Anything so entrenched can never be said to be heading the way of the Dodo. Things last, for better for for worse, things stick around:
floppy disks command line interface (if this dies, I quit computers) serial ports(also, on my own list) ps/2 keyboards and mice analog modems
Technically, all of these can be replaced, but they haven't been, for one reason or another, they still exist. You cannot dictate change in this industry, you just sort of have to create oppurtunity for change, and flow with it.
From the other side, people use floppies, people use their favorite keyboard into keyboard death, then buy the same one as a replacement. People hate passwords. No one who writes the admin password for their xp box on a postit note under the keyboard will ever miss passwords. If people find it easier, they might switch. But don't bet too much on it. Not that you venture capitalists will listen.
I'm pretty sure passwords will end up on that list someday and I will personally stand in the way of their demise. Why? Because I do not trust PKI's, especially dotNet.
Get the maintainers to get some of my favorite plguins up to speed with the 1.0 release.
Things absent from 1.0 at this time: Add Bookmark Here Firesomething Textzoom CTC Cute Menus all the orbit themes
I have 1.0 on my work system, but home still runs 0.8, because of all the stuff that just doesn't get updated anymore. Hell, if the maintainers have gotten pissed because of the constant need to update their work because of the changing plugin arch, then hell, I'll jump in on a few of them.
The plugins are my favorite part of firefox, and most of the good ones do not work with 0.9 and 1.0.
Why would anyone pay $265 for Halo 2? 1. It's on the Internet if you want it now. 2. If you're that much of a Halo fanatic, you've got Halo 2 preordered. Which means you're garunteed a copy in 4 days at 1/5th of that price. Is there something I'm missing here?
Didn't you hear? People are idiots. Look at the election results.
Hopes dashed or not, Fable as released wasn't simply a bitter disapointment, it was a dull and boring game. The fact that they didn't even stick bandaids on the game to cover serious holes that were left in the game due to its early release just makes the problem worse. The game is noticeably unfinished, and it takes a serious toll on what's left.
Fortunately, I did not buy this one, I would never buy a game of this genre..... because I haven't seen one done right yet. Same problem each time: always released early. That's what my roomie's wallet is for, he buys into the hype every stinking time. I just complain about it.:-)
Yeah, Fable comes to mind. We were promised near limitless replay value, as the game's story was supposed to unfold based on in game decisions. What we got was a linear story of limited appeal, that is the same regardless of how many children you slaughter. We were promised a complex virtual economy. What we got was a bunch of traders spouting off tips to the effect of, "some people earn good gold buying and selling trade items." Well, I have news for you, you cannot make money in this regard. Your supposed to be able to buy property, and make hard cash being a landlord or shopkeeper, guess what, you'll never make up the cost of the house in rent revenue, unless you play for a bloody eternity. The story peters out after 8 hours of real game time, true you can play for some time after that. But what for? So I can get a sword out of a rock, gee, where did that idea come from? So I can escort some moron trader to Orchard Farm every few days?
Whee, what the game needed was about 300 more quests than it has, in some kind of spanning tree system, where decisions and actions make certain quests available, and others, completely unavilable. No, whatever you do, you get the same quests, at the same point in the game. One of the lamest games I have ever played.
GPS Navigation System: Maybe for some of you, but I have a good direction sense, mapquest, and a printer.
TV/DVD Player: Are you fucking insane? You can't watch tv while your driving, and I do not drive my car only to have the passengers ignore me while they enjoy the latest simpsons. Entertain your driver damnit! And don't give me that, "But it keeps the kids quiet!" argument. Fuck your kids, your kids suck.
OnStar: Apparently, you can use onstar to order flowers, arrange vacations, and have a hooker waiting for you on your lunch break. All things that are safer to do while you are NOT DRIVING. Well, maybe not the hooker, but come on people, cell phones are bad enough, now we have a shopping cart system in every rich man's car to distract him from what he should be paying attention to: the road.
An OS: Since I do not want any of these handy "time saving" services in my car, why in hell's name do I need an OS for in my car? I don't! Last I checked, I don't have one in my current car, and it seems to get me to places just fine. I need windows CE running my car as much as I need MacOSX running the office water cooler.
Sometimes people get so caught installing a computer in everything that they forget to take a step back and think, "Ya know, this is the dumbest idea I have ever had."
I'm a network admin for a small ISP in NW Ohio, and as a general rule, we outright block between 45k, and 52k letters a day, just from real time blacklists. The past week has shown us blocking over 60k a day, which almost never happens, but its been consistently high for a week now. So, I have to disagree, spam levels have not dropped off because of Ivan, or any of his less bolshevik friends.
For my predictions: A cylon becomes a 7-of-9; that is, it integrates into human culture. There will be some episodes where it reverts back to its roots, but somehow, through sheer human (ha) will, overcomes its mechanical nature. A human crewmember falls in love with the Cylon.
From what I have seen so far, that sort of happens....
Get some regular light exercise, being cooped up in an office all day makes me sluggish, but never sleepy. I try to take walks fairly regularly, and it, coupled with a regular sleep schedule, seems to help keep me awake when the sun is out, and alseep when its not.
Now, that is not to say I like that, I am a night owl, but I also work a full time job, and my night life had to take a backseat to it.:-(
The only reason anyone is likely to care is because it has made surfing very pleasent lately. I'm sorry, its illegal, its wrong, and it hurts networks to deliver the package of shit they are sending dclick's way. Still, advertising is fucking out of control, and it needs to lighten up. Since they don't listen to us, some of us have taken to punishing them for it. I applaud their efforts.
The weak key problem has been addressed by all manufacturers via firmware updates. You are now forced to do dictionary attacks which require a large number of packets and resources. Still hackable, but not nearly as easy.
I know.
You need to read the article (which I didn't read). I don't need to read it since I know about the changes already. You'll find the key exchanges when combined with a true AAA provide a secure solution.
I was pointing out that magic acronyms do not equate with great security, in response to the/. post. I'm sure 802.11i has some improvements, which time will test, but my original post had little to nothing to do with wireless other than as an excuse for me to rant off on how much I hate those magic acronym weilder, such as the one in the/. post.
And I have hence read the article, but I would post to another thread to post about its merits/failings. as I said, my original post was about the broad world crypto, and how most of the world just doesn't get it.
You can't throw pretty sounding state of the art encryption schemes at something and call it secure. WEP's failing was not a bad algorithem, RC4 isn't new by any means, but its nothing to turn your nose to. When used properly, it can do the job. But WEP used predictable session id's, a tiny key space, and a whole host of recomended but "optional" wep concepts that the manufacturers ignored because they were all harder to implement.
While I certainely agree that Gnome and KDE become more and more Windows like everyday, linux is not gnome, and linux is not kde. They are separate entities, which is why windows is nothing like linux in one major regard: choice.
You have a choice with regards to your computer. If you wish to run windows, so be it, but you will adhere to a fairly ridged methodology. With Linux, you can choose to run gnome, or you can choose to not run one of the popular desktop envrioments, or even have a windowing system at all. If you choose, your linux system will have only software that you want on it, and will behave as you desire.
Yes you can run gnome, and have a very windows like system. I choose not to run gnome, because I left windows to get away from bloated software, which gnome and kde are. I run AfterStep, on a very trimmed down linux system, with only the tools I need. My system is not very windows like at all. I run linux because it gives me that choice.
because spammers themselves are not usually the selling party, they are the "advertising agency" if I dare call them that. Joe Viagra company seeks out a bulk mailer to advertise for him, the spammer charges by the number of people they blast with the spam, not the number that respond.
Having valid recipients increases the spammer's profits, but addresses that are 100% guarenteed to never respond to spam, while increasing the spammer's profits, reduce the profit margins of the actual seller of the product.
But of course, in a perfect world, people would learn that advertising with a spammer is a great way to get a very bad reputation at your own expense, and the profits for spammers would drop off. Never happen though.
do remember that spam levels are on the rise, and the advent of filter busters has made bayesian filtering far less effective.
The problem may be that TB's filter is on par with your other one of choice, you just can't see any better results, because of these two factors.
Simple fact is, you will see more spam today than you did last year, and you'll probably see more next year if current trends continue. I just hope the spammers don't find a way to break razor for a while yet, I am enjoying the peaceful state of my inbox right now.
As an employee of an ISP, I can safely say that while you may be able to send outgoing mail from a comcast customer ip block, its not definately going to get to its end destination. The line:
customers.comcast.com REJECT - excessive spam from comcast netblocks
is very common in ISPs' sendmail configurations lately(and the other dns variations nessesary to blacklist comcast entirely). Most ISP's got sick of comcast long before they actually admitted their entire network is nothing more than a giant spammy dildo looking for its next asshole to fuck.
If I had a point, it would be that running your own mail server can be cool, but your best off using a trusted smtp relay for outbound mail. Anything so your mail doesn't appear to come from spam city.... err 24.0.0.0/8
Slashdot Mirror
Anything so entrenched can never be said to be heading the way of the Dodo. Things last, for better for for worse, things stick around:
floppy disks
command line interface (if this dies, I quit computers)
serial ports(also, on my own list)
ps/2 keyboards and mice
analog modems
Technically, all of these can be replaced, but they haven't been, for one reason or another, they still exist. You cannot dictate change in this industry, you just sort of have to create oppurtunity for change, and flow with it.
From the other side, people use floppies, people use their favorite keyboard into keyboard death, then buy the same one as a replacement. People hate passwords. No one who writes the admin password for their xp box on a postit note under the keyboard will ever miss passwords. If people find it easier, they might switch. But don't bet too much on it. Not that you venture capitalists will listen.
I'm pretty sure passwords will end up on that list someday and I will personally stand in the way of their demise. Why? Because I do not trust PKI's, especially dotNet.
Get the maintainers to get some of my favorite plguins up to speed with the 1.0 release.
Things absent from 1.0 at this time:
Add Bookmark Here
Firesomething
Textzoom
CTC
Cute Menus
all the orbit themes
I have 1.0 on my work system, but home still runs 0.8, because of all the stuff that just doesn't get updated anymore. Hell, if the maintainers have gotten pissed because of the constant need to update their work because of the changing plugin arch, then hell, I'll jump in on a few of them.
The plugins are my favorite part of firefox, and most of the good ones do not work with 0.9 and 1.0.
Oh, and the default theme still sucks.
Didn't you hear? People are idiots. Look at the election results.
Damnit! You beat me to this sig!
Hopes dashed or not, Fable as released wasn't simply a bitter disapointment, it was a dull and boring game. The fact that they didn't even stick bandaids on the game to cover serious holes that were left in the game due to its early release just makes the problem worse. The game is noticeably unfinished, and it takes a serious toll on what's left.
:-)
Fortunately, I did not buy this one, I would never buy a game of this genre..... because I haven't seen one done right yet. Same problem each time: always released early. That's what my roomie's wallet is for, he buys into the hype every stinking time. I just complain about it.
This will never work, the French will surrender to the first meteor they encounter on this so called, "charge."
Yeah, Fable comes to mind. We were promised near limitless replay value, as the game's story was supposed to unfold based on in game decisions. What we got was a linear story of limited appeal, that is the same regardless of how many children you slaughter. We were promised a complex virtual economy. What we got was a bunch of traders spouting off tips to the effect of, "some people earn good gold buying and selling trade items." Well, I have news for you, you cannot make money in this regard. Your supposed to be able to buy property, and make hard cash being a landlord or shopkeeper, guess what, you'll never make up the cost of the house in rent revenue, unless you play for a bloody eternity. The story peters out after 8 hours of real game time, true you can play for some time after that. But what for? So I can get a sword out of a rock, gee, where did that idea come from? So I can escort some moron trader to Orchard Farm every few days?
Whee, what the game needed was about 300 more quests than it has, in some kind of spanning tree system, where decisions and actions make certain quests available, and others, completely unavilable. No, whatever you do, you get the same quests, at the same point in the game. One of the lamest games I have ever played.
Things I do not want in my car, ever, and why:
- GPS Navigation System: Maybe for some of you, but I have a good direction sense, mapquest, and a printer.
- TV/DVD Player: Are you fucking insane? You can't watch tv while your driving, and I do not drive my car only to have the passengers ignore me while they enjoy the latest simpsons. Entertain your driver damnit! And don't give me that, "But it keeps the kids quiet!" argument. Fuck your kids, your kids suck.
- OnStar: Apparently, you can use onstar to order flowers, arrange vacations, and have a hooker waiting for you on your lunch break. All things that are safer to do while you are NOT DRIVING. Well, maybe not the hooker, but come on people, cell phones are bad enough, now we have a shopping cart system in every rich man's car to distract him from what he should be paying attention to: the road.
- An OS: Since I do not want any of these handy "time saving" services in my car, why in hell's name do I need an OS for in my car? I don't! Last I checked, I don't have one in my current car, and it seems to get me to places just fine. I need windows CE running my car as much as I need MacOSX running the office water cooler.
Sometimes people get so caught installing a computer in everything that they forget to take a step back and think, "Ya know, this is the dumbest idea I have ever had."Does he think that cheaper hardware will make copying software harder to do?
He can think it all he wants, doesn't change the fact that he's a fucking idiot, not to mention one fat assed monkey.
I'm a network admin for a small ISP in NW Ohio, and as a general rule, we outright block between 45k, and 52k letters a day, just from real time blacklists. The past week has shown us blocking over 60k a day, which almost never happens, but its been consistently high for a week now. So, I have to disagree, spam levels have not dropped off because of Ivan, or any of his less bolshevik friends.
sounds about as likely as trickle down economics.
ya, know, not at all.
For my predictions:
A cylon becomes a 7-of-9; that is, it integrates into human culture. There will be some episodes where it reverts back to its roots, but somehow, through sheer human (ha) will, overcomes its mechanical nature. A human crewmember falls in love with the Cylon.
From what I have seen so far, that sort of happens....
Get some regular light exercise, being cooped up in an office all day makes me sluggish, but never sleepy. I try to take walks fairly regularly, and it, coupled with a regular sleep schedule, seems to help keep me awake when the sun is out, and alseep when its not.
:-(
Now, that is not to say I like that, I am a night owl, but I also work a full time job, and my night life had to take a backseat to it.
The only reason anyone is likely to care is because it has made surfing very pleasent lately. I'm sorry, its illegal, its wrong, and it hurts networks to deliver the package of shit they are sending dclick's way. Still, advertising is fucking out of control, and it needs to lighten up. Since they don't listen to us, some of us have taken to punishing them for it. I applaud their efforts.
I wanna buy the parties responsable a beer.
The weak key problem has been addressed by all manufacturers via firmware updates. You are now forced to do dictionary attacks which require a large number of packets and resources. Still hackable, but not nearly as easy.
/. post. I'm sure 802.11i has some improvements, which time will test, but my original post had little to nothing to do with wireless other than as an excuse for me to rant off on how much I hate those magic acronym weilder, such as the one in the /. post.
I know.
You need to read the article (which I didn't read). I don't need to read it since I know about the changes already. You'll find the key exchanges when combined with a true AAA provide a secure solution.
I was pointing out that magic acronyms do not equate with great security, in response to the
And I have hence read the article, but I would post to another thread to post about its merits/failings. as I said, my original post was about the broad world crypto, and how most of the world just doesn't get it.
Sir, I am in your debt, you say projectile bludgeoning results in security, I must learn more!
Its a start, but I still wager a good chunch of change that they fuck it up.
STill doesn't change the fact that you can't throw AES at something and get the happy land of magical computer/network security.
You can't throw pretty sounding state of the art encryption schemes at something and call it secure. WEP's failing was not a bad algorithem, RC4 isn't new by any means, but its nothing to turn your nose to. When used properly, it can do the job. But WEP used predictable session id's, a tiny key space, and a whole host of recomended but "optional" wep concepts that the manufacturers ignored because they were all harder to implement.
Wep was designed with the model:
1. pretty acronyms.
2. mumnle mumble mumble
3. SECURITY!!!
You could use AES in wep and it would still be breakable, the key exchange was piss poor, making the entire system piss poor.
I didn't read the article, this was just me bitching at the slashdot post, and people who believe fancy new encryption = security automagically.
While I certainely agree that Gnome and KDE become more and more Windows like everyday, linux is not gnome, and linux is not kde. They are separate entities, which is why windows is nothing like linux in one major regard: choice.
You have a choice with regards to your computer. If you wish to run windows, so be it, but you will adhere to a fairly ridged methodology. With Linux, you can choose to run gnome, or you can choose to not run one of the popular desktop envrioments, or even have a windowing system at all. If you choose, your linux system will have only software that you want on it, and will behave as you desire.
Yes you can run gnome, and have a very windows like system. I choose not to run gnome, because I left windows to get away from bloated software, which gnome and kde are. I run AfterStep, on a very trimmed down linux system, with only the tools I need. My system is not very windows like at all. I run linux because it gives me that choice.
because spammers themselves are not usually the selling party, they are the "advertising agency" if I dare call them that. Joe Viagra company seeks out a bulk mailer to advertise for him, the spammer charges by the number of people they blast with the spam, not the number that respond.
Having valid recipients increases the spammer's profits, but addresses that are 100% guarenteed to never respond to spam, while increasing the spammer's profits, reduce the profit margins of the actual seller of the product.
But of course, in a perfect world, people would learn that advertising with a spammer is a great way to get a very bad reputation at your own expense, and the profits for spammers would drop off. Never happen though.
do remember that spam levels are on the rise, and the advent of filter busters has made bayesian filtering far less effective.
The problem may be that TB's filter is on par with your other one of choice, you just can't see any better results, because of these two factors.
Simple fact is, you will see more spam today than you did last year, and you'll probably see more next year if current trends continue. I just hope the spammers don't find a way to break razor for a while yet, I am enjoying the peaceful state of my inbox right now.
As an employee of an ISP, I can safely say that while you may be able to send outgoing mail from a comcast customer ip block, its not definately going to get to its end destination. The line:
customers.comcast.com REJECT - excessive spam from comcast netblocks
is very common in ISPs' sendmail configurations lately(and the other dns variations nessesary to blacklist comcast entirely). Most ISP's got sick of comcast long before they actually admitted their entire network is nothing more than a giant spammy dildo looking for its next asshole to fuck.
If I had a point, it would be that running your own mail server can be cool, but your best off using a trusted smtp relay for outbound mail. Anything so your mail doesn't appear to come from spam city.... err 24.0.0.0/8
but in 1999, they had 155 mbit atm fiber to the desktop, not gigabit.
/16 network left.
they also had the largest, noisiest, flat topology
how about they write software that makes sense for a change?
translation: they can't beat it, so get it built on a backend they control, then fuck up the backend to introduce problems, and slow developement.