I'm curious how you determined that there were no legitimate messages blocked if you are rejecting the message on connection rather than based on analysis of its content. If you reject the message fefore you even look at it can you make any valid statements regarding the message content i.e. spam vs. legitimate?
There is also the odd statistical discrepancy that about 50% of all email traffic is spam and yet you are rejecting a significantly larger fraction that average. Unless your organization is a serious anomaly and gets significantly more spam then average you should go back and check your numbers a bit.
Check the latest product reviews. Spamcop isn't the most effective or the one with the lowest rate of legitimate messages blocked. They're not bad but they're a far cry from the best.
And finally, regarding your shot about Symantec profiting from spam filtering consider the following question. If Spamcop has no means of making money from its spam filtering, what gurantee do you have that they will be around for the long term especially if they are spending enough on bandwidth to weather a sustained DDOS?
Isn't it funny how the US military conveniently forgets Vietnam whenever it wants to? Agent Orange any one?
If memory serves, Agent Orange was a defoliant and not a chemical weapon. It's kind of like complaining about the Orkin man using chemical weapons: technically true but not really what is meant by a chemical weapon. Sure there were probably people in the jungles that were defoliated but its not anything like dropping a nice efficient nerve agent.
I'm really curious about how long it's going to take people to accuse the US military of chemical warfare because so many people are dying of lead poisoning.
I am currently a freshman at Duke and can attest to the fact that there is not grade inflation of any type.
In this day and age it is getting harder and harder to get into the "good" colleges.
I can tell from your sentence structure that Duke students are clearly the academic cream of the crop. Try to avoid tired phrases such as "in this day and age" and "harder and harder". Instead write "It is increasingly difficult to get into well regarded colleges" and "I can attest that there is no grade inflation."
Ad homina aside, the forced failures you complain about are an example of grading down. The ideal grading standard is independant of student performance. Provided that work is assigned at the appropriate level and in the appropriate quantity to cover course requirements to the desired depth, how well a group of students does is irrelevant to how the course is graded.
Grade inflation is abominable. Arbitrarily assigning ten percent of the class a failing grade to fit an idealized grade distribution is equally so. In both cases the assigned mark does not reflect the performance of the student which renders the entire grading operation pointless.
Well, the article says that the affected systems were mostly individuals' workstations running SQL server (presumably developers running SQL to simulate a production environment). So these weren't production servers that were affected. Once Slammer got onto the network via the workstations, junk traffic just overwhelmed the routers.
This is precisely why the development groups need to be sequestered into a heavily firewalled ghetto. Having worked on both sides of the fence I'm appalled at the carelessness with which many supposedly professional software developers build their work environments. Unfortunately the cardinal virtue of laziness is often interpreted as sloth.
In the admins defense, there are rarely enough hours in the day to get everything done, especially if one set of tasks (patching MS SQL Server) is time consuming and prone to error. I assigned one MCSE the task of keeping the Windows servers patched as his primary priority and I swear he was busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest. Between the OS, the web servers and SQL he never finished before the next patch/hotfix/service pack was released.
Sure it's easy to say that they're bad admins and just lazy but the reality is that the work load often pushes some tasks to a point in the queue where they will never see the light of day again.
Because being a policeman myself, I know that by the time a search warrant is signed off by a judge and executed (around a week), the trash will be long gone. So, the policeman have a perfectly valid arguement.
Clearly this is being done for a good cause so what do we care that the police and other government agences no longer have to abide by the same laws as public citizens? Doesn't anyone understand that we need to relinquish some of our liberties so that we can be secure in our homes? Isn't the loss of a single legal standard for all citizens a small price to pay for easier evidence gathering by governmental agencies? After all, if it makes us safer, how could it be bad?
I'll leave the appropriate Thomas Jefferson quote as an exercise for the reader.
I click on the comments, for to see what all you insightful people have to say today. And I get one of the (occasional) ads that shows up between the text of the story & the comments.
It's for MS Visual Studio.net
If MS wants to pay ad revenue to OSDN I have absolutely no problem with that. I sincerely doubt that anyone here will be moved to purchase Visual Studio.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Verisign the 'Internet Trust' company? Perhaps they could issue a digital certificate to all entities who register a domain with them for verification of the change requestors identity.
I know this is dangerously close to the core idea of their company so it would probably never work. It's all part of the "if you're not sales, you're overhead" mentality if you ask me. Why give a certificate to your customers when you might be able to sell it to them.
And just look at religion. One of the commandments in Christianity is "you shall not murder". How hypocritical when their own god went and meticulously tortured and killed sections of a whole race of people (the Egyptians.)
Technically the injunction against killing didn't happen until after the all the smiting and plagues. Besides, who wants a god that doesn't periodically put a hurtin on your enemies?
Tunneling is one of the more interesting consequences of the position-momentum uncertainty, but remember that energy-time is another uncertainty relationship. The uncertainty relationships in QM are in fact an artifact of the math that you get whenever you have two non-commutating operators.
Another sticky issue is the fact that these particles that are being measured are by definition inistinguishable. Who is to say that the particle that emerges from the other side of the potential barrier is the incident particle? It's not like you can mark it with a sharpie.
The fact is that the universe at the subatomic scale is significantly different than our daily experience. Application of ideas gleaned from our lives at the classical scale are bound to lead to problems of interpretation. Space and time are inextricably bound. Energy and time are linked by observational uncertainty, momentum and position as well.
Measurement of these velocities depends on sure knowledge of distance and time which from where I'm standing don't look like absolutes.
An interesting point, but i can think of another reason not to. It would be too easy to rewrite things.
Thats why you store the master on read only media and if there is any question you compare checksums of the master to the publicly available copy. Quite a bit of tax money is spent keeping the library of congress and to be honest I'd like to actually be able to put it to use as something other than a small dimple in space-time.
-jaded- walking the earth as a living corpse is in somewhat questionable taste
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"The Complete Guide to Microsoft NT4 Internet Services" and "Push Technology: The Future of Content Distribution".
It must suck to publish and have the product EOLed within six months.
I'm curious how you determined that there were no legitimate messages blocked if you are rejecting the message on connection rather than based on analysis of its content. If you reject the message fefore you even look at it can you make any valid statements regarding the message content i.e. spam vs. legitimate?
There is also the odd statistical discrepancy that about 50% of all email traffic is spam and yet you are rejecting a significantly larger fraction that average. Unless your organization is a serious anomaly and gets significantly more spam then average you should go back and check your numbers a bit.
Check the latest product reviews. Spamcop isn't the most effective or the one with the lowest rate of legitimate messages blocked. They're not bad but they're a far cry from the best.
And finally, regarding your shot about Symantec profiting from spam filtering consider the following question. If Spamcop has no means of making money from its spam filtering, what gurantee do you have that they will be around for the long term especially if they are spending enough on bandwidth to weather a sustained DDOS?
Why is modded as flamebait? It seems like a perfectly accurate assessment to me.
Isn't it funny how the US military conveniently forgets Vietnam whenever it wants to? Agent Orange any one?
If memory serves, Agent Orange was a defoliant and not a chemical weapon. It's kind of like complaining about the Orkin man using chemical weapons: technically true but not really what is meant by a chemical weapon. Sure there were probably people in the jungles that were defoliated but its not anything like dropping a nice efficient nerve agent.
I'm really curious about how long it's going to take people to accuse the US military of chemical warfare because so many people are dying of lead poisoning.
I can tell from your sentence structure that Duke students are clearly the academic cream of the crop. Try to avoid tired phrases such as "in this day and age" and "harder and harder". Instead write "It is increasingly difficult to get into well regarded colleges" and "I can attest that there is no grade inflation."
Ad homina aside, the forced failures you complain about are an example of grading down. The ideal grading standard is independant of student performance. Provided that work is assigned at the appropriate level and in the appropriate quantity to cover course requirements to the desired depth, how well a group of students does is irrelevant to how the course is graded.
Grade inflation is abominable. Arbitrarily assigning ten percent of the class a failing grade to fit an idealized grade distribution is equally so. In both cases the assigned mark does not reflect the performance of the student which renders the entire grading operation pointless.
This is precisely why the development groups need to be sequestered into a heavily firewalled ghetto. Having worked on both sides of the fence I'm appalled at the carelessness with which many supposedly professional software developers build their work environments. Unfortunately the cardinal virtue of laziness is often interpreted as sloth.
In the admins defense, there are rarely enough hours in the day to get everything done, especially if one set of tasks (patching MS SQL Server) is time consuming and prone to error. I assigned one MCSE the task of keeping the Windows servers patched as his primary priority and I swear he was busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest. Between the OS, the web servers and SQL he never finished before the next patch/hotfix/service pack was released.
Sure it's easy to say that they're bad admins and just lazy but the reality is that the work load often pushes some tasks to a point in the queue where they will never see the light of day again.
Because being a policeman myself, I know that by the time a search warrant is signed off by a judge and executed (around a week), the trash will be long gone. So, the policeman have a perfectly valid arguement.
Clearly this is being done for a good cause so what do we care that the police and other government agences no longer have to abide by the same laws as public citizens? Doesn't anyone understand that we need to relinquish some of our liberties so that we can be secure in our homes? Isn't the loss of a single legal standard for all citizens a small price to pay for easier evidence gathering by governmental agencies? After all, if it makes us safer, how could it be bad?
I'll leave the appropriate Thomas Jefferson quote as an exercise for the reader.
If MS wants to pay ad revenue to OSDN I have absolutely no problem with that. I sincerely doubt that anyone here will be moved to purchase Visual Studio.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't Verisign the 'Internet Trust' company? Perhaps they could issue a digital certificate to all entities who register a domain with them for verification of the change requestors identity.
I know this is dangerously close to the core idea of their company so it would probably never work. It's all part of the "if you're not sales, you're overhead" mentality if you ask me. Why give a certificate to your customers when you might be able to sell it to them.
Technically the injunction against killing didn't happen until after the all the smiting and plagues. Besides, who wants a god that doesn't periodically put a hurtin on your enemies?
Can you imagine the processor spending most of its time sitting around waiting for memory?
Tunneling is one of the more interesting consequences of the position-momentum uncertainty, but remember that energy-time is another uncertainty relationship. The uncertainty relationships in QM are in fact an artifact of the math that you get whenever you have two non-commutating operators.
Another sticky issue is the fact that these particles that are being measured are by definition inistinguishable. Who is to say that the particle that emerges from the other side of the potential barrier is the incident particle? It's not like you can mark it with a sharpie.
The fact is that the universe at the subatomic scale is significantly different than our daily experience. Application of ideas gleaned from our lives at the classical scale are bound to lead to problems of interpretation. Space and time are inextricably bound. Energy and time are linked by observational uncertainty, momentum and position as well.
Measurement of these velocities depends on sure knowledge of distance and time which from where I'm standing don't look like absolutes.
An interesting point, but i can think of another reason not to. It would be too easy to rewrite things.
Thats why you store the master on read only media and if there is any question you compare checksums of the master to the publicly available copy. Quite a bit of tax money is spent keeping the library of congress and to be honest I'd like to actually be able to put it to use as something other than a small dimple in space-time.
-jaded-
walking the earth as a living corpse is in somewhat questionable taste