Since we pay former congresscritters a fortune to do nothing after they get fired or quit, is there a reason we can't tie their pension into their future income? Once someone leaves congress, they should be given a choice, never work again and collect the cash or never collect the cash and work for whoever but the tax payer isn't going to be giving any handouts.
With domains being $15, its trivial to get a domain with fake data. Besides the bulk mailer is just going to use an address of one of the idiots paying them to send out the ads. Remeber this is to solve the joe-jobing issue. If they are willing to do it on-line, why not in the real world.
Othere than SPF, there is no sane reason for most DNS servers to issue TXT records. There have been several exploits because of broken DNS parsing of unusual DNS records. The prupose of a firewall isn't just to limit ports, it should also stop odd data.
Right now SPF is being done with a large library that gets linked in. I've been finding security holes in MTAs for 17 years and I don't like complex systems built into things that live on my network front door.
There is nothing that SPF does that DNSBL like systems can't do better using existing software and normal data packets. Thats why I feel SPF isn't the right next step.
Too bad its still broken: # Its parsing is too complex # No sane firewall is going to let TXT records through # No sane firewall is going to let TCP DNS packets through # The parsing can loop forever # It will increase DNS scaning as spamers hunt for broken SPF records # Its too complex to be implimented inside the MTA where it needs to be done # It can't be properly parsed in sendmail # ISO 8839 8859 59-15 utf-8 issues for domain names may kill some dns servers
Its a step in the right direction but its the wrong step.
I was looking at seeing if sendmail could parse the records in the.cf file (no it can't in any sane way), and the very 1st spam I got with my new hacked system had a vaild SPF record. If a spamer gets paid $5000 to send out a million messages, a $15 throwaway domain is nothing...
Your right about the neutral not carring any power on the grid but in palces where the soil conductivity is poor the ground line is used to help trip the protection systems. The lighting protection ground lines on the tops of the poles are connented to the same ground rods that the building neutral is connected to -- in theory. Basicly if there is any current in the ground line or its voltage differs from the neutral, there is a big problem somewhere.
What neutral wire? Neutral, ground... its all the same with 3 phase. When you look at the 3 wires, you will find a forth ground line above them all that should take the volts of a lightning strike and it helps the real big circut breakers work right when there is a major problem with a tower. The ground line is what they hang the fiber off of and some places have a coax like shield thats the ground path around the fiber.
The problem is fiber doesn't like the wind action on poles and lots of that dark fiber is good for the distance between the poles and no longer.
MasterCard only provides the network. The banks are the ones who "absorb the cost" and they do that by billing the merchant for most types of orders (on the net) and increased fees for consumers for other types of fraud. MasterCard takes something like.08% of the transaction value for their charge of doing the transaction. The banks on the other hand take 1.5% to 3.5% for normal clients plus $.20 per transaction charge plus your monthy fees.
The reason micropayments won't work is that transactions of any type costs real money. When you start having to audit the transactions, you can't do them for less than about $.06 each unless you do millions or are willing to absorb the costs of lost transactions. Are you willing to pay the transaction house $.10 on your $.05 page view? I don't think so and by the time it gets to be real money, Visa and MasterCard are already playing in that space.
If you don't like this, call up your local senators' offices and ask they how they voted on this. If they voted (they most likly didn't vote at all), then ask why they think they can get away with spending another 5 million dollars of your money to protect a 5 billion dollar industry which already does this its self? If they get enough calls, then they might just wake up but at this point they just listen to the people who scream the most.
Has anyone here ever seen a camcorder recorded movie? I'm guessing they have no negitive impact on good movies and not enough people see them to help kill the crud off faster.
The idiots in the house seem to think they have an endless supply to cash to buy friends who will help their contributions at the next election. maybe they would get a clue if more people let them know they weren't happy with the way they voted.
This situation is why the constitution was written not to allow people to vote for a President. The idea was the people (throught their state) vote for a few people that would get together and then decide who would make a good president and then elect them. The system worked once and its been getting more manipulated ever since.
Most people don't think of bigger numbers as having more precision.
Take peoples heights, In metric, you get about 1 meter up to 2. In the old English system you have 3,4,5 or 6 foot with a fudge factor. 5 foot 3 inches isn't 63 inches, its a rough approximation (5 foot) with a small bit (3 inches) thrown in. Same thing with cooking as people are thinking a "tad bit more" than a standard measure.
One odd thing is if the metric system was properly defined (10,000 km from pole to equator), a nano-light second would be a foot.
Altivista has a "near" keyword that does what you ask. Its a great way to fix the serches of people who put too much unrelated crud in their menus that google finds.
Their cluster managment is based on the fact that any node can fail at any time and a few thousand users will click reload. Thats not too useful for most other real world clusters.
It's quite simple to tell how many people view your webpage, and hell of alot easier (and more accurate) than radio or TV
No kidding. For the 1st time in the history of advertising since the invention of the shop sign, someone has a direct way to count how many people see the ads and how many of them respond in some positve way. The resutls aren't even close to the typical guesses used in the advertising game to sell ads so they simply say the web stats are wrong and go back to their old ways that say more comercials are good. Too bad the real stats show that consumers are overstaturated and ignore most ads. The problem is that consumers don't buy ads, its the large comapines that buy the ads and they don't know if its going to work or not so the compaines trust the ad providers to provide useful stats and then trust them even it it disagrees with market data. If you think some of the professional software is broken, take a look at real world ads. Some of them run away customers for years. For example Oral-B had anannoying warning sound on an ad for their toothbrushes and I hate it so much I'll never buy one of their products again and that ad ran a decade ago.
I was in a meeting room with a bunch of ad idiots that had just charged the company I worked for about a million dollars to put the www.$COMPANY_NAME.com on the tail end of some well recieved comercials that were about "building brand". They said it would increase our hits a thousand times. I had the logs and said it had increased the sites hits to about 20 times what my personal site got. The idiot then asked me how much I spent on advertising my site. One of my coworkers made some comment about it being millions less than what they charged and that the web hits had only doubled. The team of idiots then told us we must be getting our numbers from an unrelaiable ad auditing source and couldn't deal with the concept that our numbers were from the apache logs.
That sounds good. The Ciscos require stupid VPN tricks which seem to have holes in them and then something has to deal with routing the VPN's. Can I tell the HP2524 that ports 1->20 can only talk to port 21,22,23 but 21,22&23 can talk to anyone?
VPNs can be owned too so can "tursted" links to remote controled system. We had a (XP?) box deep inside our network get compromised with a virus that stayed in memory. It got there over a remote control system from another PC that was sometimes hooked to the net. The box deep inside the network then started hunting for other boxes to own, and it found a NT 4 server that could make outbound connections to the net and it set up a nice little email proxy. Lucky for me, my test network isn't as open as it appeared and my freebsd box clampled down on the outbound smtp traffic. A few new rules later (to let the SMTP traffic appear to go out) and the NT box was trying to spam AOL as fast as it could.
There are some tricky things out there that will take advantage of "internal trust" so my new rule is no PC talks to anything else but its samba, proxy or email server. Windows PC's can't talk to any other Windows PC.
The solid core ones tend to have an edge that hits the wire while the stranded ones tend to use two (or three) points that cut into the wire.
Some of the better solid ones have two blades that hit both sides of the wire. There are also cheap ones that happen to crimp into foil wire which tends to be found in the cheap flexiable cords used in phone handsets.
You also need to get the jacket shape right. They come in round and flat and short and long body. Most of the Rj11 ones are short and most of the RJ45s are long.
If you need this to work for years or decades, you have to do it right. Its like putting RJ11 into RJ45, it works till you need to use the outer two pins because they won't have the reliably of the middle 6.
If you put a 6 pin connector in the 8 pin, you will force the outer pins up too much and in the future won't work reliably when you put in an 8 pin latter.
If I offer 10 of my most leeaching customers 1 gig of space, I will need 10 gig of space... or will I? How much of that will be duplicated between at least two users and how much of it will be used by all 10? Remember Google already has copies off allmost all the useful stuff on the net. If you grab some random web page and mime attach it to email, thats going to waste space in my mailbox but if google can figure out that they already have all the images, as well as the text, its going to compress down to very little. For the 1st customers it requires a massive increase in needed disk space but at some point it starts dropping off. Sort of like how much stuff they have to index for the web and image searches.
You may need light winds to lauch them. If they can deal with higher winds, it can't can't deal with gusty winds and airplanes are very good at that. A typical airplane can land with 20km/hr change in wind direction in seconds while a large airship can't. People don't like having the weather close the airport for a few hours and with airships, you could wait days.
The computer science building at Okie State got hit sometime in the late 80's and it took out everything inside it except the IBM big iron that was on a motor generator pair.
Florida gets lots of lighting strikes but the ones that Oklahoma tend to have far more energy and a direct strike from one of the big thunderstorms is going to take out lots of other stuff. I've seen sheet lightning that hit two different towers that were at least 60 miles apart.
I've seen one bit of gear damanged that was connected over fiber optic cable. It plastic jacket just happened to conduct enough that the millions of volts over the few hundred yards still zapped the mux on the other end.
Lightning is interesting stuff. The typical claims are a 100 million volts and up to 10,000 amps but there have been measured strikes at 100k amps and 1gv. One day someones going to get rich by solving how to store that energy.
A few years back on of my friends came to me and said "can you rewrite this from scratch and give me the results?" I told him sure, but its trvial I can can reuse code and he said no, use real data and rewirte it but don't use existing stuff. Aince the problem was simple enough, i did it from scratch and got his results. My code showed that the orginal stuff was bogas. This was about fractal dimention and the early work was a bit fudgeded but no one ever checked orginal work but kept dealing with the scam and/or wrong data.
The scary thing is what happens when your PhD advisor happend to do his papers on this subject.
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Since we pay former congresscritters a fortune to do nothing after they get fired or quit, is there a reason we can't tie their pension into their future income? Once someone leaves congress, they should be given a choice, never work again and collect the cash or never collect the cash and work for whoever but the tax payer isn't going to be giving any handouts.
With domains being $15, its trivial to get a domain with fake data. Besides the bulk mailer is just going to use an address of one of the idiots paying them to send out the ads. Remeber this is to solve the joe-jobing issue. If they are willing to do it on-line, why not in the real world.
Othere than SPF, there is no sane reason for most DNS servers to issue TXT records. There have been several exploits because of broken DNS parsing of unusual DNS records. The prupose of a firewall isn't just to limit ports, it should also stop odd data.
Right now SPF is being done with a large library that gets linked in. I've been finding security holes in MTAs for 17 years and I don't like complex systems built into things that live on my network front door.
There is nothing that SPF does that DNSBL like systems can't do better using existing software and normal data packets. Thats why I feel SPF isn't the right next step.
Too bad its still broken:
# Its parsing is too complex
# No sane firewall is going to let TXT records through
# No sane firewall is going to let TCP DNS packets through
# The parsing can loop forever
# It will increase DNS scaning as spamers hunt for broken SPF records
# Its too complex to be implimented inside the MTA where it needs to be done
# It can't be properly parsed in sendmail
# ISO 8839 8859 59-15 utf-8 issues for domain names may kill some dns servers
Its a step in the right direction but its the wrong step.
People are already scaning for open SPF records.
.cf file (no it can't in any sane way), and the very 1st spam I got with my new hacked system had a vaild SPF record. If a spamer gets paid $5000 to send out a million messages, a $15 throwaway domain is nothing...
I was looking at seeing if sendmail could parse the records in the
The reason is commonly called "plausible deniability"
If thats not enough for you, what would happen if a virus started sending out illegal material and someone had signed it with your key?
Your right about the neutral not carring any power on the grid but in palces where the soil conductivity is poor the ground line is used to help trip the protection systems. The lighting protection ground lines on the tops of the poles are connented to the same ground rods that the building neutral is connected to -- in theory. Basicly if there is any current in the ground line or its voltage differs from the neutral, there is a big problem somewhere.
What neutral wire? ... its all the same with 3 phase. When you look at the 3 wires, you will find a forth ground line above them all that should take the volts of a lightning strike and it helps the real big circut breakers work right when there is a major problem with a tower. The ground line is what they hang the fiber off of and some places have a coax like shield thats the ground path around the fiber.
Neutral, ground
The problem is fiber doesn't like the wind action on poles and lots of that dark fiber is good for the distance between the poles and no longer.
MasterCard only provides the network. The banks are the ones who "absorb the cost" and they do that by billing the merchant for most types of orders (on the net) and increased fees for consumers for other types of fraud. MasterCard takes something like .08% of the transaction value for their charge of doing the transaction. The banks on the other hand take 1.5% to 3.5% for normal clients plus $.20 per transaction charge plus your monthy fees.
The reason micropayments won't work is that transactions of any type costs real money. When you start having to audit the transactions, you can't do them for less than about $.06 each unless you do millions or are willing to absorb the costs of lost transactions. Are you willing to pay the transaction house $.10 on your $.05 page view? I don't think so and by the time it gets to be real money, Visa and MasterCard are already playing in that space.
If you don't like this, call up your local senators' offices and ask they how they voted on this. If they voted (they most likly didn't vote at all), then ask why they think they can get away with spending another 5 million dollars of your money to protect a 5 billion dollar industry which already does this its self? If they get enough calls, then they might just wake up but at this point they just listen to the people who scream the most.
Has anyone here ever seen a camcorder recorded movie? I'm guessing they have no negitive impact on good movies and not enough people see them to help kill the crud off faster.
The idiots in the house seem to think they have an endless supply to cash to buy friends who will help their contributions at the next election. maybe they would get a clue if more people let them know they weren't happy with the way they voted.
This situation is why the constitution was written not to allow people to vote for a President. The idea was the people (throught their state) vote for a few people that would get together and then decide who would make a good president and then elect them. The system worked once and its been getting more manipulated ever since.
Most people don't think of bigger numbers as having more precision.
Take peoples heights, In metric, you get about 1 meter up to 2. In the old English system you have 3,4,5 or 6 foot with a fudge factor. 5 foot 3 inches isn't 63 inches, its a rough approximation (5 foot) with a small bit (3 inches) thrown in. Same thing with cooking as people are thinking a "tad bit more" than a standard measure.
One odd thing is if the metric system was properly defined (10,000 km from pole to equator), a nano-light second would be a foot.
Altivista has a "near" keyword that does what you ask. Its a great way to fix the serches of people who put too much unrelated crud in their menus that google finds.
Their cluster managment is based on the fact that any node can fail at any time and a few thousand users will click reload. Thats not too useful for most other real world clusters.
One of my favorite t-shirts has a picture of an Artifical Horizon showing a plane in an inverted dive with the words "Bad Attitude".
It's quite simple to tell how many people view your webpage, and hell of alot easier (and more accurate) than radio or TV
No kidding. For the 1st time in the history of advertising since the invention of the shop sign, someone has a direct way to count how many people see the ads and how many of them respond in some positve way. The resutls aren't even close to the typical guesses used in the advertising game to sell ads so they simply say the web stats are wrong and go back to their old ways that say more comercials are good. Too bad the real stats show that consumers are overstaturated and ignore most ads. The problem is that consumers don't buy ads, its the large comapines that buy the ads and they don't know if its going to work or not so the compaines trust the ad providers to provide useful stats and then trust them even it it disagrees with market data. If you think some of the professional software is broken, take a look at real world ads. Some of them run away customers for years. For example Oral-B had anannoying warning sound on an ad for their toothbrushes and I hate it so much I'll never buy one of their products again and that ad ran a decade ago.
I was in a meeting room with a bunch of ad idiots that had just charged the company I worked for about a million dollars to put the www.$COMPANY_NAME.com on the tail end of some well recieved comercials that were about "building brand". They said it would increase our hits a thousand times. I had the logs and said it had increased the sites hits to about 20 times what my personal site got. The idiot then asked me how much I spent on advertising my site. One of my coworkers made some comment about it being millions less than what they charged and that the web hits had only doubled. The team of idiots then told us we must be getting our numbers from an unrelaiable ad auditing source and couldn't deal with the concept that our numbers were from the apache logs.
That sounds good. The Ciscos require stupid VPN tricks which seem to have holes in them and then something has to deal with routing the VPN's. Can I tell the HP2524 that ports 1->20 can only talk to port 21,22,23 but 21,22&23 can talk to anyone?
VPNs can be owned too so can "tursted" links to remote controled system. We had a (XP?) box deep inside our network get compromised with a virus that stayed in memory. It got there over a remote control system from another PC that was sometimes hooked to the net. The box deep inside the network then started hunting for other boxes to own, and it found a NT 4 server that could make outbound connections to the net and it set up a nice little email proxy. Lucky for me, my test network isn't as open as it appeared and my freebsd box clampled down on the outbound smtp traffic. A few new rules later (to let the SMTP traffic appear to go out) and the NT box was trying to spam AOL as fast as it could.
There are some tricky things out there that will take advantage of "internal trust" so my new rule is no PC talks to anything else but its samba, proxy or email server. Windows PC's can't talk to any other Windows PC.
The solid core ones tend to have an edge that hits the wire while the stranded ones tend to use two (or three) points that cut into the wire.
Some of the better solid ones have two blades that hit both sides of the wire. There are also cheap ones that happen to crimp into foil wire which tends to be found in the cheap flexiable cords used in phone handsets.
You also need to get the jacket shape right. They come in round and flat and short and long body. Most of the Rj11 ones are short and most of the RJ45s are long.
If you need this to work for years or decades, you have to do it right. Its like putting RJ11 into RJ45, it works till you need to use the outer two pins because they won't have the reliably of the middle 6.
If you put a 6 pin connector in the 8 pin, you will force the outer pins up too much and in the future won't work reliably when you put in an 8 pin latter.
If I offer 10 of my most leeaching customers 1 gig of space, I will need 10 gig of space... or will I? How much of that will be duplicated between at least two users and how much of it will be used by all 10? Remember Google already has copies off allmost all the useful stuff on the net. If you grab some random web page and mime attach it to email, thats going to waste space in my mailbox but if google can figure out that they already have all the images, as well as the text, its going to compress down to very little. For the 1st customers it requires a massive increase in needed disk space but at some point it starts dropping off. Sort of like how much stuff they have to index for the web and image searches.
You may need light winds to lauch them. If they can deal with higher winds, it can't can't deal with gusty winds and airplanes are very good at that. A typical airplane can land with 20km/hr change in wind direction in seconds while a large airship can't. People don't like having the weather close the airport for a few hours and with airships, you could wait days.
Does that people have started using the PDA features in their phones now?
The computer science building at Okie State got hit sometime in the late 80's and it took out everything inside it except the IBM big iron that was on a motor generator pair.
Florida gets lots of lighting strikes but the ones that Oklahoma tend to have far more energy and a direct strike from one of the big thunderstorms is going to take out lots of other stuff. I've seen sheet lightning that hit two different towers that were at least 60 miles apart.
I've seen one bit of gear damanged that was connected over fiber optic cable. It plastic jacket just happened to conduct enough that the millions of volts over the few hundred yards still zapped the mux on the other end.
Lightning is interesting stuff. The typical claims are a 100 million volts and up to 10,000 amps but there have been measured strikes at 100k amps and 1gv. One day someones going to get rich by solving how to store that energy.
A few years back on of my friends came to me and said "can you rewrite this from scratch and give me the results?" I told him sure, but its trvial I can can reuse code and he said no, use real data and rewirte it but don't use existing stuff. Aince the problem was simple enough, i did it from scratch and got his results. My code showed that the orginal stuff was bogas. This was about fractal dimention and the early work was a bit fudgeded but no one ever checked orginal work but kept dealing with the scam and/or wrong data.
The scary thing is what happens when your PhD advisor happend to do his papers on this subject.