so you suggest a "hack" to SMTP that wouldn't solve the problem. and then, because your hack is unfeasable you suggest that the problem cannot be solved.
Besides, blacklisting spammers is not a new idea and yet somehow SPAM continues to clog our inboxes. Perhaps it's not the silver bullet you're claiming.
why exactly would it be difficult to have a system that guarantees that the sender's address on the email is the actual sender? and that the date on the email is the date it was sent?
why can anyone with a computer and a connection to the internet send out millions of emails?
what exactly is the advantage provided by SMTP that there's so much resistance to changing it?
You might have a point if the contract said "baseball regular season". But apparently it doesn't.
when a team loses in the playoffs the players and staff talk about getting back there "next season" and "doing better next season". Everyone understands they're talking about doing better in the "post-season" part of the season.
All I'm saying is "pre-season" and "post-season" can just as easily be considered part of the general baseball season.
Of course, this all should have been hammered out in the original agreement. Fire the contract lawyers! And hire some new ones to handle the litigatation!
It's called a rumor. You need to temper what you hear in the wind with what you actually know for sure. The XBox2 will be a game console and will be released at a similar price-point as the original XBox. Thus, we can safely assume that the cost of its components will be appreciable to the costs of the components in the current XBox.
Whatever you read on the internet more than a year before a product's release is most likely baloney.
How about this rumor. Every XBox2 will have a miniaturized human inside. This will give the X2 far superior natural language handling capabilities. As an even greater benefit, thousands of lonely dorks all over the country will finally be able to strike up friendships with their game console.
I place the previous paragraph in the public domain. Please feel free to spread that rumor wherever.
MyDOOM takes advantage of the user's ability to run executables directly from his/her email client.
why would you ever want to do this? i can't even think of the last time I got an executable attachment that wasn't a virus.
all email programs should disable the feature that allows you to double click on an icon and launch a virus. because: A) no one needs a "feature" like this. Save to Disk and then run if neccesary. B) icons are designed to be clicked. as desktop users, we're trained to click on things. it's how we interact with our computer. C) a warning dialog after the double-click is useless. The person has already decided to run the program, to them it just seems like annoying interference from their stupid computer.
what "system" are you talking about? you're remembering a time that never existed. yes, in fantasy-land there's no need for rules. everyone just listens to the words of the fairy princess and lives a happy, productive life.
in the real world there are rules governing all types of behavior and there have been since well before the dawn of the internet.
If you had them you would use them to steal music
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It doesn't matter that you don't have any ninjas. The only federally recognized use for ninjas is pirating copyrighted works. Paying this tax gives you the right to potentially employ ninjas for whatever purpose. The proceeds of the tax go to RIAA and MPAA to cover their losses due to "ninja-ing" of copyright material.
For their part, RIAA/MPAA wave the right to send their ninjas to your house to beat up your 14-year-old daughter.
Unfortunately for your cold, dead hands the current state of the US Military is such that it could pretty easily resist a popular uprising. For example: Iraq. The main body of resistance would be uprooted and the rest reduced to piddling attacks which, while annoying, would not upset the current regime.
Only if the revolutionaries could convince the military to turn their weapons against the powers-that-be could you hope to succeed. Regardless, in such a contest, the plethora of semi-automatic rifles in this country will not effect the outcome.
Your right to bear arms isn't a threat to the government. It is, however, a threat to your kids, spouse, friends, neighbors, postman, local law-enforcement...
I don't use RealPlayer at all. If for some reason a website offers only RealPlayer videos I just do without. not a big deal for me. much more annoying, as you say, to remove the tentacles of Real after you've installed their "free" player.
and yeah, if anyone knows where the release notes for the damn thing are, that'd be nice. I can't find even a mention of them. and of course the mozillazine.org message boards are down.
This will ease one of the major hassles of switching cell phone service. And thus, people wont be locked into their current, potentially exploitive calling plan. Just in case you were confused, lock-in is not healthy for capitalism.
My favorite part of the article:
"The commission still has not answered some basic implementation questions," said Tom Wheeler, president of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association. "The FCC has simultaneously managed to tie the industry's hands and hold our feet to the fire."
Congress decided in 1996 that people can keep their traditional local phone numbers when they change phone companies. The FCC said soon after that wireless carriers should offer that ability to people in the largest 100 U.S. cities by June 1999.
heh. 4 years and they're complaining about not having "guidance". assh*les.
The first paragraph says Java's "useless for large scope projects" and the second paragraph says "run on Commodor 128" and "unfortunately it required 256k of memory".
Tell me. Now that it's the 21st century what large scope projects are designed around the Commodore 128 or any other machine with less than 256 Megs of memory?
Java is a language like any other. If you've been programming since the 70s you might not like the structure of the language. It's not what you're used to, but that doesn't mean it's useless. A cliche about old dogs comes to mind. Fortunately for you there are many options when it comes to programming languages.
there's no evidence that p2p has had a negative effect on record sales. in fact, sharing your competition's music might increase interest in that very music. just as radio play would. the effect would be to stimulate music sales for your competition and degrade your own music sales.
of course, you also are making the assumption that there's any sort of competition at all. there's plenty to suggest that the members of RIAA are collaborating to gouge the consumer and keep out alternatives.
Why not make it a multi-step process. Use three separate machines designed and tested independently which are used for the voting process. Along with a memory chip (key-chain style) with a unique ID.
The first machine you make your vote. The second machine you confirm your vote. If you want to change your vote you go back to the first machine. As a final step you give your chip to the last machine which does not return it.
The chip and each machine contains an independent record of your vote. Overly complicated? Yes! Completely redundant? Yes! But that's the point. Three separate machines, each could check the other, each could be manually polled later to confirm the election results. Plus, the memory chip could be independently counted as well.
you love your child, you want the best for him or her (let's say her) and you're still willing to hand her off to some random stranger for the entirety of her education?
It's well known that the public school system is flawed. The funny thing is that parents are increasingly detaching themselves from the education of their children. This exposes more flaws in public education and makes it appear that the system is failing. Parents must be involved for the system to work.
I'm sure there are mitigating circumstances (like money/work issues), but it seems entirely irresponsible to say that public school teachers are responsible for mental laziness. Whatever the teacher says, the word and example of the parents speaks far more loudly to a young child.
Additionally, in a single payer system there is *no* competition. Is your universal health care really universal or are you unsure of the meaning of competition??
Actually, instead of competing on price (generally through cost cutting and reducing quality) the hospitals and clinics would compete by increasing quality and becoming more efficient. Because patients dont pay they would be most attracted to those places that offer the most attractive services.
It wouldn't provide anyone with the highest level of care, but it would (potentially) guarantee that everyone receives treatment sufficient to their needs.
Of course, humans being the way they are, there'd also be competition over who can best defraud the government into believing they deserve more than they do.
I had the same experience
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yes, those "remove me" links actually work. The webpages themselves seem like total BS, but I mean, it's just a CGI that adds your email to a text file that is processed later to do the actual removing.
When I stop doing the "remove me" thing and let Mozilla just delete my spam, I find the numbers gradually increasing back to a level of 100+ a day. And then, I go through and submit my email to the remove addresses. Which settles it down to a normal level.
My main problem with spam is that it's taking up a whole lot of bandwith. Mozilla keeps 99% of it out of my inbox, but I'd rather the message were never sent.
But looking at the MPL I would say it's pretty open for use in commercial products.
3.7. Larger Works. You may create a Larger Work by combining Covered Code with other code not governed by the terms of this License and distribute the Larger Work as a single product. In such a case, You must make sure the requirements of this License are fulfilled for the Covered Code.
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1.3. ''Covered Code'' means the Original Code or Modifications or the combination of the Original Code and Modifications, in each case including portions thereof.
that reads to me like as long as you distribute any changes you make to the mozilla code, you're in the clear. you don't need to distribute the code of the Larger Work. and there's nothing in there prohibiting profiting from the Larger Work or Mozilla.
It looks to me like, if you stuck Mozilla on a CD you could sell it to people for $1000 and not kickback anything to the Mozilla project or AOL. of course, if you could sell that, I'm looking to move a certain bridge in Brooklyn.
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so you suggest a "hack" to SMTP that wouldn't solve the problem. and then, because your hack is unfeasable you suggest that the problem cannot be solved.
Besides, blacklisting spammers is not a new idea and yet somehow SPAM continues to clog our inboxes. Perhaps it's not the silver bullet you're claiming.
why exactly would it be difficult to have a system that guarantees that the sender's address on the email is the actual sender? and that the date on the email is the date it was sent?
why can anyone with a computer and a connection to the internet send out millions of emails?
what exactly is the advantage provided by SMTP that there's so much resistance to changing it?
You might have a point if the contract said "baseball regular season". But apparently it doesn't.
when a team loses in the playoffs the players and staff talk about getting back there "next season" and "doing better next season". Everyone understands they're talking about doing better in the "post-season" part of the season.
All I'm saying is "pre-season" and "post-season" can just as easily be considered part of the general baseball season.
Of course, this all should have been hammered out in the original agreement. Fire the contract lawyers! And hire some new ones to handle the litigatation!
ps. for the record, I am not a baseball fan
More like $200. Go ahead and try to Shop for Windows XP Pro. Maybe you can haggle with the vendor.
What exactly is that $200 going towards? USB2 functionality, perhaps? Coffer padding? Monopolies are fun.
Stashed in Bill's desk-drawer there's plans for a sky-scraper money-vault. You know, he could swim in gold-coins Scrooge McDuck-style.
What is insightful about the parent?
It's called a rumor. You need to temper what you hear in the wind with what you actually know for sure. The XBox2 will be a game console and will be released at a similar price-point as the original XBox. Thus, we can safely assume that the cost of its components will be appreciable to the costs of the components in the current XBox.
Whatever you read on the internet more than a year before a product's release is most likely baloney.
How about this rumor. Every XBox2 will have a miniaturized human inside. This will give the X2 far superior natural language handling capabilities. As an even greater benefit, thousands of lonely dorks all over the country will finally be able to strike up friendships with their game console.
I place the previous paragraph in the public domain. Please feel free to spread that rumor wherever.
MyDOOM takes advantage of the user's ability to run executables directly from his/her email client.
why would you ever want to do this? i can't even think of the last time I got an executable attachment that wasn't a virus.
all email programs should disable the feature that allows you to double click on an icon and launch a virus. because:
A) no one needs a "feature" like this. Save to Disk and then run if neccesary.
B) icons are designed to be clicked. as desktop users, we're trained to click on things. it's how we interact with our computer.
C) a warning dialog after the double-click is useless. The person has already decided to run the program, to them it just seems like annoying interference from their stupid computer.
what "system" are you talking about? you're remembering a time that never existed. yes, in fantasy-land there's no need for rules. everyone just listens to the words of the fairy princess and lives a happy, productive life.
in the real world there are rules governing all types of behavior and there have been since well before the dawn of the internet.
It doesn't matter that you don't have any ninjas. The only federally recognized use for ninjas is pirating copyrighted works. Paying this tax gives you the right to potentially employ ninjas for whatever purpose. The proceeds of the tax go to RIAA and MPAA to cover their losses due to "ninja-ing" of copyright material.
For their part, RIAA/MPAA wave the right to send their ninjas to your house to beat up your 14-year-old daughter.
We're straying off-topic here:
Unfortunately for your cold, dead hands the current state of the US Military is such that it could pretty easily resist a popular uprising. For example: Iraq. The main body of resistance would be uprooted and the rest reduced to piddling attacks which, while annoying, would not upset the current regime.
Only if the revolutionaries could convince the military to turn their weapons against the powers-that-be could you hope to succeed. Regardless, in such a contest, the plethora of semi-automatic rifles in this country will not effect the outcome.
Your right to bear arms isn't a threat to the government. It is, however, a threat to your kids, spouse, friends, neighbors, postman, local law-enforcement...
mod him up cause he's right
Maybe I'm missing something here, but people have been listening to portable music devices for years. They all use the same headphone jack.
I used to do this on the school bus when I was twelve. But I didn't think it had anything to do with the brand of walkman I was listening to.
Which brings me to the question: is this a news article or astroturf?
I don't use RealPlayer at all. If for some reason a website offers only RealPlayer videos I just do without. not a big deal for me. much more annoying, as you say, to remove the tentacles of Real after you've installed their "free" player.
-sweatyb
thank you, mcrbids, for the "change human nature" part of your comment.
maybe it's been hacked.
and yeah, if anyone knows where the release notes for the damn thing are, that'd be nice. I can't find even a mention of them. and of course the mozillazine.org message boards are down.
sigh
My favorite part of the article:
heh. 4 years and they're complaining about not having "guidance". assh*les.
-sweatyb
The first paragraph says Java's "useless for large scope projects" and the second paragraph says "run on Commodor 128" and "unfortunately it required 256k of memory".
Tell me. Now that it's the 21st century what large scope projects are designed around the Commodore 128 or any other machine with less than 256 Megs of memory?
Java is a language like any other. If you've been programming since the 70s you might not like the structure of the language. It's not what you're used to, but that doesn't mean it's useless. A cliche about old dogs comes to mind. Fortunately for you there are many options when it comes to programming languages.
-sweatyb
there's no evidence that p2p has had a negative effect on record sales. in fact, sharing your competition's music might increase interest in that very music. just as radio play would. the effect would be to stimulate music sales for your competition and degrade your own music sales.
of course, you also are making the assumption that there's any sort of competition at all. there's plenty to suggest that the members of RIAA are collaborating to gouge the consumer and keep out alternatives.
Why not make it a multi-step process. Use three separate machines designed and tested independently which are used for the voting process. Along with a memory chip (key-chain style) with a unique ID.
The first machine you make your vote. The second machine you confirm your vote. If you want to change your vote you go back to the first machine. As a final step you give your chip to the last machine which does not return it.
The chip and each machine contains an independent record of your vote. Overly complicated? Yes! Completely redundant? Yes! But that's the point. Three separate machines, each could check the other, each could be manually polled later to confirm the election results. Plus, the memory chip could be independently counted as well.
Just a thought.
-sweatyb
you love your child, you want the best for him or her (let's say her) and you're still willing to hand her off to some random stranger for the entirety of her education?
It's well known that the public school system is flawed. The funny thing is that parents are increasingly detaching themselves from the education of their children. This exposes more flaws in public education and makes it appear that the system is failing. Parents must be involved for the system to work.
I'm sure there are mitigating circumstances (like money/work issues), but it seems entirely irresponsible to say that public school teachers are responsible for mental laziness. Whatever the teacher says, the word and example of the parents speaks far more loudly to a young child.
-tom
Additionally, in a single payer system there is *no* competition. Is your universal health care really universal or are you unsure of the meaning of competition??
Actually, instead of competing on price (generally through cost cutting and reducing quality) the hospitals and clinics would compete by increasing quality and becoming more efficient. Because patients dont pay they would be most attracted to those places that offer the most attractive services.
It wouldn't provide anyone with the highest level of care, but it would (potentially) guarantee that everyone receives treatment sufficient to their needs.
Of course, humans being the way they are, there'd also be competition over who can best defraud the government into believing they deserve more than they do.
yes, those "remove me" links actually work. The webpages themselves seem like total BS, but I mean, it's just a CGI that adds your email to a text file that is processed later to do the actual removing.
When I stop doing the "remove me" thing and let Mozilla just delete my spam, I find the numbers gradually increasing back to a level of 100+ a day. And then, I go through and submit my email to the remove addresses. Which settles it down to a normal level.
My main problem with spam is that it's taking up a whole lot of bandwith. Mozilla keeps 99% of it out of my inbox, but I'd rather the message were never sent.
it is the oldest trick in the book. and you know, it works like a charm every damn time. slight-of-hand. we're easily distracted animals.
OOOH PRETTY COLORS
wait, what was I talking about?
Original poster says: I think Mozilla should advertise it's anti-spam abilities.
Follow-up poster says: Sign yourself up for some Mozilla spam!
hmm. methinks they're talking at each other instead of to each other
that reads to me like as long as you distribute any changes you make to the mozilla code, you're in the clear. you don't need to distribute the code of the Larger Work. and there's nothing in there prohibiting profiting from the Larger Work or Mozilla.
It looks to me like, if you stuck Mozilla on a CD you could sell it to people for $1000 and not kickback anything to the Mozilla project or AOL. of course, if you could sell that, I'm looking to move a certain bridge in Brooklyn.
-tom
RFID tags are people?