So, if my box gets rooted, and exim starts pumping out spam messages, then I have to prove I didn't set up the software to send out the junk mail in the first place?
Proving that would require showing how I got rooted in the first place, and I might not be able to find out. Especially if it's a Windows box. (But then, if it's Windows, I'll have statistics on my side.)
Screw the "unintended consequences" mantra, that's just plain dangerous legislation!
Remember, normal web developers were there first. Is it really appropriate to force the web developer to adapt because someone with unwanted content shows their content using the same mechanism?
Once pop-up technology is made useless, both developers and advertisers will have to find other ways to display their data.
Mozilla puts an icon in the lower right corner to tell you that it blocked a popup. You can click on the icon to display the blocked content. Firebird is similar.
The distro would command user-level software, right? I would think hardware troubles would need kernel attention.
Granted, every distro comes with a kernel, but, IMO, if you don't build your own kernel after an installation, you're begging for some performance lost. (Especially considering that a custom-built kernel can be compiled specifically for your CPU model.)
True. But remember that even with such a massive supply of IP addresses, they're not going to be cheap.
The total supply is high, sure. But the people who can sell them have pretty tight grips. And to justify that, they only have to remind themselves that fourty years from now, if they're not tight with them, people will say they were squandered.
NATs will definately proliferate. All it's going to take is some worm shutting down all the refridgerators it can connect to, including both home, commercial, and warehouse coolers.
If you wanted a more dangerous scenario, there's the toilet flushing possibility. City water pressure drops, and an entire region hits a water shortage. Sewage treatment plants overflow, and thousands of gallons of raw sewage are dumped into the local water supply.
Another possibility could be environmental controls. Imagine all heating and cooling units turned on. That would be an enormous drain on energy resources.
What's makes a "commodity" component? Or "off-the-shelf" component?
The component cost of machines built out of "commodity" equipment still is much, much too high to warrant all the attention these machines have been getting.
I'd like to see hot machines and clusters built out of something I could afford to buy on a couple month's wages. What everyone's paying attention to costs more money than I'll probably hold over five years.
If people can settle down on a method of disposing of the waste, special nuclear reactors would be very effective at producing hydrogen.
They'd do it by boiling the water into a near-plasma, where the hydrogen and oxygen ions become separated. The hydrogen ions would then be separated from the oxygen ions.
I would imagine that such reactors would produce less nuclear waste over a given amount of time than electricity generating reactors, because the useful life of a given amount of fissile material would be greatly extended.
If you're the congressman known for spearheading the funding for project X, and that project turns into a potential embarassment, you'd pressure the people in charge of it to cover it up, wouldn't you?
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Perhapse combining Bayesian statistical analysis with pattern recognition email clients?
Even simple OCR with normal email filtering would work better...
No good. A lot of spam-advertised sites reside on cracked servers, with the spam-advertised content not authorized to be there.
A better solution would be to fund a research group on more secure ways of sending and receiving email so that messages can be authenticated.
I say, throw money and popular attention at research, and let demand draw the technology into common use.
So, if my box gets rooted, and exim starts pumping out spam messages, then I have to prove I didn't set up the software to send out the junk mail in the first place?
Proving that would require showing how I got rooted in the first place, and I might not be able to find out. Especially if it's a Windows box. (But then, if it's Windows, I'll have statistics on my side.)
Screw the "unintended consequences" mantra, that's just plain dangerous legislation!
Since two sides have to argue in order for there to be a court case, you'd be biasing the court in one direction or another.
At least, in the plaintiff's eyes.
Would you rather them arrest you for something that's not illegal yet?
If you'd rather them act before it would normally be legal for them to do so, well, don't vote in my country, OK?
I'd like to see a box set sold on store shelves. But it'd have to go through the AOL subset of Time Warner, and I don't think AOL would be interested, considering they just got free use of Internet Explorer technology for the next seven years.
At the top of the page: $149.99.
I suspect that unlike PDAs and computers, calculators are considered tools, not toys, so the pricing isn't insanely high when they're first released.
It should be a great learning tool. Its algebraic functions show you step-by-step what it's doing.
That is why I'm going to buy it.
And they'll figure out how to fit their advertisement into the "sender" and "subject" fields.
So you'll see it anyway.
What do you do for X sessions?
I suppose, then, that the DMCA is not ambiguous?
Or is that for lawyers to argue about?
Remember, normal web developers were there first. Is it really appropriate to force the web developer to adapt because someone with unwanted content shows their content using the same mechanism?
Once pop-up technology is made useless, both developers and advertisers will have to find other ways to display their data.
Mozilla puts an icon in the lower right corner to tell you that it blocked a popup. You can click on the icon to display the blocked content. Firebird is similar.
This edition is for us morning people. :)
With a graphics accelerator in their underwear, I'd assume their manhood would be simulated, anyway.
The distro would command user-level software, right? I would think hardware troubles would need kernel attention.
Granted, every distro comes with a kernel, but, IMO, if you don't build your own kernel after an installation, you're begging for some performance lost. (Especially considering that a custom-built kernel can be compiled specifically for your CPU model.)
True. But remember that even with such a massive supply of IP addresses, they're not going to be cheap.
The total supply is high, sure. But the people who can sell them have pretty tight grips. And to justify that, they only have to remind themselves that fourty years from now, if they're not tight with them, people will say they were squandered.
NATs will definately proliferate. All it's going to take is some worm shutting down all the refridgerators it can connect to, including both home, commercial, and warehouse coolers.
If you wanted a more dangerous scenario, there's the toilet flushing possibility. City water pressure drops, and an entire region hits a water shortage. Sewage treatment plants overflow, and thousands of gallons of raw sewage are dumped into the local water supply.
Another possibility could be environmental controls. Imagine all heating and cooling units turned on. That would be an enormous drain on energy resources.
More secure, too.
Most houses with a plethora of Internet-enabled devices probably ought to have a NAT firewall between the house and the outside world.
But then, being able to work with real IP adresses does make running home servers easier.
Whatever happened to IPv5? What was special about it?
It's a lot easier for the average person to understand than saying "340 septillion" or some such.
I don't even know what the proper name is for the number specified.
What's makes a "commodity" component? Or "off-the-shelf" component?
The component cost of machines built out of "commodity" equipment still is much, much too high to warrant all the attention these machines have been getting.
I'd like to see hot machines and clusters built out of something I could afford to buy on a couple month's wages. What everyone's paying attention to costs more money than I'll probably hold over five years.
If people can settle down on a method of disposing of the waste, special nuclear reactors would be very effective at producing hydrogen.
They'd do it by boiling the water into a near-plasma, where the hydrogen and oxygen ions become separated. The hydrogen ions would then be separated from the oxygen ions.
I would imagine that such reactors would produce less nuclear waste over a given amount of time than electricity generating reactors, because the useful life of a given amount of fissile material would be greatly extended.
If you're the congressman known for spearheading the funding for project X, and that project turns into a potential embarassment, you'd pressure the people in charge of it to cover it up, wouldn't you?