I'm not saying that the Bush administration is smelling like a rose, here, but you often find that people with more education or experience have more of an axe to grind. I wouldn't doubt that another panel of equally qualified people would come to somewhat different conclusions.
Waittaminnet. If another panel was "equally qualified", they would, presumably, have "more education or experience", as you say (how could they be equally qualified with less education/experience?), and hence would have just as much of "an axe to grind" - so why would they come to a different conclusion?
This is NOT "news for nerds." Maybe "news for dinosaurs," or perhaps "nerds for antique collectors." But not news for nerds. Hell, my first machine was a C64, and I couldn't care less about this. And this is NOT "stuff that matters."
Dude. Duuude. Dude! Wassup? How can you claim to have had a Commie and *not* be interested in this? I cut my nerd teeth on the C64 (CoCo doesn't count - I barely remember using it, and I was so young (like 6) that I could be mistaken here - maybe I was using KoKo? Was CoCo/KoKo the software? I don't think it was a tandy - I used it to draw boxes, basically. I remember something about a 'turtle', and pens. Pen up. Pen down. Anybody know what I'm talking about?).
Anyway, you must either be dead inside, a liar, or just a luser. I see shit like this and get whisked back to my childhood (and I'm not a particularly sentimental person - typical, methinks, for INTPs) - I remember hacking away in my parent's basement, having the time of my life. It makes me all misty-eyed just thinking about it. Kinda like looking through all my old RPGs. Seeing that D&D box set reminds me of some good times, and I miss them.
Then I realize that I actually get laid now, and that brief moment of sadness for a childhood lost goes away for awhile.
OP:National Geographic has been doing a dismal job over the past few months, and there really are not enough players in the game. It's funny, in my experience most geeks really do like the great outdoors, so it seems a proper marriage to me!
IC:I'm one of those outdoor geeks (backpacking, kayaking), and I have to disagree with your assesment of National Geographic's performace.
RZ:Man, I read that to be total sarcasm. No matter what, you both can't be +5.
Read which of the two posters' snippets as total sarcasm? His or mine? Why? Why can't we both be +5? We were expressing opinions. Are our opinions wrong? He expressed two primary sentiments in his post: firstly, he didn't care for NatGeo. Secondly, the field needed more competition. I disagreed with the former sentiment, and agreed with the latter - more competition is rarely a bad thing. I'd say we're both right. Nat Geo, as has been pointed out, could use some improvement - though I maintain it's much better than any of the alternatives I've explored, especially for a $99 package that works without intrusive 'theft-protection' measures, works with a broad range of hardware, is visually very stunning, easy to use, and *has the latest maps*. I'm a cheap bastard when it comes to software - I write it myself ot use open source/freeware, when possible, but that hundred bucks was teh best I've spent on software, save maybe Civilization and MOO.
Are you trying to suggest that manually associating a waypoint with an image is a good solution? The first time, yeah. For 10 images, maybe. For 100 images, no way. For 1000 images, you've got to be kidding me. Even in smaller daily batches, it would get tedious. And computers excel at tedious jobs.
Are *you* trying to suggest that there are products out there that don't require I buy a bunch of specialized hardware (ie, non-std GPS and digi cam) and can just tell, magically, that I took pictures 4-15 on my external memory card at waypoint x, picture 16 (external) at y, and picture 3 on the internal card at z? Cuz if this is what this new MS technology does, then sign me up. But I somehow doubt it's that simple.
Certainly, now that I think about it, as long as I'm careful in naming waypoints and associated them with numbered images on my cam, I could glue together some scripts and keyboard macros to do this for me automatically.
Timestamps, eh? Doh! Why didn't I think of that? Wonder if my GPS keeps 'em...
Too bad my camera doesn't.
So, anyway, NatGeo's system may be manual for associating things with coordinates, but, with my existing hardware (of which I am very fond), any other solution on the market would be, too. So I'll stick with NG for now.
Just keep a small laptop nearby connected to a GPS and update the EXIF info as the pictures appear on the server.
Uh... I think you missed my point. I'm an outdoor geek. I am a geek and I like the outdoors. This doesn't mean I geek out *in* the outdoors. Sure, I bring a GPS and digi cam, but a laptop? There goes my 13 lb base pack-weight.
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Then the rest of my life kicked in. You figure out the 12 hour days are ok, but you didn't want to stay in office and miss the rest of your life pass you by. A progamer interview I saw recently (ShowTime, a War3 player) said he plays almost continuously for 15 hours a day. I may like gaming, but I couldn't take that continously for too long. Even people with dream jobs need to find a balance somewhere. If a dream job demands all your energy, your time.. leaves you with no energy for anything else.. then it won't be your dream job forever.
Dream job: one that pays you well enough to live the life you want, and that you don't completely dred going to every day of your life.
National Geographic has been doing a dismal job over the past few months, and there really are not enough players in the game. It's funny, in my experience most geeks really do like the great outdoors, so it seems a proper marriage to me!
I'm one of those outdoor geeks (backpacking, kayaking), and I have to disagree with your assesment of National Geographic's performace. I'm not certain exactly to what you are referring, but if it's basic mapping software, I *love* their NatGeo Topo State series. The maps are the latest USGS topoquads (many other campanies' prducts, like Delorme, use maps that are many years old and lacking in many newer trails), and are beautifully reproduced. GPS support has been wonderful, and I can do exactly what the above blurb was talking about - take photos, record their positions in my GPS, and, when I get back home, upload my route, along with waypoints indicating, among other things, where I took what photos. The photos then have to be manually associated with each waypoint, but it works so well, I'm not about to start complaining.
In the end, how "good" a programmer is depends on how useful their code is and how quickly they can produce it. Usefulness isn't determined by efficiency alone, but by its maintainability and reusabiltiy as well
Word up on that. I can't tell you how many hairs I've lost trying to decipher some previous employee's thirteen nested iif's - yeah, okay, he got rid of 30 lines of code, but at what price? Good god, man, at what price?!?
think the article should have disclosed that the submitter (johnnyb) is also the author of the book, Jonathan Bartlett. So rather than saying "A new book was just released", I would rather see something like "I wrote this new book." Here is johnnyb's website. http://www.eskimo.com/~johnnyb/
Not only is he the author, but it seems he's the PUBLISHER, as well! Double-non-disclosure. Booyah!
It's like learning Latin. Nobody actually uses it, but it can give you a deeper understanding of the languages that are based on it.
Great analogy! And not only does it help you with other languages, but with science as well! Where do ya think all those genus/species/phylum names came from?
This means that students will be spending more time learning assembly, and less time learning about complicated algorithms and the things you really should be learning about (since languages change but algorithms are standard).
Huh? Sure, algorithms don't change, but do I really need to remeber them? That's what reference material is for. Know that there's an algorithm to do something, here's where you can find it, and bam, you're done.
Learning assembly gives one a deep understanding of HOW THINGS WORK at a VERY low level - one that can, IMO, only be gleaned by manipulating registers yourself.
By simply momorizing some algorithms, you are no better than the luser who takes a crash-course in MCSEism, memorizing verious things, and learning just enough to pass the test, without REALLY understanding ANYTHING. Learning assembly forces you to understand. Rote memorization is... well, rote. And memorization. You don't really learn anything. It's attitudes like yours that are churning out a generation of 'IT' people that don't know jack shit.
Had he admitted that it was his own book, I might've actually read about the book, read the summary and saw if I was interested (as I'm a developer and have a degree in CS).
Hate to 'me-too' this (these) post(s), but I was so going to buy this book before discovering the author was (as an above poster so eloquently put it) 'pimping his warez' here without any kind of disclaimer indicating he may have been slightly biased. When I found this out, the author lost all chances of my ever buying this book. Maybe in a year or two, used, for $2, on eBay, so that he sees none of my money. We need good computer books, especially low-level ones. and this one may have fit the bill, but I'll support less ethically-impoverished authors, thank you very much.
my point is, what is the point of this security if the port then stays open after the first connection. You say I can specify, because of linux, is linux on my router? Is that what Cisco or Linksys has on my router? Most people don't use a pc running linux as their router, home users use linksys or d-link, and companies use Cisco routers.
AH - but the port DOESN'T stay open - you knock, the port becomes accesible, and you have 10 seconds to correctly login. After that, it dissappears, until the knock comes again. A port can be OPEN and have a current session active, but not accept any new connections. IE, I can knock, then SSH in, supply a UN/PW pair, and get into the system. But then, the port stops accepting further connections, unless the knock is once again presented correctly. It DOES NOT boot me off. It just stops LISTENing.
As to if linux is on your router - well, for those hom users using Linksys routers, yes, I believe they do use linux. Cisco uses their own OS, but IIRC it's pretty flexible and such a scenario could likely be implemented there. DLink I dunno about.
Why would a home user using a dlink router possibly need to implement this kind of thing? It seems to me that anybody who'd want to implement this would have a clue, and, having a clue, they would use a *nix box as their router.
how does it make the port appear closed after ten seconds, communication is still traversing that port if you open an SSH session you ussually continue to use it for a while don't you?
Also, how could I be right or wrong, I asked a question. Also you didn't answer if it had a way of allowing that port to be open for just the IP using it, otherwise the port would have to appear open, because it is open.
A) RTFA - the port doesn't just always close after 10 seconds - it listens for a connection for 10 seconds. It none is made (ie, successful login), the port closes up all hidden again.
B) You claim, back to back, that (1) you didn't ask a question, and (2) I didn't answer your question. Which is it? It can't be both.
I'll answer - of course you can specify only the IP that knocked correctly can get in. With linux, your imagination is about the only limit. Are you sure you're in the right place?
And, again, just because a port is 'open', doesn't mean anyone can just waltz in - that depends entirely on the service running BEHIND the port - in the case of SSH, yes, the port will let you 'get in', but without entering the correct username and password, it kicks you right back out.
does it only open the port for that one IP somehow, using also advanced IP filtering, cause otherwise this is dumb, it would be like unlocking your door for the first customer to knock right, but having to leave it open the whole time the customer is shopping.
You're not quite right here - all knocking in the correct sequence does is make the specified port AVAILABLE - nowhere was it stated that port would 'just start working'. In the example given, using ssh, a correct ssh login/password pair would ALSO need to be provided - so to correct your metephor, the door is still locked - it's just not camoflauged anymore - now everybody can see the door is there - though they still need a key.
To correcct my own metaphor - the door, furthermore, according to the example, would only be visible for, say, 10 seconds - at which point it's cloaking device turns on again, waiting to present the keyhole to the first correct secret knock.
will make us a better, truer, purer race of people
That statement worries me--sounds a bit too nazi-ish. i enjoy diversity, i enjoy the fact that not everyone sees things from the same side of the fence.
Uhh... yeah. I can't believe you left out the fact that he referred to "most Saudis as dirty Sand Niggers" (though he used the abbrv "SN" - not something, IMO, that lessens the blow.
All this coming from a dirty faggot who cares about nothing but carnal pleasure.
Please note: that last statement was made entirely toungue-in-cheek - here's a guy who claims to be bisexual - a group that is frequently discriminated against - and claims to be educated, yet he labels most of an entire country with a racial slur. Scha-weet.
Oh, yeah, a note on bi/hetro/homo: (my view only, of course) - I have nothing against either hetro or homsexuals - I think they are both driven by incontrollable brain chemistry that causes a physical attraction to certain things. There is nothing anybody can do about what sex they are attracted to, and I hence embrace them all as my brethren. Bisexuals are a WHOLE other cookie. I view them as simply people of loose character, who lust relentlessly after the pleasures of the flesh, and will take whatever they can get - any hole, any time, any where - man, woman, child, or beast. Yeah that's right. I said it. They're chicken-fuckers and pedophiles. Probably fuck their own mothers and fathers. They'd probably say, "I see beauty everywhere, in all of god's creatures", and I say, "Yeah. As long as you can fuck it or it can fuck you."
Just goes to show that, as that Matt Damon guy's character in "Good Bill Hunting" said, just because yer stupid enough to not know what books to read and gullible enough to pay somebody $40K a year to tell you which ones doesn't make you educated.
Firstly, I don't work there anymore. Secondly, the employees have worked on OSS on company time. So the company uses OSS and contributes back. Sure, the main product isn't open source, but they have contributed back, and everyone has to make a dollar.
So, lemme see if I've got this straight... you (your former employer) took GPL'ed code and used it to create a derivative work that is sold for-profit, and did not release said modifications? hmmm...
In view of that, no ISP could ever have taken action against a spammer, which we know has happened, perhaps it would be resonable to assume that the ISP keeps logs of who get what lease when. Evidently RIAA has reason to believe this, given this tack.
Man, you're soooo off here, I can't even begin to fathom where to start. First aof all, I think it's safe to assume that most major spammers have static IPs associated with T1s or better - easy enough to get THEIR IPs. When it comes to joe-blow home broadband user, his cable/DSL modem likely gets that dynamic IP, which, as the previous poster pointed out, will likely have been rotated out of the logs by the time the slow/long arm of John Law gets around to asking for that info.
Also, spam, when reported, is generally reported by people relatively tech-savvy, or by using spam-reporting services - something that can take place (and probably DOES take place) almost immediately, or, at worst, within a few days - not the MONTHS that court-orders can take.
Personally, Why isn't technology like this being adapted to fight SPAM.
Okay, Mr. I-don't-know-how-to-use-punctuation, I'm gonna make this real simple for you: we don't use tools like this to combat spam because there ARE NO TOOLS LIKE THIS. This is government double-speak for "we looked at the headers". Do you have ANY clue how email/TPC/IP works? Perhaps you would feel more at home on fark.com, or www.marykateandashley.com?
Ah! You're a 'toker'! That would explain a whole bunch...
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I'm not saying that the Bush administration is smelling like a rose, here, but you often find that people with more education or experience have more of an axe to grind. I wouldn't doubt that another panel of equally qualified people would come to somewhat different conclusions.
Waittaminnet. If another panel was "equally qualified", they would, presumably, have "more education or experience", as you say (how could they be equally qualified with less education/experience?), and hence would have just as much of "an axe to grind" - so why would they come to a different conclusion?
Drug dealers and people who commit fraud...
Comparing drug dealers to spammers is insulting to drug dealers everywhere.
But that is the stupidest name I have ever heard...
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This is NOT "news for nerds." Maybe "news for dinosaurs," or perhaps "nerds for antique collectors." But not news for nerds. Hell, my first machine was a C64, and I couldn't care less about this. And this is NOT "stuff that matters."
Dude. Duuude. Dude! Wassup? How can you claim to have had a Commie and *not* be interested in this? I cut my nerd teeth on the C64 (CoCo doesn't count - I barely remember using it, and I was so young (like 6) that I could be mistaken here - maybe I was using KoKo? Was CoCo/KoKo the software? I don't think it was a tandy - I used it to draw boxes, basically. I remember something about a 'turtle', and pens. Pen up. Pen down. Anybody know what I'm talking about?).
Anyway, you must either be dead inside, a liar, or just a luser. I see shit like this and get whisked back to my childhood (and I'm not a particularly sentimental person - typical, methinks, for INTPs) - I remember hacking away in my parent's basement, having the time of my life. It makes me all misty-eyed just thinking about it. Kinda like looking through all my old RPGs. Seeing that D&D box set reminds me of some good times, and I miss them.
Then I realize that I actually get laid now, and that brief moment of sadness for a childhood lost goes away for awhile.
What are you, a sociopath?
Most regular CD players? Tape decks? 8-tracks? I'm pretty sure my old 8-track would auto-start playing the tape when it was inserted...
OP:National Geographic has been doing a dismal job over the past few months, and there really are not enough players in the game. It's funny, in my experience most geeks really do like the great outdoors, so it seems a proper marriage to me!
IC:I'm one of those outdoor geeks (backpacking, kayaking), and I have to disagree with your assesment of National Geographic's performace.
RZ:Man, I read that to be total sarcasm. No matter what, you both can't be +5.
Read which of the two posters' snippets as total sarcasm? His or mine? Why? Why can't we both be +5? We were expressing opinions. Are our opinions wrong? He expressed two primary sentiments in his post: firstly, he didn't care for NatGeo. Secondly, the field needed more competition. I disagreed with the former sentiment, and agreed with the latter - more competition is rarely a bad thing. I'd say we're both right. Nat Geo, as has been pointed out, could use some improvement - though I maintain it's much better than any of the alternatives I've explored, especially for a $99 package that works without intrusive 'theft-protection' measures, works with a broad range of hardware, is visually very stunning, easy to use, and *has the latest maps*. I'm a cheap bastard when it comes to software - I write it myself ot use open source/freeware, when possible, but that hundred bucks was teh best I've spent on software, save maybe Civilization and MOO.
Are you trying to suggest that manually associating a waypoint with an image is a good solution? The first time, yeah. For 10 images, maybe. For 100 images, no way. For 1000 images, you've got to be kidding me. Even in smaller daily batches, it would get tedious. And computers excel at tedious jobs.
Are *you* trying to suggest that there are products out there that don't require I buy a bunch of specialized hardware (ie, non-std GPS and digi cam) and can just tell, magically, that I took pictures 4-15 on my external memory card at waypoint x, picture 16 (external) at y, and picture 3 on the internal card at z? Cuz if this is what this new MS technology does, then sign me up. But I somehow doubt it's that simple.
Certainly, now that I think about it, as long as I'm careful in naming waypoints and associated them with numbered images on my cam, I could glue together some scripts and keyboard macros to do this for me automatically.
Timestamps, eh? Doh! Why didn't I think of that? Wonder if my GPS keeps 'em...
Too bad my camera doesn't.
So, anyway, NatGeo's system may be manual for associating things with coordinates, but, with my existing hardware (of which I am very fond), any other solution on the market would be, too. So I'll stick with NG for now.
Just keep a small laptop nearby connected to a GPS and update the EXIF info as the pictures appear on the server.
Uh... I think you missed my point. I'm an outdoor geek. I am a geek and I like the outdoors. This doesn't mean I geek out *in* the outdoors. Sure, I bring a GPS and digi cam, but a laptop? There goes my 13 lb base pack-weight.
Then the rest of my life kicked in. You figure out the 12 hour days are ok, but you didn't want to stay in office and miss the rest of your life pass you by. A progamer interview I saw recently (ShowTime, a War3 player) said he plays almost continuously for 15 hours a day. I may like gaming, but I couldn't take that continously for too long. Even people with dream jobs need to find a balance somewhere. If a dream job demands all your energy, your time.. leaves you with no energy for anything else.. then it won't be your dream job forever.
Dream job: one that pays you well enough to live the life you want, and that you don't completely dred going to every day of your life.
National Geographic has been doing a dismal job over the past few months, and there really are not enough players in the game. It's funny, in my experience most geeks really do like the great outdoors, so it seems a proper marriage to me!
I'm one of those outdoor geeks (backpacking, kayaking), and I have to disagree with your assesment of National Geographic's performace. I'm not certain exactly to what you are referring, but if it's basic mapping software, I *love* their NatGeo Topo State series. The maps are the latest USGS topoquads (many other campanies' prducts, like Delorme, use maps that are many years old and lacking in many newer trails), and are beautifully reproduced. GPS support has been wonderful, and I can do exactly what the above blurb was talking about - take photos, record their positions in my GPS, and, when I get back home, upload my route, along with waypoints indicating, among other things, where I took what photos. The photos then have to be manually associated with each waypoint, but it works so well, I'm not about to start complaining.
In the end, how "good" a programmer is depends on how useful their code is and how quickly they can produce it. Usefulness isn't determined by efficiency alone, but by its maintainability and reusabiltiy as well
Word up on that. I can't tell you how many hairs I've lost trying to decipher some previous employee's thirteen nested iif's - yeah, okay, he got rid of 30 lines of code, but at what price? Good god, man, at what price?!?
think the article should have disclosed that the submitter (johnnyb) is also the author of the book, Jonathan Bartlett. So rather than saying "A new book was just released", I would rather see something like "I wrote this new book." Here is johnnyb's website. http://www.eskimo.com/~johnnyb/
Not only is he the author, but it seems he's the PUBLISHER, as well! Double-non-disclosure. Booyah!
It's like learning Latin. Nobody actually uses it, but it can give you a deeper understanding of the languages that are based on it.
Great analogy! And not only does it help you with other languages, but with science as well! Where do ya think all those genus/species/phylum names came from?
This means that students will be spending more time learning assembly, and less time learning about complicated algorithms and the things you really should be learning about (since languages change but algorithms are standard).
Huh? Sure, algorithms don't change, but do I really need to remeber them? That's what reference material is for. Know that there's an algorithm to do something, here's where you can find it, and bam, you're done.
Learning assembly gives one a deep understanding of HOW THINGS WORK at a VERY low level - one that can, IMO, only be gleaned by manipulating registers yourself.
By simply momorizing some algorithms, you are no better than the luser who takes a crash-course in MCSEism, memorizing verious things, and learning just enough to pass the test, without REALLY understanding ANYTHING. Learning assembly forces you to understand. Rote memorization is... well, rote. And memorization. You don't really learn anything. It's attitudes like yours that are churning out a generation of 'IT' people that don't know jack shit.
Had he admitted that it was his own book, I might've actually read about the book, read the summary and saw if I was interested (as I'm a developer and have a degree in CS).
Hate to 'me-too' this (these) post(s), but I was so going to buy this book before discovering the author was (as an above poster so eloquently put it) 'pimping his warez' here without any kind of disclaimer indicating he may have been slightly biased. When I found this out, the author lost all chances of my ever buying this book. Maybe in a year or two, used, for $2, on eBay, so that he sees none of my money. We need good computer books, especially low-level ones. and this one may have fit the bill, but I'll support less ethically-impoverished authors, thank you very much.
my point is, what is the point of this security if the port then stays open after the first connection.
You say I can specify, because of linux, is linux on my router? Is that what Cisco or Linksys has on my router? Most people don't use a pc running linux as their router, home users use linksys or d-link, and companies use Cisco routers.
AH - but the port DOESN'T stay open - you knock, the port becomes accesible, and you have 10 seconds to correctly login. After that, it dissappears, until the knock comes again. A port can be OPEN and have a current session active, but not accept any new connections. IE, I can knock, then SSH in, supply a UN/PW pair, and get into the system. But then, the port stops accepting further connections, unless the knock is once again presented correctly. It DOES NOT boot me off. It just stops LISTENing.
As to if linux is on your router - well, for those hom users using Linksys routers, yes, I believe they do use linux. Cisco uses their own OS, but IIRC it's pretty flexible and such a scenario could likely be implemented there. DLink I dunno about.
Why would a home user using a dlink router possibly need to implement this kind of thing? It seems to me that anybody who'd want to implement this would have a clue, and, having a clue, they would use a *nix box as their router.
how does it make the port appear closed after ten seconds, communication is still traversing that port if you open an SSH session you ussually continue to use it for a while don't you?
Also, how could I be right or wrong, I asked a question. Also you didn't answer if it had a way of allowing that port to be open for just the IP using it, otherwise the port would have to appear open, because it is open.
A) RTFA - the port doesn't just always close after 10 seconds - it listens for a connection for 10 seconds. It none is made (ie, successful login), the port closes up all hidden again.
B) You claim, back to back, that (1) you didn't ask a question, and (2) I didn't answer your question. Which is it? It can't be both.
I'll answer - of course you can specify only the IP that knocked correctly can get in. With linux, your imagination is about the only limit. Are you sure you're in the right place?
And, again, just because a port is 'open', doesn't mean anyone can just waltz in - that depends entirely on the service running BEHIND the port - in the case of SSH, yes, the port will let you 'get in', but without entering the correct username and password, it kicks you right back out.
does it only open the port for that one IP somehow, using also advanced IP filtering, cause otherwise this is dumb, it would be like unlocking your door for the first customer to knock right, but having to leave it open the whole time the customer is shopping.
You're not quite right here - all knocking in the correct sequence does is make the specified port AVAILABLE - nowhere was it stated that port would 'just start working'. In the example given, using ssh, a correct ssh login/password pair would ALSO need to be provided - so to correct your metephor, the door is still locked - it's just not camoflauged anymore - now everybody can see the door is there - though they still need a key.
To correcct my own metaphor - the door, furthermore, according to the example, would only be visible for, say, 10 seconds - at which point it's cloaking device turns on again, waiting to present the keyhole to the first correct secret knock.
will make us a better, truer, purer race of people
That statement worries me--sounds a bit too nazi-ish. i enjoy diversity, i enjoy the fact that not everyone sees things from the same side of the fence.
Uhh... yeah. I can't believe you left out the fact that he referred to "most Saudis as dirty Sand Niggers" (though he used the abbrv "SN" - not something, IMO, that lessens the blow.
All this coming from a dirty faggot who cares about nothing but carnal pleasure.
Please note: that last statement was made entirely toungue-in-cheek - here's a guy who claims to be bisexual - a group that is frequently discriminated against - and claims to be educated, yet he labels most of an entire country with a racial slur. Scha-weet.
Oh, yeah, a note on bi/hetro/homo: (my view only, of course) - I have nothing against either hetro or homsexuals - I think they are both driven by incontrollable brain chemistry that causes a physical attraction to certain things. There is nothing anybody can do about what sex they are attracted to, and I hence embrace them all as my brethren. Bisexuals are a WHOLE other cookie. I view them as simply people of loose character, who lust relentlessly after the pleasures of the flesh, and will take whatever they can get - any hole, any time, any where - man, woman, child, or beast. Yeah that's right. I said it. They're chicken-fuckers and pedophiles. Probably fuck their own mothers and fathers. They'd probably say, "I see beauty everywhere, in all of god's creatures", and I say, "Yeah. As long as you can fuck it or it can fuck you."
Just goes to show that, as that Matt Damon guy's character in "Good Bill Hunting" said, just because yer stupid enough to not know what books to read and gullible enough to pay somebody $40K a year to tell you which ones doesn't make you educated.
"Eighty percent of the people at AOL are clueless," he says. Was this supposed to read: "Eighty percent of the people using AOL are clueless?"
Uh yeah, that would be both, Marv.
Firstly, I don't work there anymore. Secondly, the employees have worked on OSS on company time. So the company uses OSS and contributes back. Sure, the main product isn't open source, but they have contributed back, and everyone has to make a dollar.
So, lemme see if I've got this straight... you (your former employer) took GPL'ed code and used it to create a derivative work that is sold for-profit, and did not release said modifications? hmmm...
In view of that, no ISP could ever have taken action against a spammer, which we know has happened, perhaps it would be resonable to assume that the ISP keeps logs of who get what lease when. Evidently RIAA has reason to believe this, given this tack.
Man, you're soooo off here, I can't even begin to fathom where to start. First aof all, I think it's safe to assume that most major spammers have static IPs associated with T1s or better - easy enough to get THEIR IPs. When it comes to joe-blow home broadband user, his cable/DSL modem likely gets that dynamic IP, which, as the previous poster pointed out, will likely have been rotated out of the logs by the time the slow/long arm of John Law gets around to asking for that info.
Also, spam, when reported, is generally reported by people relatively tech-savvy, or by using spam-reporting services - something that can take place (and probably DOES take place) almost immediately, or, at worst, within a few days - not the MONTHS that court-orders can take.
Mamma
the President's a fool
why do I have to keep
reading these technical manuals?
Love the Roger sig, BTW...
Personally, Why isn't technology like this being adapted to fight SPAM.
Okay, Mr. I-don't-know-how-to-use-punctuation, I'm gonna make this real simple for you: we don't use tools like this to combat spam because there ARE NO TOOLS LIKE THIS. This is government double-speak for "we looked at the headers". Do you have ANY clue how email/TPC/IP works? Perhaps you would feel more at home on fark.com, or www.marykateandashley.com?
Ah! You're a 'toker'! That would explain a whole bunch...