Until you can confirm the receipt beyond a reasonable doubt, I don't think this will become a widespread practice. How hard is it to forge a bounced message?
Anyway, undoubtedly if you do have a physical address, it will be used instead. The case mentioned in the article seems to be an isolated one.
If you're interested in how they syncronize the noisy lasers, here is a shortcut
to the non-linear faq... a bit of easy evening reading for your enjoyment.
...in the article. It beats writing/dev/zero to your entire free space. Besides, if you try and overwrite your free space by dd'ing from/dev/zero, won't the outfile top out at 2 gigs on ext2?
I didn't see encryption mentioned anywhere to offset the persist nature of email. If all the mail is encrypted, at least you won't have to worry about copies of the message remaining on servers in between. Match that with a client that never caches the plaintext to disk, and autodeletes messages of a certain age, and I think you've got a winner.
Of course, I'm sure some will say this is beside the point. Nothing stops employees from printing/saving email, especially if they WANT to incriminate the company. I don't think email makes this more of an issue than non-email incrimination does, however... just don't talk dirt in your email, duh?
As much as I enjoy seeing Microsoft get negative publicity, maybe the Airforce should evaluate their own security practices... I mean, wasn't the Lovebug an email attachment virus? Couldn't a relevant security policy have changed this? I'm not fluent in Windows holes, but it seems to me if they have a huge problem with Outlook in particular, USAF could mandate Eudora as their official email client rather easily.
I'm not trying to say M$ is inoccent, I just want to point out that no matter how secure the OS is, users need to be educated in computer security, or it's all going to go to shit anwyay. My $0.02 (cha-ching)
Body of Secrets by James(?) Bamford is very enlightening regarding the intelligence operations of the nation over the last few decades. Er, sorry, no Open Source stuff, though.
This has been a popular thing in cyberpunk fiction. Gibson's Virtual Light was centered around just such a set of glasses... and I remember the gargoyles in Stephenson's Snow Crash had the same things... laser would scan your retina from a distance, reference all your information from a database...
He mentioned Applied Cryptography... I wanted to point out Schneier's latest book Secrets and Lies, kind of a real-world threat analysis in contrast to the mathematical analysis of Applied Cryptography. Good read.
I browsed a handful of sites featured on the mentioned 'wowwebdesign' site, and frankly, I think the criteria is in question.
When I go to a website, there are a few things that will immediately piss me off:
If I have to resize my windows to view the page properly... I ration out space on my desktop right down to the pixel... if I have to resize the window to view some big page layout, I usually decide not to look at the page at all If there is a pop-up anything... pop up ads are infinitely more annoying than banner ads. Why can't people take a lesson from Google, and their text-only ad policy? Also, if I click a link on your page, and you force my browser to launch a new window, I'm outta there. (I've always wondered why my browser can't disable this feature and just replace the current page with the new one ALWAYS) Sacrifice of useability for artistic masturbation... if you find yourself thinking that you've just GOT to use that flash animation, or animated GIF, or whiz bang javascript, first do everybody a favor and ask yourself if it adds to the useability factor of your site. chances are your visitors are a lot less impressed with those gadjets than your are.
Not only do these things annoy, if you keep things simple you will have more time for content, which is all most of us are really concerned with anyway. Now that I've opened my fat mouth, I'm sure everyone will go visit my site and proceed to rip me a new one about how it could be better *grin* (feel free, btw)
Again, I don't think you're the majority, by any means. I suspect the majority of my spam comes from websites that I run. I use Usenet, but I don't use Usenet in conjunction with email, for this very reason. I use no filters, and it quite honestly isn't an issue.
Honestly, what percentage of Internet users do you suspect get hundreds of spam-mails weekly? I'd bet it's very few.
Like I said in my original post (which you quoted) there are exceptions. I believe you're one of them. And I'm sure it pisses you off to no end, I'd be pissed off too. But because you're pissed, we should block a continent?
No, I'm not. Probably 30 to 50 percent of my email is spam, too. But, like I said, I throw it away. More than 50 percent of my snail mail everyday is junk mail, I throw that away too. That sound like a lot of junk mail/spam email, but you know what? It's not as big of a deal as people make it out to be. I feel sorry for the guy who gets 200-300 messages a day from Usenet, and has to dump half of it, but that's why I don't use my email on Usenet, I read follow-ups in the group.
If you ask 100 people on the street if they get more than 30 emails a day, what do you think the result will be? I'm willing to bet 95 of them get well under that. And how hard is it, really, to delete 15 messages you don't want? People do it everyday will snail mail... and to re-state my original point: it's annoying, but not a reason to refuse mail from a huge geographic location.
Spam, while annoying, is not the end of the world. If it really gets on your nerves, use a program like Vipul's Razor, and help add spammers to its database.
Just because I don't like getting junk mail credit card offers, doesn't mean I refuse all mail from Delaware to teach them a lesson. Here's a tip--throw it away. I get nowhere near enough spam in my inbox to interfere with legitimate mail (although I don't doubt there are exceptions that do....) and I don't even use a filter!
Let's talk about what most people will use this box for: Ripping CDs and playing MP3s. It works quite well for this
Holy cow, like I'm going to pay over a
thousand dollars for these "innovative"
features? If I really wanted to mix my living room life
with my comptuer room life, I'd just move the TV in
the computer room (or vice versa).
It's almost as if this whole convergence motif is starting to mean redundant electronics. I wish we would see more small, cheap devices that work well together (like UNIX!) instead of cramming do-it-all computers
in every conceivable nook and cranny. This particular paradigm shift can shift right along with me...
I've got this idea for a new desktop metaphor, tell me what you think...
It's like this crazy window that uses letters and words to represent your files and folders. It doesn't stop there... you can use actual words (using a "keyboard") to manipulate the files and folders. I call this "typing". The "keyboard" is simply a large, flat, rectangular mouse, with over a hundred buttons instead of just a couple, and there's no ball on the bottom.
I'm calling it the Crazy Little Interface (CLI). Let me know what you think!
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Until you can confirm the receipt beyond a reasonable doubt, I don't think this will become a widespread practice. How hard is it to forge a bounced message?
Anyway, undoubtedly if you do have a physical address, it will be used instead. The case mentioned in the article seems to be an isolated one.
KDE3, soon to be released, does marginally more than KDE-1.x did
I'm betting there's hordes of KDE develepers out there that would gladly wring this guy's neck for that nasty little comment.
As far as I know, the only books which discussed the technical details of T1 and synchronous circuits are general telecommuncations text books.
There's a good bit of info on T1 lines in some of the professional level cisco cert study guides... also, here's an interesting paper on everything you wanted to know about T1, but were afraid to ask.
If you're interested in how they syncronize the noisy lasers, here is a shortcut to the non-linear faq... a bit of easy evening reading for your enjoyment.
Not to be confused with Mark A. Fry & Associates.
You could always run Win Me on it, nobody would take it then.
They didn't mention...
...in the article. It beats writing /dev/zero to your entire free space. Besides, if you try and overwrite your free space by dd'ing from /dev/zero, won't the outfile top out at 2 gigs on ext2?
shred -u [filename]
Of course, I'm sure some will say this is beside the point. Nothing stops employees from printing/saving email, especially if they WANT to incriminate the company. I don't think email makes this more of an issue than non-email incrimination does, however... just don't talk dirt in your email, duh?
I'm not trying to say M$ is inoccent, I just want to point out that no matter how secure the OS is, users need to be educated in computer security, or it's all going to go to shit anwyay. My $0.02 (cha-ching)
Never underestimate the willingness of computer folks to circumvent fees, no matter how small the fee is.
Body of Secrets by James(?) Bamford is very enlightening regarding the intelligence operations of the nation over the last few decades. Er, sorry, no Open Source stuff, though.
This has been a popular thing in cyberpunk fiction. Gibson's Virtual Light was centered around just such a set of glasses... and I remember the gargoyles in Stephenson's Snow Crash had the same things... laser would scan your retina from a distance, reference all your information from a database...
Wow, am I a geek or what...
Talk about following "tough acts"... that Frozen case earlier today makes this one look like my ass.
If the service was only supposed to cost users "two spams a day", how did they pocket a bunch of money? Did you have to leave a deposit or what?
He mentioned Applied Cryptography... I wanted to point out Schneier's latest book Secrets and Lies, kind of a real-world threat analysis in contrast to the mathematical analysis of Applied Cryptography. Good read.
This reminds me, looks like the speeches from Defcon 9 will be going up online soon.
I browsed a handful of sites featured on the mentioned 'wowwebdesign' site, and frankly, I think the criteria is in question.
When I go to a website, there are a few things that will immediately piss me off:
If I have to resize my windows to view the page properly... I ration out space on my desktop right down to the pixel... if I have to resize the window to view some big page layout, I usually decide not to look at the page at all
If there is a pop-up anything... pop up ads are infinitely more annoying than banner ads. Why can't people take a lesson from Google, and their text-only ad policy? Also, if I click a link on your page, and you force my browser to launch a new window, I'm outta there. (I've always wondered why my browser can't disable this feature and just replace the current page with the new one ALWAYS)
Sacrifice of useability for artistic masturbation... if you find yourself thinking that you've just GOT to use that flash animation, or animated GIF, or whiz bang javascript, first do everybody a favor and ask yourself if it adds to the useability factor of your site. chances are your visitors are a lot less impressed with those gadjets than your are.
Not only do these things annoy, if you keep things simple you will have more time for content, which is all most of us are really concerned with anyway. Now that I've opened my fat mouth, I'm sure everyone will go visit my site and proceed to rip me a new one about how it could be better *grin* (feel free, btw)
Again, I don't think you're the majority, by any means. I suspect the majority of my spam comes from websites that I run. I use Usenet, but I don't use Usenet in conjunction with email, for this very reason. I use no filters, and it quite honestly isn't an issue.
Honestly, what percentage of Internet users do you suspect get hundreds of spam-mails weekly? I'd bet it's very few.
Like I said in my original post (which you quoted) there are exceptions. I believe you're one of them. And I'm sure it pisses you off to no end, I'd be pissed off too. But because you're pissed, we should block a continent?
You're the exception
No, I'm not. Probably 30 to 50 percent of my email is spam, too. But, like I said, I throw it away. More than 50 percent of my snail mail everyday is junk mail, I throw that away too. That sound like a lot of junk mail/spam email, but you know what? It's not as big of a deal as people make it out to be. I feel sorry for the guy who gets 200-300 messages a day from Usenet, and has to dump half of it, but that's why I don't use my email on Usenet, I read follow-ups in the group.
If you ask 100 people on the street if they get more than 30 emails a day, what do you think the result will be? I'm willing to bet 95 of them get well under that. And how hard is it, really, to delete 15 messages you don't want? People do it everyday will snail mail... and to re-state my original point: it's annoying, but not a reason to refuse mail from a huge geographic location.
Spam, while annoying, is not the end of the world. If it really gets on your nerves, use a program like Vipul's Razor, and help add spammers to its database.
Just because I don't like getting junk mail credit card offers, doesn't mean I refuse all mail from Delaware to teach them a lesson. Here's a tip--throw it away. I get nowhere near enough spam in my inbox to interfere with legitimate mail (although I don't doubt there are exceptions that do....) and I don't even use a filter!
Coming soon, Segway Overclocker geek sites...
d00d, check out the blowhole in my s3g, i'm getting THIRTEEN mph...
Holy cow, like I'm going to pay over a thousand dollars for these "innovative" features? If I really wanted to mix my living room life with my comptuer room life, I'd just move the TV in the computer room (or vice versa).
It's almost as if this whole convergence motif is starting to mean redundant electronics. I wish we would see more small, cheap devices that work well together (like UNIX!) instead of cramming do-it-all computers in every conceivable nook and cranny. This particular paradigm shift can shift right along with me...
"Excuse me sir, do you have the time?"
"Yes, it's... uhhh... 12.. no, 14! I mean, er, do you have a pencil?"
"Uh, never mind. Thanks anyway, you fucking dork."
Now if they had a hex watch, THAT would be cool... :->
It is a chilling, sober reality that we all must face.
It's like this crazy window that uses letters and words to represent your files and folders. It doesn't stop there... you can use actual words (using a "keyboard") to manipulate the files and folders. I call this "typing". The "keyboard" is simply a large, flat, rectangular mouse, with over a hundred buttons instead of just a couple, and there's no ball on the bottom.
I'm calling it the Crazy Little Interface (CLI). Let me know what you think!