SCO don't have a hope in hell of pulling this off successfully, to do so requires that the Legal system goes against all prior precedent.
Mmmm, yeah. After seeing how, first, a Presidency was stolen, and then Microsoft's little problem with DOJ ended with a penalty of "Well, don't do it again or we'll cry!", I can't see how Darl would ever get the idea that the legal system would do that.
well... that was Country Joe & The Fish that you were quoting.
The Arlo Guthrie reference isn't a total miss, though, with some manipulation:
"...Officer Obie came up to me, and he said, 'Kid... We found these comments underneath a ton of SCO garbage.' I said to him, 'I cannot tell a lie, Officer Obie, you put those comments in that ton of garbage.'"
(can Bayesian be applied to things like spam from Internet virii as well?)
Yes. It all comes down to patterns and weights, like fuzzy logic.
I have one account that regularly attracts Klez-type messages. Since I installed and trained SpamProbe, not a one has ended up in my in-basket, they've all gone into my spam-bucket. The last time I had to retrain on a false-positive was a week ago, so the filtering isn't uber-strict.
Depending on your MTA, it might be well worth your while to use SpamProbe. It has the advantage of being compiled C++, so the Perl turbocharger-lag at startup isn't there to soak up cycles.
I run getmail/qmail on my LAN, with SpamProbe spliced in (I threw some once-per-cron Perl together to iterate across Maildirs and SpamProbe-test each new mail), and I'm quite pleased with how clean our mail is now.
It also grows a large db, but so far one global db seems to be serving us well. Spam is spam, I guess, whether it's meet-your-one-true-love aimed at me or lolita-with-animals aimed at the 10 yr old.
Old batches of transformer oil can contain PCB, that is, polychlorinated biphenyl. It's an additive that was in common use up until the 70's, because it really improved the oil's thermal behavior. Unfortunately, it's also so hazardous that GE (who made a lot of those "pole pig" power transformers for power distribution) has spent many millions disposing of earth contaminated with the stuff.
It's unlikely that you'll find any PCB-laden transformer oil in the US these days (but not impossible, considering all the old dummy loads stashed in hams' basements), but not impossible. It's less unlikely that you'll find some in other countries.
Unless you know where and when it was made, and that it's safe, don't use the old stuff.
I'm actually very comfortable with the current bog-standard 104-key ten-dollar-cheapo keyboards they sell these days, except for some labeling. I keep wishing somebody sold replacement keycaps (doubleshot molded like the caps they replace) for:
- swapping Ctrl and CapLock so Ctrl is to the left of the A. It's easy enough in Linux to remap this, but visitors here who don't think to notice which one blinks the LED get confused even when I scribble a caret next to the new Ctrl key.
- I'd really rather not see that stupid crusade flag (what? you mean it stands for that legacy OS from Redmond?) on two of the keys. Homer Simpson had the right idea: label both of them "ANY", to go with any desktop/OS.
- That other legacy-OS key, the one with the pointer on what looks like an air-conditioner, should be labeled "RMS". If you don't happen to be GNUly-converted, you can say that it stands for Right Mouse Switch.
Basically anything that uses a switching power supply or a switching voltage regulator is at risk IMO. That covers most consumer and commercial equipment other than stuff that's physically too small to have one of these caps, or that handles only audio/radio.
Worse, and all the more reason not to leak it for general perusal: this stinks of tainting the free-and-open-source developer base. If it's prevalent enough, it doesn't matter if a particular developer of an important chunk of GPL code scrupulously avoided any exposure to the Win32 codebase: MS could still bring that projects in which that developer is involved to a standstill with mosquito-lawsuits. MS has a big enough war-chest for a LOT of mosquito lawsuits.
Until the Win32 code is released under a free-and-open-source license, only those who are working exclusively on Win32 code and systems, and who need the source in order to solve their own immediate problems, should have anything to do with it. The rest should take a clean-room attitude, avoiding it as if it were toxic, for the sake of their careers.
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Mission Accomplished??? NOT! He's hired an attorney. WELL...
a. how many of the people close by have enough legal coverage to take him to small claims court for productivity and other quantifiable losses due to HIS spam? (legal spam)
b. time to MapQuest another name:
Ralsky is indeed annoyed. He says he's asked Bloomfield Hills attorney Robert Harrison to sue the anti-spammers.
Gentlemen, ladies, another fit target for your search-and-debilitate methods. Let it be known that it's not safe to support a spammer.
My opinion, of course. Not that I'd EVER advocate antisocial or illegal actions...
I still use WordStar 5.5 for some editing tasks. When I have to use a DOS/Win machine onsite, it's one of the first tools I load. On today's machines it's FAST, and I'm used to it, but then I've been using it since CP/M. I SAMBA files over to it when jstar isn't quite enough for what I'm doing.
Apparently Corel ended up with the WordStar brand and source (if they still have it). Now that WordPerfect has "won", I wish they'd open-source WS (the NewWord codebase, anyway, Barnaby's old code got pretty crufty) so those of us who prefer to navigate left-handed can push it over to Linux.
If you're used to emacs (or vi),then that's the best tool for you, but there's a lot to like about WordStar.
Maybe he's figured out what it's really for, in his latest article, Meet Eater.
His reasoning leads him to this:
"In this position, Carnivore can act as a listening and recording device, OR IT CAN ACT AS A SWITCH. If we ever hear a proposal from the FBI in which it plans to install Carnivores at all 6000 ISPs in the U.S., we'll be giving the government the power to do something it can't do right now. "Shut the Internet down."
...with those frequencies. The human voice still takes at least 2.5KHz of bandwidth to be intelligible. You can get away with packing that down somewhat, but fractional-Hertz bandwidth is useful only for very slow radiotelegraphy (Morse).
AlphaMicro built a 68000-based machine (their first that wasn't S-100 based IIRC) which had conversion circuitry for data backup to a standard analog VCR, in 1984.
Plenty. I've also had bad experiences. I keep a database of em, so when they pull up their file on me I can pull up my file on them. The turkeys don't stop calling, but they don't get anything. The good ones earn their cut by filtering out the turkey gigs for me, letting me concentrate on what I do best, and putting up with me.
I've watched his methods in the market since the days of the Ampro Little Board 1-A. He's excellent at pulling together consensus in the fuzzy corners of the embedded market, after which you don't hear news about that area because there's no further controversy, there's just solidly made products by a number of vendors competing on features and cooperating on standards.
This means that Embedded Linux will fragment freely, as it must to fill adjacent niches, but it won't fracture.
IIRC Intel dropped their x86 numbering scheme after AMD had their contractual right to the blueprints of all x86 processor designs affirmed in court. "Pentium" has no such number, therefore is exempt.
Anybody who doubts that the citizenry can unilaterally take something back from government control need only tune their HF receivers to 27 MHz, then look up the history of that stretch of radio spectrum. When over 10% of the American public owned CB radios, enforcement of the extant ill-advised rules for Part 95 CB Radio (ill-advised because the rules were appropriate for a VHF or UHF service with no over-the horizon propagation, not for the most interesting global propagation ham band at sunspot maxima) became impossible. The result is a jungle in this case, but the impact on a government body of the stubborn mass refusal of a populace to comply with onerous regulations is so-far permanent: faced with the impossibility of obtaining funding for effective enforcement, the FCC backed off and effectively told CBers "don't bother other radio services." This, without a shot being fired, without any boxes of tea being dumped in the harbor.
Seems to me that what's needed is for some enterprising individual with the right skillset (and more time than me) to write up a script (and then share it around widely) that will silently pass mail unless triggered by one of these Web Bug hooks (part of an established mail filter might do just fine). On finding one, it should issue somewhere more than ten GETs (a hundred or more would be nice if you've got the bandwidth, we're talking about HTTP GETs here, not mailings) to that site, each time with a different cookie value, none of them the one that was sent.
If enough of us do this, the pool should be poisoned nicely. When they get wise to it, we'll have to advance to cronning the additional GETs. We might also add it into a signature-file generator for any outgoing HTML mail, especially replies.
Maybe we can't help tying a ribbon around the tree with the pot of gold at the bottom of it, but we can tie a ribbon to every other tree as well.
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It goes WAYYYY back to the first colony days, when church attendance on Sunday was mandatory, but you had to get there and home again alive too.
A township would be granted based on its families' building a "meeting-house" in a central place. The town I grew up in, Bedford, was carved from surrounding towns' territories because those towns were so large that travel from outlying farms to the church in the town center every Sunday was a hardship.
Things may have started out peaceably in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but after a while, the original occupants of the area got sufficiently annoyed at the flood of newcomers, and the treatment they got from them, to start pushing back, hard. Plus, not that far away, the French/Indian Wars got underway, with some tribes allying with the French and making forays into English-speaking settlement territories (and vice versa), so travelers in the colony were vulnerable to bullet or arrow. A muzzle-loaded rifle was a burden to carry in addition to food for the all-day church session and travel from and back to one's own farm, but a necessary one.
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SCO don't have a hope in hell of pulling this off successfully, to do so requires that the Legal system goes against all prior precedent.
Mmmm, yeah. After seeing how, first, a Presidency was stolen, and then Microsoft's little problem with DOJ ended with a penalty of "Well, don't do it again or we'll cry!", I can't see how Darl would ever get the idea that the legal system would do that.
well... that was Country Joe & The Fish that you were quoting.
The Arlo Guthrie reference isn't a total miss, though, with some manipulation:
"...Officer Obie came up to me, and he said, 'Kid... We found these comments underneath a ton of SCO garbage.' I said to him, 'I cannot tell a lie, Officer Obie, you put those comments in that ton of garbage.'"
(can Bayesian be applied to things like spam from Internet virii as well?)
Yes. It all comes down to patterns and weights, like fuzzy logic.
I have one account that regularly attracts Klez-type messages. Since I installed and trained SpamProbe, not a one has ended up in my in-basket, they've all gone into my spam-bucket. The last time I had to retrain on a false-positive was a week ago, so the filtering isn't uber-strict.
Depending on your MTA, it might be well worth your while to use SpamProbe. It has the advantage of being compiled C++, so the Perl turbocharger-lag at startup isn't there to soak up cycles.
I run getmail/qmail on my LAN, with SpamProbe spliced in (I threw some once-per-cron Perl together to iterate across Maildirs and SpamProbe-test each new mail), and I'm quite pleased with how clean our mail is now.
It also grows a large db, but so far one global db seems to be serving us well. Spam is spam, I guess, whether it's meet-your-one-true-love aimed at me or lolita-with-animals aimed at the 10 yr old.
I should have realized -- it's toilet paper! Now it all makes sense!
Really? The way I heard it, it was "Fiat Linux!"
...'Course, now I suppose that needs revision...
Old batches of transformer oil can contain PCB, that is, polychlorinated biphenyl. It's an additive that was in common use up until the 70's, because it really improved the oil's thermal behavior. Unfortunately, it's also so hazardous that GE (who made a lot of those "pole pig" power transformers for power distribution) has spent many millions disposing of earth contaminated with the stuff.
It's unlikely that you'll find any PCB-laden transformer oil in the US these days (but not impossible, considering all the old dummy loads stashed in hams' basements), but not impossible. It's less unlikely that you'll find some in other countries.
Unless you know where and when it was made, and that it's safe, don't use the old stuff.
I'm actually very comfortable with the current bog-standard 104-key ten-dollar-cheapo keyboards they sell these days, except for some labeling.
I keep wishing somebody sold replacement keycaps (doubleshot molded like the caps they replace) for:
- swapping Ctrl and CapLock so Ctrl is to the left of the A. It's easy enough in Linux to remap this, but visitors here who don't think to notice which one blinks the LED get confused even when I scribble a caret next to the new Ctrl key.
- I'd really rather not see that stupid crusade flag (what? you mean it stands for that legacy OS from Redmond?) on two of the keys. Homer Simpson had the right idea: label both of them "ANY", to go with any desktop/OS.
- That other legacy-OS key, the one with the pointer on what looks like an air-conditioner, should be labeled "RMS". If you don't happen to be GNUly-converted, you can say that it stands for Right Mouse Switch.
Surely someone must be willing to sell those...
Basically anything that uses a switching power supply or a switching voltage regulator is at risk IMO. That covers most consumer and commercial equipment other than stuff that's physically too small to have one of these caps, or that handles only audio/radio.
Worse, and all the more reason not to leak it for general perusal: this stinks of tainting the free-and-open-source developer base. If it's prevalent enough, it doesn't matter if a particular developer of an important chunk of GPL code scrupulously avoided any exposure to the Win32 codebase: MS could still bring that projects in which that developer is involved to a standstill with mosquito-lawsuits. MS has a big enough war-chest for a LOT of mosquito lawsuits.
Until the Win32 code is released under a free-and-open-source license, only those who are working exclusively on Win32 code and systems, and who need the source in order to solve their own immediate problems, should have anything to do with it. The rest should take a clean-room attitude, avoiding it as if it were toxic, for the sake of their careers.
Mission Accomplished??? NOT! He's hired an attorney. WELL...
a. how many of the people close by have enough legal coverage to take him to small claims court for productivity and other quantifiable losses due to HIS spam? (legal spam)
b. time to MapQuest another name:
Ralsky is indeed annoyed. He says he's asked Bloomfield Hills attorney Robert Harrison to sue the anti-spammers.
Gentlemen, ladies, another fit target for your search-and-debilitate methods. Let it be known that it's not safe to support a spammer.
My opinion, of course. Not that I'd EVER advocate antisocial or illegal actions...
...Jet no baka, huh...
Okay, I'll bite.
I still use WordStar 5.5 for some editing tasks. When I have to use a DOS/Win machine onsite, it's one of the first tools I load. On today's machines it's FAST, and I'm used to it, but then I've been using it since CP/M. I SAMBA files over to it when jstar isn't quite enough for what I'm doing.
Apparently Corel ended up with the WordStar brand and source (if they still have it). Now that WordPerfect has "won", I wish they'd open-source WS (the NewWord codebase, anyway, Barnaby's old code got pretty crufty) so those of us who prefer to navigate left-handed can push it over to Linux.
If you're used to emacs (or vi),then that's the best tool for you, but there's a lot to like about WordStar.
".moi" is a better choice, methinks :)
Maybe he's figured out what it's really for, in his latest article, Meet Eater.
His reasoning leads him to this:
"In this position, Carnivore can act as a listening and recording device, OR IT CAN ACT AS A SWITCH. If we ever hear a proposal from the FBI in which it plans to install Carnivores at all 6000 ISPs in the U.S., we'll be giving the government the power to do something it can't do right now.
"Shut the Internet down."
...with those frequencies.
The human voice still takes at least 2.5KHz of bandwidth to be intelligible. You can get away with packing that down somewhat, but fractional-Hertz bandwidth is useful only for very slow radiotelegraphy (Morse).
AlphaMicro built a 68000-based machine (their first that wasn't S-100 based IIRC) which had conversion circuitry for data backup to a standard analog VCR, in 1984.
"Refract" rather than "fragment"... the center DOES hold.
Plenty. I've also had bad experiences. I keep a database of em, so when they pull up their file on me I can pull up my file on them. The turkeys don't stop calling, but they don't get anything. The good ones earn their cut by filtering out the turkey gigs for me, letting me concentrate on what I do best, and putting up with me.
I've watched his methods in the market since the days of the Ampro Little Board 1-A. He's excellent at pulling together consensus in the fuzzy corners of the embedded market, after which you don't hear news about that area because there's no further controversy, there's just solidly made products by a number of vendors competing on features and cooperating on standards.
This means that Embedded Linux will fragment freely, as it must to fill adjacent niches, but it won't fracture.
..and thanks.
IIRC Intel dropped their x86 numbering scheme after AMD had their contractual right to the blueprints of all x86 processor designs affirmed in court. "Pentium" has no such number, therefore is exempt.
Anybody who doubts that the citizenry can unilaterally take something back from government control need only tune their HF receivers to 27 MHz, then look up the history of that stretch of radio spectrum.
When over 10% of the American public owned CB radios, enforcement of the extant ill-advised rules for Part 95 CB Radio (ill-advised because the rules were appropriate for a VHF or UHF service with no over-the horizon propagation, not for the most interesting global propagation ham band at sunspot maxima) became impossible.
The result is a jungle in this case, but the impact on a government body of the stubborn mass refusal of a populace to comply with onerous regulations is so-far permanent: faced with the impossibility of obtaining funding for effective enforcement, the FCC backed off and effectively told CBers "don't bother other radio services." This, without a shot being fired, without any boxes of tea being dumped in the harbor.
Seems to me that what's needed is for some enterprising individual with the right skillset (and more time than me) to write up a script (and then share it around widely) that will silently pass mail unless triggered by one of these Web Bug hooks (part of an established mail filter might do just fine).
On finding one, it should issue somewhere more than ten GETs (a hundred or more would be nice if you've got the bandwidth, we're talking about HTTP GETs here, not mailings) to that site, each time with a different cookie value, none of them the one that was sent.
If enough of us do this, the pool should be poisoned nicely. When they get wise to it, we'll have to advance to cronning the additional GETs.
We might also add it into a signature-file generator for any outgoing HTML mail, especially replies.
Maybe we can't help tying a ribbon around the tree with the pot of gold at the bottom of it, but we can tie a ribbon to every other tree as well.
It goes WAYYYY back to the first colony days, when church attendance on Sunday was mandatory, but you had to get there and home again alive too.
A township would be granted based on its families' building a "meeting-house" in a central place. The town I grew up in, Bedford, was carved from surrounding towns' territories because those towns were so large that travel from outlying farms to the church in the town center every Sunday was a hardship.
Things may have started out peaceably in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but after a while, the original occupants of the area got sufficiently annoyed at the flood of newcomers, and the treatment they got from them, to start pushing back, hard. Plus, not that far away, the French/Indian Wars got underway, with some tribes allying with the French and making forays into English-speaking settlement territories (and vice versa), so travelers in the colony were vulnerable to bullet or arrow. A muzzle-loaded rifle was a burden to carry in addition to food for the all-day church session and travel from and back to one's own farm, but a necessary one.