It all depends how it's used, and why. Have you been subjected to any sales pitches lately? I have, and "scalability" is most definitely used as a meaningless buzzword much more often than I'd care to hear it.
How do you figure? I'll requote the original statement: "Any law which is so powerful and ambiguous as to put fear into people by its mere mention must be a bad law."
That is totally different than saying "any law with large penalties is a bad law." Murder, for example, has some pretty stiff penalties associated with it, but if you've broken the law, you probably know you've done it.
I just bought a laptop ( the Sager 4780: http://pctorque.com/pre-notebook.php#4780 ) with the ATI Radeon 9600 Pro -- with AGPx8, so I'm assuming it's the "real" one. Why? By day, I'm a consultant, which means I need to lug *something* around with me, so a notebook is an obvious choice.
However, I like to play around a bit at home. That's why I keep a 24" monitor, surround sound system, and all that good stuff there. With nothing more than a simple port replicator, I've got everything a destop machine would have. I've also got the added benefit that all my work-related stuff is on the same machine, so don't have to maintain two separate systems.
Granted, I'm sacrificing a bit as far as upgradability goes, and my new laptop's a bit more expensive than a desktop machine would have been. However, since I need a laptop for work either way, I'd much rather keep everything I need one one easy-to-lug-around system.
Call me crazy, but I'm glad we've got a choice of desktop environments. Not to knock the KDE folks, but I happen to prefer GNOME. If desktops were to somehow "unify," and that meant all we had left was KDE, I'd be more than a bit peeved. I'm sure there are plenty of other people who'd feel the same if GNOME were to disappear so that KDE could be the one true desktop environment.
If that means that some apps won't be completely integrated with my dekstop, I'm fine with that. I'd rather have the choices I have now than be forced to use a desktop environment I don't like.
> Sounds to me as if SpamCop is proving to be a > good-sized thorn in the sides of a number of > spammers.
Maybe, but maybe not. The DOS attacks by spammers have been getting pretty brazen of late. SpamCop's a well-known name, and that's probably all it took to make it the target of an attack, regardless of how effective it is.
They've gotten almost no resistance to the attacks they've launched so far. They've got no reason not to launch an attack on anyone who even attempts to block spam at this point.
No, it wouldn't. The GPL gives them the right to distribute code, provided they follow the conditions of the license. Without the GPL, they'd have no right to distribute it at all.
You can't take away a right SCO didn't have to begin with.
Having been a "full-time temp" myself a few times, I can tell you that it's a very, very common practice, and one that a lot of us are more than happy to live with.
From the submission: "This indicates that the network that the train signaling stations are on is not protected by firewalls, at least to block ports 135 and 444 where the DCOM vulnerability is attacked."
As most people who had to fight this worm already know, a firewall doesn't do you a whole lot of good if you have users with laptops who plug in at home, then bring in their infected PCs and plug them into your internal network.
I'm not saying there aren't still ways to prevent the spread of worms, but an internal infection is in no way proof that there's no firewall. In many cases, it's just a clueless PHB who refuses to let the IT department lock down his laptop or install a personal firewall on it.
Most mailers will allow you to use addresses in the form of username+anything@domain.com. If you start getting mail to me+ticketmaster@here.com, just have your mail program/dev/null it.
A good reason not to do it: California has a similar law already on the books. Supposedly, any spam sent to someone here has to contain "adv:" in the subject line.
Of the thousands of spam I've received today, not one has it. The law is completely useless, and not worth what it cost me to have it printed, debated and passed.
Would that be such a bad thing? A big part of the reason spammers have the success they do is because there are a *lot* of people out there with misconfigured proxies. If the only bad result of a filter was that a few "innocent" people who don't know what they're doing, and made things easier for spammers, got DOSsed, I'd have no problem with that at all.
"I also question AOL's explanation of 'open relay.' They say that, if someone not on your network can connect to port 25 on your server, then you're an open relay."
This is totally untrue. If that were the case, they'd be blocking every site that used a single server for incoming and outgoing mail (thus requiring port 25 be open to anyone). They most certainly do not do this.
I read it just fine the first time, thanks. You may want to take another look at it yourself.
There are two conditions under which this applies:
1) A recording is taken of a live performance without the artist's consent.
or
2) A copy made of such a recording.
It *only* applies to unauthorized recordings of live performances (i.e., bootlegs), and copies of unauthorized recordings. It does *not* apply to unauthorized copies of *authorized* recordings.
There's a third section to this that the original poster omitted, which says it's also illegal to traffic in these recordings. If it meant what you're telling me it does, the whole recording industry has a problem.
"..a physical mutation had developed in the under-25s, the researchers have found... The thumbs of today's electronic-gadget generation of children have become more muscled, more dextrous and often more used than fingers."
Since when is increasing musculature and dexterity through exercise a "mutation?"
To most Slahdot readers the concept may be alien, but it's hardly a mutation.
Checkpoint has a GUI that works under Linux (albeit with the limitation that it needs to be run in either 8-bit or 24-bit color). I use an SSH session to my Checkpoints and X-forward "fwui" and "fwlv" every day.
I could have sworn there was only one Linux distribution named Mandrake, but now I'm not so sure. I'm seeing messages about how great this Mandrake is, and how we owe them a debt of gratitude, and all kinds of other praise.
I must be mistaken... this must be a different distribution than the one that received all the "Die, Mandrake, Die!" comments when they were asking for money just a few weeks ago.
Either this is an overgeneralized crock, or I'm Superman.
I have several memories from before I was a year old, and I'm sure they're not "inadvertantly implanted." For example, I have a memory of my mother leaving for work one morning, and it's vivid enough that I could draw out the floorplan of the apartment.
A few years ago I did just that for my mother, and described the trees outside the door, and she told me I was describing the apartment we lived in until I was almost a year old.
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It all depends how it's used, and why. Have you been subjected to any sales pitches lately? I have, and "scalability" is most definitely used as a meaningless buzzword much more often than I'd care to hear it.
How do you figure? I'll requote the original statement: "Any law which is so powerful and ambiguous as to put fear into people by its mere mention must be a bad law."
That is totally different than saying "any law with large penalties is a bad law." Murder, for example, has some pretty stiff penalties associated with it, but if you've broken the law, you probably know you've done it.
Since you're asking...
I just bought a laptop ( the Sager 4780: http://pctorque.com/pre-notebook.php#4780 ) with the ATI Radeon 9600 Pro -- with AGPx8, so I'm assuming it's the "real" one. Why? By day, I'm a consultant, which means I need to lug *something* around with me, so a notebook is an obvious choice.
However, I like to play around a bit at home. That's why I keep a 24" monitor, surround sound system, and all that good stuff there. With nothing more than a simple port replicator, I've got everything a destop machine would have. I've also got the added benefit that all my work-related stuff is on the same machine, so don't have to maintain two separate systems.
Granted, I'm sacrificing a bit as far as upgradability goes, and my new laptop's a bit more expensive than a desktop machine would have been. However, since I need a laptop for work either way, I'd much rather keep everything I need one one easy-to-lug-around system.
Call me crazy, but I'm glad we've got a choice of desktop environments. Not to knock the KDE folks, but I happen to prefer GNOME. If desktops were to somehow "unify," and that meant all we had left was KDE, I'd be more than a bit peeved. I'm sure there are plenty of other people who'd feel the same if GNOME were to disappear so that KDE could be the one true desktop environment.
If that means that some apps won't be completely integrated with my dekstop, I'm fine with that. I'd rather have the choices I have now than be forced to use a desktop environment I don't like.
> Sounds to me as if SpamCop is proving to be a
> good-sized thorn in the sides of a number of
> spammers.
Maybe, but maybe not. The DOS attacks by spammers have been getting pretty brazen of late. SpamCop's a well-known name, and that's probably all it took to make it the target of an attack, regardless of how effective it is.
They've gotten almost no resistance to the attacks they've launched so far. They've got no reason not to launch an attack on anyone who even attempts to block spam at this point.
No, it wouldn't. The GPL gives them the right to distribute code, provided they follow the conditions of the license. Without the GPL, they'd have no right to distribute it at all.
You can't take away a right SCO didn't have to begin with.
Having been a "full-time temp" myself a few times, I can tell you that it's a very, very common practice, and one that a lot of us are more than happy to live with.
We do, however, prefer to be called contractors.
From the submission: "This indicates that the network that the train signaling stations are on is not protected by firewalls, at least to block ports 135 and 444 where the DCOM vulnerability is attacked."
As most people who had to fight this worm already know, a firewall doesn't do you a whole lot of good if you have users with laptops who plug in at home, then bring in their infected PCs and plug them into your internal network.
I'm not saying there aren't still ways to prevent the spread of worms, but an internal infection is in no way proof that there's no firewall. In many cases, it's just a clueless PHB who refuses to let the IT department lock down his laptop or install a personal firewall on it.
What's the point in making aliases? :)
/dev/null it.
Most mailers will allow you to use addresses in the form of username+anything@domain.com. If you start getting mail to me+ticketmaster@here.com, just have your mail program
This may not be a direct answer to your question, but...
Stick a box running a Sendmail and MIMEDefang relay in front of your Exchange server, and you can kiss all those unwanted attachments goodbye.
There's plenty of other software for other mailers that does the same thing, but the Sendmail/MIMEDefang combination works very well for me.
A good reason not to do it: California has a similar law already on the books. Supposedly, any spam sent to someone here has to contain "adv:" in the subject line.
Of the thousands of spam I've received today, not one has it. The law is completely useless, and not worth what it cost me to have it printed, debated and passed.
Would that be such a bad thing? A big part of the reason spammers have the success they do is because there are a *lot* of people out there with misconfigured proxies. If the only bad result of a filter was that a few "innocent" people who don't know what they're doing, and made things easier for spammers, got DOSsed, I'd have no problem with that at all.
"I also question AOL's explanation of 'open relay.' They say that, if someone not on your network can connect to port 25 on your server, then you're an open relay."
This is totally untrue. If that were the case, they'd be blocking every site that used a single server for incoming and outgoing mail (thus requiring port 25 be open to anyone). They most certainly do not do this.
I read it just fine the first time, thanks. You may want to take another look at it yourself.
There are two conditions under which this applies:
1) A recording is taken of a live performance without the artist's consent.
or
2) A copy made of such a recording.
It *only* applies to unauthorized recordings of live performances (i.e., bootlegs), and copies of unauthorized recordings. It does *not* apply to unauthorized copies of *authorized* recordings.
There's a third section to this that the original poster omitted, which says it's also illegal to traffic in these recordings. If it meant what you're telling me it does, the whole recording industry has a problem.
This wouldn't really apply here -- this refers to bootleg recordings of live performances, not to your typical file sharing.
It *might* apply to sharing copies of bootleg concert recordings, but that'd be it.
Damn. I knew I was asking for trouble with that.
5 digits? 5?!
:)
Bah... you don't have a low user ID.
"..a physical mutation had developed in the under-25s, the researchers have found ... The thumbs of today's electronic-gadget generation of children have become more muscled, more dextrous and often more used than fingers."
Since when is increasing musculature and dexterity through exercise a "mutation?"
To most Slahdot readers the concept may be alien, but it's hardly a mutation.
Checkpoint has a GUI that works under Linux (albeit with the limitation that it needs to be run in either 8-bit or 24-bit color). I use an SSH session to my Checkpoints and X-forward "fwui" and "fwlv" every day.
You still working with the original set? You're behind the times if you're still working with the flimsy human model to kill people.
You have the right to _bear_ arms.
Well, yes, but a DOT net has very small ones.
You mean those Debian guys let you tell them what packages you like without having to pay for the privilege?
Must be a bunch of damn commies, I tell ya.
I could have sworn there was only one Linux distribution named Mandrake, but now I'm not so sure. I'm seeing messages about how great this Mandrake is, and how we owe them a debt of gratitude, and all kinds of other praise.
I must be mistaken... this must be a different distribution than the one that received all the "Die, Mandrake, Die!" comments when they were asking for money just a few weeks ago.
All cylinders are 2-sided. Get a piece of paper and make one; you'll see.
Either this is an overgeneralized crock, or I'm Superman.
I have several memories from before I was a year old, and I'm sure they're not "inadvertantly implanted." For example, I have a memory of my mother leaving for work one morning, and it's vivid enough that I could draw out the floorplan of the apartment.
A few years ago I did just that for my mother, and described the trees outside the door, and she told me I was describing the apartment we lived in until I was almost a year old.
I am the next step in evolution. Fear me.