I wonder how many versions of the word "viagre" it is possible for a spam to use? Plus, I imagine most of them would be dead meat in front of heuristics like "words containing n@sty symbols in the middle are bad". In the end, I think those techniques will fall to spam filters. After all, haven't we got the spammers outnumbered? Or at least outbrained?
Well, now that history plainly shows that space elevators are dangerous like that, why are we talking about making another one? We don't want a repeat of the Mars disaster, do we?
All the feathers on earth are quite heavy. Tons and tons of feathers. You could be crushed under the weight of all those feathers. If all those feathers fell from orbit, they would come plummeting to earth catastrophically!
Or would they? After all, they're not very dense, even if there are a lot of them.
The monolith, IIRC, was a prerequisite for most intelligence, not life. The apes were already there on earth when the monolith came. Intelligence could also come about independently of the monoliths, as it did for the species that created the monoliths.
My ISP doesn't really mind if I run a server as long as I stay under my transfer quota or make arrangements to pay for more. (BTW, any reason that more ISPs aren't like that?) Unfortunately they don't need to block any ports to stop me from running a server, they just need to keep NATting me into oblivion.
The transition may be painful, but I'm stuck behind my ISP's NAT box, and I assure you: not having a transition is also painful. I want to run my own server stuff, dammit!
Plus, peer to peer "copyright violation systems" notwithstanding, there are many perfectly valid uses for peer to peer stuff. Ever want to run a distributed fileserver? Avoid the slashdot effect? Well, with NAT everywhere, YOU CAN'T! HAHAHAHAHA!
Exactly. Even if you don't use any of Apache's advanced features, you know that they are there if you need them. Apache is fast enough for most uses, the documentation and general support is great, and you never know when you might want to use, say, mod_rewrite for some elegant web site management.
I propose that the W3C solves the problem once and for all by making an XML based standard for every emotion and inflection imaginable, with namespacing, long tag names, several levels of the standard (one of which is so large that nobody can even lkearn it, let alone implement it), and then let it languish in all of its majesty, alone, friendless, and ignored by everyone except people desperate to add another "X" to their product description.
Not to sound condescending, but when the average user encounterts a mysterious pulldown menu, I think that the average user should just assume that it's set to a reasonable default and ignore it.
This can be both a business idea and a public service project. I know a guy who basically has a monopoly on broadband in the area, and he's handing out wireless hardware at greatly reduced price, partly with his money and partly with public funds. He manages to make a living without charging exorbitantly to cover the cost. Business and public service, together.
DoSing SCO, while satisfying (especially since it showed their security to be so poor that many people thought SCO was faking it---their security couldn't be that bad, could it? It could.), ultimately made us all look like immature k1|)|)13z. It accomplished more harm than good, although I'm not exactly going to denounce the people who did it, if you get my drift.
It wouldn't stop web filters. They try to filter more than just porn. They also block such things as profanity, pro-gay web sites, "occult" sites, and generally everything that your average small-minded bigot doesn't want other people's kids to see (or their own, of course).
If they were really clever, they would have said "Linux" in the titles, and GNU/Linux in the bodies of the reports. The titles have the Linux name recognition, the GNU bit is going to lead the more inquisitive PHBs to information on the GNU project, and Linux gets smeared by association.
I don't envy google. Their own popularity is killing their usefulness as a search for retail products. For actual information, such as the governmental structure of Canada, I've found they're still the best engine though.
Exactly. Have you checked out www.com? It bills itself as "where the web begins", but its search engine is entirely ads. Google, OTOH, has been struggling under the mighty weight of unscrupulous morons who prefer to ruin the internet than to make dollars honestly, but their information searches are still very good.
We're in a speed revolution. Processors keep getting faster, and equivalent power keeps getting cheaper. It's just that now that everything is measured in gigahertz, numbers like 2700, and catchphrases like "64-bit", it seems a lot less exciting. More exciting right now is the idea of having a quick computer that can run, say, without a fan.
Imagine having a cheap, low power, fanless, quiet computer, running a variety of convenient things for a home network. You know, DNS, HTTP caching, file serving, email, the works. Put this in a small and attractive case, pop in a processor that really is quite fast, and you have something worth drooling over.
Colorado gets a lot of water from melting snow. If you started getting water from their snow in any significant quantity, you can bet that, since you're depriving them of some of their water, the regulations people will be on you in a second. Yes, they'll even regulate the yellow snow.
Gentoo is great, and a lot of fun, but it is hard to get set up. You have to do things like setting up filesystems from the command line, and editing text-based configuration files. If you enjoy this sort of thing (I sure do!), Gentoo does give you some benefits, like portage, speed & flexibility, and above all satisfaction.
So your school lets you make any outgoing connections? Lucky. My school just lets us connect to their http proxy server, and it doesn't let anything non-microsoft connect without difficulty, as it uses NTLM authentication.
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I wonder how many versions of the word "viagre" it is possible for a spam to use? Plus, I imagine most of them would be dead meat in front of heuristics like "words containing n@sty symbols in the middle are bad". In the end, I think those techniques will fall to spam filters. After all, haven't we got the spammers outnumbered? Or at least outbrained?
Kioslaves are now being ported to work with gnome and the command line, which is great news.
It's so completely idiotic it just might work!
Well, now that history plainly shows that space elevators are dangerous like that, why are we talking about making another one? We don't want a repeat of the Mars disaster, do we?
Or would they? After all, they're not very dense, even if there are a lot of them.
And yes, I do realize that it was a joke.
My ISP doesn't really mind if I run a server as long as I stay under my transfer quota or make arrangements to pay for more. (BTW, any reason that more ISPs aren't like that?) Unfortunately they don't need to block any ports to stop me from running a server, they just need to keep NATting me into oblivion.
Plus, peer to peer "copyright violation systems" notwithstanding, there are many perfectly valid uses for peer to peer stuff. Ever want to run a distributed fileserver? Avoid the slashdot effect? Well, with NAT everywhere, YOU CAN'T! HAHAHAHAHA!
Exactly. Even if you don't use any of Apache's advanced features, you know that they are there if you need them. Apache is fast enough for most uses, the documentation and general support is great, and you never know when you might want to use, say, mod_rewrite for some elegant web site management.
I propose that the W3C solves the problem once and for all by making an XML based standard for every emotion and inflection imaginable, with namespacing, long tag names, several levels of the standard (one of which is so large that nobody can even lkearn it, let alone implement it), and then let it languish in all of its majesty, alone, friendless, and ignored by everyone except people desperate to add another "X" to their product description.
Not to sound condescending, but when the average user encounterts a mysterious pulldown menu, I think that the average user should just assume that it's set to a reasonable default and ignore it.
Or, Mutt is also good, and quite flexible.
This can be both a business idea and a public service project. I know a guy who basically has a monopoly on broadband in the area, and he's handing out wireless hardware at greatly reduced price, partly with his money and partly with public funds. He manages to make a living without charging exorbitantly to cover the cost. Business and public service, together.
I'm thinking VoIP over SSL, although I could be overlooking problems with TCP, UDP, and SSL.
I thought it was, "If you can't dazzle them with dexterity, baffle them with bullshit."
DoSing SCO, while satisfying (especially since it showed their security to be so poor that many people thought SCO was faking it---their security couldn't be that bad, could it? It could.), ultimately made us all look like immature k1|)|)13z. It accomplished more harm than good, although I'm not exactly going to denounce the people who did it, if you get my drift.
It wouldn't stop web filters. They try to filter more than just porn. They also block such things as profanity, pro-gay web sites, "occult" sites, and generally everything that your average small-minded bigot doesn't want other people's kids to see (or their own, of course).
I'd say the main reason for that is that eventually your karma hits "Excellent" and you stop caring.
If they were really clever, they would have said "Linux" in the titles, and GNU/Linux in the bodies of the reports. The titles have the Linux name recognition, the GNU bit is going to lead the more inquisitive PHBs to information on the GNU project, and Linux gets smeared by association.
Exactly. Have you checked out www.com? It bills itself as "where the web begins", but its search engine is entirely ads. Google, OTOH, has been struggling under the mighty weight of unscrupulous morons who prefer to ruin the internet than to make dollars honestly, but their information searches are still very good.
Imagine having a cheap, low power, fanless, quiet computer, running a variety of convenient things for a home network. You know, DNS, HTTP caching, file serving, email, the works. Put this in a small and attractive case, pop in a processor that really is quite fast, and you have something worth drooling over.
Colorado gets a lot of water from melting snow. If you started getting water from their snow in any significant quantity, you can bet that, since you're depriving them of some of their water, the regulations people will be on you in a second. Yes, they'll even regulate the yellow snow.
Just a warning.... :-)
Another reason that MySQL is so fast is because of its query caching.
So your school lets you make any outgoing connections? Lucky. My school just lets us connect to their http proxy server, and it doesn't let anything non-microsoft connect without difficulty, as it uses NTLM authentication.