When people give a shit more about some gays marrying in NJ than they do about genocide in Darfur, military and civilian deaths in Iraq & Afghanistan, and people dying in this country due to being priced out of receiving their necessary meds, we have become a country that has lost focus on things that *actually matter*.
... don't collect (and keep and share and sell) crap just because you can - show some backbone and leadership and collect as little as is necessary to serve your customer.
why would you convert your file system? There is no reason to unless you are actually having issues with it.
Why would anyone living on the west coast of the US quit eating fresh spinich - just because he's read of others getting ill from it doesn't mean he will.
Please explain how your proposal would prevent the sender from detecting the user reading the mail in the following image tag, where the final part of the URL path is a uniquifier
It depends what the bug-sender is trying to do. If he wants to see that a particular person has opened a particular email, and he controls what identifier gets sent to that person, then by tracking when the identifier is loaded he may know that the email has been read. If an ISP fetches and caches the urls of all emails sent through its system in advance of them being opened, something a firm such as Google could do easily, then the sender loses that knowledge - all he knows is that the receiving system fetched his email. However, such a middleman requires an effort on the part of the ISP.
The concern here, I think, is that of email being forwarded when, in the opinion of the originator, it shouldn't. HP (or their hired underlings) is tracking the IP address of the various parties that fetch that url. This gives them a great advantage in trying to determine who has gotten the email. However, if the receiving client used a central caching proxy server, a'la Google Cache, then HP loses that knowledge - all it now knows is that someone somewhere in the world fetched that url once (because it is cached for some amount of time). A million people could fetch that email via Google Cache now and HP would be no wiser.
However, this doesn't obviate finding that email is sent out of an internal system - since the internal system is likely not using the external cache - however, this knowledge was more easily obtained anyway by looking at the internal mail system's logs of what went out.
Google would do the world a service, and also obtain even more valuable (to them) knowledge of what was out there in the interweb tubes by offering such a service for free for any to use, and also implementing it with their own Gmail system of course - adding a bit of code to Thunderbird, etc. to send a "pre-fetch" to a proxy cache would be trivial - if the url had been previously fetched the sender would not know it had been fetched again, and would neither know who fetched it. If the reciever decided to view the images in his email, then they would, because of the proxy-cache setting, now be fetched via the proxy cache.
Sylvia Kaufmann, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), commented that 'The fact that the CIA, an agency whose activities, torturing and kidnapping...
I'm struggling to understand her opening position on this matter (or why such a blatantly pointed statement is considered "news for nerds").
Making fun of the Executive Branch is too easy - they are at least striving to run the country within the always conflicting parameters the "well trained fleas" have given them.
Just what a business dependent on their software needs - an unproven "validity tester" shuts down your operations for three days while you're on ignore at the MS help line.
Yet, even more supremely qualified would be those who gave YOU that money.
It became his the moment he got it though - and only he is qualified to do with it as he see fit - not you, not I, not the do gooders of the government and society.
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When people give a shit more about some gays marrying in NJ than they do about genocide in Darfur, military and civilian deaths in Iraq & Afghanistan, and people dying in this country due to being priced out of receiving their necessary meds, we have become a country that has lost focus on things that *actually matter*.
You left off the words "to me".
Rove is working on it.
How the hell these imbeciles built a $35 billion dollar industry without retaining you people as consultants is beyond me.
with bribery and underhanded business practices?
this limits your future scalability
... absolutely as little as possible."
I guess they should really say, "we respect your privacy
... don't collect (and keep and share and sell) crap just because you can - show some backbone and leadership and collect as little as is necessary to serve your customer.
and a virus with that mp3?
why would you convert your file system? There is no reason to unless you are actually having issues with it.
Why would anyone living on the west coast of the US quit eating fresh spinich - just because he's read of others getting ill from it doesn't mean he will.
Please explain how your proposal would prevent the sender from detecting the user reading the mail in the following image tag, where the final part of the URL path is a uniquifier
It depends what the bug-sender is trying to do. If he wants to see that a particular person has opened a particular email, and he controls what identifier gets sent to that person, then by tracking when the identifier is loaded he may know that the email has been read. If an ISP fetches and caches the urls of all emails sent through its system in advance of them being opened, something a firm such as Google could do easily, then the sender loses that knowledge - all he knows is that the receiving system fetched his email. However, such a middleman requires an effort on the part of the ISP.
The concern here, I think, is that of email being forwarded when, in the opinion of the originator, it shouldn't. HP (or their hired underlings) is tracking the IP address of the various parties that fetch that url. This gives them a great advantage in trying to determine who has gotten the email. However, if the receiving client used a central caching proxy server, a'la Google Cache, then HP loses that knowledge - all it now knows is that someone somewhere in the world fetched that url once (because it is cached for some amount of time). A million people could fetch that email via Google Cache now and HP would be no wiser.
However, this doesn't obviate finding that email is sent out of an internal system - since the internal system is likely not using the external cache - however, this knowledge was more easily obtained anyway by looking at the internal mail system's logs of what went out.
Google would do the world a service, and also obtain even more valuable (to them) knowledge of what was out there in the interweb tubes by offering such a service for free for any to use, and also implementing it with their own Gmail system of course - adding a bit of code to Thunderbird, etc. to send a "pre-fetch" to a proxy cache would be trivial - if the url had been previously fetched the sender would not know it had been fetched again, and would neither know who fetched it. If the reciever decided to view the images in his email, then they would, because of the proxy-cache setting, now be fetched via the proxy cache.
I've seen some web clients already that automatically filter out tiny "bug" sized graphics.
A good fix would be to have your email client fetch all external files via a caching proxy server.
Sometimes I sits and programs, and sometimes I just sits ...
Sylvia Kaufmann, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), commented that 'The fact that the CIA, an agency whose activities, torturing and kidnapping ...
I'm struggling to understand her opening position on this matter (or why such a blatantly pointed statement is considered "news for nerds").
... space ain't
How can you explain the recent same climate changes on different planets?
Goerge Bush, dumbass! Don't you read slashdot's parroting of the highly science-educated just-the-facts-ma'am we-have-no-agenda press?
wasn't so funny when governments (particularly New Zealand) started proposing a "fart tax"
People get the government they deserve.
That would mean holding government people to the same laws as civilians. When do we do that?
Daily.
Once you've spent $100 million on a movie... ...what exactly do you get for the SECOND $100 million you spend?
An actor that likes to jump around on the furniture?
Making fun of the Executive Branch is too easy - they are at least striving to run the country within the always conflicting parameters the "well trained fleas" have given them.
The Daily Show SHOULD be operating with a handicap. They have to focus solely on the items that they can turn into a joke.
With a nod to Mark Twain, I can think of 535 starting points that should provide rich sources for jokes.
It's draconian, sure, but you don't have to buy Vista.
The Microsoft tax has been repealed?
Just what a business dependent on their software needs - an unproven "validity tester" shuts down your operations for three days while you're on ignore at the MS help line.
it's probably just some lame tool that uses regular expressions and someone, somewhere in the government doesn't know what AI is.
Understanding regular expressions is a definite turing test - if you understand 'em, you ain't human.
No but the domestic press is useless in this case. They have become a de facto public relations firm for the government.
Yeah, but it's not their own government.
because web mail packages/services like Gmail are a dime a dozen; SourceForge provides more unique value
Thank you for choosing the better answer for everyone.
Yet, even more supremely qualified would be those who gave YOU that money.
It became his the moment he got it though - and only he is qualified to do with it as he see fit - not you, not I, not the do gooders of the government and society.
The good ole USA would not tolerate an rail-gun that might fall into the hands of the turrurists!
Apparantly you think they should?