What I want to know is if the system can't tell that *I* double-clicked on an icon to start a program, how does the system know that *I* clicked "Allow"?
If I had to enter my password to continue I would understand the difference, but just a click to continue? Does this work at all?
I might consider it a "precaution" if they'd done this two or three weeks ago when the ads were put up (check CNN or any of several other sites -- this didn't *just* happen). They've been up and running for quite a while with no one complaining in Boston AND a dozen other cities.
My favorite quote: "It had a very sinister appearance," [Attorney General Martha] Coakley told reporters. "It had a battery behind it, and wires."
Unlike most illuminated signs where the bulbs light up without power or wires...
I have a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe amp. Dang thing goes to 12. Seriously (you can look at the pics over at Musicians Friend).
Funny thing is that it actually kind of needs to do so just to give you a few more gradations on the volume control. Four is loud enough to rattle the windows.
Oh, it's also filled with warm wonderful Sovtek vacuum tubes. That's "Soviet Technology" since that's about the only place anyone can get tubes anymore...
I have a Dell Axim. I have a Motorola RAZR. I have an iPod. I don't have a pocket to put all that in and I refuse to go with the Batman utility belt look.
Apple is offering one device that does all that for $500-$600. I can carry it in my pocket. It's flash-based, so I can run with it. It's a PDA with wifi and GSM which runs Cocoa apps. It's a cellphone. It's location aware and can tie Google Maps to my cell functions.
Lets see: $299 for a Dell Axim (520MHz model), $249 for an 8GB iPod, and $80 (after rebate and with 2-yr contract) for a RAZR. That comes to $628. $599 for all that in one device sounds great.
Now if only it included a Leatherman Supertool I'd be set.
I believe you are correct that there are mines that "die" after a set time period in order to make them less likely to blow up civilians years later. However, those models cost more -- basic people-killers now cost about $3, so that's what you expect to see manufactured and exported in great numbers.
Better yet, since no one will have Vista there will be NO ONE CALLING ME ON CHRISTMAS DAY FOR VISTA INSTALLATION HELP! Many more people will also postpone buying a computer until Vista comes out, so I may not even get any "where do I stick this cable" calls!
True -- a sole proprietor does benefit from some of the tax advantages of a business, but the list of allowable deductions is much smaller. Also, the sole proprietor lacks all the liability limitations of a corporations.
An S-Corp also gets to pay you back in two ways: salary and dividends. Everything from a sole proprietorship is taxed as self-employment and gives 15.3% via self-employment tax and medicare payments. You then pay income tax on what's left over. With an S-Corp, salary is treated much the same way as with a sole proprietorship, but you can also take dividends. Dividends pass through to you as income without the self-employment tax.
Of course, these benefits vary in applicability from one situation to the next, and I am not a tax adviser, so whether or not it applies to a specific case is not for me to say!
You're correct that there are problems with the way I'm handling spam, but their are problems with all methods.
I've been running two layers of Bayesian filters (server-side SpamAssassin plus regularly and meticulously trained Thunderbird filters). I also run multiple Sieve filters server-side to pre-sort my email before bouncing it. Email correctly marked as spam does NOT get bounced -- it gets trashed. It's the emails that pass through all my filters which STILL can't be classified that get the boot.
I'm glad you are getting such a great rate of catches on your spam. I'm getting tons of image spam -- something that bayesian models can't catch. My current number of spam MISSED by the system is about 50 per day.
Yes, the system has significant weaknesses -- I'll be working on those as my available tools improve (many of which I expect to code myself server-side). It's like every other spam solution out there: it doesn't solve the problem, but it mitigates the situation enough that I can reclaim my mailbox a bit.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll make good use of it!
Aside from that, a big corporaton isn't entitled to the same rights a regular person is.
Corporations don't need the same kind of protection a person needs, or even a small organization.
Actually, corporations do enjoy the same rights as a regular person because in the eyes of the law they really are people: read up on the Supreme Court case Santa Clara County vs. The Union Pacific Railroad (1886)
Also, a small organization can enjoy many or all the benefits of a corporation. My wife and I are in the start-up phase of creating an S-Corporation. It costs us more to join the Chamber of Commerce than to create the corporation! What benefits are there of working via a corporation?
As an individual, you pay tax on what you make and then spend what's left over. A corporation spends from it's income and is then taxed on what's left over. That's a huge difference in terms of how much money you have to work with!
Second, a corporation allows you to protect yourself from liability in most cases. The assets of the company are exposed by your business endeavor, not your house and car!
Yes, corporations do have HUGE advantages over individuals -- but incorporating is much less difficult than you think. It's not just for the rich -- it's for anyone that wants to run their own business.
I think you're right that Bayes is getting beaten -- that was really just a matter of time in the ongoing arms race. The text padding in the spam I get is MUCH larger than the "spammy" portion. In fact, the spam itself is now often just an image -- Bayes can't help me there!
I've set my email to be whitelist only: if you aren't filtered INTO my inbox, you're rejected. However, the rejection message contains a whitelist keyword -- any message with my current keyword in the subject line gets through. The spambots can't read, so they won't resend with the keyword. Real people have no problem getting through by resending with the keyword from the rejection message. Should my keyword get used by spammers I'll just change it -- not that my one address is worth it to them!
I hate to see email going "private", but I think we're all going to head there sooner or later.
"I don't have to ask what kind of 'small business' you are in.... It's plain what you are."
He runs mailing lists, perhaps? Community-based forums? Security bulletins for subscribers? Real-estate investment newsletters? Coupon distribution?
If you are implying he is a spammer you're outta your gourd -- spammers send out from OTHER people's computers these days and don't mail out 100,000 messages per day from their own servers. Any server spewing 100,000 pieces of spam per day is enough to instantly draw the attention of every real-time blacklist in the world. You don't have to worry about maintaining mailservers that have a lifespan of one day...
It's not too hard to roll your own patcher. My department at UNC uses a home-built autopatcher I wrote as a VB script. We download the new patches that we want to push out from our server via the login script and add the necessary lines to the script. It even tracks which patches it has installed so that it will skip down to the most current sets on systems that have been getting the patches regularly, but will install EVERYTHING unattended for systems that are just out of the box and need full patching.
Patches can be installed via "kb123456.exe/quiet/norestart" if you want to do a bunch in a row, then reboot at the end. We also can stick the script on CD along with the patches and install them all without having to connect to the network at all.
Piffle! It was all downhill when you stopped having to dial in to a local BBS to share your ASCII art... back when email had to be passed periodically from one BBS to another just the way God intended. Instant messaging, my arse...
Clearly you are not a sysadmin or a web developer.
For sysadmins you have to decide when to push out IE7 to your great unwashed masses. Are there compatibility problems due to your corporate desktop configuration? You don't want to find out after you push it out to a few hundred or half million machines. It is significant because it breaks apart much of the previous integration, it uses a different security model, and it treats http content in https sessions differently. Making sure everything is going to work correctly in your environment is a big deal.
For web developers, you probably already have IE hacks running rampant through your sites. IE 7 adds another version to deal with. If the CSS handling really is much better, then you'll just need to exclude the many hacks needed for previous IE versions. If it is improved, but still not great, you'll have to tweak all the hacks so that your layout works with yet another partially-compliant IE version. Again, it's a big deal.
IE is part of your Windows system, like it or not. You can say "don't browse the web with IE", but you CAN'T completely avoid it on a Windows system without real difficulties. IE 6 is completely integrated into your system. Hopefully IE 7 is better. In ANY case, a system level upgrade on a functioning Windows box is nothing to take lightly.
Still, the number IS very high. I still think the number one cause of failure is the fact that looking after your family is something that most people would rate "very important", but would not say needs to be one of TODAY's priorities. It gets put off, and put off again, until it fails from neglect.
It's a big issue in all time management -- items you need to do "sometime" but which don't have deadlines. Working out is another great example. Fitness is critical to a long, happy life, but when you have a big to-do list it tends to get postponed until that most mystical of days: "tomorrow".
Okay, the grandparent's case is one anecdotal case, but I think you'll find it's one of many. Given enough cases in both directions you end up building statistics... we have 9 people in our IT unit and only one divorce (and I think it was HER career that caused the problem there, not his).
Life is one big quest for balance. You choose your priorities. In this case we're looking at someone working in IT AND going to grad school. Full-time employment plus grad school means SOMETHING else is likely to give. Grad school + work + kids is a combination that really stresses a marriage to the max. Yes, it can be done, but you have to actively MAKE IT WORK. You have to make sure that almost every day you devote time to your spouse and kids. If you can't devote enough time to work + school + your family, be prepared to fail in one of those. It doesn't matter if the work is IT or sales or accounting or anything else.
Unfortunately, we tend to manage our time by prioritizing whatever has the next pending deadline. Family seldom comes with deadlines attached, so it often gets pushed to "low priority" -- meaning family never gets the attention it deserves. It therefore gets neglected and that's where the failure occurs. The person involved ends up blaming their other activities rather than their failure to make their family a priority.
I'm working quite a bit lately because I'm in the process of starting a company while working full-time. When I make up a priority list for the day and find it's packed I add a section for "personal life" which says I must do something to let my wife feel special, something to make my daughter feel special, and something to take care of my own mental health. In a pinch, I may neglect me, but my family is important, so I consider those "family priorities" to be drop-dead items. Sometimes the most I can do is give my wife a backrub for 15 minutes or walk the dog around the block with my daughter, but they each DO get my undivided attention.
Most "job-related" or "school-related" marriage failures are really "time-management" failures. You can't "turn off" your family while you pursue other priorities. If you can't devote a little time every day to each important part of your life you will see the neglected portion fail whether that's school, work, personal health, or family. Something WILL give!
Cheaper and easier just to buy a $60 Linksys print server. Not only is it tiny and easy to configure, but it takes a lot less electricity than a PC print server.
Hopefully the tech will improve over time. Online venues for meetings could be quite handy, especially when you are dealing with 3D models. Nice for everyone to be able to walk around them and poke them.
There's actually more than a bit of truth to what he says.
I've been lurking around SL lately just to figure out what all the buzz is about and would say it's a platform in which you can create and manipulate objects, avatars, and buildings. Interaction via "game physics" occurs and keeps the environment manageable.
It's immature right now -- and maybe it always will be -- but I can see the potential. It's not a bad way to meet up with others to collaborate or teach/learn.
Sun isn't the only company seeing value there. I understand Adidas/Reebok are setting up store there...
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What I want to know is if the system can't tell that *I* double-clicked on an icon to start a program, how does the system know that *I* clicked "Allow"?
If I had to enter my password to continue I would understand the difference, but just a click to continue? Does this work at all?
I might consider it a "precaution" if they'd done this two or three weeks ago when the ads were put up (check CNN or any of several other sites -- this didn't *just* happen). They've been up and running for quite a while with no one complaining in Boston AND a dozen other cities.
My favorite quote: "It had a very sinister appearance," [Attorney General Martha] Coakley told reporters. "It had a battery behind it, and wires."
Unlike most illuminated signs where the bulbs light up without power or wires...
I have a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe amp. Dang thing goes to 12. Seriously (you can look at the pics over at Musicians Friend).
Funny thing is that it actually kind of needs to do so just to give you a few more gradations on the volume control. Four is loud enough to rattle the windows.
Oh, it's also filled with warm wonderful Sovtek vacuum tubes. That's "Soviet Technology" since that's about the only place anyone can get tubes anymore...
I'm the person your talking about.
I have a Dell Axim. I have a Motorola RAZR. I have an iPod. I don't have a pocket to put all that in and I refuse to go with the Batman utility belt look.
Apple is offering one device that does all that for $500-$600. I can carry it in my pocket. It's flash-based, so I can run with it. It's a PDA with wifi and GSM which runs Cocoa apps. It's a cellphone. It's location aware and can tie Google Maps to my cell functions.
Lets see: $299 for a Dell Axim (520MHz model), $249 for an 8GB iPod, and $80 (after rebate and with 2-yr contract) for a RAZR. That comes to $628. $599 for all that in one device sounds great.
Now if only it included a Leatherman Supertool I'd be set.
Resisting... urge... to... mod... INSIGHTFUL...
That was the year I got my first CD player for Christmas! I was in college and after Christmas they were EVERYWHERE.
Doh... that's 125 MPH and 12 MPG. Never did get the hang of that preview button.
Oh, and I hate that friggin "Slow Down Cowboy" comment limiter -- big pain when you're trying to correct your typos.
I once had a 1968 Impala (307cc V8) that could do 125 in its prime.
Course, I got about 12 mph...
Fun block of steel, though!
Or at least would have ended with some latin phrase or two... maybe as a footnote. Perhaps even like a sig file.
Coming soon to a jeweler near you:
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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/diamond.
I believe you are correct that there are mines that "die" after a set time period in order to make them less likely to blow up civilians years later. However, those models cost more -- basic people-killers now cost about $3, so that's what you expect to see manufactured and exported in great numbers.
Better yet, since no one will have Vista there will be NO ONE CALLING ME ON CHRISTMAS DAY FOR VISTA INSTALLATION HELP! Many more people will also postpone buying a computer until Vista comes out, so I may not even get any "where do I stick this cable" calls!
Oh. My. God. Best Christmas ever!
True -- a sole proprietor does benefit from some of the tax advantages of a business, but the list of allowable deductions is much smaller. Also, the sole proprietor lacks all the liability limitations of a corporations.
An S-Corp also gets to pay you back in two ways: salary and dividends. Everything from a sole proprietorship is taxed as self-employment and gives 15.3% via self-employment tax and medicare payments. You then pay income tax on what's left over. With an S-Corp, salary is treated much the same way as with a sole proprietorship, but you can also take dividends. Dividends pass through to you as income without the self-employment tax.
Of course, these benefits vary in applicability from one situation to the next, and I am not a tax adviser, so whether or not it applies to a specific case is not for me to say!
You're correct that there are problems with the way I'm handling spam, but their are problems with all methods.
I've been running two layers of Bayesian filters (server-side SpamAssassin plus regularly and meticulously trained Thunderbird filters). I also run multiple Sieve filters server-side to pre-sort my email before bouncing it. Email correctly marked as spam does NOT get bounced -- it gets trashed. It's the emails that pass through all my filters which STILL can't be classified that get the boot.
I'm glad you are getting such a great rate of catches on your spam. I'm getting tons of image spam -- something that bayesian models can't catch. My current number of spam MISSED by the system is about 50 per day.
Yes, the system has significant weaknesses -- I'll be working on those as my available tools improve (many of which I expect to code myself server-side). It's like every other spam solution out there: it doesn't solve the problem, but it mitigates the situation enough that I can reclaim my mailbox a bit.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll make good use of it!
Aside from that, a big corporaton isn't entitled to the same rights a regular person is. Corporations don't need the same kind of protection a person needs, or even a small organization.
Actually, corporations do enjoy the same rights as a regular person because in the eyes of the law they really are people: read up on the Supreme Court case Santa Clara County vs. The Union Pacific Railroad (1886)
Also, a small organization can enjoy many or all the benefits of a corporation. My wife and I are in the start-up phase of creating an S-Corporation. It costs us more to join the Chamber of Commerce than to create the corporation! What benefits are there of working via a corporation?
As an individual, you pay tax on what you make and then spend what's left over. A corporation spends from it's income and is then taxed on what's left over. That's a huge difference in terms of how much money you have to work with!
Second, a corporation allows you to protect yourself from liability in most cases. The assets of the company are exposed by your business endeavor, not your house and car!
Yes, corporations do have HUGE advantages over individuals -- but incorporating is much less difficult than you think. It's not just for the rich -- it's for anyone that wants to run their own business.
I think you're right that Bayes is getting beaten -- that was really just a matter of time in the ongoing arms race. The text padding in the spam I get is MUCH larger than the "spammy" portion. In fact, the spam itself is now often just an image -- Bayes can't help me there!
I've set my email to be whitelist only: if you aren't filtered INTO my inbox, you're rejected. However, the rejection message contains a whitelist keyword -- any message with my current keyword in the subject line gets through. The spambots can't read, so they won't resend with the keyword. Real people have no problem getting through by resending with the keyword from the rejection message. Should my keyword get used by spammers I'll just change it -- not that my one address is worth it to them!
I hate to see email going "private", but I think we're all going to head there sooner or later.
"I don't have to ask what kind of 'small business' you are in. ... It's plain what you are."
He runs mailing lists, perhaps? Community-based forums? Security bulletins for subscribers? Real-estate investment newsletters? Coupon distribution?
If you are implying he is a spammer you're outta your gourd -- spammers send out from OTHER people's computers these days and don't mail out 100,000 messages per day from their own servers. Any server spewing 100,000 pieces of spam per day is enough to instantly draw the attention of every real-time blacklist in the world. You don't have to worry about maintaining mailservers that have a lifespan of one day...
It's not too hard to roll your own patcher. My department at UNC uses a home-built autopatcher I wrote as a VB script. We download the new patches that we want to push out from our server via the login script and add the necessary lines to the script. It even tracks which patches it has installed so that it will skip down to the most current sets on systems that have been getting the patches regularly, but will install EVERYTHING unattended for systems that are just out of the box and need full patching.
/quiet /norestart" if you want to do a bunch in a row, then reboot at the end. We also can stick the script on CD along with the patches and install them all without having to connect to the network at all.
Patches can be installed via "kb123456.exe
Piffle! It was all downhill when you stopped having to dial in to a local BBS to share your ASCII art... back when email had to be passed periodically from one BBS to another just the way God intended. Instant messaging, my arse...
Clearly you are not a sysadmin or a web developer.
For sysadmins you have to decide when to push out IE7 to your great unwashed masses. Are there compatibility problems due to your corporate desktop configuration? You don't want to find out after you push it out to a few hundred or half million machines. It is significant because it breaks apart much of the previous integration, it uses a different security model, and it treats http content in https sessions differently. Making sure everything is going to work correctly in your environment is a big deal.
For web developers, you probably already have IE hacks running rampant through your sites. IE 7 adds another version to deal with. If the CSS handling really is much better, then you'll just need to exclude the many hacks needed for previous IE versions. If it is improved, but still not great, you'll have to tweak all the hacks so that your layout works with yet another partially-compliant IE version. Again, it's a big deal.
IE is part of your Windows system, like it or not. You can say "don't browse the web with IE", but you CAN'T completely avoid it on a Windows system without real difficulties. IE 6 is completely integrated into your system. Hopefully IE 7 is better. In ANY case, a system level upgrade on a functioning Windows box is nothing to take lightly.
40% ( http://www.divorcereform.org/nyt05.html )
Still, the number IS very high. I still think the number one cause of failure is the fact that looking after your family is something that most people would rate "very important", but would not say needs to be one of TODAY's priorities. It gets put off, and put off again, until it fails from neglect.
It's a big issue in all time management -- items you need to do "sometime" but which don't have deadlines. Working out is another great example. Fitness is critical to a long, happy life, but when you have a big to-do list it tends to get postponed until that most mystical of days: "tomorrow".
Okay, the grandparent's case is one anecdotal case, but I think you'll find it's one of many. Given enough cases in both directions you end up building statistics... we have 9 people in our IT unit and only one divorce (and I think it was HER career that caused the problem there, not his).
Life is one big quest for balance. You choose your priorities. In this case we're looking at someone working in IT AND going to grad school. Full-time employment plus grad school means SOMETHING else is likely to give. Grad school + work + kids is a combination that really stresses a marriage to the max. Yes, it can be done, but you have to actively MAKE IT WORK. You have to make sure that almost every day you devote time to your spouse and kids. If you can't devote enough time to work + school + your family, be prepared to fail in one of those. It doesn't matter if the work is IT or sales or accounting or anything else.
Unfortunately, we tend to manage our time by prioritizing whatever has the next pending deadline. Family seldom comes with deadlines attached, so it often gets pushed to "low priority" -- meaning family never gets the attention it deserves. It therefore gets neglected and that's where the failure occurs. The person involved ends up blaming their other activities rather than their failure to make their family a priority.
I'm working quite a bit lately because I'm in the process of starting a company while working full-time. When I make up a priority list for the day and find it's packed I add a section for "personal life" which says I must do something to let my wife feel special, something to make my daughter feel special, and something to take care of my own mental health. In a pinch, I may neglect me, but my family is important, so I consider those "family priorities" to be drop-dead items. Sometimes the most I can do is give my wife a backrub for 15 minutes or walk the dog around the block with my daughter, but they each DO get my undivided attention.
Most "job-related" or "school-related" marriage failures are really "time-management" failures. You can't "turn off" your family while you pursue other priorities. If you can't devote a little time every day to each important part of your life you will see the neglected portion fail whether that's school, work, personal health, or family. Something WILL give!
Cheaper and easier just to buy a $60 Linksys print server. Not only is it tiny and easy to configure, but it takes a lot less electricity than a PC print server.
Hopefully the tech will improve over time. Online venues for meetings could be quite handy, especially when you are dealing with 3D models. Nice for everyone to be able to walk around them and poke them.
There's actually more than a bit of truth to what he says.
I've been lurking around SL lately just to figure out what all the buzz is about and would say it's a platform in which you can create and manipulate objects, avatars, and buildings. Interaction via "game physics" occurs and keeps the environment manageable.
It's immature right now -- and maybe it always will be -- but I can see the potential. It's not a bad way to meet up with others to collaborate or teach/learn.
Sun isn't the only company seeing value there. I understand Adidas/Reebok are setting up store there...