Even counting spam and mailing lists, increased average web page size, and streaming, I think the main component of this usage should be P2P networks, is the only thing that I could think that transfer so much traffic between a very large amount of people.
If that is true, and all continues more or less the same, by 2007 consumers traffic will count for more than just 60%
If the plot was so bad will not be a lot better in this remake (it should be based in the same, after all). Anyway, I was very young when see it first time, and not was very critic in this time, so for me it not was so bad.
But standards are mostly good today, at least for costumes and special effects, the other day I finally saw the first version of Dune, and compared with the miniserie it looked... well, old, and different from the book in other aspects
The idea sounds good, but as far I understand, bayesian filtering is based in training, and what is learned could be different from user to user.
If you do an static word frequency list, spammers will pass around it (check in POPfile site for the latest spammers tricks), if is dinamic, then the users of your system must train it for a while (someone must tell that some message is spam or not, reading it). You must have another way to access your server for the training thing, and then another possible point of vulnerability.
And more than this, as it depend on the user, you should not use a common word frequency list, you should have one for each user, and check if the message is spam against destination word base.
At best, it will work for the users that care to train this server, for the other users that don't want to waste their time spam will be coming at the same speed as before. At worst, you'll be using a common list for all, and maybe slow down receptions of mailing lists or things like that, and people in your server could be unsubscribed from some of them.
Is a good idea, but there are some things that should be implemented with care, and should work only for the users that care about it, the others should not be slowed down because you can put obstacles in the reception of normal mail.
The site that speak of this notebook looks like its hosted in one of them, no disk, no cpu, no bandwidth, no network card, and no monitor to see that nobody can access it right now:)
... was spreading private documents all over the web. You strip the first 120k or so and have the original private document of someone infected. I received from recipes to parlamentary sessions in that time.
You have a "for sure" evil and a "maybe it could be" evil, and you choose the for sure one?
Ok, if Chinese Government make people to depend on them, suffer of their bad choices, put high obligatory taxes for low level services, arbitrary sue people, and try monopolize all services, well, yes, it will be very evil.
Fortunatelly no US company does/did that ever.
Here was an example of what happened to Virginia Beach... they have to do a search in 3600 computers and buy the licenses that they not found (not because they had not buyed it, just because they can't find them in that moment). All that funny stuff costs to the city US$80.000. Extrapolating to every city and company of USA you maybe could reach close to the "billons" number.
Today also I saw this article on how BSA/Microsoft is checking companies, and just to check that you are ok you could have to spend money (and more if you can't find every single piece of license you buyed in your history).
Sue them for diffamation. In some moment they should learn that accussing someone for things nobody did have a cost (at least a generous salary for the one that had to check their affirmation, administrative costs, etc).
Terrorists don't have to send bombs around to spread terror and cause economic chaos... just mail in the name of BSA letters to all companies that inform that illegal software was detected in their systems and next week will go a team to check licenses, and billons of dollars will be lost.
In fact, I think BSA is fitting very well in the "terrorist" definition, could US army invade them to avoid further damage?
Alarmed by the prediction of a large amount of casualties in civil population, the allied army is trying a novelty variation of psycological war. Instead of weapons that throw bullets and explosives, this new weapons will throw snow balls, spreading chaos in enemy lines.
To be fair, and counting that Iraq will be totally disarmed when the attack begins, iraqui forces will be provided with the same snow guns, to have a fair battle. Unfortunatelly, the SnowGenerator(TM) device is patented with a license of no exportation to some countries, so iraquis soldiers will have to use sand to load this weapons.
Intelligence are checking on the rumors that the new weapon's blueprints are published in enemy web site, and will search for security leaks if this rumors are finally true.
You can see most of it (I think some security stuff or something like that is out), but you can't compile it to obtain again i.e. Windows XP afaik. Even if someone gets that source code, and even if its not traceable to the licensee that obtained it, for what it will be useful?
Worst than that, if you develop something barely based in a shared source licensed code, Microsoft not only will sue you, but also will own anything you did with it for their own profit. I would run away from that kind of sources, and fast.
Instead of this, you have all kind of sources in open source license, a lot with BSD if you are scared by MS anti-GPL propaganda, if you want quality (?) working sources for complex tasks.
Of course, if windows XP sources are distributed by some war3z group, we will see how a security by obscurity system stand against a bit of light on it.
Terminal services for windows cost $0 for each very cheap terminal added to the lan?
One of the main points of the article is that having a not so big server and a good number of cheap terminals (I think that in ebay you can have a bunch for few dollars), you have a good amount of workstations for a lot of students, with very centralized administration.
Even if you have buyed or have as a gift the terminal server licences to run all this terminals, the best way could be having a linux server running rdesktop and similars to run from all those cheap terminals (that normally supports the XWindows protocol) an application from a Windows server.
Not sure between british vs. american english, but I at least in spanish, saying an inocent phrase in the wrong place could give problems or unwanted associations of ideas.
I mantained for a time a "dictionary" in Fidonet for the differences between the spanish in Uruguay and Argentina, two countries in south america, where the same word mean totally different things depending on the country (and the things were worse with other countries, i.e. spain).
Maybe the meaning for british people of "gripping hand" could be offensive, or politically incorrect, or have a primary meaning that is not the same for americans... or not, and then that would be a good question for Larry.)
Which of the books you wrote you like more? Is a big collection, but some of them could be in some way special, more easier to remember than others, for some reason.
And from other authors?
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That was a "translation" from english to english.
But I wonder if have problems with translation to other languages. At least in spanish, the same book title was translated to "El tercer brazo" (the third arm) that was not so far from the book content. What was the funniest/weirdest translation you found for one of your books titles?
I always felt that the literal translation of "The end of childhood" of Clarke to spanish ("El fin de la infancia") was better than the original title in english, In spanish "fin" also means for what something is done, and well, I'm not sure if in english I could understand the title in that way.
I choose (well, when I can) what format I want for a book based in how I will read it.
If its a conceptual book to be read from first page to last (i.e. DNS and BIND, or Web Database Applications with PHP and Mysql to name a few) I prefer them in paper, so I can read them in bed, in the bathroom, in a bus or in the beach, where I'm more comfortable for the time that I will be reading it... at least, for the first time is a must.
In the other hand, books like the "in a nutshell" series, or dictionary-like books, or books where I have to read or focus only in one chapter without having to read all to understand, are best reading in a computer. In this category I surely put "books" like the PHP annotated manual. Also for this are best the "cookbooks" or the books that would be useful to have cut and paste. Or even the conceptual books of the first kind, once you have readed it in a printed version and the concepts are enough, but you have to verify something or reread some chapter.
My point was beyond security... how do you trust in something that have such an untrusty company behind? Is not that Microsoft had such a clean history of doing things in the right way always.
If only their products have they source "really" open (even with shared source, I think that you can't have all the sources of i.e. windows XP, for "security reasons", and with shared source if someone discover a big trap put by Microsoft hidden somewhere can't tell anyone) you could base your trust in something more based in facts that in blind and dumb hope in a company that still do dirty tricks.
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If that is true, and all continues more or less the same, by 2007 consumers traffic will count for more than just 60%
But standards are mostly good today, at least for costumes and special effects, the other day I finally saw the first version of Dune, and compared with the miniserie it looked... well, old, and different from the book in other aspects
At least SuSE had from earlier today 4.3.0 for download from their FTP servers for the 8.1 version.
If you do an static word frequency list, spammers will pass around it (check in POPfile site for the latest spammers tricks), if is dinamic, then the users of your system must train it for a while (someone must tell that some message is spam or not, reading it). You must have another way to access your server for the training thing, and then another possible point of vulnerability.
And more than this, as it depend on the user, you should not use a common word frequency list, you should have one for each user, and check if the message is spam against destination word base.
At best, it will work for the users that care to train this server, for the other users that don't want to waste their time spam will be coming at the same speed as before. At worst, you'll be using a common list for all, and maybe slow down receptions of mailing lists or things like that, and people in your server could be unsubscribed from some of them.
Is a good idea, but there are some things that should be implemented with care, and should work only for the users that care about it, the others should not be slowed down because you can put obstacles in the reception of normal mail.
The site that speak of this notebook looks like its hosted in one of them, no disk, no cpu, no bandwidth, no network card, and no monitor to see that nobody can access it right now :)
By the time it was the top virus spreading around, the virus send the Ukranian president schedule to a news web site, document that is usually a highly protected secret.
You have a "for sure" evil and a "maybe it could be" evil, and you choose the for sure one? Ok, if Chinese Government make people to depend on them, suffer of their bad choices, put high obligatory taxes for low level services, arbitrary sue people, and try monopolize all services, well, yes, it will be very evil. Fortunatelly no US company does/did that ever.
Here was an example of what happened to Virginia Beach... they have to do a search in 3600 computers and buy the licenses that they not found (not because they had not buyed it, just because they can't find them in that moment). All that funny stuff costs to the city US$80.000. Extrapolating to every city and company of USA you maybe could reach close to the "billons" number.
Today also I saw this article on how BSA/Microsoft is checking companies, and just to check that you are ok you could have to spend money (and more if you can't find every single piece of license you buyed in your history).
Sue them for diffamation. In some moment they should learn that accussing someone for things nobody did have a cost (at least a generous salary for the one that had to check their affirmation, administrative costs, etc).
Terrorists don't have to send bombs around to spread terror and cause economic chaos... just mail in the name of BSA letters to all companies that inform that illegal software was detected in their systems and next week will go a team to check licenses, and billons of dollars will be lost.
In fact, I think BSA is fitting very well in the "terrorist" definition, could US army invade them to avoid further damage?
... is the best place to stay at the end of the world. It will come several hours late.
To be fair, and counting that Iraq will be totally disarmed when the attack begins, iraqui forces will be provided with the same snow guns, to have a fair battle. Unfortunatelly, the SnowGenerator(TM) device is patented with a license of no exportation to some countries, so iraquis soldiers will have to use sand to load this weapons.
Intelligence are checking on the rumors that the new weapon's blueprints are published in enemy web site, and will search for security leaks if this rumors are finally true.
There is a knoppix version to play i.e. movies, so you can put a bootable linux, and add the movie you want.
Or SuSE Live CD version, that have a lot of example applications, if you have some space you can decide some of the extra applications included.
Or Linux firewalls on CD, have it preburned, configure it and burn the configuration in the writable space.
You can see most of it (I think some security stuff or something like that is out), but you can't compile it to obtain again i.e. Windows XP afaik. Even if someone gets that source code, and even if its not traceable to the licensee that obtained it, for what it will be useful?
Worst than that, if you develop something barely based in a shared source licensed code, Microsoft not only will sue you, but also will own anything you did with it for their own profit. I would run away from that kind of sources, and fast.
Instead of this, you have all kind of sources in open source license, a lot with BSD if you are scared by MS anti-GPL propaganda, if you want quality (?) working sources for complex tasks.
Of course, if windows XP sources are distributed by some war3z group, we will see how a security by obscurity system stand against a bit of light on it.
Google? At least the server farm seems to be running linux, and I suppose that it worth US$ 5 millon or more by now.
Terminal services for windows cost $0 for each very cheap terminal added to the lan?
One of the main points of the article is that having a not so big server and a good number of cheap terminals (I think that in ebay you can have a bunch for few dollars), you have a good amount of workstations for a lot of students, with very centralized administration.
Even if you have buyed or have as a gift the terminal server licences to run all this terminals, the best way could be having a linux server running rdesktop and similars to run from all those cheap terminals (that normally supports the XWindows protocol) an application from a Windows server.
Not sure between british vs. american english, but I at least in spanish, saying an inocent phrase in the wrong place could give problems or unwanted associations of ideas.
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I mantained for a time a "dictionary" in Fidonet for the differences between the spanish in Uruguay and Argentina, two countries in south america, where the same word mean totally different things depending on the country (and the things were worse with other countries, i.e. spain).
Maybe the meaning for british people of "gripping hand" could be offensive, or politically incorrect, or have a primary meaning that is not the same for americans... or not, and then that would be a good question for Larry
And from other authors?
But I wonder if have problems with translation to other languages. At least in spanish, the same book title was translated to "El tercer brazo" (the third arm) that was not so far from the book content. What was the funniest/weirdest translation you found for one of your books titles?
I always felt that the literal translation of "The end of childhood" of Clarke to spanish ("El fin de la infancia") was better than the original title in english, In spanish "fin" also means for what something is done, and well, I'm not sure if in english I could understand the title in that way.
If its a conceptual book to be read from first page to last (i.e. DNS and BIND, or Web Database Applications with PHP and Mysql to name a few) I prefer them in paper, so I can read them in bed, in the bathroom, in a bus or in the beach, where I'm more comfortable for the time that I will be reading it... at least, for the first time is a must.
In the other hand, books like the "in a nutshell" series, or dictionary-like books, or books where I have to read or focus only in one chapter without having to read all to understand, are best reading in a computer. In this category I surely put "books" like the PHP annotated manual. Also for this are best the "cookbooks" or the books that would be useful to have cut and paste. Or even the conceptual books of the first kind, once you have readed it in a printed version and the concepts are enough, but you have to verify something or reread some chapter.
at least we can still use
At least the patent is not so about a "common sense" technology (at least, not was in '96), and I don't think that google will sue the other search engines that refines a little the PageRank concept (like i.e. <a href="http://teoma.com">Teoma</a>) but to avoid someone else patent this or something very related.
My point was beyond security... how do you trust in something that have such an untrusty company behind? Is not that Microsoft had such a clean history of doing things in the right way always.
If only their products have they source "really" open (even with shared source, I think that you can't have all the sources of i.e. windows XP, for "security reasons", and with shared source if someone discover a big trap put by Microsoft hidden somewhere can't tell anyone) you could base your trust in something more based in facts that in blind and dumb hope in a company that still do dirty tricks.
... will be back from the dead
... should be the ones without Microsoft behind.
Is good math, 15 years of adding features, and 15 to do them right.
Of course, they could did things right from the start, but common sense is so uncommon...
Seems to be doing the same funny-named mistakes that he blamed to other publications.
I wonder if eating bytes makes you fat, because he must be eating his own words right now.