They both look very similar. I was being a bit sarcastic. At a quick glance I prolly couldn't tell them apart but at a good long stare I think I could...;-)
Real solutions to spam [in decreasing order of success]
1. Not use SMTP, sounds like a shocker but like the doctor says "if it hurts don't do it".
2. honeypots can be used to waste spammers time
3. Absolutely don't reply to spam in any form
But the real problem is SMTP is not a reliable or robust protocol for the problem it tries to solve. The fact that people keep pushing it shows they're lazy.
But you don't have to abandon SMTP completely. Something as simple as hashcash could essentially eliminate spam.
Just nobody wants to actually implement it [re: think about a mozilla/thunderbird plugin that uses X-HEADERS to put/read hashcashes].
"I write software for a living, and guess what? I care about money more than software."
Then you have no craft and I pity you.
I too write software for a living. But I work on software that suits me [crypto/math] and since it's my cup of tea I do a good job at it.
Sure I want to get paid at the end of the day but doing a good job [e.g. craft] is just as important.
As to the general comments on capitalism on a whole... The problem with them is you live, do stuff then die. So if you're a musician, yes make a living off your craft but also enjoy and develop the craft.
Cuz really it's your life why lead it in a mass-commercialized form-fitted pre-packaged way?
Can you honestly tell the difference between jessica simpson and britney spears at a quick glance? I know I can't and I think that's intentional too....
Tom
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Hey, common you can treat people like crap, they'll do a good job in return and not just the absolute minimum! Honest!
Keep in mind during the dotcom boom many actually creative/innovative/perhaps not business worthy companies actually had things like real break areas, creative cubicles, music, gaming time, gyms, etc...
Now all those things are "anti-productive" and evil again...
Let you in on a little hint buddy, even nvidias drivers have that warning...
It shouldn't be upto a little logo to say whether it's tested or not... That's my whole friggin point.
Just do a good job at writing the drivers and making the hardware. Quality can often speak for itself [e.g. ATI is usually faster but yet people still buy nvidia... imagine that].
Yeah, that's it. Or... the other possiblity is people write shit drivers...
Though I readily admit I'm incapable of using windows for long periods of time. Outside of nix/linux I get a strong hate of all mankind cuz the OS is just so damn crippled...
In anycase I'm running a Gentoo AMD64 box [in 64-bit mode no less] using all the hardware I had running in windows with ZERO problems. I have yet to actually crash my box.
As for hardware specs... on an i386 class box [which includes pretty much everything even the x86_64] the PCI bus is accessible through MMIO and I/O ports.
This doesn't change just because you're in BSD or Linux.
Sure the actual code may change due to the organization of the respective kernels but the hardware manual which explains how the device works is applicable to both.
[*] A typical ploy is to change the mapping on a wifi card so that version X-1 drivers don't work. It's not that the developer actually fix things or improve it otherwise just to make sure the OSS crowd is always at least one step behind.
You're kidding right? Basically every component of my computer has crashed windows at one point in time.
Faulty 3d drivers, crash the thing going from a D3d game to desktop.
Faulty hauppage drivers lock up the tv viewer and can make the machine unstable
Faulty cpu drivers [I kid you not] from via for the AMD64 make it crash on bootup [don't have my exact mobo model off the top of my head but it's an ASUS K8V I think].
Granted things work [for the most part] more smoothly in windows but that is ONLY because they write drivers for it. If they spent event a quarter of their time/money on Linux/BSD drivers we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Can't you not have any "ism" and just do good things from time to time?
Frankly, I'm not 100% all the time and I slack off from time to time. But when I do something I intend to share with others I often put a good amount of effort into it.
The problem is way too many people are just not interested in doing a good job.
See the trick is to replace "greedy" with capitalist.
It's all about making more money. Nobody does anything for the actual progress or requirement of it anymore. I mean banks QoS goes down [e.g. fewer hours, more rude tellers] but the fees go up?
I could see if the QoS was going up as well.
Essentially the capitalistic workforce has nothing todo with doing a good job.
So you live your life in mediocrity trying to value your life by the amount of monies you accumulate.
But as this article is proving is "no you don't have to have talent to forge".
And smart cards you're talking about are WAY better than what we have here [america]. First off, having the card doesn't net you anything. You need the pin to get it todo anything.
Second, the reader doesn't get anything useful off you. This stops magreader thieves from stealing your card info.
Third, you actually need the pin to make it work.
I think guessing a 4 digit pin is harder than writing "shamoo" on a receipt...
Um, I'd say it's the otherway around. I was in France recently and you could easily point out [at the airport] the american gaggle [to be fair mostly teenagers] from the rest of the 200 people in the gate.
Totally loud, obnoxious and generally being little brats. And of course none of them would shut up during the ENTIRE EIGHT HOUR FLIGHT BACK....
I look at Mensa as I look at the "gifted" kids when I was in school.
Not very smart but able to memorize a chapter of a math text before a test. Ask them to use the information practically or to extrapolate from it...
I was in the gifted stream for half a semester in grade 8 [way back in the day]. We had todo indy projcts. I wrote a BBS in pascal. The average other student did a collage on something they read about....Basically little kiddy projects.
I've met a Mensa dude before [friend of family actually] and while he's a nice dude and all I don't particularly look at him as an above average intelligence person...
So go ahead MSFT, sponsor Mensa. Instead of actually ***doing*** crafty things you can sponsor people who just think highly of themselves...
I just don't see this as true. There is WAY more hardware in the OOE engine, cache, etc then a simple ADD or CMP opcode hardware. I mean how complicated do you think a 64-bit addition is? Compare that to the hardware to control a 12-stage three pipeline ALU with a massive decoder front end...
In fact the AthlonXP and Athlon64 share a similar design for the most part (the 64 has more "directpath opcodes" and uses a larger window, etc).
So you'd think "more bits == more power" but it's not the case. If anything my Athlon64 runs cooler than a similar clocked Barton core.
Part of the reason is the 64 uses a lower voltage but it also has better idle power saving than the Barton. Recall that when the Barton idles the core is still running NOPs or HLTs at full speed. You have to disconnect the southbridge [iirc] to actually get the cpu to stop executing opcodes.
That may sound "rational" but in 64-bit mode you get more registers and the core is more efficient [hint: think more idle time]. So in reality you spend less time doing regular stuff such as handling interupts, handling a filesystem, decoding network packets, etc...
My NewCastle 3200+ sits idling at 1Ghz most of the day [except when issuing a build or playing a game] and roasts at a blistering... 28C [about 8C over ambient].
My P4 [Northwood 2.8Ghz] would idle at a reduced clockrate (as low as cpuspeedy would allow) around 35C [15C over ambient].
Similarly on the laptop front... my Athlon XP-M and my brothers Pentium M [both Compaq Presario series, his 2 years newer than mine] get the SAME battery life at idle.
What they're missing over and over and over again is that screen, motherboard components, memory, hard disks consume a chunk of power. So "small" boosts in cpu efficiency usually don't translate to huge battery life extensions...
What they really should test are things like
1. How many times you can build a kernel [from fresh] on battery life before it dies.
2. How many minutes of HL2 can you run through a demo.
3. How long you can run a "MS Word" style demo [e.g. adding text, inserting things]....... etc....
That would show off "efficiency" since the more you can do the better. Who cares if the laptop will live for 98 hours if it takes you 7 hours to build a kernel or inserting a 12KB clipart takes 45 minutes...
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They both look very similar. I was being a bit sarcastic. At a quick glance I prolly couldn't tell them apart but at a good long stare I think I could... ;-)
Tom
it's like a habit that I got into back in the day and didn't break...
like replying to trolls on slashdot.
think about it.
American beer sucks period. Pretty much every other country [prolly including Iraq] has better beer.
If you guys stopped watering it down it'd taste prolly a lot better.
Tom
Real solutions to spam [in decreasing order of success]
1. Not use SMTP, sounds like a shocker but like the doctor says "if it hurts don't do it".
2. honeypots can be used to waste spammers time
3. Absolutely don't reply to spam in any form
But the real problem is SMTP is not a reliable or robust protocol for the problem it tries to solve. The fact that people keep pushing it shows they're lazy.
But you don't have to abandon SMTP completely. Something as simple as hashcash could essentially eliminate spam.
Just nobody wants to actually implement it [re: think about a mozilla/thunderbird plugin that uses X-HEADERS to put/read hashcashes].
Tom
whoops. Thanks. I make that mistake often....
... on." ... nevermind...
"I mean come on guys, come
Tom
"I write software for a living, and guess what? I care about money more than software."
Then you have no craft and I pity you.
I too write software for a living. But I work on software that suits me [crypto/math] and since it's my cup of tea I do a good job at it.
Sure I want to get paid at the end of the day but doing a good job [e.g. craft] is just as important.
As to the general comments on capitalism on a whole... The problem with them is you live, do stuff then die. So if you're a musician, yes make a living off your craft but also enjoy and develop the craft.
Cuz really it's your life why lead it in a mass-commercialized form-fitted pre-packaged way?
Can you honestly tell the difference between jessica simpson and britney spears at a quick glance? I know I can't and I think that's intentional too....
Tom
Hey, common you can treat people like crap, they'll do a good job in return and not just the absolute minimum! Honest!
Keep in mind during the dotcom boom many actually creative/innovative/perhaps not business worthy companies actually had things like real break areas, creative cubicles, music, gaming time, gyms, etc...
Now all those things are "anti-productive" and evil again...
Tom
What expensive hardware with cheap drivers?
Let you in on a little hint buddy, even nvidias drivers have that warning...
It shouldn't be upto a little logo to say whether it's tested or not... That's my whole friggin point.
Just do a good job at writing the drivers and making the hardware. Quality can often speak for itself [e.g. ATI is usually faster but yet people still buy nvidia... imagine that].
Tom
Yeah, that's it. Or ... the other possiblity is people write shit drivers...
Though I readily admit I'm incapable of using windows for long periods of time. Outside of nix/linux I get a strong hate of all mankind cuz the OS is just so damn crippled...
In anycase I'm running a Gentoo AMD64 box [in 64-bit mode no less] using all the hardware I had running in windows with ZERO problems. I have yet to actually crash my box.
Can't say that for Windows.
tom
You missed the point. The little "designed for WinXP" logo is totally meaningless.
... that's totally different from being "rock stable robust in winxp" which most things are not.
Sure it "works" in winxp
Tom
POSIX.1 ... nuff said.
As for hardware specs... on an i386 class box [which includes pretty much everything even the x86_64] the PCI bus is accessible through MMIO and I/O ports.
This doesn't change just because you're in BSD or Linux.
Sure the actual code may change due to the organization of the respective kernels but the hardware manual which explains how the device works is applicable to both.
The biggest problem with most hardware is
1. Undocummented hardware
2. "pointless revisions" [*]
[*] A typical ploy is to change the mapping on a wifi card so that version X-1 drivers don't work. It's not that the developer actually fix things or improve it otherwise just to make sure the OSS crowd is always at least one step behind.
Tom
buahahahahaha hahahahahahahahah buahahaha muahahahahahh
You're kidding right? Basically every component of my computer has crashed windows at one point in time.
Faulty 3d drivers, crash the thing going from a D3d game to desktop.
Faulty hauppage drivers lock up the tv viewer and can make the machine unstable
Faulty cpu drivers [I kid you not] from via for the AMD64 make it crash on bootup [don't have my exact mobo model off the top of my head but it's an ASUS K8V I think].
Granted things work [for the most part] more smoothly in windows but that is ONLY because they write drivers for it. If they spent event a quarter of their time/money on Linux/BSD drivers we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Tom
Typical response.
Can't you not have any "ism" and just do good things from time to time?
Frankly, I'm not 100% all the time and I slack off from time to time. But when I do something I intend to share with others I often put a good amount of effort into it.
The problem is way too many people are just not interested in doing a good job.
My sig is verbatim copied from an old kernel. Maybe Linus meant 508 or whatever but that's not what he wrote.
Tom
See the trick is to replace "greedy" with capitalist.
It's all about making more money. Nobody does anything for the actual progress or requirement of it anymore. I mean banks QoS goes down [e.g. fewer hours, more rude tellers] but the fees go up?
I could see if the QoS was going up as well.
Essentially the capitalistic workforce has nothing todo with doing a good job.
So you live your life in mediocrity trying to value your life by the amount of monies you accumulate.
Go humanity!
Tom
But as this article is proving is "no you don't have to have talent to forge".
And smart cards you're talking about are WAY better than what we have here [america]. First off, having the card doesn't net you anything. You need the pin to get it todo anything.
Second, the reader doesn't get anything useful off you. This stops magreader thieves from stealing your card info.
Third, you actually need the pin to make it work.
I think guessing a 4 digit pin is harder than writing "shamoo" on a receipt...
Tom
Um, I'd say it's the otherway around. I was in France recently and you could easily point out [at the airport] the american gaggle [to be fair mostly teenagers] from the rest of the 200 people in the gate.
Totally loud, obnoxious and generally being little brats. And of course none of them would shut up during the ENTIRE EIGHT HOUR FLIGHT BACK....
"Jenifer!! OH JENIFER LOOK HERE!!! PAY ATTENTION!!! JENIFER!!!"
all I wanted todo is go up and start a hate crime or two...
Tom
Which is one reason why a university education is largely a scam anyways.
The schools are out to rape the students out of their money, the student then pick this up and only attend to "boost their earnings potential".
Which is why I give humanity all of about 50-75 more years [75 being generous] before we're reduced to cave paintings and hair on our backs.
Tom
Picky, aren't ya?
And WTF 2 billion? Is it actually *WORTH* that? I mean it's a crappy search engine tied to a database and a couple 486 DX's running the server...
I mean hell just the HARDWARE that google owns is worth more than all that Ask Jeeves can put together [hardware/software and IP wise].
I don't even think we're dealing with "real life" anymore. I mean why not just sell it for a billion cajillion dollars?
And you can be sure that your "ticket fees" and other assorted fees at InterActive will get a nice "update" after this.
Tom
Bingo. I think of Mensans as I think of the average "school work sucks" type.
People not using their potential is just annoying.
Tom
I look at Mensa as I look at the "gifted" kids when I was in school.
Not very smart but able to memorize a chapter of a math text before a test. Ask them to use the information practically or to extrapolate from it...
I was in the gifted stream for half a semester in grade 8 [way back in the day]. We had todo indy projcts. I wrote a BBS in pascal. The average other student did a collage on something they read about....Basically little kiddy projects.
I've met a Mensa dude before [friend of family actually] and while he's a nice dude and all I don't particularly look at him as an above average intelligence person...
So go ahead MSFT, sponsor Mensa. Instead of actually ***doing*** crafty things you can sponsor people who just think highly of themselves...
Tom
I just don't see this as true. There is WAY more hardware in the OOE engine, cache, etc then a simple ADD or CMP opcode hardware. I mean how complicated do you think a 64-bit addition is? Compare that to the hardware to control a 12-stage three pipeline ALU with a massive decoder front end...
In fact the AthlonXP and Athlon64 share a similar design for the most part (the 64 has more "directpath opcodes" and uses a larger window, etc).
So you'd think "more bits == more power" but it's not the case. If anything my Athlon64 runs cooler than a similar clocked Barton core.
Part of the reason is the 64 uses a lower voltage but it also has better idle power saving than the Barton. Recall that when the Barton idles the core is still running NOPs or HLTs at full speed. You have to disconnect the southbridge [iirc] to actually get the cpu to stop executing opcodes.
How can you expect privacy when you're giving your info to another person?
Microsoft didn't force you to login to hotmail. And the fact that you happen to have private information there is your own damn fault.
It would be different if your ISP was giving out your emails or other details since you pay them for the service...
And you really don't think Google isn't laughing at the stock of "private" information stored in their gmail archives?
Tom
That website is gay, like 900 ads on it... And of course, 30 words per page so you have to reload a billion ads to read the article.
;-)
... get a real job.
Then you're saying "well you don't have to read that site..." you're right. I didn't and I won't.
I'm all for a banner ad or two but when you're just blatantly looking for ad hits and it's an article about CD BURNING
Tom
That may sound "rational" but in 64-bit mode you get more registers and the core is more efficient [hint: think more idle time]. So in reality you spend less time doing regular stuff such as handling interupts, handling a filesystem, decoding network packets, etc...
... 28C [about 8C over ambient].
... etc....
My NewCastle 3200+ sits idling at 1Ghz most of the day [except when issuing a build or playing a game] and roasts at a blistering
My P4 [Northwood 2.8Ghz] would idle at a reduced clockrate (as low as cpuspeedy would allow) around 35C [15C over ambient].
Similarly on the laptop front... my Athlon XP-M and my brothers Pentium M [both Compaq Presario series, his 2 years newer than mine] get the SAME battery life at idle.
What they're missing over and over and over again is that screen, motherboard components, memory, hard disks consume a chunk of power. So "small" boosts in cpu efficiency usually don't translate to huge battery life extensions...
What they really should test are things like
1. How many times you can build a kernel [from fresh] on battery life before it dies.
2. How many minutes of HL2 can you run through a demo.
3. How long you can run a "MS Word" style demo [e.g. adding text, inserting things]....
That would show off "efficiency" since the more you can do the better. Who cares if the laptop will live for 98 hours if it takes you 7 hours to build a kernel or inserting a 12KB clipart takes 45 minutes...
Tom