You should probably RTFC to see exactly what's going on, but to answer your first question, it's not a bounce. It sends a confirmation request email to the sender, and you decide what the body of the confirmation request says. Mine basically says, "I get a lot of spam, and you're not in my list of known senders. Please reply to this email so that I know you exist, and my spam robot will deliver your original email to me." The actual text is a bit more explanatory, but you get the idea.
The confirmation request is sent from a one-time response address, so spammers can't use it to spam you with. I have my doubts that a true bounce message would be noticed by spammers, but perhaps. Not sure if you can do that with procmail, since it depends on support from sendmail or whatever mail server you run. This script nullifies the need to fool spammers anyway. It just makes ALL of the spam go away.
Check out my spam-killing procmail script. It kills effectively 100% of all spam. You can find it here. I don't know why anyone would mess around with less effective spam filters. It's tiny, it's free, and NO MORE SPAM!
Um, how do you think Fibre (note the spelling) Channel drives work? SCSI. SCSI is not dead, by a long shot. The tradional SCSI bus may be nearing its end, like ATA as described here, but the SCSI protocol will be around for a LONG time. And it's a superior protocol to ATA, especially given that ATA is only point-to-point.
The comparison in the review was basically useless. They compared totally different drive models, in addition to the fact that the interfaces were different. Two significant variables, so there's no way to tell if there's something inherently good/bad about SATA from this review. They should have reviewed two very similar Seagate Barracuda drives, with the interface being the main difference.
Without even having to review the drive, I'd have to say that when they get the kinks worked out of the firmware, and possibly the host/drive SATA controller(s), these drives will be just as fast in every respect as their older ATA counterparts.
I know little about SATA, but I would hope that they've fixed the addressing problem inherent in ATA. You should be able to address a large number of devices on a bus, or the benefits of SATA will be limited. SCSI will always be the choice of high-end server class machines until they can fix this problem. Also, the price of the SATA drive doesn't seem all that different from SCSI drives of the same capacity. They need to fix that too.
As I remember, the ocean floor has a crater slightly bigger than it should for conventional explosives (by no means conclusive) and shows unusually high background radiation (again, the numbers weren't conclusive).
Don't know about the crater, but the radiation is easy to explain. If you dig, you find radiation. Period. The radiation below the surface of the earth is almost always higher than that on the surface. Generally not enough to be dangerous, but higher than normal.
As for accidental detonation of a nuke, that's more than a little hard to believe. Even the most primitive of nuclear weapons has to be most deliberately and carefully prepared for explosion. To think they would traipse around in a ship with a nuclear bomb at the ready is laughable.
I think this article is insulting to those who were there. They complained about the unsafe conditions, and were severely reprimanded when they walked off the job. Those that did walk off the job lived. Those that didn't stand up to the man died. And a lot died. To claim that the accident was a planned test is an absurdity of the highest order. To say it was not an accident is tantamount to saying that the survivors were liars, and that their (admittedly incompetent) supervisors were suicidal/homicidal.
Also, the belief that the US had the fissionable material to waste in an uncontrolled (and murderous) test is even more absurd. Especially so close to a highly populated area such as San Francisco. Port Chicago is VERY close to SF, especially in terms of a nuclear explosion. It's only something like 30 miles as the crow flies.
This is one of the stupidest and most insulting conspiracy theories I've ever come across. It insults not only the survivors, but our intelligence as well. Right up there with the moonshot conspiracy "theory".
I suppose in the strictest sense you're correct. In practical terms, DRM is generally used with regard to schemes that allow you to access media if you have the right to. In the case of copy protected CDs, the intent is to keep you from accessing the media on computers, and there is generally no provision made to ever allow you to do so.
Re:Oh goody, he's free again
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Oh no... looks like Slashdot is gonna have to start a "Free Tuxlove" campaign soon when they come after YOU!!!
This story is for illustration purposes, and is only a dramatization.:)
Oh goody, he's free again
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I'm trying hard to figure out why I'm supposed to be happy that Kevin Mitnick is finally going to be able to touch a computer again, or even why I'm supposed to care. Why is this guy such a hacker icon? As far as I'm concerned, he's an idiot more than he is some Jesus-like hacker dude.
Everyone does something stupid at least once in their life. I've broken into systems in the past, but it was just to see if I could do it. I wasn't out to prove anything to anyone else, and it only took me a short while to figure out that busting into other computers is, a) stupid, b) boring, c) seriously illegal. I had the sense, somehow, even after the first time I did it, not to do something really dumb. Dumb, like create havoc and taunt the feds, and keep on with it even as they mercilessly hunt you down.
Can someone explain to me why Kevin Mitnick is someone to revere, and why we should care that he's not still rotting in prison, much less able to use computers again?
The CDs in question are copy-protected. They are designed to play properly in a standard, dumb CD player, but not a "smart" CD player like the ones you find in your computer. Manufacturers are now starting to put CD ROM drives into CD players, which sounds like your problem.
There are numerous copy protection schemes out there, but it sounds like Sony is using the one that has bad error correction info, which makes the disc sound like crap if the CD player pays attention to it. Dumb ones don't, and tend to play normally (until you get scratches on your CD!).
Of course, anyone willing to spend about 10 minutes researching the issue can find the appropriate software/hardware to rip copy protected discs just fine. Copy protection will only stop the least sophisticated users from ripping the music. Just shows how stupid the record labels are.
A friend of mine works closely with iRobot, or IS Robotics as they used to be called. They do make some cool commercial stuff, but they basically do that to pay the bills. They do a ton of research for DARPA, helping to develop robots usable for military and other purposes. For example, they are the ones who built that sea-mine killing crab-bot that you see on science TV shows once in a while. So, as the submitter of this article implies, they do develop robots for the military. But the author makes it sound like this is, or will be, a new thing for them. Actually, producing commercial, mass market robots is the new thing for them. I think that's why they changed their name to something more cutesy.
I dunno about tmda (the site is down or unreachable at the moment), but my "program" is a 60-line procmail script. There is no need to run a mail server, so nobody's ISP should mind. My script sends out a confirmation request that is very explanatory, so if my friends don't understand it then they're somewhat lame. Actually, one of my less computer-savvy friends got confused and replied to ask what was going on - which caused me to get his original email.:)
I put the finishing touches on my antispam program this week. I went from getting 150-200 spams a day to ZERO over night. It's very simple. If an email sent to me isn't from a known address, it puts the mail into a staging area and sends a confirmation request to the originator of the message. If they reply, their original email gets put in my mailbox. If they don't, their message is deleted from the staging area after a few days.
It's transparent to me. I never see anything in my mailbox except email from known people, and unknown people who actually exist and reply to the confirmation request. So far, none of the responders have been spammers, and if they had I'd then know how to find them! Works flawlessly, so for me spam is a thing of the past.
Go ahead spammers, do your worst.
It's impossible to describe the feeling of liberation.
Help! This law would kill the effectiveness of my Privacy Manager feature. Because telemarketers currently are not visible to caller ID, which Privacy Manager requires you to have before you can call me, I haven't gotten a single telemarketer call in a year. It's the best $4/month I've ever spent!
If this law passes, those bastards will get through, and I'll have to go back to screening calls again. Certainly, I'll get myself put on the "do not call" list. But calls from charities and "companies I've dealt with before" make up a very large portion of the phone spam I used to get, and those jokers would no doubt love to start buzzing me again if this law passes.
What's the moral problem here?
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Pornography, i.e. sex, is just part of a normal human biological function. One that the human race depends upon for procreation. Artificial moral rules have made sexual expression in many forms a taboo thing, sadly. We're far too prudish sometimes. Okay, most of the time.
Tobacco and alcohol are drugs. They are physically harmful and can damage your body, or even kill. Simply looking at porn can do no such thing. Any argument equating drugs and pornography is simply rhetorical and nothing more.
Ever so often someone prominent proclaims, "The end of Moore's Law is near!" People listen, because this person is usually someone people listen to. And then he's proven wrong.
It may be true that the current chip technology has reached its end, no more progress possible. But believing that's "the end" is shortsighted. There has always been yet another way to see the law complied with. I do not doubt we will again this time. Be it optical, asynchronous logic, new materials, or whatever, it will probably happen.
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You should probably RTFC to see exactly what's going on, but to answer your first question, it's not a bounce. It sends a confirmation request email to the sender, and you decide what the body of the confirmation request says. Mine basically says, "I get a lot of spam, and you're not in my list of known senders. Please reply to this email so that I know you exist, and my spam robot will deliver your original email to me." The actual text is a bit more explanatory, but you get the idea.
The confirmation request is sent from a one-time response address, so spammers can't use it to spam you with. I have my doubts that a true bounce message would be noticed by spammers, but perhaps. Not sure if you can do that with procmail, since it depends on support from sendmail or whatever mail server you run. This script nullifies the need to fool spammers anyway. It just makes ALL of the spam go away.
Check out my spam-killing procmail script. It kills effectively 100% of all spam. You can find it here. I don't know why anyone would mess around with less effective spam filters. It's tiny, it's free, and NO MORE SPAM!
SCSI is dead. Long live Fiber Channel.
Um, how do you think Fibre (note the spelling) Channel drives work? SCSI. SCSI is not dead, by a long shot. The tradional SCSI bus may be nearing its end, like ATA as described here, but the SCSI protocol will be around for a LONG time. And it's a superior protocol to ATA, especially given that ATA is only point-to-point.
The comparison in the review was basically useless. They compared totally different drive models, in addition to the fact that the interfaces were different. Two significant variables, so there's no way to tell if there's something inherently good/bad about SATA from this review. They should have reviewed two very similar Seagate Barracuda drives, with the interface being the main difference.
Without even having to review the drive, I'd have to say that when they get the kinks worked out of the firmware, and possibly the host/drive SATA controller(s), these drives will be just as fast in every respect as their older ATA counterparts.
I know little about SATA, but I would hope that they've fixed the addressing problem inherent in ATA. You should be able to address a large number of devices on a bus, or the benefits of SATA will be limited. SCSI will always be the choice of high-end server class machines until they can fix this problem. Also, the price of the SATA drive doesn't seem all that different from SCSI drives of the same capacity. They need to fix that too.
If everyone's using cell phones and nobody is using pay phones any more, why not just put cell phones at every street corner instead?
:) :)
Ah, that should be "k1dd13z". See, I'm out of practice. All those unexploited Windows holes...
Gotta go write some new hacks for the k1dd14z to get busy with.
As I remember, the ocean floor has a crater slightly bigger than it should for conventional explosives (by no means conclusive) and shows unusually high background radiation (again, the numbers weren't conclusive).
Don't know about the crater, but the radiation is easy to explain. If you dig, you find radiation. Period. The radiation below the surface of the earth is almost always higher than that on the surface. Generally not enough to be dangerous, but higher than normal.
As for accidental detonation of a nuke, that's more than a little hard to believe. Even the most primitive of nuclear weapons has to be most deliberately and carefully prepared for explosion. To think they would traipse around in a ship with a nuclear bomb at the ready is laughable.
I think this article is insulting to those who were there. They complained about the unsafe conditions, and were severely reprimanded when they walked off the job. Those that did walk off the job lived. Those that didn't stand up to the man died. And a lot died. To claim that the accident was a planned test is an absurdity of the highest order. To say it was not an accident is tantamount to saying that the survivors were liars, and that their (admittedly incompetent) supervisors were suicidal/homicidal.
Also, the belief that the US had the fissionable material to waste in an uncontrolled (and murderous) test is even more absurd. Especially so close to a highly populated area such as San Francisco. Port Chicago is VERY close to SF, especially in terms of a nuclear explosion. It's only something like 30 miles as the crow flies.
This is one of the stupidest and most insulting conspiracy theories I've ever come across. It insults not only the survivors, but our intelligence as well. Right up there with the moonshot conspiracy "theory".
I don't need no steenking spam conference. Here is the spam killer to end all spam killers. I don't get spam any more.
I suppose in the strictest sense you're correct. In practical terms, DRM is generally used with regard to schemes that allow you to access media if you have the right to. In the case of copy protected CDs, the intent is to keep you from accessing the media on computers, and there is generally no provision made to ever allow you to do so.
Oh no... looks like Slashdot is gonna have to start a "Free Tuxlove" campaign soon when they come after YOU!!!
:)
This story is for illustration purposes, and is only a dramatization.
I'm trying hard to figure out why I'm supposed to be happy that Kevin Mitnick is finally going to be able to touch a computer again, or even why I'm supposed to care. Why is this guy such a hacker icon? As far as I'm concerned, he's an idiot more than he is some Jesus-like hacker dude.
Everyone does something stupid at least once in their life. I've broken into systems in the past, but it was just to see if I could do it. I wasn't out to prove anything to anyone else, and it only took me a short while to figure out that busting into other computers is, a) stupid, b) boring, c) seriously illegal. I had the sense, somehow, even after the first time I did it, not to do something really dumb. Dumb, like create havoc and taunt the feds, and keep on with it even as they mercilessly hunt you down.
Can someone explain to me why Kevin Mitnick is someone to revere, and why we should care that he's not still rotting in prison, much less able to use computers again?
Its no use if this is a fast server, if my apps don't run on it.
Application availability may be a concern for many situations, but not the case when you're building a custom app. People still do that, you know.
The CDs in question are copy-protected. They are designed to play properly in a standard, dumb CD player, but not a "smart" CD player like the ones you find in your computer. Manufacturers are now starting to put CD ROM drives into CD players, which sounds like your problem.
There are numerous copy protection schemes out there, but it sounds like Sony is using the one that has bad error correction info, which makes the disc sound like crap if the CD player pays attention to it. Dumb ones don't, and tend to play normally (until you get scratches on your CD!).
Of course, anyone willing to spend about 10 minutes researching the issue can find the appropriate software/hardware to rip copy protected discs just fine. Copy protection will only stop the least sophisticated users from ripping the music. Just shows how stupid the record labels are.
A friend of mine works closely with iRobot, or IS Robotics as they used to be called. They do make some cool commercial stuff, but they basically do that to pay the bills. They do a ton of research for DARPA, helping to develop robots usable for military and other purposes. For example, they are the ones who built that sea-mine killing crab-bot that you see on science TV shows once in a while. So, as the submitter of this article implies, they do develop robots for the military. But the author makes it sound like this is, or will be, a new thing for them. Actually, producing commercial, mass market robots is the new thing for them. I think that's why they changed their name to something more cutesy.
just as this Christmas was hijacked by a consumption fever,
Makes it sound like they're comparing Christmas to tuberculosis or something.
Check my journal.
I'll try to post it to my journal soon. Needs a little editing to make it nice. Check back in a day or so.
That's going to make for some good radio listening!
Schnozzzzzzzzz...
I dunno about tmda (the site is down or unreachable at the moment), but my "program" is a 60-line procmail script. There is no need to run a mail server, so nobody's ISP should mind. My script sends out a confirmation request that is very explanatory, so if my friends don't understand it then they're somewhat lame. Actually, one of my less computer-savvy friends got confused and replied to ask what was going on - which caused me to get his original email. :)
Only 60 lines, and works like a charm.
I put the finishing touches on my antispam program this week. I went from getting 150-200 spams a day to ZERO over night. It's very simple. If an email sent to me isn't from a known address, it puts the mail into a staging area and sends a confirmation request to the originator of the message. If they reply, their original email gets put in my mailbox. If they don't, their message is deleted from the staging area after a few days.
It's transparent to me. I never see anything in my mailbox except email from known people, and unknown people who actually exist and reply to the confirmation request. So far, none of the responders have been spammers, and if they had I'd then know how to find them! Works flawlessly, so for me spam is a thing of the past. Go ahead spammers, do your worst.
It's impossible to describe the feeling of liberation.
Help! This law would kill the effectiveness of my Privacy Manager feature. Because telemarketers currently are not visible to caller ID, which Privacy Manager requires you to have before you can call me, I haven't gotten a single telemarketer call in a year. It's the best $4/month I've ever spent!
If this law passes, those bastards will get through, and I'll have to go back to screening calls again. Certainly, I'll get myself put on the "do not call" list. But calls from charities and "companies I've dealt with before" make up a very large portion of the phone spam I used to get, and those jokers would no doubt love to start buzzing me again if this law passes.
Pornography, i.e. sex, is just part of a normal human biological function. One that the human race depends upon for procreation. Artificial moral rules have made sexual expression in many forms a taboo thing, sadly. We're far too prudish sometimes. Okay, most of the time.
Tobacco and alcohol are drugs. They are physically harmful and can damage your body, or even kill. Simply looking at porn can do no such thing. Any argument equating drugs and pornography is simply rhetorical and nothing more.
Ever so often someone prominent proclaims, "The end of Moore's Law is near!" People listen, because this person is usually someone people listen to. And then he's proven wrong.
It may be true that the current chip technology has reached its end, no more progress possible. But believing that's "the end" is shortsighted. There has always been yet another way to see the law complied with. I do not doubt we will again this time. Be it optical, asynchronous logic, new materials, or whatever, it will probably happen.
It's not time to call Moore's law dead just yet.