I don't know how RH does it but I think it should happen in the kernel. Perhaps it's a function of the bootstrap app like Grub. I'm not sure. Either way I'd expect to be able to disable it if I so choose (like I'm running a server) with a kernel arguement, recompile option, or boot loader preference change.
Well, I was going to give you a link to NANAS on Google Groups. Unfortunately I see that Google has seriously fucked up the newgroup archive. I can't even find NANA*. What the hell were they thinking? If anyone happens to know of a good newsgroup archive that includes all of NANA* please post it here. I'd even be willing to pay for the feature. I can't believe what Google did to Google Groups. What the hell were they thinking?!
When will people get this through their heads. Spammers do not ignore unsubscribe requests!! Now that doesn't mean the unsubscribe you from the mailing lists you never subscribed to. Oh no. While they don't ignore your unsub requests they certainly use them to their advantage.
They take the unsub requests and diff them against their mailing lists. That allows them to quickly and easily compile a list of active suckers, I mean mailboxes. They in turn sell their new list of active mailboxes to other spammers. Thus causing the sucker to get more spam.
Spammers also take the list of unsub requests and flat out spam them, no questions ask, too. Anyone that gets themselves on that list is guaranteed to get the living hell spammed out of them because the list is in the hands of active spammers, not website scrappers trying to sell the list.
I have about a dozen domains I set up for the sole purpose of hosting spamtraps. I took a list of proper pronouns and compiled a list of just over 525,000 spamtrap addresses per domain. I used pronouns so that the spamtraps would have a legitimate appearance (some spammers got wise to the way of random characters). So I had this enormous list of spamtraps and I had Razor and Pyzor set up to submit spam to the DB. I also hadm y good buddy Procmail set up to munge the spamtrap address and forward a copy to NANAS and the FTC. So how did I go about getting the spammers to spam me you ask? Hell that was the easiest part of all. I automated the stuffing of their unsubscribe boxes with my spamtraps addresses. I used NANAS to find current (and active) unsubribe forms. I then either used wget or curl and some shell scripting to stuff the boxes, depending on whether they were POST or GET forms. Simple. Within minutes I was getting spam. Within a few days I was getting over 30,000 pieces of spam per day. That was after stuffing perhaps a dozen unique unsub forms. I stopped stuffing them after that because the flow of spam was saturating my cable connection. I have a co-lo that doesn't charge me by bandwidth. I should fire up the spamtraps again. This time I'll add DCC.
I'm sure many a great idea started under similar pretenses. In the end they saved thousands of people millions of cumulative hours that would have otherwise been wasted. Someone has to spend the time to build the tool before others get a chance to reap the rewards. I can't remember how many times I thought I had a X cans of Y only to find out when I went to make supper that I really only had Z cans of Y, not enough to cook what I'd been planning on. It sure would be nice to be able to tell from somewhere other than in front of my kitchen cabinets (when it's too late) if I have the ingredients needed to make Y.
I'm sure there are people who thought it was a waste of a programmer's time to give a person the ability to program their Tivo to record a certain show over the Internet. I'm sure there are more than a few people who would argue that it's been and incredibly useful feature.
True, but you can't check the cabinet from work or have a list of what's missing from your cabinet sent to your cell phone via a cron every payday.
What I really want is a program that will take a list of stores I'll shop at, take a list of the products I want to buy including brand and size (intergration with this tracking tool would be handy), collect the up to the minute sale prices from each of my stores online, and output my shopping list spread out over all the stores by the lowest price. Now that would be a slick tool. Not everyone in the world buys what they plan on eating for supper on their way home from work (walking home from work).
I believe you meant to say that Apple did all of that and Microsoft mimicked what was working well for Apple. In all my years of using both I have yet to see a single piece of real innovation come out of Redmond. Not a damned thing. GUI standardization came from Cupertino. Everyone copied from Apple, even OS/2 and Linux. You can only be original once.
I checked The Wayback Machine and didn't find any mention of itunes.co.uk in there. Granted that's not definitive but to not have a single listing or even a link to the site is a bit odd if this site's supposed to be in active use. Even my new personal domain that I've had for a couple months now and haven't even put any real HTML pages up on are archived in the Wayback Machine. This strikes me as odd. Yes, I know about the Wayback Machine honoring robots.txt but that doesn't matter because he doesn't have one. I smell a scam I think.
You never registered upcoming products when they are a secret. That would be the stupidest thing you could possibly do. You keep it a secret until you're ready to go public. Then you make your application. And it doesn't matter if they applied or not. If they can prove that they used the name internally before what's his name then he's screwed. iTunes 1.0 was basically a new skin on SoundJam by Casady and Greene. Granted it was missing features found in SoundJam but it still wasn't anything more than a repackaged SoundJam when it got right down to it. It was made by the same person after all. It wasn't until later releases that it became it's own product. Apple bought the rights to the product from Casady and Greene and the SoundJam author and then hired the author to continue working on the newly born iTunes in house. All Apple has to do is show that they used the name internally via emails or other documents and the UK guy is screwed.
Apple applied for the trademark before this guy registered the domain. 2 weeks before to be precise. You should try RTFAing yourself, where A is Application.
No, he knew from the publicly accessible USPTO records that clearly showed Apple's new product to be named "iTunes" and was published approximately two weeks before he registered itunes.co.uk. Coincendence? I don't believe in them.
Wow. My post got 3 insightfuls, 1 interesting, 3 overrated, and 1 troll. So that's 4 positive and 4 negative mods for one post. Interesting. Does this mean 50% of the/. populous chooses to ignore the influence politics has on science?
...articles from crank or non-peer-reviewed publications were not counted...
Is this another way of saying that anyone that disagrees with our opinion on the matter is a crank and we'll ignore their input for this "scientific" study?
I'd like to be able to associate a given email or set of emails with an event on my calendar. For example I would associate the email that asked for a meeting with that calendar event. I'd also associate followup emails changing the time/date on that calendar event. Better yet I'd also associate followup email regarding minutes, to do lists, status reports, etc associated with that meeting. While I don't think an integrated calendar is handy for everyone, I do think it's certainly handy for some people, myself included. If someone doesn't want to use the calendar feature disable it or don't use it. They certainly shouldn't bitch about it. Especially when it's free.
What you're actually saying is you're not opposed to crap on TV. You're opposed to worthless parents. That's the real problem: parents who don't do their job. Don't blame "crap on TV" for the creation of mindless masses or violence in children. Instead blame the parents who are too lazy to give a damn about what their children watch. A parent is supposed to guide their children through their youth, teach them right from wrong, and raise them to be responsible adults. A parent that can't do that should simply not have children.
Contrary to your opinion I find that many self-proclaimed sys/netadms are simply too stupid to think for themselves in the security arena and rely on conferences and seminars to teach them "all they need to know." In reality they know nothing more about security after the conferences and seminars than they did going in and yet they have more confidence that what they're doing is right. You don't have to follow CERT's recommendations to the letter. Frankly I find that many of their recommendations are flawed. You do however have to be able to think for yourself and be prepared to learn. A book, class, conference, or seminar will not (EVER) teach you all you need to know about security. You can attend hundreds of these events and still be seuciry illiterate (hell you can instruct at these events and be security illiterate). You'll only learn the art of security (yes it, like almost anything, can be refined to an art) through hands on practice. When it comes right down to it idiots will always be idiots; no amount of instruction will change that.
This maks absolutely no sense whatsoever. We here in Kansas, yeah Kansas, would say that was utter bullshit. I've spent every single summer of my life in Kansas and historically we always have at least a full month of 100-plus degree days and a couple months of upper-90 degree days. Not so this year, not by a long shot. Almost our entire summer was lower to mid 80s here in the heartland. We had perhaps a month of lower 90s and about a week of 100s but it was nothing, NOTHING compared to what it has been in the past. It was certainly more than a little mild. In all my life I never until this year saw green pastures in August (AUGUST!). Our pastures were as green and lush in August as they were in May. That's unprecidented in my lifetime. Historically our temps reach upper 90s by mid-June and are well over 100 by July. Much of the grass always browns shortly after that. Not this year. Summer heat never really browned our grasslands this year. Only the early Fall cold spells turned our grasses.
I call bullshit on this report. It makes absolutely no sense. Did we Americans also create our massive mild-temperature spell here in the heartland like the Europeans allegedly did for their warm-spell? I didn't think so. If I was a sensationalistic environmentalist I would cite this year's Kansas summer temps as evidence that we're rapidly moving into a devestating ice age and whip the public into a frenzy over the impending (wait for it...) doom.
Well, another possibility is that the people doing the exit polling have a political agenda
That's certainly a possibility but it's also statistically moot. One can be certain that a political bias has been present in the exit pollers at every poll in recorded history. This election shouldn't have been any different.
I don't get why there's such a comparative reluctance to believe actual election results, which at least have some safeguards in place to reduce the inaccuracy of the result; and at the same time people are willing to accept exit polls as gospel truth despite the complete lack of accuracy safeguards.
For starters the pollsters don't have a financial stake in the outcome of the election, barring the stake we all have as Americans, stockholders, current or future retirees, workers of various types, etc. There isn't a logical reason for the pollster to lie simply because they have nothing to gain. On the other hand the actual candidates, some of which may have direct or influential control over the instruements used to conduct the election, have an enormous financial and political stake in the election. The system should always be questioned. Answers don't come without someone to ask the questions.
...care must be applied without reference to outside sources of bias (such as exit polls).
Like I said above, the political bias of the individual exit pollers is statistically moot. It's always existed and always will as long as human run the exit polls and collect responses from human voters. In all the years of exit polling a statistical error as great as the perceived one of Nov 2 has never happened. In fact it's never been anywhere near that close. Massive amounts of voters don't suddenly become misleading when talking to exit pollers. Without an external force acting upon them that's a statistical impossibility.
Lets say you're the exit poller at a precint. 100 people vote. 80 talk to you on the way out with 25 ignoring you. 60 say with all the confidence in the world that they voted for candidate A. 20 tell you, also with all the confidence in the world, that they voted for candidate B. Your exit polls indicates that candidate A will win with 60% of the vote with a margin of error of +-20 votes for the voters that wouldn't talk to you. (Exit polls usually have a margin of error of 0.3-5%. When the official results come in that say candidate B won by 80 votes to 20. Wouldn't you say that disagreed with your tried and trued method of exit polling? What about a smaller margin. Lets say 60/40, or even 51/49. You were predicting 20-40/60-80. Wouldn't you question the results of the election when you own data so drastically disagrees with the results?
In 30 or 40 years they'll make some movies about this. I can't wait to see what they're going to say. It should be interesting nonetheless.
This guy is a complete moron. Is he having trouble filling space on his website or something? The only valid problem I see is #6 (something which personally annoys me). The rest are just human-learned usage issues. Do you want a user friendly OS that tries to prevent stupid user error (and thus the confusion of stupid users)? Don't let them pop out a floppy with the unthought-out push of a mechanical button which will inevitably lead to the user trying to save the file to an inaccessible disk and the confusion of the user by another error message. This guy is just bitching to bitch.
Nope. Nadda. Not a single one. And my primary email address gets over 500 pieces of spam a day now (only about 5 make it to my inbox and the rest are rejected or trapped).
My XP Pro boxes crashes on average of once per week. I have to reboot it every 3 or 4 days to keep it usable. On the otherhand I have Linux servers that are online for years at a time. Don't lecture me about praising the glories of Linux and their failures of Windows. I have firsthand experience and know better.
Your comment is nothing more than a generalization that's trying to explain away an enormous voting discrepancy as simple human mental changes. Can you understand that this has never happened to this degree before? This many exit polls have never lied this badly before. Given how accurate they have been in the past (and really are) there's no reason to doubt them and believe you explanation.
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I don't know how RH does it but I think it should happen in the kernel. Perhaps it's a function of the bootstrap app like Grub. I'm not sure. Either way I'd expect to be able to disable it if I so choose (like I'm running a server) with a kernel arguement, recompile option, or boot loader preference change.
He's got a valid point.
Well, I was going to give you a link to NANAS on Google Groups. Unfortunately I see that Google has seriously fucked up the newgroup archive. I can't even find NANA*. What the hell were they thinking? If anyone happens to know of a good newsgroup archive that includes all of NANA* please post it here. I'd even be willing to pay for the feature. I can't believe what Google did to Google Groups. What the hell were they thinking?!
They take the unsub requests and diff them against their mailing lists. That allows them to quickly and easily compile a list of active suckers, I mean mailboxes. They in turn sell their new list of active mailboxes to other spammers. Thus causing the sucker to get more spam.
Spammers also take the list of unsub requests and flat out spam them, no questions ask, too. Anyone that gets themselves on that list is guaranteed to get the living hell spammed out of them because the list is in the hands of active spammers, not website scrappers trying to sell the list.
I have about a dozen domains I set up for the sole purpose of hosting spamtraps. I took a list of proper pronouns and compiled a list of just over 525,000 spamtrap addresses per domain. I used pronouns so that the spamtraps would have a legitimate appearance (some spammers got wise to the way of random characters). So I had this enormous list of spamtraps and I had Razor and Pyzor set up to submit spam to the DB. I also hadm y good buddy Procmail set up to munge the spamtrap address and forward a copy to NANAS and the FTC. So how did I go about getting the spammers to spam me you ask? Hell that was the easiest part of all. I automated the stuffing of their unsubscribe boxes with my spamtraps addresses. I used NANAS to find current (and active) unsubribe forms. I then either used wget or curl and some shell scripting to stuff the boxes, depending on whether they were POST or GET forms. Simple. Within minutes I was getting spam. Within a few days I was getting over 30,000 pieces of spam per day. That was after stuffing perhaps a dozen unique unsub forms. I stopped stuffing them after that because the flow of spam was saturating my cable connection. I have a co-lo that doesn't charge me by bandwidth. I should fire up the spamtraps again. This time I'll add DCC.
I'm sure there are people who thought it was a waste of a programmer's time to give a person the ability to program their Tivo to record a certain show over the Internet. I'm sure there are more than a few people who would argue that it's been and incredibly useful feature.
What I really want is a program that will take a list of stores I'll shop at, take a list of the products I want to buy including brand and size (intergration with this tracking tool would be handy), collect the up to the minute sale prices from each of my stores online, and output my shopping list spread out over all the stores by the lowest price. Now that would be a slick tool. Not everyone in the world buys what they plan on eating for supper on their way home from work (walking home from work).
I believe you meant to say that Apple did all of that and Microsoft mimicked what was working well for Apple. In all my years of using both I have yet to see a single piece of real innovation come out of Redmond. Not a damned thing. GUI standardization came from Cupertino. Everyone copied from Apple, even OS/2 and Linux. You can only be original once.
I checked The Wayback Machine and didn't find any mention of itunes.co.uk in there. Granted that's not definitive but to not have a single listing or even a link to the site is a bit odd if this site's supposed to be in active use. Even my new personal domain that I've had for a couple months now and haven't even put any real HTML pages up on are archived in the Wayback Machine. This strikes me as odd. Yes, I know about the Wayback Machine honoring robots.txt but that doesn't matter because he doesn't have one. I smell a scam I think.
You never registered upcoming products when they are a secret. That would be the stupidest thing you could possibly do. You keep it a secret until you're ready to go public. Then you make your application. And it doesn't matter if they applied or not. If they can prove that they used the name internally before what's his name then he's screwed. iTunes 1.0 was basically a new skin on SoundJam by Casady and Greene. Granted it was missing features found in SoundJam but it still wasn't anything more than a repackaged SoundJam when it got right down to it. It was made by the same person after all. It wasn't until later releases that it became it's own product. Apple bought the rights to the product from Casady and Greene and the SoundJam author and then hired the author to continue working on the newly born iTunes in house. All Apple has to do is show that they used the name internally via emails or other documents and the UK guy is screwed.
Apple applied for the trademark before this guy registered the domain. 2 weeks before to be precise. You should try RTFAing yourself, where A is Application.
No, he knew from the publicly accessible USPTO records that clearly showed Apple's new product to be named "iTunes" and was published approximately two weeks before he registered itunes.co.uk. Coincendence? I don't believe in them.
Wow. My post got 3 insightfuls, 1 interesting, 3 overrated, and 1 troll. So that's 4 positive and 4 negative mods for one post. Interesting. Does this mean 50% of the /. populous chooses to ignore the influence politics has on science?
Is this another way of saying that anyone that disagrees with our opinion on the matter is a crank and we'll ignore their input for this "scientific" study?
I'd like to be able to associate a given email or set of emails with an event on my calendar. For example I would associate the email that asked for a meeting with that calendar event. I'd also associate followup emails changing the time/date on that calendar event. Better yet I'd also associate followup email regarding minutes, to do lists, status reports, etc associated with that meeting. While I don't think an integrated calendar is handy for everyone, I do think it's certainly handy for some people, myself included. If someone doesn't want to use the calendar feature disable it or don't use it. They certainly shouldn't bitch about it. Especially when it's free.
What you're actually saying is you're not opposed to crap on TV. You're opposed to worthless parents. That's the real problem: parents who don't do their job. Don't blame "crap on TV" for the creation of mindless masses or violence in children. Instead blame the parents who are too lazy to give a damn about what their children watch. A parent is supposed to guide their children through their youth, teach them right from wrong, and raise them to be responsible adults. A parent that can't do that should simply not have children.
Contrary to your opinion I find that many self-proclaimed sys/netadms are simply too stupid to think for themselves in the security arena and rely on conferences and seminars to teach them "all they need to know." In reality they know nothing more about security after the conferences and seminars than they did going in and yet they have more confidence that what they're doing is right. You don't have to follow CERT's recommendations to the letter. Frankly I find that many of their recommendations are flawed. You do however have to be able to think for yourself and be prepared to learn. A book, class, conference, or seminar will not (EVER) teach you all you need to know about security. You can attend hundreds of these events and still be seuciry illiterate (hell you can instruct at these events and be security illiterate). You'll only learn the art of security (yes it, like almost anything, can be refined to an art) through hands on practice. When it comes right down to it idiots will always be idiots; no amount of instruction will change that.
A "moran." What's a moran? There are 3 cities in the US named "Moran." Are you calling me a city? That would be a first for me.
I call bullshit on this report. It makes absolutely no sense. Did we Americans also create our massive mild-temperature spell here in the heartland like the Europeans allegedly did for their warm-spell? I didn't think so. If I was a sensationalistic environmentalist I would cite this year's Kansas summer temps as evidence that we're rapidly moving into a devestating ice age and whip the public into a frenzy over the impending (wait for it...) doom.
None of these options are either long-term or feasible in a wind farm covering multiple square miles.
That's certainly a possibility but it's also statistically moot. One can be certain that a political bias has been present in the exit pollers at every poll in recorded history. This election shouldn't have been any different.
I don't get why there's such a comparative reluctance to believe actual election results, which at least have some safeguards in place to reduce the inaccuracy of the result; and at the same time people are willing to accept exit polls as gospel truth despite the complete lack of accuracy safeguards.
For starters the pollsters don't have a financial stake in the outcome of the election, barring the stake we all have as Americans, stockholders, current or future retirees, workers of various types, etc. There isn't a logical reason for the pollster to lie simply because they have nothing to gain. On the other hand the actual candidates, some of which may have direct or influential control over the instruements used to conduct the election, have an enormous financial and political stake in the election. The system should always be questioned. Answers don't come without someone to ask the questions.
Like I said above, the political bias of the individual exit pollers is statistically moot. It's always existed and always will as long as human run the exit polls and collect responses from human voters. In all the years of exit polling a statistical error as great as the perceived one of Nov 2 has never happened. In fact it's never been anywhere near that close. Massive amounts of voters don't suddenly become misleading when talking to exit pollers. Without an external force acting upon them that's a statistical impossibility.
Lets say you're the exit poller at a precint. 100 people vote. 80 talk to you on the way out with 25 ignoring you. 60 say with all the confidence in the world that they voted for candidate A. 20 tell you, also with all the confidence in the world, that they voted for candidate B. Your exit polls indicates that candidate A will win with 60% of the vote with a margin of error of +-20 votes for the voters that wouldn't talk to you. (Exit polls usually have a margin of error of 0.3-5%. When the official results come in that say candidate B won by 80 votes to 20. Wouldn't you say that disagreed with your tried and trued method of exit polling? What about a smaller margin. Lets say 60/40, or even 51/49. You were predicting 20-40/60-80. Wouldn't you question the results of the election when you own data so drastically disagrees with the results?
In 30 or 40 years they'll make some movies about this. I can't wait to see what they're going to say. It should be interesting nonetheless.
This guy is a complete moron. Is he having trouble filling space on his website or something? The only valid problem I see is #6 (something which personally annoys me). The rest are just human-learned usage issues. Do you want a user friendly OS that tries to prevent stupid user error (and thus the confusion of stupid users)? Don't let them pop out a floppy with the unthought-out push of a mechanical button which will inevitably lead to the user trying to save the file to an inaccessible disk and the confusion of the user by another error message. This guy is just bitching to bitch.
What about the hearing-impaired people? How do they opt-out?
Nope. Nadda. Not a single one. And my primary email address gets over 500 pieces of spam a day now (only about 5 make it to my inbox and the rest are rejected or trapped).
My XP Pro boxes crashes on average of once per week. I have to reboot it every 3 or 4 days to keep it usable. On the otherhand I have Linux servers that are online for years at a time. Don't lecture me about praising the glories of Linux and their failures of Windows. I have firsthand experience and know better.
Your comment is nothing more than a generalization that's trying to explain away an enormous voting discrepancy as simple human mental changes. Can you understand that this has never happened to this degree before? This many exit polls have never lied this badly before. Given how accurate they have been in the past (and really are) there's no reason to doubt them and believe you explanation.