Not spam, not piracy, where a big amount of money goes, and surely to fund terrorism, is Nigeria. So far billons of dollars have gone in that direction. What kind of terrorist weapons you can buy with this kind of money?
So probably the next target of US army to invade will be Nigeria, and the next Osama Bin Laden will be Mariam Abacha
Better than a image, I would choose PDF in most cases. There are open generators of that format, readers for all plataforms, and you are not sending a normally editable document nor with autolaunched macros inside.
Word (or even complete office), Win2k/XP as desktop and server. If someone sends me a document in Office 2003 format that he say I "MUST" read, I ask him to choose between sending me US$2003 to be able to read it, or sendme it in a really open format.
I use also popfile, but do a bit more classification of mail. Pure spam is around 17%, the same amount are spamcop reports, more than 60% is for several mailing lists, regular announcements and things like that, 1% virus reports (my isp do virus filtering) and 2% is the remaining mail specifically for me.
I think mailing lists, announcements list and things like that could be a good percent of the remaining 60% of all internet email, and that is something that should be taken into account when fighting spam also (i.e. don't make pay mailing list administrators/servers with measures intended for spammers).
... with this, you are guitly, you pay, do or not fileaharing, there is no possibility that you can be innocent and not pay, by definition. All the society pays for what do a maybe small percent of population.
And where goes this money? To an industry that maybe even a little percent would pay something if not filesharing exist, and prefer to do that instead of solving the real problem, be the high prices, the low revenues to artists, the few alternatives that takes account of possibilities given by technology, etc. Their economy model for that industry is not viable in this times so let put a tax to all so it can survive.
Next time they'll put another tax on computers so people that use Linux not hurt sales of Microsoft... mmm well, that kind tax exist already, and with the same beneficiary, but this will legalize it more.
Microsoft was to many times above and beyond the law that one more time don't give them problems, even the laws that they are pushing.
I wonder if after I report this kind of spam to spamcop their ISP will close their uplink.
Anyway, is particulary dumb from Microsoft to do that kind of mail advertising and thru a so known spammer. I know that I never should attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity, but speaking of Microsoft you never know.
I see the future, and it's full of spam saying "I consider you my friend and I report that I visited http://spamvertizedsite.com/".
mmm well, ok, half will be spam, the other half will be worms that in the name of someone infected reports "visited sites" to all in their outlook contact list.
Both have at least good reviews (I have the 2nd, and I like it a lot). Not sure how them compare against the one of the article, but at least with fewer authors they don't have so much repetitions.
Inefficient problem solving? Sometimes when someone gives me in a meeting a not so trivial problem, I say that he should send me an email. On the top of my head I usually don't have all the solutions, and at the speed of speech I'm less efficient solving problems. And, of course, I have much more reference material and time to answer something with actual basis by email.
There are things that I prefer to talk face to face. But for some others, email is the best way of communications.
About IMs, I agree that it break your concentration. One of the advantages of email is that you takes care of them in your own time, but IM seems to be more used than phone if you see some friend online.
This will be a VPN or simply a private network with their own separate communication channels between the nodes?
And the nodes will be also connected to internet? If this is true, a worm that goes thru internet (i.e.if in some moment comes a sendmail worm and a company have a postfix in the dmz that receives and forward the main to the internal sendmail would be vulnerable also) could pass between the two networks,
I remember how much damage do CodeRed2 and Nimda in not properly secured internal networks. In this case, if the networks are connected to the two networks, a worm could enter from one point and try to infect the other (at least email will be the common point between them.
But, if they are only connected between them and NOT connected to internet (neither by mail), they are not solving the problem with this, only isolating some critical (?) part of the network so worms like this one will not infect their window shares and things like that (at least, until a worm that combines several ways to spread enter there)
I don't fear for IBM, even in the worst case it wont be so much affected (but I doubt that this could cost much to IBM). I fear what will come after. This insecurity is doing much more harm to Linux and Unix in general than is doing Microsoft with its "fair" antilinux campaigns.
What I fear is that a way to win the case could be IBM showing some hidden card in their software patents pool. What about something generic enough to say "I own the patents on multitasking"? or concurrent file access, or even the "while" loop, something in some way that disables SCO claims but puts on the table something big enough to be considered a threat to all the industry. Is like using atomic bombs in a war, after one of the parts uses one, all the others feel validated to do the same and we all lose.
Instead we get stuff like this:
sub *print (*@list)
Talk about confusing! * signifies a glob, but in the above example the first * signifies a sort of 'package wildcard' meaning that the subroutine is global! The second *, however, is a glob, as in Perl 5. WTF? Perl 6 looks almost as inconsistent as PHP already, and it's only in draft!
Perl is more based in natural languages than in "traditional" programming languages. In natural languages, what you are saying depend on the context, the same words say different things if they are used in diffeerent situations or positions inside a phrase.
Well, in perl that also happens (in perl 5 you'll find a lot more examples of this, starting with the "$" in $a, $a[1] and $a{"red"}).and I think that it was more common in the previous versions (at least in Perl 6 I believe you'll have $a, @a[1] and %a{"red"})
How much testing/actual use does Amaya get? How many websites are written to use its features (where present)? I'm skeptical.
If Amaya only exist to demostrate that the specification can be implemented, then it do what it should do, validate the standard. The other browsers should implement it when they can, as they should be viewers of a format that is dictated by w3c (if you do a viewer for MS word files, and MS changes something, then you should say that it support till version N, or implement the new features, but not add something by your own to the format). Of course, before doing a web site I will check what of the standard is supported by most browsers, not implement something that only amaya supports yet.
In any case, you have to think of M$ like terrorists. If we in the free world hunker down because we're afraid of them, they've already won.
I'm not put only to MS in that category, Netscape in its own time implemented things like frames that were not good at all, and we are still paying for that. I think that HTML/XHTML/etc should evolve, but in a concertated way, not every player doing what he wants, and fuck the rest of the world.
... but I don't see nowhere that they are reevaluation their relationship with UnitedLinux. Maybe will be more helpful this
interview to the SuSE CEO where he talks about United Linux, the SCO suit, and the company, and don't say nothing about dropping UnitedLinux neither.
I prefer a non innovative web than having a mww (microsoft wide web) in one side and a www in the other. At least the first is intended to be for all, and you don't have the risk of being a second-class citizen because the government/banks/etc bite the "we at microsoft follow the standards" song and you can't interoperate with the websites of them without having the latest and greatest IE.
And about unimplementable standards, I thinked that Amaya goal was this, an example browser that shows that standards can be implemented.
Normally one don't see innovations until they are used and proved that are good. Tabs, gestures, popup blocking, form prefilling and a lot more were in their moment big innovations in mostly mature browsers (well, I think that browser tabs in opera were there from the start).
I don't think that browsers should "innovate" in HTML (like Netscape 2 frames or all the crap in IE), that is the job of w3c, but there are a lot of usability innovations waiting to be done.
Is the climate changes of el Niño slowing down the earth, or is the slowing down of the earth the origin of el Niño? Or maybe have both the same common cause?
If you two related things don't mean that the first named is the cause and the second one the effect, even if in theory one could make some impact in the other.
I think that having different desktop environments is one of the positive points of Linux. Having the ability to choose the one on which YOU are more comfortable is something that is not easy to have in i.e. Windows. You can even NOT run a desktop environment, just a window manager or no window manager at all (well, even no graphic mode at all). If you want to use Linux for almost anything, is that the kind of flexibility you need.
For apps, well, you can run gnome programs in KDE and viceversa, but a bit more of interoperability will help to have all more integrated (like common clipboard and things like that)
The best part of C64 is 64kb. You there have in such huge space a multitasking kernel, a GUI, a tcp/ip stack and a web browser. Imagine if linux kernel + XF86 + Mozilla run under not 64k, but 640k, or even 6.4Mb.
When the hardware resources were expensive even if available, programming was something more optimal that it is now.
Also things like that with such hardware requeriments could be good for embedded market
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So probably the next target of US army to invade will be Nigeria, and the next Osama Bin Laden will be Mariam Abacha
... that something find a way to exploit this kind of things was only matter of time.
Better than a image, I would choose PDF in most cases. There are open generators of that format, readers for all plataforms, and you are not sending a normally editable document nor with autolaunched macros inside.
Word (or even complete office), Win2k/XP as desktop and server. If someone sends me a document in Office 2003 format that he say I "MUST" read, I ask him to choose between sending me US$2003 to be able to read it, or sendme it in a really open format.
I think mailing lists, announcements list and things like that could be a good percent of the remaining 60% of all internet email, and that is something that should be taken into account when fighting spam also (i.e. don't make pay mailing list administrators/servers with measures intended for spammers).
...contaminating the spam with ocassional normal emails. For what you thinked it is the mail system?
And where goes this money? To an industry that maybe even a little percent would pay something if not filesharing exist, and prefer to do that instead of solving the real problem, be the high prices, the low revenues to artists, the few alternatives that takes account of possibilities given by technology, etc. Their economy model for that industry is not viable in this times so let put a tax to all so it can survive.
Next time they'll put another tax on computers so people that use Linux not hurt sales of Microsoft... mmm well, that kind tax exist already, and with the same beneficiary, but this will legalize it more.
I wonder if after I report this kind of spam to spamcop their ISP will close their uplink.
Anyway, is particulary dumb from Microsoft to do that kind of mail advertising and thru a so known spammer. I know that I never should attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity, but speaking of Microsoft you never know.
... since the longest distance possible in the universe is going forward to what one is having behind, I think that not all will be so nice.
mmm well, ok, half will be spam, the other half will be worms that in the name of someone infected reports "visited sites" to all in their outlook contact list.
Both have at least good reviews (I have the 2nd, and I like it a lot). Not sure how them compare against the one of the article, but at least with fewer authors they don't have so much repetitions.
There are things that I prefer to talk face to face. But for some others, email is the best way of communications.
About IMs, I agree that it break your concentration. One of the advantages of email is that you takes care of them in your own time, but IM seems to be more used than phone if you see some friend online.
Tools not have moral, only the ones that use them. But give a tool like that to someone paranoic and it will be bad, very bad.
This could be harmful for McDonalds. What if a customer says something like "Its full of worms" talking about Klez?
And the nodes will be also connected to internet? If this is true, a worm that goes thru internet (i.e.if in some moment comes a sendmail worm and a company have a postfix in the dmz that receives and forward the main to the internal sendmail would be vulnerable also) could pass between the two networks, I remember how much damage do CodeRed2 and Nimda in not properly secured internal networks. In this case, if the networks are connected to the two networks, a worm could enter from one point and try to infect the other (at least email will be the common point between them.
But, if they are only connected between them and NOT connected to internet (neither by mail), they are not solving the problem with this, only isolating some critical (?) part of the network so worms like this one will not infect their window shares and things like that (at least, until a worm that combines several ways to spread enter there)
What I fear is that a way to win the case could be IBM showing some hidden card in their software patents pool. What about something generic enough to say "I own the patents on multitasking"? or concurrent file access, or even the "while" loop, something in some way that disables SCO claims but puts on the table something big enough to be considered a threat to all the industry. Is like using atomic bombs in a war, after one of the parts uses one, all the others feel validated to do the same and we all lose.
sub *print (*@list)
Talk about confusing! * signifies a glob, but in the above example the first * signifies a sort of 'package wildcard' meaning that the subroutine is global! The second *, however, is a glob, as in Perl 5. WTF? Perl 6 looks almost as inconsistent as PHP already, and it's only in draft!
Perl is more based in natural languages than in "traditional" programming languages. In natural languages, what you are saying depend on the context, the same words say different things if they are used in diffeerent situations or positions inside a phrase.
Well, in perl that also happens (in perl 5 you'll find a lot more examples of this, starting with the "$" in $a, $a[1] and $a{"red"}).and I think that it was more common in the previous versions (at least in Perl 6 I believe you'll have $a, @a[1] and %a{"red"})
If Amaya only exist to demostrate that the specification can be implemented, then it do what it should do, validate the standard. The other browsers should implement it when they can, as they should be viewers of a format that is dictated by w3c (if you do a viewer for MS word files, and MS changes something, then you should say that it support till version N, or implement the new features, but not add something by your own to the format). Of course, before doing a web site I will check what of the standard is supported by most browsers, not implement something that only amaya supports yet.
In any case, you have to think of M$ like terrorists. If we in the free world hunker down because we're afraid of them, they've already won.
I'm not put only to MS in that category, Netscape in its own time implemented things like frames that were not good at all, and we are still paying for that. I think that HTML/XHTML/etc should evolve, but in a concertated way, not every player doing what he wants, and fuck the rest of the world.
... but I don't see nowhere that they are reevaluation their relationship with UnitedLinux. Maybe will be more helpful this interview to the SuSE CEO where he talks about United Linux, the SCO suit, and the company, and don't say nothing about dropping UnitedLinux neither.
In other news, Microsoft files lawsuit against SCO.
And about unimplementable standards, I thinked that Amaya goal was this, an example browser that shows that standards can be implemented.
I don't think that browsers should "innovate" in HTML (like Netscape 2 frames or all the crap in IE), that is the job of w3c, but there are a lot of usability innovations waiting to be done.
If you two related things don't mean that the first named is the cause and the second one the effect, even if in theory one could make some impact in the other.
For apps, well, you can run gnome programs in KDE and viceversa, but a bit more of interoperability will help to have all more integrated (like common clipboard and things like that)
When the hardware resources were expensive even if available, programming was something more optimal that it is now.
Also things like that with such hardware requeriments could be good for embedded market