I agree.. I've used exim a lot on quite a few servers, with some advanced features, and it's been great. I've also done a lot of sendmail, qmail (back in the day) & postfix. Call me crazy but I don't really have a strong preference between sendmail, exim and postfix (qmail is just too dated now).
I gotta say, I'm kind of tired of stories like this and then the parade of 'whatcouldpossiblygowrong' and 'thiswillendwell' and all the comments talking about how this is the beginning of Skynet.
You know what's going to happen from this? Two little robots that look like RC cars will act out a prescribed game of hide and seek. It will end just fine. Nothing could possibly go wrong. There is no way that the deception which is 'taught' to these robots will end up magically transferring itself to our cell phones, computers and toaster ovens. Self-checkout counters will not begin to suddenly shave pennies off transactions.
Of all people, the readers of slashdot should know that. I know it's fun to joke but people here seem to be taking the joke seriously.
They can't "snoop" on port 443. That's the beauty of SSL. If any man-in-the-middle could read and alter HTTP headers then SSL wouldn't do us much good.
As for using random ports, I don't want to begin explaining why that wouldn't be feasible, but just know that even if traffic were on a different port a router could identify it as HTTP traffic and perform the header injection anyway. Takes slightly more CPU to do..
My take on this is what others have said here. My ISP injecting headers in to my HTTP requests is unacceptable, period. If I wanted to advertise my zip+4 in an HTTP header I am perfectly capable of doing that myself. There is no reason for my ISP to read, inspect or alter ANY of my connections on ANY port of ANY content.
In the Wired article, Evan regularly logged in to the internet and even conversed with people involved in the hunt.
Clearly this is not the way to disappear from society, so I wouldn't be surprised if the contest includes rules mandating you to do certain things that make you catchable.
If someone with outdoor experience just walked off in to the wilderness, they would not be found. The Appalachian Trail might as well be an interstate freeway compared to the isolation that's possible if you just wander off cross-country.
I'd love 10 grand to go on a month long backpacking trip, and you better believe a lot of other people would too!
I agree with your take on this, but what I don't get is how Murdoch is able to continue in this campaign.
It seems to me that he is damaging his reputation and the reputation of his companies with all the press this idea is generating. Does he not have advisors that he consults with before making these press releases?...I wonder if he just fires anyone who attempts to talk him out of it? The whole thing seems starkly suicidal. Who would invest in such an idea? Are there actually people who believe it can work?
It seems strange to me that the advertising price is so different, can anyone give me a good explanation why an advertiser's paper advertisement would be more successful than the same advertisement on the web?
The only good argument I can come up with is AdBlock, but given AdBlock's install base, I don't see this as being enough of a factor to account for the difference.
Why would a printed ad be more successful than an online ad?
i4i is an actual company, that sells actual products. They worked with Microsoft, and Microsoft, line for line, stole their code. i4i subsequently sued them, and won.
Hi, uninformed person here. If they stole code line for line, why is this a patent case and not a copyright infringement case?
Now that I think of it, this might be the reason that Apple removes all the Apps with profanity on them, because they're operating under a different set of regulations (i.e. the ones the FCC covers) with a mobile transmitter than with a normal computing device.
The FCC regulating the content of a subscription service? Sounds unlikely.
In an alternate universe where compilers are mandatory in every distro, someone is writing a post explaining that Linux is bad because it contains all development tools which ordinary users don't need.
Given the lack of similarity between Next and The Golden Man, I was very surprised that they credited Dick at all.
If I'd seen that movie without knowing it was supposed to be based on The Golden Man, which I'd just read by coincidence a couple weeks before seeing Next, I'd never have even thought of it.
Or just install software that silently broadcasts the device's coordinates without a lot of pretty Google front-end..
Really, what people are claiming to be the "dangers" of this service seem to be already present in more dangerous forms on any device with a network connection and a GPS unit. The Bad Guys don't need Google to build all their tools for them.
Does anything prevent content providers from using the email-to-SMS gateways to send messages for free? I know some companies who do this...
It requires the customer to tell you their carrier of course, and you need to have an up-to-date list of email-to-SMS gateway addresses for each carrier, but hey, it's free.
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I agree.. I've used exim a lot on quite a few servers, with some advanced features, and it's been great. I've also done a lot of sendmail, qmail (back in the day) & postfix. Call me crazy but I don't really have a strong preference between sendmail, exim and postfix (qmail is just too dated now).
I gotta say, I'm kind of tired of stories like this and then the parade of 'whatcouldpossiblygowrong' and 'thiswillendwell' and all the comments talking about how this is the beginning of Skynet.
You know what's going to happen from this? Two little robots that look like RC cars will act out a prescribed game of hide and seek. It will end just fine. Nothing could possibly go wrong. There is no way that the deception which is 'taught' to these robots will end up magically transferring itself to our cell phones, computers and toaster ovens. Self-checkout counters will not begin to suddenly shave pennies off transactions.
Of all people, the readers of slashdot should know that. I know it's fun to joke but people here seem to be taking the joke seriously.
They can't "snoop" on port 443. That's the beauty of SSL. If any man-in-the-middle could read and alter HTTP headers then SSL wouldn't do us much good. As for using random ports, I don't want to begin explaining why that wouldn't be feasible, but just know that even if traffic were on a different port a router could identify it as HTTP traffic and perform the header injection anyway. Takes slightly more CPU to do.. My take on this is what others have said here. My ISP injecting headers in to my HTTP requests is unacceptable, period. If I wanted to advertise my zip+4 in an HTTP header I am perfectly capable of doing that myself. There is no reason for my ISP to read, inspect or alter ANY of my connections on ANY port of ANY content.
This is not a local incident. Cities have been caught illegally shortening red lights in a ton of different cases over the last few years.
http://www.motorists.org/blog/6-cities-that-were-caught-shortening-yellow-light-times-for-profit and many more at http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=yellow+light+short+red+light+camera
You will note that IE6 is still the most popular browser on the market
No I will not.
In the Wired article, Evan regularly logged in to the internet and even conversed with people involved in the hunt.
Clearly this is not the way to disappear from society, so I wouldn't be surprised if the contest includes rules mandating you to do certain things that make you catchable.
If someone with outdoor experience just walked off in to the wilderness, they would not be found. The Appalachian Trail might as well be an interstate freeway compared to the isolation that's possible if you just wander off cross-country.
I'd love 10 grand to go on a month long backpacking trip, and you better believe a lot of other people would too!
I agree with your take on this, but what I don't get is how Murdoch is able to continue in this campaign.
It seems to me that he is damaging his reputation and the reputation of his companies with all the press this idea is generating. Does he not have advisors that he consults with before making these press releases? ...I wonder if he just fires anyone who attempts to talk him out of it? The whole thing seems starkly suicidal. Who would invest in such an idea? Are there actually people who believe it can work?
Ditto, I also have integrated with that service, so this seems like a non-story, maybe a different rate schedule if anything.
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It seems strange to me that the advertising price is so different, can anyone give me a good explanation why an advertiser's paper advertisement would be more successful than the same advertisement on the web? The only good argument I can come up with is AdBlock, but given AdBlock's install base, I don't see this as being enough of a factor to account for the difference. Why would a printed ad be more successful than an online ad?
They have: http://www.adblock.org/2004/07/adblock_detection_demo/
Here's the URL to the full list of 10 items: http://www.netchoice.org/press/misguided-marketing-restriction-and-online-travel-tax-top-list-of-worst-internet-legislation.html
i4i is an actual company, that sells actual products. They worked with Microsoft, and Microsoft, line for line, stole their code. i4i subsequently sued them, and won.
Hi, uninformed person here. If they stole code line for line, why is this a patent case and not a copyright infringement case?
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Now that I think of it, this might be the reason that Apple removes all the Apps with profanity on them, because they're operating under a different set of regulations (i.e. the ones the FCC covers) with a mobile transmitter than with a normal computing device.
The FCC regulating the content of a subscription service? Sounds unlikely.
Those who dislike the Antelope Valley (consisting mostly of Palmdale and Lancaster) often call them Palmcaster and Landscatter.
In an alternate universe where compilers are mandatory in every distro, someone is writing a post explaining that Linux is bad because it contains all development tools which ordinary users don't need.
Is this a pun? Terminal, like electrical terminal? I don't get it.
It's been running on the Nokia 770 and later devices for quite a few years now. No keyboard on the 770 and 800.
Given the lack of similarity between Next and The Golden Man, I was very surprised that they credited Dick at all.
If I'd seen that movie without knowing it was supposed to be based on The Golden Man, which I'd just read by coincidence a couple weeks before seeing Next, I'd never have even thought of it.
Is it wrong that I clicked "Read More" for the sole purpose of hitting ctrl-f ED-209? Thanks for justifying my search, BTW.
You asked for it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inN_MfgnPWc
Or just install software that silently broadcasts the device's coordinates without a lot of pretty Google front-end.. Really, what people are claiming to be the "dangers" of this service seem to be already present in more dangerous forms on any device with a network connection and a GPS unit. The Bad Guys don't need Google to build all their tools for them.
The aim of the Commission is to help the incoming administration balance "cyberspace" security needs with civil liberties.
Give specific examples where civil liberties might need to be "modulated" for the benefit of electronic security measures.
Also as the "Go Text Protocol" http://www.lysator.liu.se/~gunnar/gtp/
Two Verizon stories in a row, neat.
Does anything prevent content providers from using the email-to-SMS gateways to send messages for free? I know some companies who do this...
It requires the customer to tell you their carrier of course, and you need to have an up-to-date list of email-to-SMS gateway addresses for each carrier, but hey, it's free.