Look what happened to Bush when the EU was able to get a ruling against us for our steel tariffs. They targeted swing states in order to get bush knocked out of office. It would be funny if I wasn't in one of them, and bush immediately caved.
Ballmer said Microsoft spends about 12 percent of its media budget on online advertising, and that he orders his staff to "saturate" that market first and foremost.
"I want to make sure (a user) can't get through... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad," he said.
Slashdot is taking the quote way out of context. Ballmer isn't trying to 'own' the internet, they are simply buying a lot of advertising on it. All kinds of sites, including slashdot benefit from this.
Spam that complies with CANSPAM would not be affected by SPF, actualy, as there are no forged headers. But it would be obvious who sent it and it would allow much better prevention.
One change I'd make, though, is rather then using IP address, use digital signatures.
This is the most asinine thing ever. First of all no one is every going to implement something like this that requires someone not to comply with US law. It just won't happen.
Secondly, wtf. $2000 a year? That's insane. Right now, I can use my own mail server and only pay the $8/year domain registration fee. And that's the way it should be. People with enough tech savvy (and it doesn't take much these days) should be running their own mail servers. Open relays aren't an issue with modern mail servers (you have to work pretty hard to create one these days), and running your own mail server gives you a lot of fine-grained control over how you filter Spam for yourself (for example, using a catch-all email and using a different email for everything, letting you track how your address gets disseminated, and blocking addresses that get 'liberated')
It seems like some of these anti-Spam people hate Spam so much they completely lose track of what Email is for and the people it's supposed to be used by, everyone. Email black holes are one thing, but it's wrong to apply them as filters for people without their knowledge or consent. I read a salon article about a woman who, when roadrunner implemented RTBL she lost out on tons of email, including email from potential employers (she was a freelance author). She still got tons of Spam, of course.
I don't believe that technical solutions alone will stop Spam, but they, with real legal enforcement can probably reduce it a lot.
I'm also tired of these top-down authoritarian systems that put a few people in control of email (like e-stamps, or this insane plan, etc) before we even get good solutions like SPF working. Once people start checking SPF records a lot of this crap will get a lot better.
but nothing in the constitution allows the federal government to PREVENT a state from engaging in interstate commerce.
No, there isn't. But what the SC did was allow states to prevent cities from starting their own telcos, if the state wants to. In other words, the SC gave more power to the state... by taking it away from cities and other, smaller government bodies.
It's called GNU Classpath with Jikes or some other OSS Java implementation. Unlike.NET, the java APIs can be cloned without legal problems as long as you write your own code. Yeah, it's a lot of work. But it's definetly possible. And with GNU classpath the hard part is already done.
Simple solution, don't send email to AOL users unless it's critical. Sure, they may have 'agreed' to recive it, but do they really need your newsletter or whatever? My guess is that they don't.
If you have a web service, set things up so that users are notified about messages when they log on. If they are not AOL users, then also mail them.
Simple solution. Honestly I'd much prefer if all of the mail in my mailbox was from individuals who actualy wanted to say something to me personaly.
If you'd read the article you'd see that they know it was accidental (these were paying customers), and when they tried to confim the email, the users themselves claimed it was an accident.
I've actually tried to have a rational explanation about friction and how it produces sound and how inherently that makes a loud muffler inefficient.
That has got to be one of the most idiotic things I've ever read. Mufflers don't make noise, they suppress it. They're job, their only job is to make the car quiet, when it would naturally be noisy. (okay, this is an oversimplification. Modern exhaust systems also try to clean the exhaust to produce less pollution).
An ideal muffler would not restrict airflow out of the engine at all, and thus would have the same performance characteristics of no muffler at all. So if you take two identical cars with stock exhausts and replace one with a cheap 'fart-can' loud muffler, the modded one will perform slightly better, while at the same time being obnoxious.
Virus for Linux are not likely to be very damageable. For doing such kind of things (ie. the first blocks of a hard disk), the virus should be based on a remote root exploit, which happens, but is *very* rare. Most exploits are local, so you can't use them if you don't have a ssh account on this computer.
If you have a local root exploit, and a remote user exploit, then you have a remote root exploit.
It's more like suing a library for saying "oh, That guy? There's a book about him on teir 5, row six that says he murdered a little girl", then when you get to teir 5 row six, the book about him says that he once got a speeding ticket and didn't pay, but the book next to it says that some other guy murdered a little girl.
If the library refused to stop giving out that nugget of information when you asked them too, would you not be pissed?
Actually, all of us here should be smart enough to understand the situation without ridiculous metaphors. Google's page summary is giving out misleading information about him, and they refuse to do anything about it. I don't think the onus should be on Google to prevent this, but I don't see why they can't act on complaints they do get.
In order for any deal like this to go through, AOL would need to spin off AIM into a seperate company before the deal. Otherwise the FTC would shut this down, hardcore.
Uh, yes. ICQ does no marketing, and hardly anyone uses it anymore. It's certanly only a minor footnote to the AIM/MSN/Yahoo triumverate. Probably has less users then Jabber.
But I could see them trying something with the "home" version. MSN is already heavily advertized on a "home" desktop on install. If you don't know any better, you'd probably end up with MSN.
It would have been intresting to see what Will Smith would have done with Neo's character. The W. Bros did a good job of directing around Keanu's wooden acting "style", I'm sure they could have done a good job with Will Smith as well.
One of the intresting things is that Warner Bros retained casting control over the film. The W. Bros had no control over who played the leads...
Does anyone know much about Apache James? Apache's new Java-based mail server? I've been playing around with it and it seems pretty smooth. But how does it compare to, for example, postfix?
One nice feature is that you can extend James using "Mailets" (like applets/servlets but for mail) written in java, which would be great for a java-head like myself:).
Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone knew much about it/actually used it for anything. It would be nice to have a single mail server who's configuration could be used on any platform.
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Look what happened to Bush when the EU was able to get a ruling against us for our steel tariffs. They targeted swing states in order to get bush knocked out of office. It would be funny if I wasn't in one of them, and bush immediately caved.
The first time I saw it I was so bothered by the "futuristic atmosphere" I almost left the theatre (I have never actually left a movie).
God your touchy.
Ballmer said Microsoft spends about 12 percent of its media budget on online advertising, and that he orders his staff to "saturate" that market first and foremost.
... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad," he said.
"I want to make sure (a user) can't get through
Slashdot is taking the quote way out of context. Ballmer isn't trying to 'own' the internet, they are simply buying a lot of advertising on it. All kinds of sites, including slashdot benefit from this.
Step 1) Schwab sends email
Step 2) mail client verifies that mail.schwab.com points to the same server as mail.schwab.com.mail.spamhaus.org.
Step 3) profit.
Spam that complies with CANSPAM would not be affected by SPF, actualy, as there are no forged headers. But it would be obvious who sent it and it would allow much better prevention.
One change I'd make, though, is rather then using IP address, use digital signatures.
This is the most asinine thing ever. First of all no one is every going to implement something like this that requires someone not to comply with US law. It just won't happen.
Secondly, wtf. $2000 a year? That's insane. Right now, I can use my own mail server and only pay the $8/year domain registration fee. And that's the way it should be. People with enough tech savvy (and it doesn't take much these days) should be running their own mail servers. Open relays aren't an issue with modern mail servers (you have to work pretty hard to create one these days), and running your own mail server gives you a lot of fine-grained control over how you filter Spam for yourself (for example, using a catch-all email and using a different email for everything, letting you track how your address gets disseminated, and blocking addresses that get 'liberated')
It seems like some of these anti-Spam people hate Spam so much they completely lose track of what Email is for and the people it's supposed to be used by, everyone. Email black holes are one thing, but it's wrong to apply them as filters for people without their knowledge or consent. I read a salon article about a woman who, when roadrunner implemented RTBL she lost out on tons of email, including email from potential employers (she was a freelance author). She still got tons of Spam, of course.
I don't believe that technical solutions alone will stop Spam, but they, with real legal enforcement can probably reduce it a lot.
I'm also tired of these top-down authoritarian systems that put a few people in control of email (like e-stamps, or this insane plan, etc) before we even get good solutions like SPF working. Once people start checking SPF records a lot of this crap will get a lot better.
What's wrong with ticketmaster?
but nothing in the constitution allows the federal government to PREVENT a state from engaging in interstate commerce.
No, there isn't. But what the SC did was allow states to prevent cities from starting their own telcos, if the state wants to. In other words, the SC gave more power to the state... by taking it away from cities and other, smaller government bodies.
It's called GNU Classpath with Jikes or some other OSS Java implementation. Unlike .NET, the java APIs can be cloned without legal problems as long as you write your own code. Yeah, it's a lot of work. But it's definetly possible. And with GNU classpath the hard part is already done.
Simple solution, don't send email to AOL users unless it's critical. Sure, they may have 'agreed' to recive it, but do they really need your newsletter or whatever? My guess is that they don't.
If you have a web service, set things up so that users are notified about messages when they log on. If they are not AOL users, then also mail them.
Simple solution. Honestly I'd much prefer if all of the mail in my mailbox was from individuals who actualy wanted to say something to me personaly.
If you'd read the article you'd see that they know it was accidental (these were paying customers), and when they tried to confim the email, the users themselves claimed it was an accident.
There's a diffrence between sticking up a random flier on a wall, and taking credit for someone's free gift.
I've actually tried to have a rational explanation about friction and how it produces sound and how inherently that makes a loud muffler inefficient.
That has got to be one of the most idiotic things I've ever read. Mufflers don't make noise, they suppress it. They're job, their only job is to make the car quiet, when it would naturally be noisy. (okay, this is an oversimplification. Modern exhaust systems also try to clean the exhaust to produce less pollution).
An ideal muffler would not restrict airflow out of the engine at all, and thus would have the same performance characteristics of no muffler at all. So if you take two identical cars with stock exhausts and replace one with a cheap 'fart-can' loud muffler, the modded one will perform slightly better, while at the same time being obnoxious.
The model T engine had a 2.8 liter engine and put out a whopping... 22hp.
Virus for Linux are not likely to be very damageable. For doing such kind of things (ie. the first blocks of a hard disk), the virus should be based on a remote root exploit, which happens, but is *very* rare. Most exploits are local, so you can't use them if you don't have a ssh account on this computer.
If you have a local root exploit, and a remote user exploit, then you have a remote root exploit.
macs can read hard drives without file alocation tables?! That is impressive.
Why didn't you just disable, and then uninstall BlackIce?
Not exactly.
It's more like suing a library for saying "oh, That guy? There's a book about him on teir 5, row six that says he murdered a little girl", then when you get to teir 5 row six, the book about him says that he once got a speeding ticket and didn't pay, but the book next to it says that some other guy murdered a little girl.
If the library refused to stop giving out that nugget of information when you asked them too, would you not be pissed?
Actually, all of us here should be smart enough to understand the situation without ridiculous metaphors. Google's page summary is giving out misleading information about him, and they refuse to do anything about it. I don't think the onus should be on Google to prevent this, but I don't see why they can't act on complaints they do get.
In order for any deal like this to go through, AOL would need to spin off AIM into a seperate company before the deal. Otherwise the FTC would shut this down, hardcore.
Did AOL just buy ICQ to kill it?
Uh, yes. ICQ does no marketing, and hardly anyone uses it anymore. It's certanly only a minor footnote to the AIM/MSN/Yahoo triumverate. Probably has less users then Jabber.
But I could see them trying something with the "home" version. MSN is already heavily advertized on a "home" desktop on install. If you don't know any better, you'd probably end up with MSN.
Wasn't that the name of the the female engineer who developed robotics in Asmov's stories?
It would have been intresting to see what Will Smith would have done with Neo's character. The W. Bros did a good job of directing around Keanu's wooden acting "style", I'm sure they could have done a good job with Will Smith as well.
One of the intresting things is that Warner Bros retained casting control over the film. The W. Bros had no control over who played the leads...
Spam people, take their money, send them something unpleasant enough to get on the news. Of course, you'd probably end up in jail if you tried this.
But yeah, that would probably kill the spam market pretty well.
Does anyone know much about Apache James? Apache's new Java-based mail server? I've been playing around with it and it seems pretty smooth. But how does it compare to, for example, postfix?
:).
One nice feature is that you can extend James using "Mailets" (like applets/servlets but for mail) written in java, which would be great for a java-head like myself
Anyway, I was just wondering if anyone knew much about it/actually used it for anything. It would be nice to have a single mail server who's configuration could be used on any platform.