I guess there goes the whole ecosystem. Not the Novell being sold part, but the "intellectual properties" (patents, copyrights, patents) going to the M$-led group. It looks like there could be potential litigation out of that group who would want to maximize their "gain". I think the time is NOW to ban all software patents! Any more delay or foot dragging will kill the IT industry.
Well, I was wrong. I was looking at another patent:-(. The patent they are referring to would have prior art for sure. Again, I have it blogged at harishpillay.livejournal.com.
IANAL, but if you read the specifications as indicated in http://www.epatents.gov.sg/GTemp/2005038815.zip, you will see that it is about an encrypted signed image/video/logo/trademark/whatever for which you need a browser plugin and a server-side code to make the whole thing work. If you are not doing any of those things, there should not be any issue. Wasted a couple of hours reading the specs.
You should not have identified as being an employee of DSTA, but then again it is your choice (and no I don't work for the DSTA, but do live down the road from them).
I think you are correct in your assessment of the role of innovation and it is quite clearly and well stated by Alexis De Tocqueville's book "Democracy in America" - which he wrote in the 1830s - in which he states:
"When a private individual meditates an undertaking, however directly connected it may be with the welfare of society, he never thinks of soliciting the co-operation of the Government, but he publishes his plan, offers to execute it himself, courts the assistance of other individuals, and struggles manfully against all obstacles. Undoubtedly he is often less successful than the State might have been in his position; but in the end the sum of these private undertakings far exceeds all that the Government could have done."[1]
Even if spammers figure out greylisting, the reality is that they are paid on number of emails sent, not how many were delivered successfully. Given that, then, it does not make economic sense for them to want to put in the smarts to respond to a greylisting scheme. Even with a greylisting scheme, you can have whitelists that allow delivery of mail without delay and yet maintain the robustness of the greylisting scheme. In the mail servers I manage, I use greylisting as well as techniques such as/etc/mail/access and the antispam functionalities of sendmail via spamcop, spamhaus etc.
The chief benefit of greylisting is to do a first level defense which works the "spammers do not knock twice" reality. What comes through can then be managed via image scanners, bayesian nets etc.
Ultimately, we need to rid the world of Windows machines and that should itself be a major victory.
While spamassassin, OCR etc are good techniques, greylisting is the best way to do a first level check. See http://harishpillay.livejournal.com/2007/01/17/ in which I sing the praises of greylisting. A comment to my post says it best: Spammmer do not knock twice.
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I guess there goes the whole ecosystem. Not the Novell being sold part, but the "intellectual properties" (patents, copyrights, patents) going to the M$-led group. It looks like there could be potential litigation out of that group who would want to maximize their "gain". I think the time is NOW to ban all software patents! Any more delay or foot dragging will kill the IT industry.
Well, I was wrong. I was looking at another patent :-(. The patent they are referring to would have prior art for sure. Again, I have it blogged at harishpillay.livejournal.com.
IANAL, but if you read the specifications as indicated in http://www.epatents.gov.sg/GTemp/2005038815.zip, you will see that it is about an encrypted signed image/video/logo/trademark/whatever for which you need a browser plugin and a server-side code to make the whole thing work. If you are not doing any of those things, there should not be any issue. Wasted a couple of hours reading the specs.
I have blogged about this as well at http://harishpillay.livejournal.com./ Again, IANAL.
People ask me why my default home page on my browser is /. They don't get it *even* after I tell them.
Here's to many more tens!
Harish
You should not have identified as being an employee of DSTA, but then again it is your choice (and no I don't work for the DSTA, but do live down the road from them).
/ politicalscience/DemocracyinAmericaPart1/chap9.htm l
I think you are correct in your assessment of the role of innovation and it is quite clearly and well stated by Alexis De Tocqueville's book "Democracy in America" - which he wrote in the 1830s - in which he states:
"When a private individual meditates an undertaking, however directly connected it may be with the welfare of society, he never thinks of soliciting the co-operation of the Government, but he publishes his plan, offers to execute it himself, courts the assistance of other individuals, and struggles manfully against all obstacles. Undoubtedly he is often less successful than the State might have been in his position; but in the end the sum of these private undertakings far exceeds all that the Government could have done. "[1]
[1] http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/socl
Even if spammers figure out greylisting, the reality is that they are paid /etc/mail/access
on number of emails sent, not how many were delivered successfully. Given
that, then, it does not make economic sense for them to want to put in the
smarts to respond to a greylisting scheme. Even with a greylisting scheme,
you can have whitelists that allow delivery of mail without delay and yet
maintain the robustness of the greylisting scheme. In the mail servers I
manage, I use greylisting as well as techniques such as
and the antispam functionalities of sendmail via spamcop, spamhaus etc.
The chief benefit of greylisting is to do a first level defense which works
the "spammers do not knock twice" reality. What comes through can then be
managed via image scanners, bayesian nets etc.
Ultimately, we need to rid the world of Windows machines and that should
itself be a major victory.
While spamassassin, OCR etc are good techniques, greylisting is the best way to do a first level check. See http://harishpillay.livejournal.com/2007/01/17/ in which I sing the praises of greylisting. A comment to my post says it best: Spammmer do not knock twice.
I thought this was already posted?
Harish