I use my real e-mail address whenever I post to blogs, usenet or mailinglists, mainly because faking identity doesn't really make much sense to me.
I think it's downright rude to fake your reply-to address in public forums, requiring your recipients to try to guess what your real address might be and I never answer to people who require me to remove this or that, do a ROT13 on their.sig and hop on one leg barking like a dog before replying.
The only time I use "fake" address is when I sign-up to things which seem to require e-mail address for no good reason; I have a/dev/null mailbox address set up for those sites.
My domain gets tons of spam, but my filters take away 99% of it, occasionally new innovative spam gets through before SpamAssassin/Razor/other RBL's catch up with it, but personally I don't really see it as a very big problem (don't get me wrong, spammers should die, I just don't want to add to the resource waste by faking my address).
If you're going to use a fake address, then use example.com (which is meant for this type of thing) or at least make sure your address is invalid so that SMTP servers reject it immediately instead of trying to deliver to existing domains.
Would be nice if at least we/.-ers who are trying to be on the bleeding edge of technology would try to solve these problems instead of being part and escalating them.
This is nothing new really (and they're actually not one-time pads, they're one-time passwords), I remember using these one-time passwords while telnettting (!) to my Finnish bank in the early 90's. Back then I'd receive a slip of paper with the password numbers printed on it from my bank (they'd send a new ones automatically when I had used up all of them).. Today I have a Digipass which generates one-time passwords for login. I also have to sign every transaction with it. Oh, and I'm not using telnet anymore (but I wish someone would give me ssh access to a terminal app!)
religion aside.. If you look at the +2 Interesting/Insightful posts you'll see that all of them agree that this is a GoodThing(tm) and most of them even slam RedHat for it's pitifully short lifecycles.
At least some moderators seem to be able to see through the worst zealotry.
Not much chance that this will be seen now, but according to CNet Cisco has confirmed that "unspecified amount" of code been leaked.
The article is here
I'm sorry, but you're wrong. There's still plenty of cheating going on at Xbox Live.
I'll admit that Xbox Live is a good idea, but it's not 100% hack proof either, and neither will be TCP. What bothers me most is that those who will want to do something "illegal" or "bad" with their computers will still be able to go around TCP, but we "normal users" are going to be handing over our keys to our computers to some vague central entity and at the same time giving away our rights to do most basic things (like installing "un-Trusted" software) with our own computers.
It'll probably cut down the Joe Sixpack piracy (i.e. downloading from KaZaa), but I'm quite sure organized crime groups will make their way around TCP and keep mass distributing pirated copies of software even in the Trusted Future.
TCP has it's uses, but the question is if the Trusted Computing Group can be Trusted.
As long time mutt user I agree with your sentiments, however I'm quite sure Evolution (and similar 'bloated' applications) are needed if Linux ever wants to take over the corporate desktop world.
I also agree the it would be nice to have a separate Gnome calendar (i.e KDE's Organizer, or whatever it was called) but in the mean while Mozilla Calendar looks quite good...
Mostly because quality costs money. Putting a game through that one extra QA run probably means delaying the shipping date. Unfortunately the trend seems to be just that.. moving away from quality, towards 'assembly line' products (hopefully already licensed, so studios don't have to spend that much $$ on marketing). There are of course execptions (like the Baldurs Gate series and the Knights of the old Republic which do not fall into the 'license-and-ship' trap). The gaming industry is more and more starting to feel like just another Hollywood branch. I wonder how long it takes before they'll start redoing old games, like they're doing with all old classic movies now?
Well, my Gaim.71 seems to be working just fine, so go ahead and upgrade, the latest version is available here: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
As someone already pointed out, this is most probably due to the recent announcement from Microsoft to concentrate merging IE into the Windows OS core and drop development for all the standalone versions.
MacNN has an article about this.
Favorite quote: "Some of the key customer requests for web browsing on the Mac require close development between the browser and the OS"
Hint to "the customers": Stop requesting idiotic features;-)
Greg Egan is probably the leading man of hard-scifi at the moment. Pick just about any of his books. My personal Favorites are Permutation City or Diaspora. Egan has lots of stuff online, on his homepage so be sure to head over and check it out.
Iain M Banks is probably not counted as hard-scifi author but his books are thought-provoking and entertaining as hell (I even recommend you to take a look at his non-scifi books, published under the name Iain Banks, some real gems there too). Try The Player of the Games, Use of Weapons or State of the Art which is a excellent collection of short stories.
Cheers,
Tero
Superduper alien weapon threatening the Earth and the existance of mankind? All new hairdos and plastic noses? Ooh.
Maybe this is new to Trek, but haven't we all seen and heard this before? About dozen times?
At least B5 and JMS did with style, somehow I have a feeling that B&B will turn this into mainstreamed, preprocessed junk that Voyager was (and the current Enterprise episodes have been).
How about a real first frontier sci-fi series? Wagons, cattle, gunsliging captains and a interesting story? Oh that's right, you took the sky from me... damn Fox.
Or maybe not.. The whole Raketti.net seems to be a domain for a local telecom/ISP based in Kuopio, Finland (smallish town in east Finland). Petri Siltakoski is just probably their Admin. They seem to be offering internet access with space for homepages, so Petri Siltakoski doesn't necessarily have to have anything to do with this..
* Censorship. Most European countries have their own version on the MPAA rating scheme. What's OK in the UK might not be in France, and vice versa. So there end up being a dozen different little cuts that have to be made to get the rating [2] -- [2] once again the smart reader will be wondering how the hell this sort of granstanding by a few un-elected arbiters of taste is supposed to be beneficial in any way.
Especially since UK, France and rest of the Europe are all Region 2, and buying things "over the borders" is not really an issue with EU. I live in Sweden, but I usually purchase all my DVD's from UK (cheaper even with shipping included) and I don't mind getting the UK cuts - well I do mind, but since I don't have a choice in the matter.. they're better than the "Uk cut -> German cut -> Swedish cuts" we used to get 2 years ago. Some strange logic.
However the reality is that localization and translation is hardly ever done "inhouse" anymore. 99% (save Xerox, perhaps) of big companies outsource all their localization and translation. So in that sense we, as consumers and customers don't get to "ask them".
Other than that, I agree completely. Checking the files before distribution should always be done, no matter how many parties have been involved in the process.
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I think it's downright rude to fake your reply-to address in public forums, requiring your recipients to try to guess what your real address might be and I never answer to people who require me to remove this or that, do a ROT13 on their .sig and hop on one leg barking like a dog before replying.
The only time I use "fake" address is when I sign-up to things which seem to require e-mail address for no good reason; I have a /dev/null mailbox address set up for those sites.
My domain gets tons of spam, but my filters take away 99% of it, occasionally new innovative spam gets through before SpamAssassin/Razor/other RBL's catch up with it, but personally I don't really see it as a very big problem (don't get me wrong, spammers should die, I just don't want to add to the resource waste by faking my address).
If you're going to use a fake address, then use example.com (which is meant for this type of thing) or at least make sure your address is invalid so that SMTP servers reject it immediately instead of trying to deliver to existing domains.
This isn't exactly new thing, have a look at this Risks Digest post from 1997 (!): http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/19.04.html#subj9.2
Would be nice if at least we /.-ers who are trying to be on the bleeding edge of technology would try to solve these problems instead of being part and escalating them.
This is nothing new really (and they're actually not one-time pads, they're one-time passwords), I remember using these one-time passwords while telnettting (!) to my Finnish bank in the early 90's. Back then I'd receive a slip of paper with the password numbers printed on it from my bank (they'd send a new ones automatically when I had used up all of them).. Today I have a Digipass which generates one-time passwords for login. I also have to sign every transaction with it.
Oh, and I'm not using telnet anymore (but I wish someone would give me ssh access to a terminal app!)
Here's what some of the Swedish candidates had to say about software patents http://mnemo.nu/publicerat/2004/may/candidates.php .
FFII Sweden also put together information brochure, which is perfect to print out and leave in strategic places around the office (coffee tables, lunch room etc.)
religion aside..
If you look at the +2 Interesting/Insightful posts you'll see that all of them agree that this is a GoodThing(tm) and most of them even slam RedHat for it's pitifully short lifecycles.
At least some moderators seem to be able to see through the worst zealotry.
Not much chance that this will be seen now, but according to CNet Cisco has confirmed that "unspecified amount" of code been leaked. The article is here
I'm sorry, but you're wrong. There's still plenty of cheating going on at Xbox Live.
I'll admit that Xbox Live is a good idea, but it's not 100% hack proof either, and neither will be TCP.
What bothers me most is that those who will want to do something "illegal" or "bad" with their computers will still be able to go around TCP, but we "normal users" are going to be handing over our keys to our computers to some vague central entity and at the same time giving away our rights to do most basic things (like installing "un-Trusted" software) with our own computers.
It'll probably cut down the Joe Sixpack piracy (i.e. downloading from KaZaa), but I'm quite sure organized crime groups will make their way around TCP and keep mass distributing pirated copies of software even in the Trusted Future.
TCP has it's uses, but the question is if the Trusted Computing Group can be Trusted.
I suppose this will be a bit silly thread, but here goes:
I live in Sweden and I'm on a 1Mb/8Mb DSL (no bandwidth limits and 1 static IP) and I'm paying 398 SEK ($55) a month.
I also agree the it would be nice to have a separate Gnome calendar (i.e KDE's Organizer, or whatever it was called) but in the mean while Mozilla Calendar looks quite good...
Mostly because quality costs money. Putting a game through that one extra QA run probably means delaying the shipping date. Unfortunately the trend seems to be just that.. moving away from quality, towards 'assembly line' products (hopefully already licensed, so studios don't have to spend that much $$ on marketing). There are of course execptions (like the Baldurs Gate series and the Knights of the old Republic which do not fall into the 'license-and-ship' trap).
The gaming industry is more and more starting to feel like just another Hollywood branch. I wonder how long it takes before they'll start redoing old games, like they're doing with all old classic movies now?
Well, my Gaim .71 seems to be working just fine, so go ahead and upgrade, the latest version is available here: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
Favorite quote: "Some of the key customer requests for web browsing on the Mac require close development between the browser and the OS"
Hint to "the customers": Stop requesting idiotic features ;-)
Iain M Banks is probably not counted as hard-scifi author but his books are thought-provoking and entertaining as hell (I even recommend you to take a look at his non-scifi books, published under the name Iain Banks, some real gems there too). Try The Player of the Games, Use of Weapons or State of the Art which is a excellent collection of short stories. Cheers, Tero
Superduper alien weapon threatening the Earth and the existance of mankind? All new hairdos and plastic noses? Ooh.
Maybe this is new to Trek, but haven't we all seen and heard this before? About dozen times?
At least B5 and JMS did with style, somehow I have a feeling that B&B will turn this into mainstreamed, preprocessed junk that Voyager was (and the current Enterprise episodes have been).
How about a real first frontier sci-fi series? Wagons, cattle, gunsliging captains and a interesting story? Oh that's right, you took the sky from me... damn Fox.
Or maybe not..
The whole Raketti.net seems to be a domain for a local telecom/ISP based in Kuopio, Finland (smallish town in east Finland). Petri Siltakoski is just probably their Admin.
They seem to be offering internet access with space for homepages, so Petri Siltakoski doesn't necessarily have to have anything to do with this..
A bit off topic here, but it looks like Firefly isn't doing too great either. Fox will probably drop it unles the ratings go up.
Gabber (http://gabber.sourceforge.net/) can speak SSL and can encrypt messages using GPG.
Since it's Jabber based, it can also do MSN, AIM, ICQ, IRC and lots more at the same time...
Give it a go...
Especially since UK, France and rest of the Europe are all Region 2, and buying things "over the borders" is not really an issue with EU. I live in Sweden, but I usually purchase all my DVD's from UK (cheaper even with shipping included) and I don't mind getting the UK cuts - well I do mind, but since I don't have a choice in the matter.. they're better than the "Uk cut -> German cut -> Swedish cuts" we used to get 2 years ago.
Some strange logic.
However the reality is that localization and translation is hardly ever done "inhouse" anymore. 99% (save Xerox, perhaps) of big companies outsource all their localization and translation. So in that sense we, as consumers and customers don't get to "ask them".
Other than that, I agree completely. Checking the files before distribution should always be done, no matter how many parties have been involved in the process.