Well, this seems pretty stupid. I mean, Why not just have the people get in contact with those who already own the domain? If I wanted a domain that seemed to be out of use and someone was ahead of me in 'line' what's stopping me from just getting in contact with the person who owns the domain and buying it? Or will NetSol (the brand still used for name sales) put some weird shit in their contract saying you can't sell the domain if someone is on the wait list?
Talk about lameness. Why did the government have to sell the DNS system to these losers?
If you'll read the site you'll see you'll need a special drivers license just to drive the thing (well, maybe the cops won't know that:P) so I doubt it'll be used by soccer moms.
I have a feeling this is mostly going to be used by people who actually need one.
Well, considering that only like.00002% of even urban america even has WiFi access out in the open I'd say it would be kind of pointless. And if you had the money/need to buy a machine like this you'd probably be able to get the antenna added custom.
You're using the word "fault tolerance" wrong
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Fault tolerance means that errors are recoverable from and don't cause the system to go down totally. Fault tolerance is a good thing. Fault tolerant computers sell for a lot of money.
And as far as the computer systems on this machine, there is probably a lot of fault tolerance over all, most of the computers are not going to be mission critical in the sense that they need to be there for the car to work. Most cars these days already have multiple interconnected computers running the engine and breaking system, but this adds separate machines for things like communication, GPS, etc. And if those machines go down, well, who cares? Just reboot em while on the road (well, you might want to pull over if you don't have a passenger, but you get the idea). It simply doesn't matter if their up constantly. And it is possible to make computers that don't crash ever, and they seem to be going that rout (using QNX for more critical systems, along with the separate computers and networks that undoubtedly run the engine)
Well, I belive the reason that 'sicko' sites spam whereas 'normal' sites do not is that the main-stream porn industry simply does not spam at all. The practice has been banned by the industry association. Any pornographic spam you get is for cheap companies and individuals who are not really a part of the industry.
Btw, if you do want some normal porn, I know a great website you might want to check out...
Yeh, spam is annoying, so we should replace the entire domain name system. It is true that email information is integrated into the DNS system (MX records and stuff), but not to that level.
Secondly, it wouldn't really stop any spam anyway. Just because you 'claim' that they should owe you money for spamming doesn't that they actually will. And a huge number of spammers right now are committing crimes by hacking open relays/AOL accounts and the like right now. What's to prevent them from doing the same under XNS? I mean, even if the 'privacy policy' is enforceable by law, it doesn't mean that all spammers are going to start following it. And 'legit' spammers already have opt-outs.
Spam prevention (especially retarded crap that you outlined) does not belong in the DNS system. I'm not saying that the DNS system doesn't need to be replaced, but spam prevention doesn't belong it it.
I was delighted the other day to find out that Iowa had an anti-spam law. I promptly requested 'remove' on all the 'psudo-opt-in' type spam (no, buying a list from someone does not mean that the people on it want your crap). Of course, under Iowa law I need to opt out before I can do anything, unless the spam is forged.
One of the 'university diploma' spams was illegal under Iowa law (invalid return address), but, of course how do you sue for something like that? I tried looking on reverse phone number sites to see who owned the phone number advertised, but nothing showed up.
Are there any ways to find out who sends these out without incurring a large expense?
Hrm, I wonder how long before someone starts sending out "make money suing spammers, call today for your free kit." spam.
My image file is variation #5432234534234223234432223443322 with hash value of 34334fa3de3ade33
Of course, it'd be a royal impossibility to figure out how many variations there were
No, actualy. Just take the size of your hash, and the size of your file and subtract. then take 2that. Quite simple, no? Of course, when you combine that data you end up with a file of the same size.
Really, is it to much to ask that people who call themselves 'geeks' have at least a simple understanding of mathimatics?
You know that if the remove address dosn't work the email domain might just as well be forged. I mean, you do realize that there's a very good chance you're spaming totaly innocent people, right?
Yes. Fantastic. Of course, in doing so you also broke the link in half. This is incredibly annoying to anyone who actualy wants to go to the link as not only do they need to cut and paste the URL in they need to edit it and remove the blank spaces. If you wanted to you could have done http://samspade.org/t/whois?a=shifmanconsulting.co m&server=magic
in which case people could have either clicked or cut, pasted, and edited the url. BTW, slash now shows the domain name after the link if you actualy do link, so it's not all that bad.
In the future, please do not paste plain text links in slashdot.
The thing is, it costs money to send snailmail and phonecalls. But spamming dosn't cost money. Suppose there are maybe 5,000 people in the world intrested in your product, and you email every single person in the world, you'll hit those 5,000 people. Much cheaper then finding out who those 5k people are really.
And spamming does make money. for every person who gets livid and tries to sue, you'll get a thousand who sigh and delete the message. And maybe one or two people who are actualy intrested.
adaptive optics have the ablity to create images at the same resolution of the Huble space telescope. I wonder what this means for it's future. Seems kinda pointless now.
( I submitted an artical about it to slashdot a month or so ago, but it was rejected..)
Look, I don't know what the deal is with Linux geeks talking about how windows is unstable and will always be. If you read the artical, he never mentiones an NT based systems, which are much, much more stable then 9x based system, and which XP is. Windows XP will be much more stable then windows ME.
I've had windows 2k crash (and by crash I mean 'weridness that requires a reboot') maybe 20 times. On my laptop Iv'e had to reboot only once.
actualy, for some reason I found an interview Lucas did while making Return of the Jedi, in which he claimed that that film would be the last starwars film he made. If only he'd kept his word...
Who knows, if lucas is still around 20 years from now and decides he wants another few billion dolars...
Personally, I'm happiest when a movie doesn't have any huge names at all you usually get a more enjoyable experience because the actors don't carry the baggage that someone you've seen in a number of movies does.
Well, not in all cases, but in general the 'big stars' are the ones who can act. Carrie Fisher and Mark Hammel couldn't really, thats why they never ended up as big stars after Starwars (unlike Harrison Ford).
Good actors can act good (duh) and they make you forget that you've seen them before in other films.
Of course, it was kind of distracting when a friend pointed out that the elf lord in rivendale was the guy who played Agent Smith in the Matrix. It didn't bother me though, I mostly just thought it was cool:P
go daddy lets you get.com/.net for like $9 or something, namebargan (which is basicaly register.com without DNS server hosting and web based admin for it) is $8..biz and.info are even less, but you generaly have to get 2 years to start.
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I read an artical about it somewhere, forgot the offical name. Its not like I'm trying to pose as some kind of 'insider' or something :P
Well, this seems pretty stupid. I mean, Why not just have the people get in contact with those who already own the domain? If I wanted a domain that seemed to be out of use and someone was ahead of me in 'line' what's stopping me from just getting in contact with the person who owns the domain and buying it? Or will NetSol (the brand still used for name sales) put some weird shit in their contract saying you can't sell the domain if someone is on the wait list?
Talk about lameness. Why did the government have to sell the DNS system to these losers?
you mean like this?
If you'll read the site you'll see you'll need a special drivers license just to drive the thing (well, maybe the cops won't know that :P) so I doubt it'll be used by soccer moms.
I have a feeling this is mostly going to be used by people who actually need one.
If you had this thing, why the hell would you care what the weather was like?
Well, considering that only like .00002% of even urban america even has WiFi access out in the open I'd say it would be kind of pointless. And if you had the money/need to buy a machine like this you'd probably be able to get the antenna added custom.
Fault tolerance means that errors are recoverable from and don't cause the system to go down totally. Fault tolerance is a good thing. Fault tolerant computers sell for a lot of money.
And as far as the computer systems on this machine, there is probably a lot of fault tolerance over all, most of the computers are not going to be mission critical in the sense that they need to be there for the car to work. Most cars these days already have multiple interconnected computers running the engine and breaking system, but this adds separate machines for things like communication, GPS, etc. And if those machines go down, well, who cares? Just reboot em while on the road (well, you might want to pull over if you don't have a passenger, but you get the idea). It simply doesn't matter if their up constantly. And it is possible to make computers that don't crash ever, and they seem to be going that rout (using QNX for more critical systems, along with the separate computers and networks that undoubtedly run the engine)
Well, I belive the reason that 'sicko' sites spam whereas 'normal' sites do not is that the main-stream porn industry simply does not spam at all. The practice has been banned by the industry association. Any pornographic spam you get is for cheap companies and individuals who are not really a part of the industry.
Btw, if you do want some normal porn, I know a great website you might want to check out...
And ironically you misquoted as well, Moore said that transistor density would double every 18 months, not chip speed (which is closely related).
This is a process for lithography into silicon, which is what we already use, except it's slightly more precise.
Yeh, spam is annoying, so we should replace the entire domain name system. It is true that email information is integrated into the DNS system (MX records and stuff), but not to that level.
Secondly, it wouldn't really stop any spam anyway. Just because you 'claim' that they should owe you money for spamming doesn't that they actually will. And a huge number of spammers right now are committing crimes by hacking open relays/AOL accounts and the like right now. What's to prevent them from doing the same under XNS? I mean, even if the 'privacy policy' is enforceable by law, it doesn't mean that all spammers are going to start following it. And 'legit' spammers already have opt-outs.
Spam prevention (especially retarded crap that you outlined) does not belong in the DNS system. I'm not saying that the DNS system doesn't need to be replaced, but spam prevention doesn't belong it it.
That's not castration, the women can still have children. It's more commonly called 'female circumcision' or 'cliterectomy'(sp?)
I was delighted the other day to find out that Iowa had an anti-spam law. I promptly requested 'remove' on all the 'psudo-opt-in' type spam (no, buying a list from someone does not mean that the people on it want your crap). Of course, under Iowa law I need to opt out before I can do anything, unless the spam is forged.
One of the 'university diploma' spams was illegal under Iowa law (invalid return address), but, of course how do you sue for something like that? I tried looking on reverse phone number sites to see who owned the phone number advertised, but nothing showed up.
Are there any ways to find out who sends these out without incurring a large expense?
Hrm, I wonder how long before someone starts sending out "make money suing spammers, call today for your free kit." spam.
My image file is variation #5432234534234223234432223443322 with hash value of 34334fa3de3ade33
Of course, it'd be a royal impossibility to figure out how many variations there were
No, actualy. Just take the size of your hash, and the size of your file and subtract. then take 2that. Quite simple, no? Of course, when you combine that data you end up with a file of the same size.
Really, is it to much to ask that people who call themselves 'geeks' have at least a simple understanding of mathimatics?
when you combine hash algorithems, all you have is a larger, morecomplex hashing algorithem. You still have a ton of garbage files when your finished.
You know that if the remove address dosn't work the email domain might just as well be forged. I mean, you do realize that there's a very good chance you're spaming totaly innocent people, right?
(not linked to conceal link's origin :)
o m&server=magic
in which case people could have either clicked or cut, pasted, and edited the url. BTW, slash now shows the domain name after the link if you actualy do link, so it's not all that bad.
Yes. Fantastic. Of course, in doing so you also broke the link in half. This is incredibly annoying to anyone who actualy wants to go to the link as not only do they need to cut and paste the URL in they need to edit it and remove the blank spaces. If you wanted to you could have done http://samspade.org/t/whois?a=shifmanconsulting.c
In the future, please do not paste plain text links in slashdot.
Junk snail mail makes money
Junk phonecalls make money
The thing is, it costs money to send snailmail and phonecalls. But spamming dosn't cost money. Suppose there are maybe 5,000 people in the world intrested in your product, and you email every single person in the world, you'll hit those 5,000 people. Much cheaper then finding out who those 5k people are really.
And spamming does make money. for every person who gets livid and tries to sue, you'll get a thousand who sigh and delete the message. And maybe one or two people who are actualy intrested.
adaptive optics have the ablity to create images at the same resolution of the Huble space telescope. I wonder what this means for it's future. Seems kinda pointless now.
( I submitted an artical about it to slashdot a month or so ago, but it was rejected..)
Look, I don't know what the deal is with Linux geeks talking about how windows is unstable and will always be. If you read the artical, he never mentiones an NT based systems, which are much, much more stable then 9x based system, and which XP is. Windows XP will be much more stable then windows ME.
I've had windows 2k crash (and by crash I mean 'weridness that requires a reboot') maybe 20 times. On my laptop Iv'e had to reboot only once.
Xerox did sue apple over the mac, but they lost.
actualy, for some reason I found an interview Lucas did while making Return of the Jedi, in which he claimed that that film would be the last starwars film he made. If only he'd kept his word...
Who knows, if lucas is still around 20 years from now and decides he wants another few billion dolars...
Uh.
The INS has no controll over where you go, you'll have no trouble getting in. Just ask John Walker.
Personally, I'm happiest when a movie doesn't have any huge names at all you usually get a more enjoyable experience because the actors don't carry the baggage that someone you've seen in a number of movies does.
:P
Well, not in all cases, but in general the 'big stars' are the ones who can act. Carrie Fisher and Mark Hammel couldn't really, thats why they never ended up as big stars after Starwars (unlike Harrison Ford).
Good actors can act good (duh) and they make you forget that you've seen them before in other films.
Of course, it was kind of distracting when a friend pointed out that the elf lord in rivendale was the guy who played Agent Smith in the Matrix. It didn't bother me though, I mostly just thought it was cool
go daddy lets you get .com/.net for like $9 or something, namebargan (which is basicaly register.com without DNS server hosting and web based admin for it) is $8. .biz and .info are even less, but you generaly have to get 2 years to start.