I hear quite differently from most non-native speakers I run into. English is full of nuiances and exceptions. The best statement I heard is that it is very easy to learn enough English to "get by", but the language is extrodinarily difficult to master.
I get virtually no personal email. Virtually no false positives means I will be losing personal email.
Most of these stats are based on the idea of dividing false positives by the number of emails received, rather than false positives against legitimate emails.
Spamassasin lost about 1-2% of my legitimate mail. It's unpredictable and it makes email unreliable.
Not that I have a solution, just to say that for me, this kind of filtering is not it.
The real problem with such a system is that the number of possible questions is quite limited. The questions need to be randomly generated. OCR and speech recognition problems are more difficult for a computer to solve than they are for a computer to generate.
I think the ultimate solution may be webs of trust and/or centralized identity bodies.
I'd much prefer a web of trust than a central body.
That's by my recollection too. The event that they're looking for is two populations becoming so different that they're no longer capable of producing fertile offspring.
It's no counterpoint to evolution though, since there's no opposing theory. It's just a criticism.
Things will change fast when somebody like Google says "hey, you can bypass the spam filters and guarantee delivery if you have a trusted signer"
Corporations will then begin to require signed mail for internal IDs. Customer-facing stuff might be unsigned for a while, but when filtering the spam from the customers becomes a full time job, unsigned mail won't last too long.
It doesn't matter if you're still downloading the spam. By filtering it out, you've removed a good part of the incentive for the spammers to send it. If nobody reads it at all, and it becomes common knowledge that nobody reads it, then the volume of spam will drop.
ISPs will have incentive to ensure that their subscriber's machines aren't being used as spam-generating zombies. If too many emails are sent out, recipient ISPs will remove the trust for that ISP to send their subscribers mail. Filtering outbound mail to only accept mail signed by a known key for a known subscriber would allow the ISP to count and throttle the outbound mail.
The same applies as incentive to protect against disposable randomly generated accounts. The only downside is that it might have to be harder to get an account on Hotmail or Gmail... else Chineese catpcha-farms could generate thousands of accounts and trickle out spam ensuring that Hotmail and Gmail lose their trusted status. But really, doesn't it make sense that Gmail and Hotmail have some more strict criteria to send email?
Joe user would depend on their ISP to manage keys and to manage the web of trust. If you think about it from a user-interface perspective. Mail would be automatically whitelisted if it is from a trusted source... a comment in the header "Google has verified that this email was sent from a Hotmail account, click here if this trust was violated"
The flipside is that for unsigned mail, while it lasts, a message such as "Gmail has no evidence that this email came from paypal.com" could appear in the same way.
Power users could tweak the settings, upload new keys, or download unfiltered mail for processing on their secure workstations to their heart's content.
Driver support is the killer. Unless Minix finds an easy way to port Linux drivers, it won't go further on the desktop than BSD. And it won't even get as far as BSD unless it has a BSD-like license.
OTOH, the desktop doesn't matter. I need to take some time to play with Minix. Tanenbaum's a sharp fellow. Any word on a Xen compatibility?
Windows is a product produced by a company called "Microsoft"
Microsoft sells this "Windows" product to people who want to run software applications on their personal computers.
Software applications are available for Windows because Microsoft delivers a stable and relatively backward compatible programming environment. They also offer technical support, training and documentation. And yes, they have a kernel. Or two kernels. Maybe three.
Windows has at least two major and completely different kernels. Odd that now isn't it? It has the ME kernel and the NT kernel. CE is not really part of the same product family.
The availablilty of software titles makes Windows attractive. This creates a feedback loop wherey by the popularity of the Windows product hinges upon the popularity of the software titles. So Windows is a marketplace.
This combination of a programming environment, kernel, technical support, training, documentation, software titles and a marketplace contribute to a desktop environment.
Microsoft is a horizontal monopoly. You have to go through them if you want to do business in the PC marketplace.
So which private company could position themselves so that you have to go through them if you want to do business in the Linux marketplace?
Trolltech.
Arguing that the GPL'd QT doesn't matter is to say that closed source graphical application development on Linux doesn't matter. Which is fine to argue, but I disagree. Arguing that the developer fee doesn't matter, ignores internal ad-hoc tools development... corporations don't want their employee contributions to be forced under the GPL. Corporations don't give out $2k licenses for ad-hoc tools on a "free" operating system.
I think if you want to argue that KDE isn't vital, is to ignore that Windows is not an Operating system. Windows is a desktop environment. Microsoft's OS monopoly is a monopoly on a proprietary desktop.
Now imagine if Novell buys TrollTech. Imagine if MS buys Trolltech.
...for proprietary special-purpose applications like the ones described. The reason being that Purolator and auto body specialty shops just need to run those specific packages. When MS cuts support for Windows, the parent companies have to redevelop their apps for the new platforms.
If they used Linux, they could keep shipping their old software until they want new features. They also wouldn't have any licensing concerns when cloning, copying or shippping their media. For somethign like Purolator, a Knoppix-style distribution could also save persistent data online, making upgrades trivial and backups unnecessary.
These PC's are special purpose. Windows is good for general purpose computing.
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The Poquet PC did it earlier with PC compatability: http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/poqet_pc/
I'm going to start a GTA LARP just to mess with these kids heads.
I hear quite differently from most non-native speakers I run into. English is full of nuiances and exceptions. The best statement I heard is that it is very easy to learn enough English to "get by", but the language is extrodinarily difficult to master.
That and the airport scanner will ruin your ammunition.
"...virtually no false positives."
I get virtually no personal email. Virtually no false positives means I will be losing personal email.
Most of these stats are based on the idea of dividing false positives by the number of emails received, rather than false positives against legitimate emails.
Spamassasin lost about 1-2% of my legitimate mail. It's unpredictable and it makes email unreliable.
Not that I have a solution, just to say that for me, this kind of filtering is not it.
The real problem with such a system is that the number of possible questions is quite limited. The questions need to be randomly generated. OCR and speech recognition problems are more difficult for a computer to solve than they are for a computer to generate. I think the ultimate solution may be webs of trust and/or centralized identity bodies. I'd much prefer a web of trust than a central body.
Oh no, we always depend on them for security...
...and they always fail us.
We can rely that there will be security updates and we can depend upon them utterly.
So it's a reliable and dependable model.
They should stop filtering on the word "porn"
I'm sure your phone will never use as much energy as was used to create that solar collector :-)
That's by my recollection too. The event that they're looking for is two populations becoming so different that they're no longer capable of producing fertile offspring.
It's no counterpoint to evolution though, since there's no opposing theory. It's just a criticism.
"...otherwise you run the risk of alienating and losing customers."
I think the stressor towards radical change in the next three years will be alienating and losing customers due to overagressive spam filters.
Things will change fast when somebody like Google says "hey, you can bypass the spam filters and guarantee delivery if you have a trusted signer"
Corporations will then begin to require signed mail for internal IDs. Customer-facing stuff might be unsigned for a while, but when filtering the spam from the customers becomes a full time job, unsigned mail won't last too long.
It doesn't matter if you're still downloading the spam. By filtering it out, you've removed a good part of the incentive for the spammers to send it. If nobody reads it at all, and it becomes common knowledge that nobody reads it, then the volume of spam will drop.
ISPs will have incentive to ensure that their subscriber's machines aren't being used as spam-generating zombies. If too many emails are sent out, recipient ISPs will remove the trust for that ISP to send their subscribers mail. Filtering outbound mail to only accept mail signed by a known key for a known subscriber would allow the ISP to count and throttle the outbound mail.
The same applies as incentive to protect against disposable randomly generated accounts. The only downside is that it might have to be harder to get an account on Hotmail or Gmail... else Chineese catpcha-farms could generate thousands of accounts and trickle out spam ensuring that Hotmail and Gmail lose their trusted status. But really, doesn't it make sense that Gmail and Hotmail have some more strict criteria to send email?
Joe user would depend on their ISP to manage keys and to manage the web of trust. If you think about it from a user-interface perspective. Mail would be automatically whitelisted if it is from a trusted source... a comment in the header "Google has verified that this email was sent from a Hotmail account, click here if this trust was violated"
The flipside is that for unsigned mail, while it lasts, a message such as "Gmail has no evidence that this email came from paypal.com" could appear in the same way.
Power users could tweak the settings, upload new keys, or download unfiltered mail for processing on their secure workstations to their heart's content.
Use digital signatures and throw out all unsigned mail and all mail signed by anyone you don't trust.
Unsigned email will disappear, and I bet it will happen in a 6 month window some time in the next 3 years.
It's a small niche, but for some reason nobody has taken it from them yet.
Driver support is the killer. Unless Minix finds an easy way to port Linux drivers, it won't go further on the desktop than BSD. And it won't even get as far as BSD unless it has a BSD-like license.
OTOH, the desktop doesn't matter. I need to take some time to play with Minix. Tanenbaum's a sharp fellow. Any word on a Xen compatibility?
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=USDCAD=X&t=1y
The dollar's just falling.
Look at the quotes on Peter's page. Very nicely done. Very badly needed.
's got the bigger text size though.
I'd like to see Peter's quoting and Jason's text size with Michael's attention to whitespace.
Windows is a product produced by a company called "Microsoft"
Microsoft sells this "Windows" product to people who want to run software applications on their personal computers.
Software applications are available for Windows because Microsoft delivers a stable and relatively backward compatible programming environment. They also offer technical support, training and documentation. And yes, they have a kernel. Or two kernels. Maybe three.
Windows has at least two major and completely different kernels. Odd that now isn't it? It has the ME kernel and the NT kernel. CE is not really part of the same product family.
The availablilty of software titles makes Windows attractive. This creates a feedback loop wherey by the popularity of the Windows product hinges upon the popularity of the software titles. So Windows is a marketplace.
This combination of a programming environment, kernel, technical support, training, documentation, software titles and a marketplace contribute to a desktop environment.
So how is "Microsoft Windows" a kernel again?
I'd say "no"
Microsoft is a horizontal monopoly. You have to go through them if you want to do business in the PC marketplace.
So which private company could position themselves so that you have to go through them if you want to do business in the Linux marketplace?
Trolltech.
Arguing that the GPL'd QT doesn't matter is to say that closed source graphical application development on Linux doesn't matter. Which is fine to argue, but I disagree. Arguing that the developer fee doesn't matter, ignores internal ad-hoc tools development... corporations don't want their employee contributions to be forced under the GPL. Corporations don't give out $2k licenses for ad-hoc tools on a "free" operating system.
I think if you want to argue that KDE isn't vital, is to ignore that Windows is not an Operating system. Windows is a desktop environment. Microsoft's OS monopoly is a monopoly on a proprietary desktop.
Now imagine if Novell buys TrollTech. Imagine if MS buys Trolltech.
...for proprietary special-purpose applications like the ones described. The reason being that Purolator and auto body specialty shops just need to run those specific packages. When MS cuts support for Windows, the parent companies have to redevelop their apps for the new platforms.
If they used Linux, they could keep shipping their old software until they want new features. They also wouldn't have any licensing concerns when cloning, copying or shippping their media. For somethign like Purolator, a Knoppix-style distribution could also save persistent data online, making upgrades trivial and backups unnecessary.
These PC's are special purpose. Windows is good for general purpose computing.
I think it's riddilin.
CLI should be something like
Meh. Karma can only portioned out by the cosmos.
Do you mean like Daemon Tools? http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/download.php
the POWER GLOVE!