Not true. Ebay could sign ALL email coming from Paypal and Ebay. If you got unsigned email.... it's definitely a phish. It's easy to verify the signature. -russ
Of course that just means spammers will start using different domain names as return addresses.
Yes, true, that is why DomainKeys is an authentication system. To the extent that it helps stop spam, it will be through forcing spammers to use their own names. -russ
All that DomainKeys does is let the recipient know that the domain name is accurate. In the usual case (not that gmail is necessarily usual), the recipient could check the reverse DNS, and match it against the forward DNS. So unsigned mail is not necessarily unidentifiable. -russ
Who lets them do that? The property owner? Oh, but wait, the property owner is the government. So... you want the government to protect us from its own irresponsibility? -russ
The problem with American government is that the American people want the American government to screw corporations. Corporations aren't going to sit still for that, so they buy legislators to defend themselves. Corporations are best when they're competing against each other, rather than competing to see who can buy the most legislators. The way you make that happen is no subsidies, no tariffs, no laws favoring one party over another.
You don't automatically get that when you have a people-controlled government. -russ
I dunno, people manage to keep track of who is sleeping with who on Jerry Springer. I have a severe lack of trust in anybody who says "voters will become confused." If voters are that stupid, then they should just elect a dictator and be done with the whole silly democracy thing. But then, I don't think voters are that stupid. -russ
Otherwise, I agree with you 100%. The deciding rule should be "on the ballot in enough states to be electable", not "already has enough mindshare". -russ
There are a limited number of GPS receivers. Chances are VERY VERY good that it emits NMEA on the serial port, and uses Garmin's or Trimble's protocol for downloading data. -russ
Also check out pygps, which is a gps-driven map viewer. It's similar to gpsdrive, except that 1) it's written in Python, so it's portable, 2) it's written with handhelds in mind, 3) it supports UTM maps, and 4) if I can ever find a user community that cares enough for me to integrate it, I have code to do real-time map downloading via any kind of wireless IP connection. -russ
book better than review, I hope
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I hope that the book is better than the review. The reviewer starts off with the most basic assumption that ANYBODY with a CLUE knows EXACTLY what Hibernate is. Perhaps that's why hibernate.org isn't responding right now, because everybody read the top story, found no description of Hibernate, and clicked on the hibernate.org URL as the most likely place to find a description of Hibernate. -russ
Is there such a thing as an ending consultant? Could you perhaps employ one? I'm sure that your books would sell much better if the author line was "Story by Neal Stephanson, Ending by Whots Hisname." -russ
He's answered the Finux question before. He called it that to make it clear that he didn't want to answer persnickety questions about any differences between Linux in the book and Linux in reality.
What inconsistency are you talking about? Enoch Root is very long-lived. -russ
Okay, so you know less than I thought. Let me start with the basics. In some industries, the seller sets the price. Saudi Arabia can sell all the oil they want for $30/barrel, or $40/barrel. On the other hand, absent government intervention, an undertaker pretty much has to take whatever the heirs are willing to pay them (which is why undertakers are licensed). Taxis and hair-cutters are other examples.
I do not want a free market. I want one which is somewhat regulated.
Unfortunately, regulations don't lead to freedom. Regulations lead to more regulations. -russ
You need to go see Other People's Money. Otherwise you will be forever doomed to not understand why a company might be more valuable to society if split up. -russ
You are confused. Price-setters (who can be either consumers or businesses) set prices. I didn't say, though, that customers set prices. I said that customers control businesses in a free-market society.
So why have salaries of corporate officers skyrocketed while those of workers have declined?
If, in a free market, you can get more for selling one thing than another, you should selll more of the first and fewer of the latter. So why aren't more workers training themselves to be corporate officers? Greater supply drives down prices, you know. That requires a free market... but people who complain about high executive salaries don't want a free market. "It hurts when I do this". "Don't do that, then." -russ
Re:We WANT high labor costs! It's a Good Thing!
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Too much immigration doesn't lower wages, except among the immigrant community. The problem with too much immigration in a socialist society like NW Europe is that their socialism only functions on the level it does because of shared cultural assumptions. Remove those assumptions, people stop supporting each other, quit their jobs, expect public support, and very rapidly your entire society devolves as everyone expects everyone else to support them. -russ
I agree that capitalism is brutal. Sometimes people don't want to buy anything you have to sell. Capitalism at least makes the screwing anonymous. With socialism you can point to specific people who screwed you.
Yes, you're right about the political pressure. That's why people need to understand that free markets are best, and WHY, so they can reject the political pressure as selfishness. -russ
Hahaha!! You mean, "What we need it more campaign reform again, differently", because campaign finance has been reformed, removed, reconciled, many times over. The problem, very simply, is that citizens WANT politicians to fuck with companies. Companies then have an interest in fucking with politicians. The only way to get companies to stop fucking with the political process is to prevent politicians from fucking with companies. That way, any companies that buy politicians will be wasting their money. Other companies that don't waste their money will be more profitable, and will out-compete the other companies.
First step is a constitutional amendment: "The right of the people to trade shall not be infringed."
Re:We WANT high labor costs! It's a Good Thing!
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Sigh. Labor costs are the costs of the customer. Or did you think that business owners have extra money sitting around that they can afford to pay more for labor? In an ongoing business, all costs are accounted for: labor, goods, and capital. Anything left over is an accident, and if it persists, will be competed away by other companies entering the field.
So where do profits come from, if they're always competed away? They come from entrepreneurs creating new businesses and new products.
By the way, if you have a pension, or a retirement fund, then you're an INVESTOR, and the profits of corporate america are very important to your future retirement. Don't screw with them unless you want to work until you're 80. -russ
Capitalism is a system whereby a relatively tiny number of wealthy business owners and corporate officers have an economic incentive to drive down the wages of the vast majority of workers.
No, capitalism is a system whereby a very large number of middle class and poor customers have an economic incentive to drive down the profits of the vast majority of businesses.
From that definition comes the need for businesses to pay as little as they can. We need to remember that capitalism is controlled by customers. Not by businesses. Not by governments. Not by politicians. By customers. -russ
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Not true. Ebay could sign ALL email coming from Paypal and Ebay. If you got unsigned email .... it's definitely a phish. It's easy to verify the signature.
-russ
DomainKeys survives forwarding.
-russ
Of course that just means spammers will start using different domain names as return addresses.
Yes, true, that is why DomainKeys is an authentication system. To the extent that it helps stop spam, it will be through forcing spammers to use their own names.
-russ
All that DomainKeys does is let the recipient know that the domain name is accurate. In the usual case (not that gmail is necessarily usual), the recipient could check the reverse DNS, and match it against the forward DNS. So unsigned mail is not necessarily unidentifiable.
-russ
They want some hope of interoperability with other MTAs.
-russ
"freely dump polluting chemicals on the commons"?
... you want the government to protect us from its own irresponsibility?
Who lets them do that? The property owner? Oh, but wait, the property owner is the government. So
-russ
The problem with American government is that the American people want the American government to screw corporations. Corporations aren't going to sit still for that, so they buy legislators to defend themselves. Corporations are best when they're competing against each other, rather than competing to see who can buy the most legislators. The way you make that happen is no subsidies, no tariffs, no laws favoring one party over another.
You don't automatically get that when you have a people-controlled government.
-russ
I agree. SQL-Ledger is excellent.
-russ
I dunno, people manage to keep track of who is sleeping with who on Jerry Springer. I have a severe lack of trust in anybody who says "voters will become confused." If voters are that stupid, then they should just elect a dictator and be done with the whole silly democracy thing. But then, I don't think voters are that stupid.
-russ
Badnarik is on the ballot in at least 48 states.
Otherwise, I agree with you 100%. The deciding rule should be "on the ballot in enough states to be electable", not "already has enough mindshare".
-russ
There are a limited number of GPS receivers. Chances are VERY VERY good that it emits NMEA on the serial port, and uses Garmin's or Trimble's protocol for downloading data.
-russ
Also check out pygps, which is a gps-driven map viewer. It's similar to gpsdrive, except that 1) it's written in Python, so it's portable, 2) it's written with handhelds in mind, 3) it supports UTM maps, and 4) if I can ever find a user community that cares enough for me to integrate it, I have code to do real-time map downloading via any kind of wireless IP connection.
-russ
I hope that the book is better than the review. The reviewer starts off with the most basic assumption that ANYBODY with a CLUE knows EXACTLY what Hibernate is. Perhaps that's why hibernate.org isn't responding right now, because everybody read the top story, found no description of Hibernate, and clicked on the hibernate.org URL as the most likely place to find a description of Hibernate.
-russ
Is there such a thing as an ending consultant? Could you perhaps employ one? I'm sure that your books would sell much better if the author line was "Story by Neal Stephanson, Ending by Whots Hisname."
-russ
He's answered the Finux question before. He called it that to make it clear that he didn't want to answer persnickety questions about any differences between Linux in the book and Linux in reality.
What inconsistency are you talking about? Enoch Root is very long-lived.
-russ
Well, the contents of the cigar box surely are fictional.
-russ
Okay, so you know less than I thought. Let me start with the basics. In some industries, the seller sets the price. Saudi Arabia can sell all the oil they want for $30/barrel, or $40/barrel. On the other hand, absent government intervention, an undertaker pretty much has to take whatever the heirs are willing to pay them (which is why undertakers are licensed). Taxis and hair-cutters are other examples.
I do not want a free market. I want one which is somewhat regulated.
Unfortunately, regulations don't lead to freedom. Regulations lead to more regulations.
-russ
You need to go see Other People's Money. Otherwise you will be forever doomed to not understand why a company might be more valuable to society if split up.
-russ
Businesses set prices, not consumers.
... but people who complain about high executive salaries don't want a free market. "It hurts when I do this". "Don't do that, then."
You are confused. Price-setters (who can be either consumers or businesses) set prices. I didn't say, though, that customers set prices. I said that customers control businesses in a free-market society.
So why have salaries of corporate officers skyrocketed while those of workers have declined?
If, in a free market, you can get more for selling one thing than another, you should selll more of the first and fewer of the latter. So why aren't more workers training themselves to be corporate officers? Greater supply drives down prices, you know. That requires a free market
-russ
Too much immigration doesn't lower wages, except among the immigrant community. The problem with too much immigration in a socialist society like NW Europe is that their socialism only functions on the level it does because of shared cultural assumptions. Remove those assumptions, people stop supporting each other, quit their jobs, expect public support, and very rapidly your entire society devolves as everyone expects everyone else to support them.
-russ
I agree that capitalism is brutal. Sometimes people don't want to buy anything you have to sell. Capitalism at least makes the screwing anonymous. With socialism you can point to specific people who screwed you.
Yes, you're right about the political pressure. That's why people need to understand that free markets are best, and WHY, so they can reject the political pressure as selfishness.
-russ
Keither's license-discuss posting.
Yep, Karma whoring all the way except that I was just reading his posting this afternoon.
-russ
What we need is campaign finance reform.
Hahaha!! You mean, "What we need it more campaign reform again, differently", because campaign finance has been reformed, removed, reconciled, many times over. The problem, very simply, is that citizens WANT politicians to fuck with companies. Companies then have an interest in fucking with politicians. The only way to get companies to stop fucking with the political process is to prevent politicians from fucking with companies. That way, any companies that buy politicians will be wasting their money. Other companies that don't waste their money will be more profitable, and will out-compete the other companies.
First step is a constitutional amendment: "The right of the people to trade shall not be infringed."
Sigh. Labor costs are the costs of the customer. Or did you think that business owners have extra money sitting around that they can afford to pay more for labor? In an ongoing business, all costs are accounted for: labor, goods, and capital. Anything left over is an accident, and if it persists, will be competed away by other companies entering the field.
So where do profits come from, if they're always competed away? They come from entrepreneurs creating new businesses and new products.
By the way, if you have a pension, or a retirement fund, then you're an INVESTOR, and the profits of corporate america are very important to your future retirement. Don't screw with them unless you want to work until you're 80.
-russ
Capitalism is a system whereby a relatively tiny number of wealthy business owners and corporate officers have an economic incentive to drive down the wages of the vast majority of workers.
No, capitalism is a system whereby a very large number of middle class and poor customers have an economic incentive to drive down the profits of the vast majority of businesses.
From that definition comes the need for businesses to pay as little as they can. We need to remember that capitalism is controlled by customers. Not by businesses. Not by governments. Not by politicians. By customers.
-russ