The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
On a related note, does anyone know of a good list of IP addresses broken down by major ISP and/or country?
I was thinking, if UUNET and certain countries have a higher instance of spam, why not give messages from those IP's a slight disadvantage in spam scoring.
That's what I was thinking actually. Is the backbone that messed up?
On another note, why hasn't some greyhat decided, 'enough with these fucking botnets' and just start mass-formatting drives? I mean, the bots have root access, you CAN take the systems down.
Ok, because I have too much free time, I present the universal hot coffee mod patch.
Just run this batch file, make sure to include the video in the directory and change the last line to your actual executable.
After running, file complaint with ESRB that the game you are playing suddenly needs a rating of AO because of all the adult content added in.
Then sit back and think of all the damage you can do to the game section at WalMart, they will, of course, have to pull every title.
@echo off cls set/p coffeemod="Would you like some hot coffee? (y/n)" cls if %coffeemod% NEQ y goto:end start/WAIT hotcoffee.avi echo "Wow, that was some HOT COFFEE!" :end set coffeemod= pause game.exe
What we really need to do is capture the hot coffee mod to video, then start releasing patches for games like SimCity, Railroad Tycoon, Bejeweled, etc... It wouldn't be that hard, simple dialog box and then play the video file.
Surround everything in an exclusive lock, and problems will magically go away. Well, so will your performance, but lock lock lock lock lock, developers developers developers...nevermind.
Seriously though, being overly cautious with exclusive locking of resources will hurt performance but reduce the possibility of deadlocks and those all too entertaining memory corruption issues that we don't like to talk about (Example: don't delete the structure you are currently looping through... yeah, that wasn't smart, what was I thinking?). I like to start with a very conservative locking system and then go thru it a few hundred times to improve performance.
Mass transit is also unpleasant to use and generally very slow. Despite billions being thrown at it, mass transit still has an average market share of around 3%.
New York, DC and Chicago would outright disagree with that statement.
Since I live in New York, I can comment on New York.
New York has some of the best and most used mass-transit systems in the world. The Long Island Railroad is the biggest commuter rail system in the country. The New York City subway alone moves millions of people daily. In 2002 an average of 4.5 million passengers used the subway every weekday. Considering there are about 8 million people in NYC, you have 50%+ mass transit use daily. And yes, most New Yorkers would rather take the train or subway over driving.
More and bigger roads, logically enough, would be the better solution. Reducing congestion would save an enormous amount of money, almost certainly more than we could ever save from an impossible task like increasing mass transit market share to, say, 10%.
Most studies show the exact opposite. Increasing road capacity increases road usage. (You can Google for sources, I'm lazy and I already linked to an article in this post)
Mass transit is not the only solution to the disaster our roadways are turning into, it's just the best at the moment.
20 minute walk is not bad at all, but have you thought about a bicycle? It should cut your commute time to about 5 minutes and it's pretty good exercise.
An access point is, by definition, an extension of the Internet. The spectrum being used is by definition, unregulated spectrum.
So, does the county have the right to regulate a connection point to an interstate network? They do seem to put toll booths on the Interstate highway system, but they don't have the ability to force all trucks off the highway.
The only thing that troubles me is the inclusion of MSN.com in the list.
The other hosts are used in Microsoft's patch distribution network and honestly is not something the average user would ever need to block. It is, however, something a virus/spyware program would love to block. So, if you want to block those hosts, buy a firewall, they're down to about $20.
As for MSN, my only guess is that they don't want to block updates for MSN messenger.
What we have to remember is that these sites are required to fix a broken system, so I don't view this as just an advantage for MS antispyware.
This is not an "active x" problem, its a plug-in problem, that includes java. So, anyone who coded their website using any standard is hit with this change.
Further, everyone using an open-source browser won't have any problems. Lets talk about real business users and not hobbyists. Mozilla is a nice toy and all, and in a few years might be as good as Netscape was.
Which is really why if Dr. Doyle were on fire I wouldn't bother to pee on him to put it out.
Hey, lets stick it to M$ by fucking the endusers with a joke of a patent!
Great idea!
By this time next year it will be a non-issue which will have cost the web in whole a few billion dollars in retrofitting. Remember that when the IT budget next year is short and the average joe programmer gets laid off to some outsourcing group to save a few bucks.
Well, Doc, you made your statement (and a cool $500m), and you're going to un-employ a bunch of programmers for it.
Beta means mostly feature complete. Or is supposed to.
That's really a company by company definition and in many cases a project by project definition. While I agree with you, it should be a feature complete program with bugs that need to be worked out.
Microsoft, however, doesn't always follow that guideline and that is their decision. It's not right or wrong, it's just their decision. It's most likely why they plan to abandon the general 'beta cycle' completely, it makes more sense from their standpoint.
That being said, the first rule of reviewing a product is that you can't write a review of an unfinished product. You can preview it, and if you're using a preview as the only guide as to how the finished product will look then you are making a mistake.
IE7 still sucks although maybe not as bad as IE6 but with the extra benefit of being incompatible with IE6, Firefox, Opera, and Safari.
Oh great, your version of IE7 must be out of beta. Can I get a copy of the final? I've been wanting to try it, and since it's not due to be released until November, I didn't want to wait.
I'm fortunate enough to have an all Windows 2000/XP domain, the automatic DNS really makes things easier internally.
I even have a couple of old WINS servers running for the legacy clients, which don't exist anymore, which reminds me to turn off the WINS servers. Well, at least they integrate into DNS automatically.
Microsoft actually provides some easy to use and powerful DNS tools with Windows. Recently I had to add a batch of 35 domains to our hosted environment, was pretty easy with DNSCMD and a few batch files. For simple updates though, the GUI does a decent job.
Turining your point around, since when does email exist in a different universe than any other kind of mail?
If I shred my personal mail by running it through a shredder, it's gone. Why is it that if I "delete forever" my email, it's not gone?
Personally, I think it was a mistake on the part of the computer designers to allow things to be undeleted. The courts are just taking advantage of this flaw to uncover evidence they normally wouldn't have access to.
At one point, I renamed all the MFC DLLs in my system and then proceeded to try all the apps in my system to see which ones were dependant on MFC.
That test won't work, as the developer has the option to compile MFC into their application and ditch the dlls. (This may have changed since VS6.0, but I vaguely remember seeing it as an option in VS.NET 2002)
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I agree, if a majority of people agree that it's reasonable then the laws can be changed or the constitution amended.
So, as soon as it's put to a national vote, we can decide what to do. Until then, it's not legal.
We do not ignore the constitution because of the results of a random poll.
Amendment IV:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
On a related note, does anyone know of a good list of IP addresses broken down by major ISP and/or country?
I was thinking, if UUNET and certain countries have a higher instance of spam, why not give messages from those IP's a slight disadvantage in spam scoring.
That's what I was thinking actually. Is the backbone that messed up?
On another note, why hasn't some greyhat decided, 'enough with these fucking botnets' and just start mass-formatting drives? I mean, the bots have root access, you CAN take the systems down.
So, which Tier-1 ISP is having their name withheld? Any ideas?
Just run this batch file, make sure to include the video in the directory and change the last line to your actual executable.
After running, file complaint with ESRB that the game you are playing suddenly needs a rating of AO because of all the adult content added in.
Then sit back and think of all the damage you can do to the game section at WalMart, they will, of course, have to pull every title.
What we really need to do is capture the hot coffee mod to video, then start releasing patches for games like SimCity, Railroad Tycoon, Bejeweled, etc... It wouldn't be that hard, simple dialog box and then play the video file.
Then sit back and watch the ESRB implode.
Surround everything in an exclusive lock, and problems will magically go away. Well, so will your performance, but lock lock lock lock lock, developers developers developers...nevermind.
Seriously though, being overly cautious with exclusive locking of resources will hurt performance but reduce the possibility of deadlocks and those all too entertaining memory corruption issues that we don't like to talk about (Example: don't delete the structure you are currently looping through... yeah, that wasn't smart, what was I thinking?). I like to start with a very conservative locking system and then go thru it a few hundred times to improve performance.
Mass transit is also unpleasant to use and generally very slow. Despite billions being thrown at it, mass transit still has an average market share of around 3%.
New York, DC and Chicago would outright disagree with that statement.
Since I live in New York, I can comment on New York.
New York has some of the best and most used mass-transit systems in the world. The Long Island Railroad is the biggest commuter rail system in the country. The New York City subway alone moves millions of people daily. In 2002 an average of 4.5 million passengers used the subway every weekday. Considering there are about 8 million people in NYC, you have 50%+ mass transit use daily. And yes, most New Yorkers would rather take the train or subway over driving.
More and bigger roads, logically enough, would be the better solution. Reducing congestion would save an enormous amount of money, almost certainly more than we could ever save from an impossible task like increasing mass transit market share to, say, 10%.
Most studies show the exact opposite. Increasing road capacity increases road usage. (You can Google for sources, I'm lazy and I already linked to an article in this post)
Mass transit is not the only solution to the disaster our roadways are turning into, it's just the best at the moment.
20 minute walk is not bad at all, but have you thought about a bicycle? It should cut your commute time to about 5 minutes and it's pretty good exercise.
Interesting points:
An access point is, by definition, an extension of the Internet.
The spectrum being used is by definition, unregulated spectrum.
So, does the county have the right to regulate a connection point to an interstate network? They do seem to put toll booths on the Interstate highway system, but they don't have the ability to force all trucks off the highway.
Changing it to Andrew_Spano_is_an_ass would be much more entertaining.
The only thing that troubles me is the inclusion of MSN.com in the list.
The other hosts are used in Microsoft's patch distribution network and honestly is not something the average user would ever need to block. It is, however, something a virus/spyware program would love to block. So, if you want to block those hosts, buy a firewall, they're down to about $20.
As for MSN, my only guess is that they don't want to block updates for MSN messenger.
What we have to remember is that these sites are required to fix a broken system, so I don't view this as just an advantage for MS antispyware.
His loss.
Read at -1. The site is much more entertaining that way and I recommend it for everyone.
Seriously, there's a lot of interesting stuff going on below 1. Modding at higher levels does Slashdot a disservice.
Because causing long-term financial hardship to at least 9 people balances with causing short-term emotional hardship to one person.
Well, yes actually. It's why we have laws against harassment.
Heck, I think he should have sued for copyright infringement too.
Did you even read the article?
This is not an "active x" problem, its a plug-in problem, that includes java. So, anyone who coded their website using any standard is hit with this change.
Further, everyone using an open-source browser won't have any problems.
Lets talk about real business users and not hobbyists. Mozilla is a nice toy and all, and in a few years might be as good as Netscape was.
Which is really why if Dr. Doyle were on fire I wouldn't bother to pee on him to put it out.
Hey, lets stick it to M$ by fucking the endusers with a joke of a patent!
Great idea!
By this time next year it will be a non-issue which will have cost the web in whole a few billion dollars in retrofitting. Remember that when the IT budget next year is short and the average joe programmer gets laid off to some outsourcing group to save a few bucks.
Well, Doc, you made your statement (and a cool $500m), and you're going to un-employ a bunch of programmers for it.
Beta means mostly feature complete. Or is supposed to.
That's really a company by company definition and in many cases a project by project definition. While I agree with you, it should be a feature complete program with bugs that need to be worked out.
Microsoft, however, doesn't always follow that guideline and that is their decision. It's not right or wrong, it's just their decision. It's most likely why they plan to abandon the general 'beta cycle' completely, it makes more sense from their standpoint.
That being said, the first rule of reviewing a product is that you can't write a review of an unfinished product. You can preview it, and if you're using a preview as the only guide as to how the finished product will look then you are making a mistake.
IE7 still sucks although maybe not as bad as IE6 but with the extra benefit of being incompatible with IE6, Firefox, Opera, and Safari.
Oh great, your version of IE7 must be out of beta. Can I get a copy of the final? I've been wanting to try it, and since it's not due to be released until November, I didn't want to wait.
Fine, I'll make sure to move a plastic jumper from my old PC to my new one.
Now it's not a new computer, I just replaced some worn out (and now broken, due to some strange lack of jumpers) parts in my old PC.
Just because Microsoft says you can't do something doesn't mean they're right.
I'm fortunate enough to have an all Windows 2000/XP domain, the automatic DNS really makes things easier internally.
I even have a couple of old WINS servers running for the legacy clients, which don't exist anymore, which reminds me to turn off the WINS servers. Well, at least they integrate into DNS automatically.
Microsoft actually provides some easy to use and powerful DNS tools with Windows. Recently I had to add a batch of 35 domains to our hosted environment, was pretty easy with DNSCMD and a few batch files. For simple updates though, the GUI does a decent job.
I was talking in general terms, I thought that point would have gotten across.
Hey, on a side note, after your brain imploded, did you automatically get an AOL account? I'm just curious.
Turining your point around, since when does email exist in a different universe than any other kind of mail?
If I shred my personal mail by running it through a shredder, it's gone. Why is it that if I "delete forever" my email, it's not gone?
Personally, I think it was a mistake on the part of the computer designers to allow things to be undeleted. The courts are just taking advantage of this flaw to uncover evidence they normally wouldn't have access to.
At one point, I renamed all the MFC DLLs in my system and then proceeded to try all the apps in my system to see which ones were dependant on MFC.
That test won't work, as the developer has the option to compile MFC into their application and ditch the dlls. (This may have changed since VS6.0, but I vaguely remember seeing it as an option in VS.NET 2002)
the signing requirement only applies to kernel-level drivers
Hmm, I think that means no more Daemon tools.