I've said this in other spam articles, but Bayesian spam filtering seems the best route to go at this point. With little setup you should be largely protected. Get a decent amount of spam to build the initial filtering list on, and as new spam gets caught update the list. It's almost perpetual motion. Then if you aren't actually seeing the mails then the spammers get less and less sucess per million distributed. Hit spammers where it counts.
Now if only I didn't use web based email, or yahoo actually gave a damn about their users other than offering other services that simply generate direct revenue.
Yo! Yahoo, if you make a good email program more people will use it and then more ppl will see all your adds. It's not always about the first level income. If you give people a reason to use your free services then they will see and use your banner ads more
Tell that to RCN who charges me $5 a month for my cable modem. I wonder if MS would attach a EULA to the xbox and consider the purchase fee a one time hardware "licensing fee".
maybe I shouldn't give people ideas...
I use my backup cd's as coaster, then I don't have to worry about people stealing them.
The question I really want answered is, what is a good free windows backup program that does incremental backups to any cd burner? I found one once, but it required I have easy cd creator, which is $100 alone. I have Nero, paid for it any everything, but I can't find anything to serve me.
I was just trying to think what people would say if MS had participated on the panel, and I think it would be "sabatoge." If MS did indeed participate on the panel they would have a chance to undermind the standard that was produced as well as get earlier info about the developing standard to try and circumvent it sooner.
I don't think MS would do this, but I think that there are worse things MS could have done than simply not participate.
I interned at MS and that was the first place I heard about "eating your own dogfood" which does help to make a product better. But I've told this to many people and most have already heard of it from another non-MS company. Sounds like a rather common term, and it's not exactly a confidential phrase, anyone could "plant" it to make a document look more authentic.
hehe, I'm starting to think *nix took the perl approach to things, "there's more than one way to do it". What's with/bin/ps/usr/ucb/ps and all the other forms. Can't we just have one???
""if you buy a car, and in are driving in the middle of the night in some desertical parage, it is good to know some mechanics, rigth?""
Hehe, well just like drivers some ppl just wait till the car yells at them then take it in to a mechanic, other tweak the car weekly to keep it fine tuned, other know to change the oil regularly, others change it themselves. Like I said, choose what works best for you:) If you can handle linux and use linux then do so, if you need windows, then do so, if you need both then use both.:)
I really would love it if Windows did like OSX, I want to get a new mac just to use it. mmmm though considering the only unix product they ever made was a version of IE that's discontinued and almost impossible to find I doubt that'll ever happen.
The problem with all this is that for the people that read/. using open source software is fine, they can figure the problem out themselves or enough of their geek friends are good with linux and will know the answer. They fufill their own prophecy that OSS is cheaper because they can get past the installation issues and and subsequent problems.
But for people who don't know much about computers and really don't want to, or have the time to, is it really cheaper? Do they know how to use a newsgroup? do they know how to use IRC? Are they going to use these resources that for the most part are unstructured and not dependant? The community support for a product is only good if _a lot_ of people use it and _a lot_ of people have a the time to read newsgroups etc... Ever post to one of the CVS newsgroups? A lot of questions go unanswered, and it's not alone.
I'm all for OSS, but no one thing is an end all. OS's, applications, programming languages, etc... are simply tools. Use the one that is best for you, what you need to do, and the resources you have.
How do those of use who will probably never use up the $25 keep from getting screwed? If I go to a site once it doesn't mean I'll keep coming. I'm effectively making $25 deposits on all these sites I may or may not ever use again. I hope they give refunds when I close the account.
That's just what we need, more noise pollution in the grocery store, and more people not looking where they are going because they are checking their portfolio's
This is done in many arenas. Mini dish hackers, cable tv boxes modders, etc.. etc.. it's been going on for a long time, and well it's their service with their contract/EULA, you don't have to agree to it.
You can build a computer that can simulate the entire solar system, but without greater advances in AI you'll never really get near the power of a brain. And unfortunatly AI is progressing much slower than most people probably think. Not for lack of trying but for the complexity of the problem.
I would be happy if Yahoo just allow me to filter on more things in mail headers, and have more then 15 filters. And hey, what about regex filters? HUH?
And their Submit this as spam so we can update our spam filter, is complete crap.
I thought the neatness of the Segway was the gyroscopic handling of weight balance on a single axle, not the engine per se, though I believe you are correct that it contains one of his engines.
Kamen gave an hour long talk where I work about a year ago. The entire time he was sitting in another invention of his, a wheel chair that can go from sitting on 4 wheels/2axles to only 2 wheels/1 axle, which since then has been named the iBot. The second mode giving the person added height to reach thing on higher shelves, and being similar to the Segway in that you can't fall over, even despite my largest co-worker yanking on the thing with kamen in it. Kamen didn't like that too much. MSN had a good video trial usage of this, here's the cooresponding article
I remember reading a while back about how people who were shown IT/Ginger in it's development have basically said Segway is not it. ZDNet has the story.
I was curious why Steve Jobs was getting all excited about something like this, doesn't seem like him.
Maybe Yahoo and MSN will implement user by user Bayesian spam filtering now:) It would also be interesting to see if they could do the filtering on their entire user base instead of person by person.
Actually it was changed to "William Farking Shatner". Additionally is looks like Wil Wheaton has removed the stuff he had up about why he didn't like William Shatner.
Professional Sports probably makes more profit than Microsoft but when's the last time you hear the government sueing the NBA, MLB, or NFL or a major number of people complaining about it?
I hate to use this as an example though as I don't think Professional Athletes deserve what they make.
From last nights SNL "Warner Brothers reported tuesday that an illegal copy of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was leaked on line before the movie premiers this weekend. In worse news, it seems a manuscript of the movie has been available for the past 4 years."
I do have to agree with the reviewer. This movie/book is probably the weakest of the whole series. The movie to really look forward to is The Prisoner of Azkaban, book 3. It is my favorite book of the series so far and I think it starts to get to a nice level of darkness in the story. Additionally, Book 4 picks up on this darker aspect well, if not a slightly sillier story.
From last nights SNL "Warner Brothers reported tuesday that an illegal copy of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was leaked on line before the movie premiers this weekend. In worse news, it seems a manuscript of the book has been available for the past 4 years."
I do have to agree with the reviewer. This movie/book is probably the weakest of the whole series. The movie to really look forward to is The Prisoner of Azkaban, book 3. It is my favorite book of the series so far and I think it starts to get to a nice level of darkness in the story. Additionally, Book 4 picks up on this darker aspect well, if not a slightly sillier story.
Granted I could have simply had a bad experience, but when I installed Redhat on my system that already had w98 and w2k redhat installed itself so that it pushed my w2k partition to a different partition number(?) so that when I went to boot w2k to boot loader was looking in the wrong place. You can try to blame this on how the MS partition mapper works, but I still think OS installers should be smart enough to not mess up my partitions for the most widely used OS out there. It's one thing if they ignore the other N linuxes that are used by.005% of the world, but the widest used OS is something different.
Additionally, after not using Redhat for about 7 months I tried to boot it up and it keep yelling at me about something to do with the windowing invironmens installed, (gnome?). Seems to me that my OS should still work if I haven't touched it in months.
The last part is that at the time there was no good way to book redhat from the windows bootloader OS list. I tried the strategies suggested but they simply never worked, I had to use a floppy anytime I wanted to use redhat.
I honestly would much rather use OSX than windows or *nix seperately.
Yeah, I've seen that but I wish he had something that covered everything, not just his latest book. I can't really link to that site for a snow crash reference when there's not much more than a picture of snow crash.
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I've said this in other spam articles, but Bayesian spam filtering seems the best route to go at this point. With little setup you should be largely protected. Get a decent amount of spam to build the initial filtering list on, and as new spam gets caught update the list. It's almost perpetual motion. Then if you aren't actually seeing the mails then the spammers get less and less sucess per million distributed. Hit spammers where it counts.
Now if only I didn't use web based email, or yahoo actually gave a damn about their users other than offering other services that simply generate direct revenue.
Yo! Yahoo, if you make a good email program more people will use it and then more ppl will see all your adds. It's not always about the first level income. If you give people a reason to use your free services then they will see and use your banner ads more
Tell that to RCN who charges me $5 a month for my cable modem. I wonder if MS would attach a EULA to the xbox and consider the purchase fee a one time hardware "licensing fee". maybe I shouldn't give people ideas...
I use my backup cd's as coaster, then I don't have to worry about people stealing them.
The question I really want answered is, what is a good free windows backup program that does incremental backups to any cd burner? I found one once, but it required I have easy cd creator, which is $100 alone. I have Nero, paid for it any everything, but I can't find anything to serve me.
I was just trying to think what people would say if MS had participated on the panel, and I think it would be "sabatoge." If MS did indeed participate on the panel they would have a chance to undermind the standard that was produced as well as get earlier info about the developing standard to try and circumvent it sooner.
I don't think MS would do this, but I think that there are worse things MS could have done than simply not participate.
I interned at MS and that was the first place I heard about "eating your own dogfood" which does help to make a product better. But I've told this to many people and most have already heard of it from another non-MS company. Sounds like a rather common term, and it's not exactly a confidential phrase, anyone could "plant" it to make a document look more authentic.
hehe, I'm starting to think *nix took the perl approach to things, "there's more than one way to do it". What's with /bin/ps /usr/ucb/ps and all the other forms. Can't we just have one???
""if you buy a car, and in are driving in the middle of the night in some desertical parage, it is good to know some mechanics, rigth?""
:) If you can handle linux and use linux then do so, if you need windows, then do so, if you need both then use both. :)
Hehe, well just like drivers some ppl just wait till the car yells at them then take it in to a mechanic, other tweak the car weekly to keep it fine tuned, other know to change the oil regularly, others change it themselves. Like I said, choose what works best for you
I really would love it if Windows did like OSX, I want to get a new mac just to use it. mmmm though considering the only unix product they ever made was a version of IE that's discontinued and almost impossible to find I doubt that'll ever happen.
The problem with all this is that for the people that read /. using open source software is fine, they can figure the problem out themselves or enough of their geek friends are good with linux and will know the answer. They fufill their own prophecy that OSS is cheaper because they can get past the installation issues and and subsequent problems.
But for people who don't know much about computers and really don't want to, or have the time to, is it really cheaper? Do they know how to use a newsgroup? do they know how to use IRC? Are they going to use these resources that for the most part are unstructured and not dependant? The community support for a product is only good if _a lot_ of people use it and _a lot_ of people have a the time to read newsgroups etc... Ever post to one of the CVS newsgroups? A lot of questions go unanswered, and it's not alone.
I'm all for OSS, but no one thing is an end all. OS's, applications, programming languages, etc... are simply tools. Use the one that is best for you, what you need to do, and the resources you have.
How do those of use who will probably never use up the $25 keep from getting screwed? If I go to a site once it doesn't mean I'll keep coming. I'm effectively making $25 deposits on all these sites I may or may not ever use again. I hope they give refunds when I close the account.
That's just what we need, more noise pollution in the grocery store, and more people not looking where they are going because they are checking their portfolio's
IT is the next rev
Iguana Transporter???
This is done in many arenas. Mini dish hackers, cable tv boxes modders, etc.. etc.. it's been going on for a long time, and well it's their service with their contract/EULA, you don't have to agree to it.
You can build a computer that can simulate the entire solar system, but without greater advances in AI you'll never really get near the power of a brain. And unfortunatly AI is progressing much slower than most people probably think. Not for lack of trying but for the complexity of the problem.
hehe, I didn't want to go into it's features, but it can also get across sand, pebbles and other surfaces traditional wheechairs can't.
As for the stari climbing, it beat a professional athlete up something like 3k stairs at a 10% grade. Whew!
I would be happy if Yahoo just allow me to filter on more things in mail headers, and have more then 15 filters. And hey, what about regex filters? HUH?
And their Submit this as spam so we can update our spam filter, is complete crap.
I thought the neatness of the Segway was the gyroscopic handling of weight balance on a single axle, not the engine per se, though I believe you are correct that it contains one of his engines.
Kamen gave an hour long talk where I work about a year ago. The entire time he was sitting in another invention of his, a wheel chair that can go from sitting on 4 wheels/2axles to only 2 wheels/1 axle, which since then has been named the iBot. The second mode giving the person added height to reach thing on higher shelves, and being similar to the Segway in that you can't fall over, even despite my largest co-worker yanking on the thing with kamen in it. Kamen didn't like that too much. MSN had a good video trial usage of this, here's the cooresponding article
I remember reading a while back about how people who were shown IT/Ginger in it's development have basically said Segway is not it. ZDNet has the story.
I was curious why Steve Jobs was getting all excited about something like this, doesn't seem like him.
Maybe Yahoo and MSN will implement user by user Bayesian spam filtering now :) It would also be interesting to see if they could do the filtering on their entire user base instead of person by person.
Actually it was changed to "William Farking Shatner". Additionally is looks like Wil Wheaton has removed the stuff he had up about why he didn't like William Shatner.
Professional Sports probably makes more profit than Microsoft but when's the last time you hear the government sueing the NBA, MLB, or NFL or a major number of people complaining about it?
I hate to use this as an example though as I don't think Professional Athletes deserve what they make.
Oh dear god I think I'm going to be sick. When has a cartoon version of any real life movie suceeded? One? maybe two?
Damn, talk about screwing that one up.
From last nights SNL "Warner Brothers reported tuesday that an illegal copy of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was leaked on line before the movie premiers this weekend. In worse news, it seems a manuscript of the movie has been available for the past 4 years."
I do have to agree with the reviewer. This movie/book is probably the weakest of the whole series. The movie to really look forward to is The Prisoner of Azkaban, book 3. It is my favorite book of the series so far and I think it starts to get to a nice level of darkness in the story. Additionally, Book 4 picks up on this darker aspect well, if not a slightly sillier story.
From last nights SNL "Warner Brothers reported tuesday that an illegal copy of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets was leaked on line before the movie premiers this weekend. In worse news, it seems a manuscript of the book has been available for the past 4 years."
I do have to agree with the reviewer. This movie/book is probably the weakest of the whole series. The movie to really look forward to is The Prisoner of Azkaban, book 3. It is my favorite book of the series so far and I think it starts to get to a nice level of darkness in the story. Additionally, Book 4 picks up on this darker aspect well, if not a slightly sillier story.
Granted I could have simply had a bad experience, but when I installed Redhat on my system that already had w98 and w2k redhat installed itself so that it pushed my w2k partition to a different partition number(?) so that when I went to boot w2k to boot loader was looking in the wrong place. You can try to blame this on how the MS partition mapper works, but I still think OS installers should be smart enough to not mess up my partitions for the most widely used OS out there. It's one thing if they ignore the other N linuxes that are used by .005% of the world, but the widest used OS is something different.
Additionally, after not using Redhat for about 7 months I tried to boot it up and it keep yelling at me about something to do with the windowing invironmens installed, (gnome?). Seems to me that my OS should still work if I haven't touched it in months.
The last part is that at the time there was no good way to book redhat from the windows bootloader OS list. I tried the strategies suggested but they simply never worked, I had to use a floppy anytime I wanted to use redhat.
I honestly would much rather use OSX than windows or *nix seperately.
Yeah, I've seen that but I wish he had something that covered everything, not just his latest book. I can't really link to that site for a snow crash reference when there's not much more than a picture of snow crash.