" that didn't patch what it was supposed to), I'd say that maybe they DO want to block non-IE browsers, but it didn't occur to them that someone may be able to change their User-Agent: field.
Considering Aaliyah died in a plane crash last year, it's unlikely she's going to appear in a movie that was shooting at the time.
:o)
Why? It didn't stop them from using her in that godawful vampire movie. (About the only redeeming feature it had was "Tom Cruise wasn't in it"
Seriously, yes, they re-cast her part in the Matrix sequels (apparently the Watchkowsky brothers aren't the whores that Michael Rymer is.)
you mean you can't do 128-bit hashing in your head? What kind of geek are you?
:o)
The married kind
Just use a 128-bit hash of the person. That way, user ids are unique, easy to calculate, but hard to guess.
:o)
Not to mention remember
You didn't buy it, you licensed it. The license applies restrictions to what you can do.
Well, I can't speak for the original poster, but I bought mine.
I have a bill of sale, an nowhere on there is there any mention of this "license" you're talking about.
Now, the game displayed a "license" when I installed it, but seeing as that is attempting to add restrictions to a contract after the contract has been complete, it's irrelevant, and I ignored it, as is my right.
Your car and house anaogies aren't entirely parallel, because their cornerstone isn't intellectual property
They're not entirely parallel, but they are parallel enough. I paid money for something, it's mine. End of story.
You did see Return of the Jedi, right?
Maybe he saw the Arkansas version?
That would be the one where in addition to being Luke's father, Darth Vader is also his brother.
That sounds like the beginning to a really dreadful country song.
:o)
In that sentence, isn't "really dreadful" redundant? Or are you implying there are other types of country songs besides dreadful ones?
I appeal to the geek masses - surely someone out there has already found where the reset line is.
:o) ; when I was setting them up, my boss insisted we have Watchdog cards installed (he was used to Windows, and thought Linux would have the same problems.)
The servers at the ISP where I work are all HP Netservers (running Linux
I ran into the same problem you did - the reset line isn't accessible from the front panel. So I called HP, explained what I was trying to do, 10 minutes later a tech had emailed me what I needed to know. (not that it mattered - the watchdog cards have never been needed.)
So, the simplest solution is to ask them. You might be surprised.
Don't give them ideas!
I mean, how far do you go? Slide rule? Abacus? They are all computing devices.
BSA Rep: "I'm afraid you're not in compliance with your license agreement, because each of those children has ten fingers, which they use to compute basic mathematics. For your class of 20 first grade students, you will need to purchase an additional 200 licenses."