Rur datacenter has plenty of servers that are not on rails... You have access to the RUR datacenter ? The fate of mankind may be in your hands ! You must stop the robots, before it is too late !
> This probably opens up a world of other problems that I don't have time to consider though.
Such as, if you are example.com, what happens when Joe Spammer uses his 1,000 node botnet to send 1 million spams with your domain forged, and 1 million hosts try to do the sender-verify at the same time.
> So the email server that sent the email is required to ensure that it actually not spam
No. The e-mail server that handles whatever domain happens to be in the sender field is being asked if the address actually exists. There is a big difference.
People can put whatever address they want in the From: field of their mail. Return addresses are forged in spam all the time.
It is becomming a very big problem, when someone decides to forge your return address into 100,000 pieces of spam, and now your server has to deal with all those connections back. Not to mention the Outlook "Iam out of the office messages", or bounces from idiot servers that accept mail for any address THEN boune recipients that don't exist.
It's dumping your garbage on my lawn. It's evil, and it's just as wrong for Sourceforge to do them.
Gmail is initiating what are called call-backs. For every incoming e-mail, they attempt to send a fake e-mail back to the sender to verify that the sending address actually exists.
The theory is that since spammers forge many names, it will reject spams that have made up names forged into them.
The end result, however, is that it pushes your spam problem back on to the domain forged into the spam. It causes an extra load on that server as it has to accept all these bogus connections. For another it will just encourage spammers to forge other people's actual addresses as the sender of their garbage.
It is encouraging to see that Sourceforge does not support that. I would give the solution as to either complain to Gmail that callbacks break they stated goal of "Do no evil".
For 1983, I think WarGames got far more right than it got wrong. You really could get free phone calls by shorting out an old-style rotary pay phone.
You really can fake out any system that communicates via DTMF tones by recording and playing them back. Anyone remember hearing tones when you put money in early touch-tone payphones ? If that lock did communicate to a central system via DTMF, you could get out that way.
Poor passwords used to be far more common. From 2006 Joshua looks like an obvious bad backdoor, but that's only because it used to BE so common.
What did they get wrong ? WOPR was already an antique at the time, but they wanted something with blinking lights. There couldn't be a voice synth with the same voice everywhere. Often overlooked that complaint is the fact that they bothered to introduce it as a device at all.
I always thought they presented it correctly as a cinematic device, sort of like a scene starting in a foreign language with subtitles, to establish the characters are foreign, then switching to English so the audiance knows what is going on.
Aside from the chicklet keyboard, it's claim to fame was expansion by stacking cartridges on the side.A little memory here, a printer port there, and you had a few feet sticking off the side.
Since no one else has, I feel I should post on behalf of all those poor souls who cut their teeth on CP/M and can't get the WordStar keys out of our heads.
I don't like the idea of them monitoring web browsing, URLs, content, etc, without essentially a "warrant".
Have you read the Patriot Act ? Actually,the Patriot Act specificly says that you DO need a warrant to view content. In the realm of online security, the Patriot Act does not give the government any new powers. If anything, it further RESTRICTED their powers.
What it did was extend the differences between envelope/routeing information (IE, a phone number log, aka "Pen register" and content (IE, a wiretap, which you need a warrant for) to the Internet. Previously while the government was essentially useing these guidelines, they were not codeified in any way.
They started getting pen register orders because it's what they knew how to do. Most judges signed off on them anyway, but at least one did not, reading the pen register law narrowly as applying to phones only. But if you read it that way, then the government doesn't need ANYTHING to get that type of information. So in this case, the Patriot Act's "pen register" provision put into law what the government has to do to get this information.
If these responses aren't fake, then it may just e the kids they picked. My experience has been the exact opposite, that kids will play a good game no matter what it looks like.
My kids (aged 2 and 4) love them. All the kids in my family, ranging up to 13 years old, won't come out of the basement at family gatherings. Pole Position seems to be popular with really little kids. Star Wars (one they specifically pan) is popular with just about everyone though.
I have to say, out of all maybe 10 GM cars my family has owned since I was a kid through the ones I've bought as an adult, that was the only lemon.
My father's first car was a Camero, that he had to sell when I came along. He still talks about being able to start that care moving in third gear. After that we had an Impala, a Skylark, then his company started issueing Caprices as company cars.
My own next car was my Dad's hand-me-down Caprice. I got it with 80k miles on it after he had used to commute from Westchester (basicly NYC) to Albany 3 times a week, and I put another 80k on it commuteing to Hoboken for grad school on the Cross Bronx Expressway. (and other road trips)
That car took punishment. Cracked the sway-bar on a crater-sized pot hole by the Lincoln tunnel -- got me home. Got rear-ended by 18 wheelers several times in bumper to bumper traffic, didn't even get a scratch.
Alas, nothing lasts forever. I'm on my second Caprice, and my wife has a LeSabre, both of which have been very reliable. So on average GM's been very good. Not loyalty, statistics.
It was near midnight, it was my parrents' car, and I was probably more scared of them then of the car.
In 198x kids didn't have cell phones. The nearest payphone would have been further than my house. It was at most a 10 minute drive home, but almost an hour walk.
Also realize each time it floored itself, it proably lasted on the order of 10 seconds. For a kid who basicly just got his licence, it took about that much time to register what happened.
The first time, I assumed it was my fault, must have been something I did. The second time, I KNEW I didn't do anything. I don't remember specificly what I did, most likely by the time I figured out it was the cruise control, I would have been dropping it to neutral as soon as it floored itself.
Thinking about it anyone who is talking about brakes being able to stop a car that is running full throttle has no idea what they are talking about.
Has no one else ever started driving with the emergency brake on ? I know at least once I've gotten half way down the block, wondering why the engine was sluggish, before I realized the brakes were still on.
Brakes do no apply "deceleration". They apply force, as the engine does. Force to maintain speed is MUCH less than force to accelerate, and we haven't started taking the momentum of a huge piece of steel into account yet.
Again -- I know my Caprice can move from a dead stop with the brakes on, and it has some powerfull brakes. Just a more powerfull engine.
Brakes are sized to the size and weight of the car, NOT to the engine !
As explained in many other followups, this is absolutely nonsense
You weren't driving the car. I was. Please do not presume to tell me what happened.
The car was floored, I stood on the brakes, nothing happened.
As someone else pointed out, this was perhaps the worst car GM ever made. I wouldn't be surprised if the brakes were crap too. In any case, this car has long since seen the crusher, and I don't think testing on my current '91 Caprice would prove anything about an '83 Cutlas.
My mom's '83 Oldsmobile Cutlas did this. I had my licence maybe less than a year, and was driving home from the movies at night on the Boston Post Rd in Westchester county, NY (2 lane street, storefronts on either side.)
All of a sudden the gas pedal went down to the floor on it's own, and the car starts to accelerate from about 30, through 50 and going. Hitting the break did not disengage the cruise control, and breaking a floored car doing 50 does - absolutely nothing.
Just as I was about the turn off the key, the pedal comes back up. The whole way home the car did this. I still remember getting home, being asked what was wrong, and saying "Your fucking car tried to kill me." - this was the first time I swore (on purpose) in front of my parrents.
Next day we take it to the shop, and the mechanic's reaction was "Oh yeah, they do that." Evidently the cruise control wires, mounted on the turn signal lever, woudd fray and short out. Part of the design was the Resume button had priority over the break cut-of switch, so when Resume shorted, you were screwed.
I've met three other people who owned this car, and had the same thing happen to them. One guy, as soon as he said he'd had an 83 Cutlas, I asked "Did it ever go Flying Dutchman" on you, and he knew exactly what I met. His started revving itself next to a Cop at a traffic light. He just got out with his hands up, saying "It's not me, it's the car !", as the car sat there revving itself.
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I'll second that. If you've never played it, download MAME and grab the ROMS .
Or if you are nuts, buy your own machine. (No, it is NOT for sale.)
Amazing. To bad nobody thought of that 20 years ago.
Oh wait.
> This probably opens up a world of other problems that I don't have time to consider though.
Such as, if you are example.com, what happens when Joe Spammer uses his 1,000 node botnet to send 1 million spams with your domain forged, and 1 million hosts try to do the sender-verify at the same time.
It doesn't scale.
> So the email server that sent the email is required to ensure that it actually not spam
No. The e-mail server that handles whatever domain happens to be in the sender field is being asked if the address actually exists. There is a big difference.
People can put whatever address they want in the From: field of their mail. Return addresses are forged in spam all the time.
It is becomming a very big problem, when someone decides to forge your return address into 100,000 pieces of spam, and now your server has to deal with all those connections back. Not to mention the Outlook "Iam out of the office messages", or bounces from idiot servers that accept mail for any address THEN boune recipients that don't exist.
It's dumping your garbage on my lawn. It's evil, and it's just as wrong for Sourceforge to do them.
I would say this is Gmail's problem.
Gmail is initiating what are called call-backs. For every incoming e-mail, they attempt to send a fake e-mail back to the sender to verify that the sending address actually exists.
The theory is that since spammers forge many names, it will reject spams that have made up names forged into them.
The end result, however, is that it pushes your spam problem back on to the domain forged into the spam. It causes an extra load on that server as it has to accept all these bogus connections. For another it will just encourage spammers to forge other people's actual addresses as the sender of their garbage.
It is encouraging to see that Sourceforge does not support that. I would give the solution as to either complain to Gmail that callbacks break they stated goal of "Do no evil".
Barring that, don't use gmail.
Get an FM transmitter, broadcast your MP3s, listen on any fm radio anwhere in a 1 block radius.
a ge=amfm
http://www.ramseyelectronics.com/hk/default.asp?p
I've an earlier version of the FM25b. I can listed to my MP3s on any $9 FM radio.
For 1983, I think WarGames got far more right than it got wrong. You really could get free phone calls by shorting out an old-style rotary pay phone.
You really can fake out any system that communicates via DTMF tones by recording and playing them back. Anyone remember hearing tones when you put money in early touch-tone payphones ? If that lock did communicate to a central system via DTMF, you could get out that way.
Poor passwords used to be far more common. From 2006 Joshua looks like an obvious bad backdoor, but that's only because it used to BE so common.
What did they get wrong ? WOPR was already an antique at the time, but they wanted something with blinking lights. There couldn't be a voice synth with the same voice everywhere. Often overlooked that complaint is the fact that they bothered to introduce it as a device at all.
I always thought they presented it correctly as a cinematic device, sort of like a scene starting in a foreign language with subtitles, to establish the characters are foreign, then switching to English so the audiance knows what is going on.
Aside from the chicklet keyboard, it's claim to fame was expansion by stacking cartridges on the side.A little memory here, a printer port there, and you had a few feet sticking off the side.
http://www.oldskool.org/shrines/pcjr_tandy
Sounds like the same thing with a new paint job.
Plenty of people who either forget or don't know what happened to people who bought new.net domains in TLDs that were later introduced by ICANN.
They were screwed.
Pure and simple, it's a big scam.
Talk about contradictory views -- they can kill it, but not give it away ?
Not just crap. It looks like the page you get when you mistype a domain, and some squater tries to bring you 'related' information, and paid links.
Quite often.
Drilling sideways is easy. When drilling up, make sure to wear safety glasses or the sawdust will fall in your eyes.
When I was a teenager, we would borrow friend's albums and make tapes. We would also make tapes off the radio.
Copying music is nothing new.
Mid 30'a hot enought to be anoying ?
You would melt in NY. It hit 95 here yesterday.
It's not the heat, it's the units.
They want $11.99 each.
Already modified USB CueCat's can be had from www.bgmicro.com for $7.95 each.
Since no one else has, I feel I should post on behalf of all those poor souls who cut their teeth on CP/M and can't get the WordStar keys out of our heads.
For us, joe will always be the One True Editor.
Not if you pick them right.
My wife is curvy, smells nice, and writes all her e-mail in pine.
Have you read the Patriot Act ? Actually,the Patriot Act specificly says that you DO need a warrant to view content. In the realm of online security, the Patriot Act does not give the government any new powers. If anything, it further RESTRICTED their powers.
What it did was extend the differences between envelope/routeing information (IE, a phone number log, aka "Pen register" and content (IE, a wiretap, which you need a warrant for) to the Internet. Previously while the government was essentially useing these guidelines, they were not codeified in any way.
They started getting pen register orders because it's what they knew how to do. Most judges signed off on them anyway, but at least one did not, reading the pen register law narrowly as applying to phones only. But if you read it that way, then the government doesn't need ANYTHING to get that type of information. So in this case, the Patriot Act's "pen register" provision put into law what the government has to do to get this information.
If these responses aren't fake, then it may just e the kids they picked. My experience has been the exact opposite, that kids will play a good game no matter what it looks like.
I have a collection of arcade games in my basement Asteroids, Centipede, Star Wars, Pole Position, Major Havoc, etc). http://www.westnet.com/~chris/arcade/MyBasement
My kids (aged 2 and 4) love them. All the kids in my family, ranging up to 13 years old, won't come out of the basement at family gatherings. Pole Position seems to be popular with really little kids. Star Wars (one they specifically pan) is popular with just about everyone though.
I have to say, out of all maybe 10 GM cars my family has owned since I was a kid through the ones I've bought as an adult, that was the only lemon.
My father's first car was a Camero, that he had to sell when I came along. He still talks about being able to start that care moving in third gear. After that we had an Impala, a Skylark, then his company started issueing Caprices as company cars.
My own next car was my Dad's hand-me-down Caprice. I got it with 80k miles on it after he had used to commute from Westchester (basicly NYC) to Albany 3 times a week, and I put another 80k on it commuteing to Hoboken for grad school on the Cross Bronx Expressway. (and other road trips)
That car took punishment. Cracked the sway-bar on a crater-sized pot hole by the Lincoln tunnel -- got me home. Got rear-ended by 18 wheelers several times in bumper to bumper traffic, didn't even get a scratch.
Alas, nothing lasts forever. I'm on my second Caprice, and my wife has a LeSabre, both of which have been very reliable. So on average GM's been very good. Not loyalty, statistics.
Because I was 18 years old (or thereabouts).
It was near midnight, it was my parrents' car, and I was probably more scared of them then of the car.
In 198x kids didn't have cell phones. The nearest payphone would have been further than my house. It was at most a 10 minute drive home, but almost an hour walk.
Also realize each time it floored itself, it proably lasted on the order of 10 seconds. For a kid who basicly just got his licence, it took about that much time to register what happened.
The first time, I assumed it was my fault, must have been something I did. The second time, I KNEW I didn't do anything. I don't remember specificly what I did, most likely by the time I figured out it was the cruise control, I would have been dropping it to neutral as soon as it floored itself.
Thinking about it anyone who is talking about brakes being able to stop a car that is running full throttle has no idea what they are talking about.
Has no one else ever started driving with the emergency brake on ? I know at least once I've gotten half way down the block, wondering why the engine was sluggish, before I realized the brakes were still on.
Brakes do no apply "deceleration". They apply force, as the engine does. Force to maintain speed is MUCH less than force to accelerate, and we haven't started taking the momentum of a huge piece of steel into account yet.
Again -- I know my Caprice can move from a dead stop with the brakes on, and it has some powerfull brakes. Just a more powerfull engine.
Brakes are sized to the size and weight of the car, NOT to the engine !
You weren't driving the car. I was. Please do not presume to tell me what happened.
The car was floored, I stood on the brakes, nothing happened.
As someone else pointed out, this was perhaps the worst car GM ever made. I wouldn't be surprised if the brakes were crap too. In any case, this car has long since seen the crusher, and I don't think testing on my current '91 Caprice would prove anything about an '83 Cutlas.
My mom's '83 Oldsmobile Cutlas did this.
I had my licence maybe less than a year, and was driving home from the movies at night on the Boston Post Rd in Westchester county, NY (2 lane street, storefronts on either side.)
All of a sudden the gas pedal went down to the floor on it's own, and the car starts to accelerate from about 30, through 50 and going. Hitting the break did not disengage the cruise control, and breaking a floored car doing 50 does - absolutely nothing.
Just as I was about the turn off the key, the pedal comes back up. The whole way home the car did this. I still remember getting home, being asked what was wrong, and saying "Your fucking car tried to kill me." - this was the first time I swore (on purpose) in front of my parrents.
Next day we take it to the shop, and the mechanic's reaction was "Oh yeah, they do that." Evidently the cruise control wires, mounted on the turn signal lever, woudd fray and short out. Part of the design was the Resume button had priority over the break cut-of switch, so when Resume shorted, you were screwed.
I've met three other people who owned this car, and had the same thing happen to them. One guy, as soon as he said he'd had an 83 Cutlas, I asked "Did it ever go Flying Dutchman" on you, and he knew exactly what I met. His started revving itself next to a Cop at a traffic light. He just got out with his hands up, saying "It's not me, it's the car !", as the car sat there revving itself.