This is not the topic to discuss solutions, but they are certainly possible, and they aren't SPF.
If spammers have to buy new domains for every couple of thousand spams they face a big problem.
Firstly it all adds to the cost - with tiny response rates you'd have to imagine the margins are tight.
Secondly if they have to buy domains they need to pay for them - that leaves a physical paper trail to spammers, now legislation can help.
Thirdly we have plenty of existing technology such as black hole lists that will be a lot more effective if lots of spam comes from one newly registered domain.
Fourthly we don't need the entire web to be using SPF for it to become effective. If you receive spam from an AOL account it's now possible to easily check if it in fact came from an AOL mailserver. That other people haven't yet implimented SPF is irrelevant - we can use the technology to our advantage today. Once it's widely implimented we can even start to apply a small spamassassin score to not SPF confirmed mail. As adoption grows we can increase that score still further.
Which raises the question: where can I get a USB-compatible wooden ship's wheel for my computer?
Was this a joke? Have you tried running USB devices under WinNT - it doesn't happen.
So now we're looking for a serial Ships Wheel.
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on slashdot - lots of times. It only cache's files bigger than 5MB so if someone is slashdotting your MP3 collection it's a boon. If you're jsut hosting a dynamic web page with dynamic images your mysql server is still going to feel the strain.
Of course. Lets stop the international flow of email. Or are you suggesting governments should run the internet?
Charging for email is impossible and unnecessary. The big problem with spam is the inherent problems with SMTP - in other words people can make up an email addrss and send mail from it. Lots of people are already working to tackle that problem. As spam becomes more of a problem we can hope more sites will publish SPF records and start using them. Once they become the norm rather than the exception we have a new weapon in the toolbox.
If you have a domain and aren't yet publishing SPF records, do something about it. If your ISP doesn't publish SPF records, email them and ask why not.
Execution for doing so may persist for a while though.
As juveniles they might actaully be safer in China. From Amnesty International, April 03:
The US executed more prisoners in 2002 than in the previous year, after executions spiked in 1999 totaling a more than 20-year record high of 98 executions. In addition, the US was the only known country in the world to execute juvenile offenders last year when three child offenders were executed in Texas. The execution of Scott Hain in Oklahoma on April 3, 2003, marked the first known juvenile offender execution worldwide this year.
Surely the bandwidth depends on image quality. We've been able to record better than VHS quality to CD using the Video CD standard for years - that's 150KB/sec - Seven of those means writing to disk at a fraction over 1MB / second. Given our CD writers these days run at 7 X that speed, it's not exactly taxing for a hard disk. Even if you improve the quality by an order of magnitude, your desktop PC should still keep up in the IO stakes.
ooking at the specs it also plays MP3 files. Given my Sony Clie also plays both formats that's exactly what I'd expect, and doesn't lock me in.
Sure Sony ties you to Sony, but so does every manufacturer in some way. Still, there's a huge convenience factor to keeping files on my memory stick, popping it out and into my Clie when on the move or into my Vaio at my desk. Take some pictures on my Sony Digital Camera, pop out the stick and straight into the front of my desktop. Everything works and some people are willing to pay the premium for the convenience. Apple also built a brand around that concept.
Well if another auction site comes along that doesn't use the borderline-fraud service that is PayPal
I still can't establish if folk really are having trouble with paypal. Sure there are sites filled with complaints, but most of the complaints seem to be folk who had a weak password, saved their password in internet explorer and someone else used it, or small organsiations where they shared the password and someone with access cleaned out the account.
Paypal has made cheap processing of credit cards available to the masses, and an awful lot of folk are using it every day. Are the number of complaints really that high in comparrison to the level of use, or is it just that a high proportion of its users know how to make websites and complain loudly in their blogs?
In many companies, a much easier battle is to get the company to move, say, for Microsoft Outlook to Thunderbird
FOr small companies that use Outlook only as an email client perhaps. Thunderbird is no substitute for Outlook when you start talking about company wide contacts sharing, resource scheduling, shared calendars, meeting invites, voting buttons and all the other things organisations are used to using on a day to day basis.
You might argue that an email client isn't the place for such features but no-one's going to drop their client that offers them in favour of Thunderbird when no other app is available to offer the missing feature set.
Like it or loath it, until there's a real Outlook replacement linux lacks the groupware companies are used to and desktop adoption will be restricted.
From the article: Question 3: Who is the vice chairman of the all-party parliamentary group on back care? Google - 6min 27sec (3rd)
But if you search google for "vice chairman" "all-party parliamentary group" "back care" you only get two results which are actually for the same document - an alphabetical list of all-party groups. Scroll down to back care and there's your answer. Why would that would take six and a half minutes?
On the 25th October 2002 The FREE e-democracy Project (who supported and organised GNU.FREE's development) formally stopped production and support of the GNU.FREE Internet voting system.
Governments indicate they'd like a secure e-voting system. If the open source movement can't deliver one, we can bet a private closed source company will.
If OO just burned up an extra 10 minutes a day for my users by being buggy or quirky, that would cost me $60,000 per user(users bill at $150/hour)!!!! I think $500 for a copy of office 2003 is cheap!
That implies Office 2k3 isn't buggy or quirky - most folk's experience tells us otherwise.
stand.org.uk has a wealth of information on the plans. It's kept up to date and lets you know what you can do to help the campaign against these cards.
as if meters aren't expensive enough... We really needed someone to come up w/the bright idea to allow dynamic changes to parking meters.
Surely this is a perfect use of the market to determine price. We all accept that if we book a flight at an off peak time we'll get a cheaper price - why not the same for parking? Cities get busy during the day but are often quieter in the evening. What a boon for restaurants if parking can be set at $2 for the entire evening. If there's a big evening even on then $2 is too cheap - all the spaces will fill and chaos ensues, so adjust the rate to $4 an hour and encourage folk to take the metro / bus / taxi instead.
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If spammers have to buy new domains for every couple of thousand spams they face a big problem.
With 2 of them combined we'd get 184 Tbs.
I'm ure it'll only be 12 months before adverts are telling us to take our daily milk drink with "healthy nanobacteria"
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Seattle Post
Acorn did it with their Risc PC photo here
Of course if you have an ovan, you'll also need the kitchen sink.
Was this a joke? Have you tried running USB devices under WinNT - it doesn't happen.
So now we're looking for a serial Ships Wheel.
on slashdot - lots of times. It only cache's files bigger than 5MB so if someone is slashdotting your MP3 collection it's a boon. If you're jsut hosting a dynamic web page with dynamic images your mysql server is still going to feel the strain.
I understand it's open source. If he doesn't like the way it works he's free to fix it :)
Charging for email is impossible and unnecessary. The big problem with spam is the inherent problems with SMTP - in other words people can make up an email addrss and send mail from it. Lots of people are already working to tackle that problem. As spam becomes more of a problem we can hope more sites will publish SPF records and start using them. Once they become the norm rather than the exception we have a new weapon in the toolbox.
If you have a domain and aren't yet publishing SPF records, do something about it. If your ISP doesn't publish SPF records, email them and ask why not.
As juveniles they might actaully be safer in China. From Amnesty International, April 03:
Surely the bandwidth depends on image quality. We've been able to record better than VHS quality to CD using the Video CD standard for years - that's 150KB/sec - Seven of those means writing to disk at a fraction over 1MB / second. Given our CD writers these days run at 7 X that speed, it's not exactly taxing for a hard disk. Even if you improve the quality by an order of magnitude, your desktop PC should still keep up in the IO stakes.
less surprising will be that it happened twice!
Sure Sony ties you to Sony, but so does every manufacturer in some way. Still, there's a huge convenience factor to keeping files on my memory stick, popping it out and into my Clie when on the move or into my Vaio at my desk. Take some pictures on my Sony Digital Camera, pop out the stick and straight into the front of my desktop. Everything works and some people are willing to pay the premium for the convenience. Apple also built a brand around that concept.
Don't like it? Then Sony's not the brand for you.
I still can't establish if folk really are having trouble with paypal. Sure there are sites filled with complaints, but most of the complaints seem to be folk who had a weak password, saved their password in internet explorer and someone else used it, or small organsiations where they shared the password and someone with access cleaned out the account.
Paypal has made cheap processing of credit cards available to the masses, and an awful lot of folk are using it every day. Are the number of complaints really that high in comparrison to the level of use, or is it just that a high proportion of its users know how to make websites and complain loudly in their blogs?
FOr small companies that use Outlook only as an email client perhaps. Thunderbird is no substitute for Outlook when you start talking about company wide contacts sharing, resource scheduling, shared calendars, meeting invites, voting buttons and all the other things organisations are used to using on a day to day basis.
You might argue that an email client isn't the place for such features but no-one's going to drop their client that offers them in favour of Thunderbird when no other app is available to offer the missing feature set.
Like it or loath it, until there's a real Outlook replacement linux lacks the groupware companies are used to and desktop adoption will be restricted.
But if you search google for "vice chairman" "all-party parliamentary group" "back care" you only get two results which are actually for the same document - an alphabetical list of all-party groups. Scroll down to back care and there's your answer. Why would that would take six and a half minutes?
I just downloaded 2.6... oh, wait....
I'm in Edinburgh and unfortunately don't speak Gaelic, sorry.
Your teeth are only fine 'cause your chocolate is inedible.
After all gnu.free's website says:
Governments indicate they'd like a secure e-voting system. If the open source movement can't deliver one, we can bet a private closed source company will.
This one is actually more interesting. SCO Are almost back to where they started from before they clained the owned the planet.
Also according to The Register these PDAs were launched yesterday. I guess 'Launched Today' still applies, just for very large values of Today.
That implies Office 2k3 isn't buggy or quirky - most folk's experience tells us otherwise.
Visit the site, write a letter then Fax your MP.
Surely this is a perfect use of the market to determine price. We all accept that if we book a flight at an off peak time we'll get a cheaper price - why not the same for parking? Cities get busy during the day but are often quieter in the evening. What a boon for restaurants if parking can be set at $2 for the entire evening. If there's a big evening even on then $2 is too cheap - all the spaces will fill and chaos ensues, so adjust the rate to $4 an hour and encourage folk to take the metro / bus / taxi instead.