His vigilante justice plea reminds me of everything they told us about MacCarthyism in the 1950's. If you are even suspected of doing something illegal in the eyes of the Corporation you will be e-Executed without a trial or even a review of the evidence. This Middle Ages shit.
What's even more fucked up is that MacCarthy was doing his gig for the good of America and to keep all your children safe from Commie-Bastards of the world.
This guy is doing it for the good of the Corporations of America and none of those involved give a flying turd about the safety of your children, your dog, or your political doctrines.
Hatch should be removed from office as he is a danger to the People of America. He does not represent those who Elected him. He does not represent their interests.
He is attempting to by-pass the Justice system and therefore breakdown the infrastructure of the American System of Government as defined in the Constitution of the United States and defended my countless millions throughout history.
The fact that your driving habits are recorded in the vehicle is fairly common place these days and somewhat old technology.
What is coming in the future is the ability to pull this information out of your vehicle upon demand without your knowledge or specific permission for that extraction
This has already been developed and tested. For some brands of vehicles, it is already installed into your cars. It's just that no one has really made a point in using it because they haven't solved the legal problems of flagrant violation of privacy it offers. But they are working on it.
It's a matter of time. Remember all the requirements that Cellular phones have a GPS system in them so that they can identify your location based on GPS if you ever dial 911? It's also available to other users who have the equipment.
What really scares me about cellular phones is how they are able to track you without violating your privacy.
Each cellular phone has to register everytime is moves into/out of a cellular antenna cell and that registration is available at the main office. They won't know exactly where you are, but they can narrow it down to a couple block segment of town based on your registrations. They aren't invading your privacy because they don't physically, or electronically, touch you or your phone. But they sure have a clue as to your whereabouts.
The FBI and Police use this technique regularly to track drug suspects so they can figure out the Tree of who's who.
Iraq played with the rules for over 10 years before they got their hands slapped
My guess is, it will be another 10 years before the US Government gets around to making a decapitating strike of "Shock and Awe" against Redmond
Seriously though, I think it's rather obvious that the current Administration and Microsoft have come to some understanding to look the other way regarding Microsoft activities. No one will admit that, but that's what PACs are for
I kept going to these Chicago sites looking for something to do on the weekend and all I could ever find was talk about a dam and how to make reall good noodles.
But now I understand where I went wrong. 'ch' doesn't stand for Chicago does it?
I think that this is great and I'm all for someone coming up with better desktop options. Who cares about the price, after all this is for companies and if enough of them can migrate, then other software providers will take notice
But I have one problem/question with this progress that has been made under Linux of late.
I have a series of machines that range from 600-750MHz and 128MB - 768MB RAM. It seems to me that the new KDE has become remarkably slow. To the point where I am unable to seriously consider using it on the lower RAM machines.
Rather than just bitch and be labeled a troll, I have a serious question. Is this the cost of progress? I am assuming that WinXP is going to be equally difficult to use on these machines, but I have nothing to base that one. Has anyone tried it?
Does the relative bloat of KDE compare to the relative bloat of other Desktop Environments?
This is a real concern for me because the slow down in performance when comparing Suse is significant enough that I'm wondering if KDE is approaching Gnome in speed or if KDE has passed WinXP in performance (or lack thereof).
I think that the responsiveness of a system is more critical that the Eye Candy it provides, especially as a User Environment. And I'm not seeing that in KDE. Are you?
Way back, I had a Frequency Hopping Card. It was easily capable of running 300' from my basement floor to the back fence of my house. I switched to the current DSS and have had some other experiences.
I used to have a D-Link WiFi set-up, but it would barely get 30 feet.
I tried NetGear and had trouble at 10 feet.
And no one worked with the others PCMCIA cards, for long. Many lock up problems.
I have assumed that brand mixing will always be bad, regardless of the certifications people attempt to publish
I have since switched to the Orinoco gold card and have resumed my 300 feet range from the basement AP. Without question, Orinoco is the minimum I would invest again. And I didn't have to hire some WiFi Engineer!
I you have provided some excellent evidence that work is a social interaction between people.
Oh Yeah, you get money in there too.
It doesn't need to be a social event. But many people in the world make it that way as evidenced by the ongoing political games and rumour-mongering that goes on regularly.
The other problem you have here in America is trust. No one trusts someone who works from home. The core of the Corporation naturally assumes that you are a slacker if you are not making appearances.
I hate to sounds callouse, but anything it takes to shut down the spammers, short of death or injury, is an acceptable cost in the long run.
The problem of spam has not received any reasonable consideration by The Powers That Be in the Political engine until it starts to cause real, tangible, measureable harm.
First, I have to confess that I am a Materials Engineer and not some ubergeek with a CSE degree.
But it's a definite fact that technological advances are only made possible with the precedence of metallurgical advances.
Silicon wafers today wouldn't exist without the metallurgical backing to create high purity Silicon, Aluminum, and so on.
The point being that with the discovery of the buckey ball, we are entering a new age of history. We're not there, but we're working on it really hard.
Before you toss me out as flamebait consider that each primary age of human civilization is named as a metallurgical Age: Bronze, Iron, Steel. Some might argue that we are in the Silicon Age right now. However, the impact of Silicon is not as ubiquitious as the impact of the discovery of Bronze, Iron, or Steel.
But the Buckey Ball is going to be similar in the scope of impact as Steel or Iron. Why?
Structural Materials
Electronics
Optics
Aerospace
It's a FUNDAMENTALLY new material product available for the engineers to play with.
These systems don't work that well. I have been designing and building my own for about 8 months now and have come to the following conclusions.
They are easily bypassed using a smart enough auto-responder. If all you do is fire back the original message then you're on their list.
They sometimes fail to pick up the human response. I have several cases where people will simply respond to the email, removing enough of the critical content, to render the reply useless. This comes in two flavors. Email clients will strip out the Header information needed, or people will strip out the Body information needed.
To impliment this upon a very large system like this is going to be a nightmare not only for their email administrators, but for everyone that they touch.
One of the biggest problems that these systems have is that they are totally incapable of handling Solicited email from a Bot. Examples include:
Payment Confirmations (amazon.com)
mailing list confirmations
Profile Update Notifications (paypal, ebay..)
Password changes or resets
It's going to be a pretty ugly system of implimentation.
True. But now the mail administrator has to deal with thousands of spam mail that doesn't get a reply.
And how long are they supposed to wait for a response. Remember, email is not supposed to be a Real Time system. Email servers frequently have a delivery retry schedule of about 4 days. That would mean that Earthlink has to carry the entire spam volume of four days in some kind of mail pending queue and to periodically attempt a redelivery.
I've tried this myself. When you can easily run 100+ spams per day per account, imagine what you are going to be dealing with for an entire ISP. You can easily scale into the million email queue.
Their servers will not be able to handle their entire population and the resulting network load on themselves and everyone else will be prohibitive.
Consider this. AOL and HOTMAIL are the largest spam address sources, real or imaginary. So, when they get spam from AOL, they have to attempt a delivery. If AOL's system doesn't allow for immediate failures based on "address unknown" then EarthLink will hit AOL with thousands of bogus email delivery attempts. Now the two goliaths are beating each other to death over bandwidth.
Nevermind the troll factor... you're just not well informed. You've managed to focus on the worse possible conditions for any one of these points you make. I could easily do that same with Windows with a lot less effort.
But, since I haven't run Windows on anything in years (except for work) I don't really care to try
But to answer your points specifically:
Linux is good for old computers
It is true that you pretty much need at least 32MB or RAM to use Linux as a GUI workstation these days. Event Windows 95 needed this and more. Now you can get buy nicely with 32MB of RAM if you do not use Gnome or KDE. These are turning into fat pigs and will make Linux work like a piece of shit most of the time on little machines. However, I have a lot of computers which are all around 400-700MHz clock speeds that do very well
Linux is lightweight
Here you are a fucking idiot. Linux will never free RAM once it's been used. It's called caching. It's extremely efficient. Because of this, you may see that all of the RAM appears to be used, but it isn't really. So get a clue
Windows is Bloated
What's the myth about this? Windows is huge. It's also feature rich. But you are comparing Windows XP on a 1600MHz machine to... what? a 166MHz KDE installation? Sorry, Windows is bloated. It's been optimized to start up quickly on purpose. You should look into the Linux BIOS if you want boot speeds
Windows Applications are bloated and slow
Again, you are a fucking idiot. If Linux were to use the architectural design of putting everything into the kernel, then everything would start up nice and fast, like you describe. However, you would have a few limitations. Bugs would be much nastier to track down. And to use anything that isn't a part of the Divine Microsoft core is going to take frickin hours to load up as well. Try something that is almost fair. How long does it take you to load a JVM application one XP versus Linux? How long to do it a second time (remember LInux caches all that RAM)?
Honestly, before you attempt to post as some Anon.Cow. you should at least consider getting your facts straight. My 10 year old daughter has more brains than you on this stuff.
My kids were recently playing with a XP on some 2.1GHz machine. I asked them how well Mozilla worked on their machine versus my 400MHz Linux install. To them, it's the same speed. Considering that there is no perceived difference between these two machines, other than the price, is there really any truth to what you say?
Look at the history of business. ALL regulatory expenses have always ended up in the laps of the purchasers. It means you will be paying more for everything you purchase on the internet, even if all they do is send you a confirmation email.
And the companies will charge you a hell of a lot more than one penny. Theres tracking financials, resource loads, personell expenses...
You might be closer if they charged you an extra dollar for each item purchased. And would this stop spam. Not a chance. Why?
Spammers don't pay overseas taxes
Spammers don't have traceable address
Spammers back-charge to their customers, which means you end up paying another dollar for each order of Viagra
This won't even show up on their radar. They will just pass along any expenses that they can't hide from.
Spam is popular with Marketing types because it's a really cheap method of getting the message out. If you make it more expensive for them to get the message out, they will simply charge more in the end. Think about it. How much of the money you spend on a bottle of 12oz. of water is a direct manufacturing cost and how much is marketing expenses. Water is cheap. Why do I pay $1.99 for it? Marketing.
Same thing is going to happen with Spam
And you can bet your butt that you friendly local ISP is going to love this idea because they will charge you at least 2 cents for every email.
It sounds cute, but they are still using toxins to do the job.
They could burn the plants using pinpoint fire, or a really large magnifying glass, or concentrated syringes of ammonia -- short toxicity with a biologically friendly byproduct.
Non-toxic and the plants will not build up a resistance
I've been watching computers waiting for a combination of:
Small form factor
Very Low Power consumption
Low Price
Much of this has been driven based on the realization that, with the exception of gaming, there is really no practicaly need for the incredible power consumption and heat dissapation of the high end COTS systems. When you consider it, the COTS systems today are very poorly designed because they are entirely dependant upon high speed fans to keep themselves from self distruction. This makes for an a-stable product which happens to be horribly loud and in a social sense, isn't scalable (you can't have 4 of these sitting in a room).
Following this new realization that no one really needs a multi GHz processor for surfing, email, servers, and most all of their coding then the idea of a 30 Watt silent processor has some real appeal.
VIA, with thei EPIA and the Mini-ITX motherboards are poised for some real advances on the user community. While not as power independent as a notebook PC, they can be arguable as portable and certainly more convenient for the desktop cube-ville environment.
The other avenue for computer users to move in is the LSTP thin-client workstations like the jammin products. These are small devices with USB, PS/2 ports on the front. This is a new direction
Not intending to get prophetic here, but I really believe that there is need for a product which has a thin-client architecture with the goal of providing only interfaces:
USB ports, 2-4
Firewire
With the possibility of providing a single floppy drive or CD-RW and S-Video ports as well. But nothing more is really needed at the user desktop interface anymore. Unfortunately I haven't really seen anything like this at a sane price. I did see a few products which are mini-ITX motherboards installed at the back of flat panels for a single unit. Very wonderful, but not for $1500!!! Everything else would be retained at a single point of access at the server or at a "super station" which might have additional devicees (like CD-RW, S-Video)
These are all really excellent devices. Now if someone would please sent me the $300 necessary to buy one I would be very happy! I have a lot of noise in my office.
Single Desktop: it's either a good idea or a death wish
Changing the directory tree: Why? No one cares about the directory tree. The names would only confuse people. Just educate users that there is a HOME.
Single applications: He mentions using only one FTP client and so on. Bad idea. But I think that the selection process for RPM and DEB packages could be improved upon by grouping like applications together. Example would be to group all the FTP clients together with a description for each to let you decided.
Development community: Gentoo is not the best example. They are too hard core in their attitude to be a good example.
Killing off legacy hardware: Most of this is done already
All that aside, I think a Distro should emphasize the following, in order:
Stability
Installation/Uninstallation accurate and complete (IMHO Debian excels at this)
Completeness of install -- anything installed should work to a basic set of defaults. Often times there is a lot of personal configuration to be done
Security: A lot could be said by simply asking if the existing hardware is in a DMZ or a protected LAN. Then act accordingly.
The life of a silicon device is limited by the molecular diffusion of it's N-P gates or the migration of metal and Silicon at the interfacees.
This migration is based on a exponential factor of exp(-t/KT) -- t: time T: Temperature (K)
You cannot get it as hot as you want, you'll diffuse the materials together and you will lose the sharp metallurgical transitions necessary for the gates.
And before you chide me for referencing NP gates in a CMOS world... Remember that we still have transitors on Silicon, which means that there is still a NP gateway to the back of the silicon chip and that gates diffusion creates excessive current leakage, resulting in failure. The failure is because the circuit is not unable to deliver sufficient current at the CMOS gates and hold it there between switchings because of leakage. The result is lots of bit errors all over the die
The problems with silicon technology comes long before you melt anything.
As for cooling.. Eventually you will exceed a lower limit of performance as well. 20K as a junction temperature might be tough to keep it operating correctly
My Father in Law called me one day and told me that he deleted the Internet.
"I deleted the Internet"
"really?"
"Yep. It's all gone. Can't find a thing"
"Well then... If I were you I would run and hide because I think you are in a lot of trouble"
"Huh?"
"Hang on..."
(I start Mozilla)
"Seems OK on this end..."
To this day, he still thinks deleting a shortcut for Netscape is the same as deleting the Internet
First that started with the active blocks at the top of your web pages. Then they went to pop-up/pup-under ads. Banner farms...
Now you can find people at Amazon who write wonderful reviews about things in too much market-speak. And when you chase them down on the Amazon website you find out that this one person posted hundreds of reviews in a matter of seconds.
So we can't trust the implied User feedback to be honest, rather another Marketing shill pushing their wares.
Now we are entering the blog-space and we soon won't be able to know if someone really likes a product or if they are just getting paid to say so.
And the more they push, the more people don't care. And they more they want to get away from it all.
I will not buy a cellular phone becase I do not want to invite myself to the torrent of additional advertisements to buy supplimentary goods. And the idea of having ads piped into my cell phone makes me wretch.
And I'm learning that there is less and less that I need to buy and that most of what you hear on any media is that you really must buy this or that. Well, I don't. I have food, clothing, a house. I'm good.
And that really pisses them off.
What do you sell a society that has everything and more?
I don't throwing a pile of Beareaucratic Bullshit is going to improve the situation. That's one of the points lauded by previous posters. This was an example of someone who was able to get something done technically without the forms in triplicate. You are advocating those forms!
Like we have time for the patches already, you want to make us spend countless hours filling in stupid forms?
Personally, I think that public humiliation of the company that fails basic security patches is a pretty effective method. It now becomes an interest to the company to maintain a positive PR profile. And we all know that the only thing greater to a Corporation than profits is the Image it portrays.
The one thing I didn't like about this article was the idea that this kind of process should be followed by everyone. This is what I saw as the process:
Find a bug
Tell only the owner.
Keep it a secret until the owner comes
back with a fix
Now go tell everybody about the bug and the fix at the same time
Here's the flaw(s) in this process:
There is no interim action. While you wait for me to fix the bug, everyone in the world is vulnerable without the option of shutting down that service or taking additional safeguards against the bug. This could be days to months of insecurity. What makes you think DHS is always going to be the first to discover an exploit?
I don't see how a Government Department is going to succeed where Public Voice has failed.
Microsoft has some huge security flaws in their browser that they have admitted will not be fixed in the near future. This is public knowledge. Public Voice has failed
Microsoft, as another example, has managed to avoid doing a lot of things it's supposed to by litigation. This can cause great delays in progressing a security notification.
Past practices by some companies is to sue the disclosures of bugs with a gag order. How will this be different? The government gets sued (and bought) all the time
How is this process going to be handled when there is no Company supporting the code? I'm uncertain that this will be supportive in the OpenSource Model.
I guess the biggest thing that I don't like about this is that idea that this model will support the Closed Source software model because of the arguments of:
What you can't see won't hurt you.
There's a great big company to yell at.
We (Govt and Corp) can talk in private. You open sources are all a bunch of security risks
If anybody tells of a bug early, they must be a terrorist.
I understand this guys theory of operation, but I am not convinced of it's value for the following reasons:
Each slow link results in a port being consumed on my machine. If I have a limit of 64 simultaeneous threads on my box, this can be effectively deployed as a Denial of Service tool.
Bayesian filters are already suffering from a problem where spammers break up works with bogus http tags: Via<foo>gr for fr<bar>ee. This simply means that they have to front load their email messages with a lot of cleaner words in a white-on-white text or just keep using the bogus html tags.
You are going to have a tremendous negative impact on all the false positives, which are rampant in the beginning of any Bayesian implimentation
With all that aside, there may be some points in this that are valid. But I'm not certain that the usage of mail servers by spammers is going to be entirely effected by this technique.
Wouldn't it be easier to simply challenge each incoming IP address to test it for being an open relay and if so, REJECT?
I think that the postfix group has a similar concept for testing any incoming email address in the MAIL FROM tag to see if that address can in turn accept mail.
What's the deal here? Are we trying to sell Office 2003 to a bunch of ultra-domesticated fembots here? I'm sorry to sound so un-PC, but it looks a little too cutsie for my tastes. I was checking out some of the pictures and it reminds me of cotton candy.
I don't see that much significantly useful about the interface. Not much different from Word 4.0 as far as what it can do for me.
Maybe it's the screen shots, but it does tend to look a little cluttered. I think we're headed in the wrong direction for GUI's
Might they be a little simpler?
Sorry, but I think we have a lot to learn from WindowMaker. Simple, yet effective.
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This guy is past fucked up
His vigilante justice plea reminds me of everything they told us about MacCarthyism in the 1950's. If you are even suspected of doing something illegal in the eyes of the Corporation you will be e-Executed without a trial or even a review of the evidence. This Middle Ages shit.
What's even more fucked up is that MacCarthy was doing his gig for the good of America and to keep all your children safe from Commie-Bastards of the world.
This guy is doing it for the good of the Corporations of America and none of those involved give a flying turd about the safety of your children, your dog, or your political doctrines.
Hatch should be removed from office as he is a danger to the People of America. He does not represent those who Elected him. He does not represent their interests.
He is attempting to by-pass the Justice system and therefore breakdown the infrastructure of the American System of Government as defined in the Constitution of the United States and defended my countless millions throughout history.
He should be charged with Treason
The fact that your driving habits are recorded in the vehicle is fairly common place these days and somewhat old technology.
What is coming in the future is the ability to pull this information out of your vehicle upon demand without your knowledge or specific permission for that extraction
This has already been developed and tested. For some brands of vehicles, it is already installed into your cars. It's just that no one has really made a point in using it because they haven't solved the legal problems of flagrant violation of privacy it offers. But they are working on it.
It's a matter of time. Remember all the requirements that Cellular phones have a GPS system in them so that they can identify your location based on GPS if you ever dial 911? It's also available to other users who have the equipment.
What really scares me about cellular phones is how they are able to track you without violating your privacy.
Each cellular phone has to register everytime is moves into/out of a cellular antenna cell and that registration is available at the main office. They won't know exactly where you are, but they can narrow it down to a couple block segment of town based on your registrations. They aren't invading your privacy because they don't physically, or electronically, touch you or your phone. But they sure have a clue as to your whereabouts.
The FBI and Police use this technique regularly to track drug suspects so they can figure out the Tree of who's who.
There is only one way around this problem.
Iraq played with the rules for over 10 years before they got their hands slapped
My guess is, it will be another 10 years before the US Government gets around to making a decapitating strike of "Shock and Awe" against Redmond
Seriously though, I think it's rather obvious that the current Administration and Microsoft have come to some understanding to look the other way regarding Microsoft activities. No one will admit that, but that's what PACs are for
I kept going to these Chicago sites looking for something to do on the weekend and all I could ever find was talk about a dam and how to make reall good noodles.
But now I understand where I went wrong. 'ch' doesn't stand for Chicago does it?
I think that this is great and I'm all for someone coming up with better desktop options. Who cares about the price, after all this is for companies and if enough of them can migrate, then other software providers will take notice
But I have one problem/question with this progress that has been made under Linux of late.
I have a series of machines that range from 600-750MHz and 128MB - 768MB RAM. It seems to me that the new KDE has become remarkably slow. To the point where I am unable to seriously consider using it on the lower RAM machines.
Rather than just bitch and be labeled a troll, I have a serious question. Is this the cost of progress? I am assuming that WinXP is going to be equally difficult to use on these machines, but I have nothing to base that one. Has anyone tried it?
Does the relative bloat of KDE compare to the relative bloat of other Desktop Environments?
This is a real concern for me because the slow down in performance when comparing Suse is significant enough that I'm wondering if KDE is approaching Gnome in speed or if KDE has passed WinXP in performance (or lack thereof).
I think that the responsiveness of a system is more critical that the Eye Candy it provides, especially as a User Environment. And I'm not seeing that in KDE. Are you?
Way back, I had a Frequency Hopping Card. It was easily capable of running 300' from my basement floor to the back fence of my house. I switched to the current DSS and have had some other experiences.
I used to have a D-Link WiFi set-up, but it would barely get 30 feet.
I tried NetGear and had trouble at 10 feet.
And no one worked with the others PCMCIA cards, for long. Many lock up problems.
I have assumed that brand mixing will always be bad, regardless of the certifications people attempt to publish
I have since switched to the Orinoco gold card and have resumed my 300 feet range from the basement AP. Without question, Orinoco is the minimum I would invest again. And I didn't have to hire some WiFi Engineer!
I you have provided some excellent evidence that work is a social interaction between people.
Oh Yeah, you get money in there too.
It doesn't need to be a social event. But many people in the world make it that way as evidenced by the ongoing political games and rumour-mongering that goes on regularly.
The other problem you have here in America is trust. No one trusts someone who works from home. The core of the Corporation naturally assumes that you are a slacker if you are not making appearances.
I hate to sounds callouse, but anything it takes to shut down the spammers, short of death or injury, is an acceptable cost in the long run.
The problem of spam has not received any reasonable consideration by The Powers That Be in the Political engine until it starts to cause real, tangible, measureable harm.
First, I have to confess that I am a Materials Engineer and not some ubergeek with a CSE degree.
But it's a definite fact that technological advances are only made possible with the precedence of metallurgical advances.
Silicon wafers today wouldn't exist without the metallurgical backing to create high purity Silicon, Aluminum, and so on.
The point being that with the discovery of the buckey ball, we are entering a new age of history. We're not there, but we're working on it really hard.
Before you toss me out as flamebait consider that each primary age of human civilization is named as a metallurgical Age: Bronze, Iron, Steel. Some might argue that we are in the Silicon Age right now. However, the impact of Silicon is not as ubiquitious as the impact of the discovery of Bronze, Iron, or Steel.
But the Buckey Ball is going to be similar in the scope of impact as Steel or Iron. Why?
- Structural Materials
- Electronics
- Optics
- Aerospace
It's a FUNDAMENTALLY new material product available for the engineers to play with.That we could consider failure to be cool
Don't we have enough of this already?
These systems don't work that well. I have been designing and building my own for about 8 months now and have come to the following conclusions.
They are easily bypassed using a smart enough auto-responder. If all you do is fire back the original message then you're on their list.
They sometimes fail to pick up the human response. I have several cases where people will simply respond to the email, removing enough of the critical content, to render the reply useless. This comes in two flavors. Email clients will strip out the Header information needed, or people will strip out the Body information needed.
To impliment this upon a very large system like this is going to be a nightmare not only for their email administrators, but for everyone that they touch.
One of the biggest problems that these systems have is that they are totally incapable of handling Solicited email from a Bot. Examples include:
- Payment Confirmations (amazon.com)
- mailing list confirmations
- Profile Update Notifications (paypal, ebay..)
- Password changes or resets
It's going to be a pretty ugly system of implimentation.True. But now the mail administrator has to deal with thousands of spam mail that doesn't get a reply.
And how long are they supposed to wait for a response. Remember, email is not supposed to be a Real Time system. Email servers frequently have a delivery retry schedule of about 4 days. That would mean that Earthlink has to carry the entire spam volume of four days in some kind of mail pending queue and to periodically attempt a redelivery.
I've tried this myself. When you can easily run 100+ spams per day per account, imagine what you are going to be dealing with for an entire ISP. You can easily scale into the million email queue.
Their servers will not be able to handle their entire population and the resulting network load on themselves and everyone else will be prohibitive.
Consider this. AOL and HOTMAIL are the largest spam address sources, real or imaginary. So, when they get spam from AOL, they have to attempt a delivery. If AOL's system doesn't allow for immediate failures based on "address unknown" then EarthLink will hit AOL with thousands of bogus email delivery attempts. Now the two goliaths are beating each other to death over bandwidth.
Someone will be suing for a DOS attach.
Nevermind the troll factor... you're just not well informed. You've managed to focus on the worse possible conditions for any one of these points you make. I could easily do that same with Windows with a lot less effort.
But, since I haven't run Windows on anything in years (except for work) I don't really care to try
But to answer your points specifically:
Linux is good for old computers
It is true that you pretty much need at least 32MB or RAM to use Linux as a GUI workstation these days. Event Windows 95 needed this and more. Now you can get buy nicely with 32MB of RAM if you do not use Gnome or KDE. These are turning into fat pigs and will make Linux work like a piece of shit most of the time on little machines. However, I have a lot of computers which are all around 400-700MHz clock speeds that do very well
Linux is lightweight
Here you are a fucking idiot. Linux will never free RAM once it's been used. It's called caching. It's extremely efficient. Because of this, you may see that all of the RAM appears to be used, but it isn't really. So get a clue
Windows is Bloated
What's the myth about this? Windows is huge. It's also feature rich. But you are comparing Windows XP on a 1600MHz machine to ... what? a 166MHz KDE installation? Sorry, Windows is bloated. It's been optimized to start up quickly on purpose. You should look into the Linux BIOS if you want boot speeds
Windows Applications are bloated and slow
Again, you are a fucking idiot. If Linux were to use the architectural design of putting everything into the kernel, then everything would start up nice and fast, like you describe. However, you would have a few limitations. Bugs would be much nastier to track down. And to use anything that isn't a part of the Divine Microsoft core is going to take frickin hours to load up as well. Try something that is almost fair. How long does it take you to load a JVM application one XP versus Linux? How long to do it a second time (remember LInux caches all that RAM)?
Honestly, before you attempt to post as some Anon.Cow. you should at least consider getting your facts straight. My 10 year old daughter has more brains than you on this stuff.
My kids were recently playing with a XP on some 2.1GHz machine. I asked them how well Mozilla worked on their machine versus my 400MHz Linux install. To them, it's the same speed. Considering that there is no perceived difference between these two machines, other than the price, is there really any truth to what you say?
Who's going to really end up paying for this?
It won't be the spammers. That's for sure.
Look at the history of business. ALL regulatory expenses have always ended up in the laps of the purchasers. It means you will be paying more for everything you purchase on the internet, even if all they do is send you a confirmation email.
And the companies will charge you a hell of a lot more than one penny. Theres tracking financials, resource loads, personell expenses...
You might be closer if they charged you an extra dollar for each item purchased. And would this stop spam. Not a chance. Why?
This won't even show up on their radar. They will just pass along any expenses that they can't hide from.
Spam is popular with Marketing types because it's a really cheap method of getting the message out. If you make it more expensive for them to get the message out, they will simply charge more in the end. Think about it. How much of the money you spend on a bottle of 12oz. of water is a direct manufacturing cost and how much is marketing expenses. Water is cheap. Why do I pay $1.99 for it? Marketing.
Same thing is going to happen with Spam
And you can bet your butt that you friendly local ISP is going to love this idea because they will charge you at least 2 cents for every email.
It sounds cute, but they are still using toxins to do the job.
They could burn the plants using pinpoint fire, or a really large magnifying glass, or concentrated syringes of ammonia -- short toxicity with a biologically friendly byproduct.
Non-toxic and the plants will not build up a resistance
I've been watching computers waiting for a combination of:
- Small form factor
- Very Low Power consumption
- Low Price
Much of this has been driven based on the realization that, with the exception of gaming, there is really no practicaly need for the incredible power consumption and heat dissapation of the high end COTS systems. When you consider it, the COTS systems today are very poorly designed because they are entirely dependant upon high speed fans to keep themselves from self distruction. This makes for an a-stable product which happens to be horribly loud and in a social sense, isn't scalable (you can't have 4 of these sitting in a room).Following this new realization that no one really needs a multi GHz processor for surfing, email, servers, and most all of their coding then the idea of a 30 Watt silent processor has some real appeal.
VIA, with thei EPIA and the Mini-ITX motherboards are poised for some real advances on the user community. While not as power independent as a notebook PC, they can be arguable as portable and certainly more convenient for the desktop cube-ville environment.
The other avenue for computer users to move in is the LSTP thin-client workstations like the jammin products. These are small devices with USB, PS/2 ports on the front. This is a new direction
Not intending to get prophetic here, but I really believe that there is need for a product which has a thin-client architecture with the goal of providing only interfaces:
- USB ports, 2-4
- Firewire
With the possibility of providing a single floppy drive or CD-RW and S-Video ports as well. But nothing more is really needed at the user desktop interface anymore. Unfortunately I haven't really seen anything like this at a sane price. I did see a few products which are mini-ITX motherboards installed at the back of flat panels for a single unit. Very wonderful, but not for $1500!!! Everything else would be retained at a single point of access at the server or at a "super station" which might have additional devicees (like CD-RW, S-Video)These are all really excellent devices. Now if someone would please sent me the $300 necessary to buy one I would be very happy! I have a lot of noise in my office.
Interesting article. Some thoughts.
All that aside, I think a Distro should emphasize the following, in order:
No, you are wrong
The life of a silicon device is limited by the molecular diffusion of it's N-P gates or the migration of metal and Silicon at the interfacees.
This migration is based on a exponential factor of exp(-t/KT) -- t: time T: Temperature (K)
You cannot get it as hot as you want, you'll diffuse the materials together and you will lose the sharp metallurgical transitions necessary for the gates.
And before you chide me for referencing NP gates in a CMOS world... Remember that we still have transitors on Silicon, which means that there is still a NP gateway to the back of the silicon chip and that gates diffusion creates excessive current leakage, resulting in failure. The failure is because the circuit is not unable to deliver sufficient current at the CMOS gates and hold it there between switchings because of leakage. The result is lots of bit errors all over the die
The problems with silicon technology comes long before you melt anything.
As for cooling.. Eventually you will exceed a lower limit of performance as well. 20K as a junction temperature might be tough to keep it operating correctly
My Father in Law called me one day and told me that he deleted the Internet.
"I deleted the Internet""really?"
"Yep. It's all gone. Can't find a thing"
"Well then... If I were you I would run and hide because I think you are in a lot of trouble"
"Huh?"
"Hang on..."
(I start Mozilla)
"Seems OK on this end..."
To this day, he still thinks deleting a shortcut for Netscape is the same as deleting the Internet
I wonder how much is too much.
First that started with the active blocks at the top of your web pages. Then they went to pop-up/pup-under ads. Banner farms...
Now you can find people at Amazon who write wonderful reviews about things in too much market-speak. And when you chase them down on the Amazon website you find out that this one person posted hundreds of reviews in a matter of seconds.
So we can't trust the implied User feedback to be honest, rather another Marketing shill pushing their wares.
Now we are entering the blog-space and we soon won't be able to know if someone really likes a product or if they are just getting paid to say so.
And the more they push, the more people don't care. And they more they want to get away from it all.
I will not buy a cellular phone becase I do not want to invite myself to the torrent of additional advertisements to buy supplimentary goods. And the idea of having ads piped into my cell phone makes me wretch.
And I'm learning that there is less and less that I need to buy and that most of what you hear on any media is that you really must buy this or that. Well, I don't. I have food, clothing, a house. I'm good.
And that really pisses them off.
What do you sell a society that has everything and more?
How do you sell it to them?
I don't throwing a pile of Beareaucratic Bullshit is going to improve the situation. That's one of the points lauded by previous posters. This was an example of someone who was able to get something done technically without the forms in triplicate. You are advocating those forms!
Like we have time for the patches already, you want to make us spend countless hours filling in stupid forms?
Personally, I think that public humiliation of the company that fails basic security patches is a pretty effective method. It now becomes an interest to the company to maintain a positive PR profile. And we all know that the only thing greater to a Corporation than profits is the Image it portrays.
The one thing I didn't like about this article was the idea that this kind of process should be followed by everyone. This is what I saw as the process:
Here's the flaw(s) in this process:
I guess the biggest thing that I don't like about this is that idea that this model will support the Closed Source software model because of the arguments of:
I understand this guys theory of operation, but I am not convinced of it's value for the following reasons:
With all that aside, there may be some points in this that are valid. But I'm not certain that the usage of mail servers by spammers is going to be entirely effected by this technique.
Wouldn't it be easier to simply challenge each incoming IP address to test it for being an open relay and if so, REJECT?
I think that the postfix group has a similar concept for testing any incoming email address in the MAIL FROM tag to see if that address can in turn accept mail.
But all versioning information is in the Registry, they wouldn't have to read every file on your disk.
What's the deal here? Are we trying to sell Office 2003 to a bunch of ultra-domesticated fembots here? I'm sorry to sound so un-PC, but it looks a little too cutsie for my tastes. I was checking out some of the pictures and it reminds me of cotton candy.
I don't see that much significantly useful about the interface. Not much different from Word 4.0 as far as what it can do for me.
Maybe it's the screen shots, but it does tend to look a little cluttered. I think we're headed in the wrong direction for GUI's
Might they be a little simpler?
Sorry, but I think we have a lot to learn from WindowMaker. Simple, yet effective.