Informative? WTF? This guy clearly didn't do any research - the group's members include ISPs, telcos, hardware manufacturers and many other companies besides media companies.
The CD was basically created by Philips. The Playstation is a pretty good product but doesn't seem very innovative. Why does it matter that its predecessors were unsuccessful?
The problem is that spammers can fool many filters by including "good" text in their spam that won't be visible on the screen. The filter does effectively read it as plain text, and they take advantage of this.
Now if what you're saying is that the result of this conversion should be delivered instead of the original message body, rather than just used for filtering, I see your point. However, I really don't think spammers are hugely concerned with readability, so it wouldn't deter them or help the recipients much.
Doing so would then compress whitespace, remove colors, and basically un-SPAM the SPAM.
That would defeat obfuscation of spam keywords. However, many of the tricks (such as using identical or similar colours for text and background) are ways to include un-spammy text that the filter will see but the human recipient won't. Converting to plain text leaves them in, but they should actually be ignored.
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As it happens, I've just today been reading a thread on alt.folklore.computers about the definition of "time-sharing". There seems to be a developing consensus that it involves multiple interactive users choosing which applications to run when. POS is a transaction-processing system. Terminals (whether they use 3270 protocol, X11 or RDP) are useful both for time-sharing and for transaction-processing.
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Lots of X terminals were manufactured and are still in use. Universities have a good few and my bank certainly used to use them in branches. They have a much longer usable life than PCs generally do. NCD still makes them, but now they work as Windows terminals and web browsers too.
Technically, when you "LGPL" your code, you sign away license rights for that software release to the FSF. That is why if someone violates the license of your GPL'ed program, the FSF can step in (with their lawyers) to defend your licensing rights.
No, and no. The FSF may advise on how to deal with an apparent copyright violation of software licenced under a GNU licence, but would only have a legal case for violations of its own copyrights.
Actually it's the University of Washington (not Waterloo) that wrote Pine (from Mutt which was licensed under BSD).
You think Mutt's older than Pine?! Pine is based on Elm (and Pico is a gutted MicroEmacs, if I remember correctly), but Pine Is Not Elm.
The throbber isn't quite redundant, as for some reason it conventionally doubles as a link to the browser vendor's web site. That's a fairly stupid feature though.
What mystifies me is why they're not willing to do this. Is it some BS gung-ho pro-sales "caveat emptor" mentality? I find this hard to believe, since I don't think any of the products I've seen turn up in ~/mail/bogofiltered are even remotely legitimate -- quack potions, stock and money schemes, 419 scams, et al. We're not talking about laundry soap that really doesn't get my whites their whitest, we're talking about products that are prima faciae nonfunctional.
Marketers see this, and realise that if even obvious fraudsters can make money out of spam then legitimate businesses with legitimate pitches are likely to do even better, if only they can get the law to say that spam is OK.
Back in the present day, I've been drilling holes in 3.5" DD disks after finding that all my blank HD disks are unreliable. I have about 200 DD disks from Amiga days that I have little use for so I figure I can afford to waste some in the search for one that works as HD.
It's very useful, because not everyone wants to pay the run-time cost of range-checking. Why should their programs run slower just because you can't get array indexing right?;-)
The committee was never disbanded, so there is no need to form another committee. The new standard is expected to be ready around 2008. Meanwhile there will soon be issuing a Technical Report "advising" on new library features (that are then likely to go into the next standard).
I think that by "EDG comments" you are referring to the paper "Why We Can't Afford Export". This was not actually written by EDG. There was a thread on comp.std.c++ recently which discussed this. You'll need to look at the whole of the first article as it refers to export only in a footnote.
Anonymous unions already exist in C++, and I think they do in C as well. I don't understand the point of anonymous structs, though - why not put the members directly in the enclosing struct?
I work a company in the same building as this (it's an office block for startups). They have a demo outside the building in the form of an advertising poster. Unfortunately, the poster is for Attack of the Clones and is now well over a year old. The battery on the tag has run out and it's just a waste of space now.
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Informative? WTF? This guy clearly didn't do any research - the group's members include ISPs, telcos, hardware manufacturers and many other companies besides media companies.
Sorry, I misunderstood what your figures referred to - they are about right.
RTFA, it's 29% of IVF pregnancies.
You can get most of VS for free in the .NET SDK.
The CD was basically created by Philips. The Playstation is a pretty good product but doesn't seem very innovative. Why does it matter that its predecessors were unsuccessful?
You don't seem to understand the problem.
The problem is that spammers can fool many filters by including "good" text in their spam that won't be visible on the screen. The filter does effectively read it as plain text, and they take advantage of this.
Now if what you're saying is that the result of this conversion should be delivered instead of the original message body, rather than just used for filtering, I see your point. However, I really don't think spammers are hugely concerned with readability, so it wouldn't deter them or help the recipients much.
That would defeat obfuscation of spam keywords. However, many of the tricks (such as using identical or similar colours for text and background) are ways to include un-spammy text that the filter will see but the human recipient won't. Converting to plain text leaves them in, but they should actually be ignored.
As it happens, I've just today been reading a thread on alt.folklore.computers about the definition of "time-sharing". There seems to be a developing consensus that it involves multiple interactive users choosing which applications to run when. POS is a transaction-processing system. Terminals (whether they use 3270 protocol, X11 or RDP) are useful both for time-sharing and for transaction-processing.
Please, not that self-important blowhard.
Lots of X terminals were manufactured and are still in use. Universities have a good few and my bank certainly used to use them in branches. They have a much longer usable life than PCs generally do. NCD still makes them, but now they work as Windows terminals and web browsers too.
No, and no. The FSF may advise on how to deal with an apparent copyright violation of software licenced under a GNU licence, but would only have a legal case for violations of its own copyrights.
You think Mutt's older than Pine?! Pine is based on Elm (and Pico is a gutted MicroEmacs, if I remember correctly), but Pine Is Not Elm.
The database validation rules should prevent records from being in bogus states like that.
The throbber isn't quite redundant, as for some reason it conventionally doubles as a link to the browser vendor's web site. That's a fairly stupid feature though.
Marketers see this, and realise that if even obvious fraudsters can make money out of spam then legitimate businesses with legitimate pitches are likely to do even better, if only they can get the law to say that spam is OK.
The Ericsson P800 runs UIQ on SymbianOS 7.0, not Series 60 on SymbianOS 6.1. They are fairly compatible at source level but not at the binary level.
Back in the present day, I've been drilling holes in 3.5" DD disks after finding that all my blank HD disks are unreliable. I have about 200 DD disks from Amiga days that I have little use for so I figure I can afford to waste some in the search for one that works as HD.
Just learn the pimpl idiom already.
It's very useful, because not everyone wants to pay the run-time cost of range-checking. Why should their programs run slower just because you can't get array indexing right? ;-)
The committee was never disbanded, so there is no need to form another committee. The new standard is expected to be ready around 2008. Meanwhile there will soon be issuing a Technical Report "advising" on new library features (that are then likely to go into the next standard).
Here and here are the two articles in the thread that really answer the paper's claims.
I think that by "EDG comments" you are referring to the paper "Why We Can't Afford Export". This was not actually written by EDG. There was a thread on comp.std.c++ recently which discussed this. You'll need to look at the whole of the first article as it refers to export only in a footnote.
Anonymous unions already exist in C++, and I think they do in C as well. I don't understand the point of anonymous structs, though - why not put the members directly in the enclosing struct?
So, don't forget to forward all your unwanted spam to these congressmen. They'd hate to miss out any offers just because they weren't on the list.
I work a company in the same building as this (it's an office block for startups). They have a demo outside the building in the form of an advertising poster. Unfortunately, the poster is for Attack of the Clones and is now well over a year old. The battery on the tag has run out and it's just a waste of space now.