LOL, I agree. Too bad his info isn't on spanhaus, I was planning on adding it here...
That aside, this guy is a total scumbag. Any cop who is fired for selling drugs and then becomes a spammer gives a perfect image of the integrity level of spammers. His assertion that spammers level the marketing playing field is total garbage. Any company who has to disguise their address and use deception is not one working in the ethical realm.
At some point, these slimy jerks are going to get what they deserve. I just hope I'm there to see it...
Ah yes, but here's where consumer protection can come in. Telemarketers don't cost the phone company when you call, but SPAM costs ISPs. The corporate muscle may work in our favor there.
Otherwise I agree, but we may be seeing some changes. The most recent political debacles, from Clinton to the election to Enron (and friends) is encouraging some more voter interest (I hope) and the result is items like the national no-call list and the FTC thinking about taking on SPAM. At least I assume they are, why else would they have the uce@ftc.gov?
I needn't have responded. I cuold have read your post!
There is some work to do the same type of work with the visual pathway. The work is centering around people who have had brain damage and lost certian processing centers in the brain. It's been a while since I read much about it, but they were looking at lower order functions such as recognizing vertical and horizontal patterns.
Any of the higher order functions, like seeing motion, tracking moving objects, and advanced pattern recoognition, etc is WAY out there...
It's more complex than that. The brain has pathways which are established and grow from birth to I THINK around 4-5 years of age. Any new cells would have to bind their neuro-transmitters and receptors properly and then establish proper pathway "weights" (how to respond to incoming signals from different cells)
Still an interesting idea. But I've read about some neurological stem cell experiments and I don't remember them going well... Although the last was over a year ago, so take that with a grain of salt
The statements you make are interesting. I work in a very high (and heavy, as in computation intensive) environment. The debate is the maturity and capability of commercial *nixes vs. the flexability of Linux
I really thought that we would be mostly AIX on larger p Series IBM machines. But as we're going, it looks like we'll be clustering and/or looking to divide processing among a large number of the new blade servers (Dell or Sun).
Linux is certianly not as capable as an AIX, but it's cheaper (even with purchased support), easier to admin, and will handle almost all tasks we need it to do admirably. The solution doesn't need to be perfect and Linux means we're not painting ourselves into a corner with a commercial product that will be hard to migrate from.
AIX is probably "better" from a purely technical standpoint, but overall, flexability wins out
I think your comparisions with bulk mail are faulty. A SPAMMER is able to function because they can send millions of messages with little cost. EVERY interview with SPAMMERS, from/. to business magazines to 20/20, has them stating this. They can send out _millions_ of e-mails with virtually NO COST per message.
Therefore, by their own admission, if you can increase the amount it costs spammers to send messages you reduce their ability to make money and reduce the amount of SPAM. A model like this is particularly effective. Why? Because SPAMMERS can't make it up by increasing the amount of SPAM they send! The cost of.000001 cents / message can never be re-attained. They are charged per message!
Further, bulk mail costs postage PLUS what is costs to produce the physical mail. This requires a significant investment which means the sender must have some viable product. Hence, the quality of product in bulk mail vs. SPAM don't compare.
Of course, we could always line up and shoot the bastards... Kidding! Well, kinda...
Not wanting to get into conflict, but I think your expamples are lacking somewhat in that they were supporting dubious ends. Such as breaking copy protection laws. There are 2 sides to that story, even if the RIAA may be spawned from h3ll, they do have some laws behind them.
Almost all applications of the law in legal situations have been anti-competitive in nature. I'm not totally certian RIAA has used the DMCA in its copyright ingringement suits! But the applications we have seen were geared towards disallowing any competitive products to enter the market...
Oh, it's not that bad. Set your threshold higher and you'll see better comments filtered in. Sure, there's karma whoring, but there are some intelligent people on this board. I'm not saying I'm one of them, BTW.
Also, if you go with the more technical articles as opposed to the emotionally charged ones, there are more intelligent comments. I admit it though, even I get sucked into the flame throwing stories from time to time...
OK, here we go. For 2002, part of 2001 and right now there is/was no shortage. For years before there WAS. That's was started the whole H1B thing. Presently things are picking up. Recruiter calls are starting again.
You personally are having problems finding tech work as well.
No, I'm not, I already stated that. Try that reading thing I mentioned earlier
Unemployment problems have been in the news so much over the past blah - blah - blah
And we are in one of the worst downturns in the past 15-20 years, yet unemployment is below %6. Most European countries are above %10. Granted it's an issue, but keep some perspective. When the economy turns (which it's SLOWLY showing signs of doing) even to moderate growth, we may be in a similar situation as before. Even in the downturn, the folks I know who were good and had desired skill sets (tech or no tech), weren't unemployed for more than a few months.
What are you supposed to say to a person like this? It seems tragic. Like the mouse telling his friends how nice the cat is, and does so through a chewed up face, while standing on one leg.
Does Solaris x-86 have good SMP? Last I used it (about 2 years ago) is was definately the unloved OS of Sun.
It didn't have proper J2EE support and in general didn't perform very well. We did a Java test with Windows (completely unscientific, granted) and it ran neck-and-neck to a little slower. I was annoyed and installed Linux (2.4 kernel had just come out) which did better.
Of course this was on a single CPU system, so SMP could well have been a different story.
Wait, hold on. You're comparing the US with a country who pays the families of suicide bombers $20K? You're comparing the US with a country who's used poison gas on its own people? You're comparing the US with a country who has terrorist camps?
Enlighten me, what terrorists do we support? If you say Isreal, I don't know if I'll laugh or cry...
For all the name calling you just did, you didn't address a thing I stated. NOBODY, Democrat or Republican (with the possible exception of the Socialist Rep or Senator from VT) is doing anything to stop the flow of H1Bs.
H1Bs discplace American workers.
Can you read? Colleges are putting out FEWER engineering grads every year. So we have FEWER people who who have skills to perform technical tasks. Is THAT so hard to understand?
I'm trying to discuss things. And everytime some political zombie...
No you're not. You're throwing the very bombshells you've accused me of doing. Now I remember why I usually ignore ACs
Are you kidding? Computer Eng degree, 4 years of college, little debt, I played rugby and was in a fraternity. I've had long work-weeks, but mostly about 40 hours and my pay is certianly higher than most of the people I went to school with. Crappy bosses are ubiquitous, as are layoffs. Career path? Yeah, I'm looking to get into mgmt or something new. Not because I HAVE to, because I'm looking for something new.
Democrat comment? Fine, whatever. NOBODY has tried to curtail H1Bs. For the very reason I stated.
Tax cuts for the rich aren't going to get the economy going. Rich people don't spend their money, especially when the economy is poor
The rich pay the VAST majority of taxes. Increasing disposable income will help stimulate the economy. This is econ 101 stuff, you have nothing to back your statements about "rich people don't spend their money". That is totally absurd. How do they buy those oversized houses and expensive cars? Magic?
Wow, quite a rant. It sounds good, it really does. Here's the little issue you somehow missed:
IRAQ supports terrorists and is trying to build nukes
Do you understand that? Do you think that if Iraq had nuclear weapons they would keep them from al Qaeda? If Al Qaeda had one do you think they would hesitate to use it? They tried to buy one from the Russians. Remember that?
Hussien has shown a remarkable lack of restraint as to what weapons and tactics he will use, as have terrorists. Remember a little incedent about a year and a half ago? Around September 11th?
THAT'S why he's doing this, genius. I would think it would be obvious.
This is possibly one of the dumbest things I have ever read, I don't blame you for posting as an AC. Even your beloved Democrats have done NOTHING to stem the flow of H1B. Understand? NOTHING.
The issue is that as much as people bitch and complain, the US is turning out fewer and fewer college grads with engineering degrees every year. This was true even during the.com bubble when any clown who could correctly spell Java was given multiple offers.
Further, I was unemployed and I DO support him. I may not agree with everything he does, but he has taken decisive action to stop terrorism and attempt to get this economy going. Has he been successful? Yes and no, we haven't had any more attacks and tax cuts (for whomever) is becoming one of the ONLY ways we're going to get the economy going again. Greenspan can only drop the interest rates so low...
I dunno. I think this is sign of greater problems. After the bubble, we had almost indiscriminate staff cuts. I don't think most companies presently have the staff to, as you put it, exercise solid system administration.
Where I work, I'm struggling to keep things together. We simply don't have the staff to do things as I would like. When a PM asked me what process we used to ensure OS and application patches were up to date on our dev and test machines, I laughed.
Literally, not out of spite or disrespect, simply b/c it's a joke to think that we have the bandwidth to address anything beyond present fires, project(s) needs and new projects coming on...
I'm confused on the BSD is dying mantra. What about OSX? I'm also beginning to see support from HW vendors. IBM has FreeBSD drivers for ther x345 servers included with the machines. MS (quietly) supports it (since it runs the core of hotmail).
Slowly commercial vendors are supporting BSD. Maybe some of the smaller BSD distros are in trouble, but ones like FreeBSD have more support and visibility than you think...
Then the courts restrict business that can occur in the US. France put restrictions on Yahoo! when Yahoo! was selling stuff in France they didn't like.
The same can occur here. It's illegal to sell, trade, or barter any product or service which uses SPAM as a marketing/advertising mechanism.
Perfect? No. But it will stop a LOT of the issues and MOST IMPORTANTLY, increase the cost of SPAM. The only reason SPAM works is that it is so cheap, 1 hit per million is profitable. If you increase the cost, the economics are against SPAMers...
Sorry! Nevermind. I mis-read your post. I thought you were stating that lots of mini-RIAAs may overwhelm the P2P players.
Wow, that lobotomy really worked...
As for musicians. I think they'll be OK. Even when I get music online, I'll typically buy the CD if there's more than 1 or 2 good songs on it. The quality of most MP3s just isn't good enough in general.
If a bunch of mini RIAAs pop up, there won't be much of a an anti P2P problem, because they'll probably be too busy fighting eachother.
Uhhh, I'm not sure how this would work. RIAA is supproted by the music industry, RIAA is only powerful b/c it has the combined support of the industry. Huge amounts of money are important to go through all the litigation they are going through. Smaller entitites would lack the necessary funding to take on these kinds of, and number of, lawsuits to stop music "sharing".
Not in Colorado. If it's not you - no ticket. Either way, we're going down an irrelevant track here.
I think groups will start to cry privacy and that will increase public outrage. It's a stretch, but the concept of RIAA being able to track you down in the same manner as law enforcement is not desireable.
This is another nail in the RIAA PR coffin. The problem will come when the labels can't really seperate themselves from RIAA. Right now RIAA is the enemy, not Mercury, Death-Row, Virgin, etc...
What needs to happen is that we start identifying RIAA more closely with their task masters. Once the labels start getting bad press this heavy-handed technique may change...
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That aside, this guy is a total scumbag. Any cop who is fired for selling drugs and then becomes a spammer gives a perfect image of the integrity level of spammers. His assertion that spammers level the marketing playing field is total garbage. Any company who has to disguise their address and use deception is not one working in the ethical realm.
At some point, these slimy jerks are going to get what they deserve. I just hope I'm there to see it...
Otherwise I agree, but we may be seeing some changes. The most recent political debacles, from Clinton to the election to Enron (and friends) is encouraging some more voter interest (I hope) and the result is items like the national no-call list and the FTC thinking about taking on SPAM. At least I assume they are, why else would they have the uce@ftc.gov?
Granted, this may be optimistic...
There is some work to do the same type of work with the visual pathway. The work is centering around people who have had brain damage and lost certian processing centers in the brain. It's been a while since I read much about it, but they were looking at lower order functions such as recognizing vertical and horizontal patterns.
Any of the higher order functions, like seeing motion, tracking moving objects, and advanced pattern recoognition, etc is WAY out there...
Good post, though
Still an interesting idea. But I've read about some neurological stem cell experiments and I don't remember them going well... Although the last was over a year ago, so take that with a grain of salt
Finally, if you want to look at porn, look at porn. If your religion forbids it, well, that sucks...
And that's what the situation is here. It is VOLUNTARY and people are doing this so they are ACCOUNTABLE to their faith.
If you enjoy pr0n and aren't ashamed, then don't use this software! That's a hard one to figure out...
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I really thought that we would be mostly AIX on larger p Series IBM machines. But as we're going, it looks like we'll be clustering and/or looking to divide processing among a large number of the new blade servers (Dell or Sun).
Linux is certianly not as capable as an AIX, but it's cheaper (even with purchased support), easier to admin, and will handle almost all tasks we need it to do admirably. The solution doesn't need to be perfect and Linux means we're not painting ourselves into a corner with a commercial product that will be hard to migrate from.
AIX is probably "better" from a purely technical standpoint, but overall, flexability wins out
Therefore, by their own admission, if you can increase the amount it costs spammers to send messages you reduce their ability to make money and reduce the amount of SPAM. A model like this is particularly effective. Why? Because SPAMMERS can't make it up by increasing the amount of SPAM they send! The cost of .000001 cents / message can never be re-attained. They are charged per message!
Further, bulk mail costs postage PLUS what is costs to produce the physical mail. This requires a significant investment which means the sender must have some viable product. Hence, the quality of product in bulk mail vs. SPAM don't compare.
Of course, we could always line up and shoot the bastards... Kidding! Well, kinda...
Almost all applications of the law in legal situations have been anti-competitive in nature. I'm not totally certian RIAA has used the DMCA in its copyright ingringement suits! But the applications we have seen were geared towards disallowing any competitive products to enter the market...
Also, if you go with the more technical articles as opposed to the emotionally charged ones, there are more intelligent comments. I admit it though, even I get sucked into the flame throwing stories from time to time...
I do, it's under "research".
You personally are having problems finding tech work as well.
No, I'm not, I already stated that. Try that reading thing I mentioned earlier
Unemployment problems have been in the news so much over the past blah - blah - blah
And we are in one of the worst downturns in the past 15-20 years, yet unemployment is below %6. Most European countries are above %10. Granted it's an issue, but keep some perspective. When the economy turns (which it's SLOWLY showing signs of doing) even to moderate growth, we may be in a similar situation as before. Even in the downturn, the folks I know who were good and had desired skill sets (tech or no tech), weren't unemployed for more than a few months.
What are you supposed to say to a person like this? It seems tragic. Like the mouse telling his friends how nice the cat is, and does so through a chewed up face, while standing on one leg.
What does this even mean?
It didn't have proper J2EE support and in general didn't perform very well. We did a Java test with Windows (completely unscientific, granted) and it ran neck-and-neck to a little slower. I was annoyed and installed Linux (2.4 kernel had just come out) which did better.
Of course this was on a single CPU system, so SMP could well have been a different story.
Enlighten me, what terrorists do we support? If you say Isreal, I don't know if I'll laugh or cry...
H1Bs discplace American workers.
Can you read? Colleges are putting out FEWER engineering grads every year. So we have FEWER people who who have skills to perform technical tasks. Is THAT so hard to understand?
I'm trying to discuss things. And everytime some political zombie...
No you're not. You're throwing the very bombshells you've accused me of doing. Now I remember why I usually ignore ACs
Democrat comment? Fine, whatever. NOBODY has tried to curtail H1Bs. For the very reason I stated.
Tax cuts for the rich aren't going to get the economy going. Rich people don't spend their money, especially when the economy is poor
The rich pay the VAST majority of taxes. Increasing disposable income will help stimulate the economy. This is econ 101 stuff, you have nothing to back your statements about "rich people don't spend their money". That is totally absurd. How do they buy those oversized houses and expensive cars? Magic?
IRAQ supports terrorists and is trying to build nukes
Do you understand that? Do you think that if Iraq had nuclear weapons they would keep them from al Qaeda? If Al Qaeda had one do you think they would hesitate to use it? They tried to buy one from the Russians. Remember that?
Hussien has shown a remarkable lack of restraint as to what weapons and tactics he will use, as have terrorists. Remember a little incedent about a year and a half ago? Around September 11th?
THAT'S why he's doing this, genius. I would think it would be obvious.
The issue is that as much as people bitch and complain, the US is turning out fewer and fewer college grads with engineering degrees every year. This was true even during the .com bubble when any clown who could correctly spell Java was given multiple offers.
Further, I was unemployed and I DO support him. I may not agree with everything he does, but he has taken decisive action to stop terrorism and attempt to get this economy going. Has he been successful? Yes and no, we haven't had any more attacks and tax cuts (for whomever) is becoming one of the ONLY ways we're going to get the economy going again. Greenspan can only drop the interest rates so low...
Where I work, I'm struggling to keep things together. We simply don't have the staff to do things as I would like. When a PM asked me what process we used to ensure OS and application patches were up to date on our dev and test machines, I laughed.
Literally, not out of spite or disrespect, simply b/c it's a joke to think that we have the bandwidth to address anything beyond present fires, project(s) needs and new projects coming on...
Slowly commercial vendors are supporting BSD. Maybe some of the smaller BSD distros are in trouble, but ones like FreeBSD have more support and visibility than you think...
The same can occur here. It's illegal to sell, trade, or barter any product or service which uses SPAM as a marketing/advertising mechanism.
Perfect? No. But it will stop a LOT of the issues and MOST IMPORTANTLY, increase the cost of SPAM. The only reason SPAM works is that it is so cheap, 1 hit per million is profitable. If you increase the cost, the economics are against SPAMers...
Wow, that lobotomy really worked...
As for musicians. I think they'll be OK. Even when I get music online, I'll typically buy the CD if there's more than 1 or 2 good songs on it. The quality of most MP3s just isn't good enough in general.
Uhhh, I'm not sure how this would work. RIAA is supproted by the music industry, RIAA is only powerful b/c it has the combined support of the industry. Huge amounts of money are important to go through all the litigation they are going through. Smaller entitites would lack the necessary funding to take on these kinds of, and number of, lawsuits to stop music "sharing".
Mini-RIAAs would be impotent
This is another nail in the RIAA PR coffin. The problem will come when the labels can't really seperate themselves from RIAA. Right now RIAA is the enemy, not Mercury, Death-Row, Virgin, etc...
What needs to happen is that we start identifying RIAA more closely with their task masters. Once the labels start getting bad press this heavy-handed technique may change...
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