I wonder how feasible it would be for other word processors, such as AbiWord, to use this format natively
I don't know about adopting it as the native format, but you can reasonably expect to have reliable import/export to OpenOffice's format. Heck, it already exists in Abiword as a plugin. I tried this myself (with the Abiword installed by Slackware 10) and found no problems; Abiword can easily open OpenOffice's documents.
It's unfortunate that most IT managers don't realize how closed formats will hinder them in the future.
Maybe these managers don't expect their company to still be around in 50 years. Or just might not care; so much in the business world is about today's work and this quarter's profits. But for government and my own personal work, I want to make sure the documents will last and be readable for as long as possible ("Data longevity" as its called in the article)
Feel the CD's case, once the case is open you know how the disc lies there (label up, data surface down). Pick up the CD and go to the CD player. Provided the CD player is itself in a predictable orientation, you will have no probles putting the CD in the player with the correct orientation.
Whatever format is chosen, it had better withstand the test of time. I'm sure solid state storage or something else suitable can make the data survive for a long time, but will the secret to decoding the data be buried along with the company that championed it? Seems to me that there would be a major advantage to sticking to pure PCM WAV or AU, maybe Ogg Vorbis / FLAC... the point being, there's no way the data should be put into RealAudio format or something proprietary like that.
This is something I recently thought of (while studying human memory in a psychology course, actually). With some effort you can memorize a gibberish string of characters - perhaps to simplify this task you can make the task phenomically easy to repeat in your head - e.g. h@pabl8x... It would not be too difficult to commit a rather long string to long term memory.
Anyway, once you have a well memorized long string, you could "generate" multiple passwords from it by using different parts of the string. Need a "new" password? Pick a different part of the big string, change your offset, substring length, etc.
While I have several passwords, the main thing turning me away from changing passwords is that I will have to commit a new password to memory. With this technique (which I have not yet tried myself) you wouldn't have to really memorize anything new.
In case you've forgotten, these days it is spammers who write (or fund the writing of) worms/viruses. The screen saver "took it up a notch" in the battle, and the spammers are just responding in the only way they know how; spamming:)
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there is so much free software out there that doesn't require spyware
Certainly is. Perhaps if we had a nice big list of (freeware/shareware/trialware/FOSS) sites that are completely free of adware? Maybe I'll set up such a resource site, that does not link to sites distributing spyware/adware. I also wonder, where are people seeking out all this software full of spyware?
To date, the ONLY effective solution thus far has been relay blacklisting.
I'll agree with this, as a small ISP. Blocklists are very easy to use, bandwidth-efficient and highly effective. They are the best solution we have, and do put pressure on bad ISPs to clean up their act. With over 150 public blocklists out there, spammers get nervous. Their attacks against SPEWS, Spamhaus, and Spamcop demonstrate how desperate spammers are getting.
I've played around with some custom made scripts that do (what sounds like) the same kinds of checks that these fellows do. While it's true that this method is good for flagging suspicious emails, the result is not definitive and shouldn't be used to block mail. It suffers from the same fundamental problem as SPF itself; email is meant as a store and forward system. You can email mail with any return address through any intermediate host (e.g. using.forward or whatever).
My guess is that this software does the following checks or something very similar to it, which has also given me good results. Note that this is essentially an SPF-ish lookup, without the need for SPF records. It's not very reliable.
Connecting IP (immediate relay) - do a reverse lookup on it. Does the domain name match the domain name as the envelop sender?
Take the domain name of the envelop sender and find alll mail exchangers for the domain. Do a reverse lookup on the connecting IP too. Do any of these domains overlap?
Compare by network - is the connecting relay on the same network as the domain it claims to originate from (sender address)
Etc. As you can see this will definitely catch spam "forged" to come from domains like AOL, but the trouble point is that very often it's legitimate for mail to arrive from an unrelated network. Nothing about SMTP says it's wrong to put in the return address you want, despite the immediate relay delivering the mail.
What are you talking about? Have you even tried the formula editor in OpenOffice.org? Just do Insert -> Object -> Formula. As an electrical engineering student, this this is one of the most beautiful equation editors I've seen (better than Word Perfect's which I used to use). You can type meaningful expressions like this,
C over R = G over {1 + G} = {%pi e^{0.1s}} over {1 + s over 10}
if for no other reason than it doesn't take five minutes to start up.
What takes five minutes to start up? If you mean OpenOffice.org, it takes exactly 20 seconds to start up on my 1 GHz desktop, and after that it's nimble as anything else.
Abiword doesn't work for me because it just isn't stable under Windows. Out of curiosity (to see whether support for OpenOffice's document format existed yet) I tried using Abiword 2.2 to open an OpenOffice generated xml file. The software crashed without a trace - no error message, no warning, not even an exception message. It's this kind of crashing that has made me ditch Abiword on Windows (fine on Linux though).
I'm not saying the stability can't be fixed, but all of the 2.x releases I've tried - including 2.2, have proved to be unstable on my awfully stable Windows 2000 system. On the other hand, I have yet to see OpenOffice.org crash on either Linux or Windows (or SunOS for that matter).
If you're running low on space by the time you hit thunderbird, you could also try jbmail which similarly is a secure mail client that can be run straight off removable media (but is very small, 1 mb). but it doesn't share data with firefox. Hell, it doesn't do HTML either (displays as text) which may be a shortcoming or a feature depending on how paranoid you are...
It's not, but moderators don't seem to want these posts appearing at the average threshold. The original post has spawned lots of interesting responses, read at -1 for best results (as always).
I think that Google AdSense (if that's what they're talking about) is worth protecting... it is a lucrative system. I think that Google is being fair with their payout to advertisers -- personally their statistics look consistent to me; 4000 page views at my site versus the 3000 page views acknowledged through Google (not everyone has javascript enabled). Also the revenue I've collected from Google has been superior to other ad systems.
I think Google is fair to its ad publishers.
Well Google has all these geniuses they keep hiring from MIT, I'm sure they can fix up a way to detect likely click abuses. It's not rocket science, after all.
The CBC has been doing a good job recently reminding people about the magnitude of this disaster. I just can't image things on the order of 30,000 lives -- other than war -- and apparently the effects continue even today.
This just reminds me of a sad truth: large companies operating in the third world see the people there are disposable. A settlement of $300 million for something of this scale is just sick (way way too small).
When spammers hijack granny's cable modem, and waste my bandwidth with unsolicited mail, jacking up my hosting costs, they are doing illegal things for which they are liable. This is not free speech, this is theft of resources.
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Way to go AOL, welcome to the party. What exactly did you do with Netscape (acquired in 1998 iirc)
Feel the CD's case, once the case is open you know how the disc lies there (label up, data surface down). Pick up the CD and go to the CD player. Provided the CD player is itself in a predictable orientation, you will have no probles putting the CD in the player with the correct orientation.
Whatever format is chosen, it had better withstand the test of time. I'm sure solid state storage or something else suitable can make the data survive for a long time, but will the secret to decoding the data be buried along with the company that championed it? Seems to me that there would be a major advantage to sticking to pure PCM WAV or AU, maybe Ogg Vorbis / FLAC... the point being, there's no way the data should be put into RealAudio format or something proprietary like that.
Doesn't this also seem like nothing more than a poor excuse for advertising the Google Scholar beta?
This is something I recently thought of (while studying human memory in a psychology course, actually). With some effort you can memorize a gibberish string of characters - perhaps to simplify this task you can make the task phenomically easy to repeat in your head - e.g. h@pabl8x... It would not be too difficult to commit a rather long string to long term memory.
Anyway, once you have a well memorized long string, you could "generate" multiple passwords from it by using different parts of the string. Need a "new" password? Pick a different part of the big string, change your offset, substring length, etc.
While I have several passwords, the main thing turning me away from changing passwords is that I will have to commit a new password to memory. With this technique (which I have not yet tried myself) you wouldn't have to really memorize anything new.
Well I've known about it since November 2003, dunno about you.
the demo come up blank. all i see is a window called (Untitled) (and the globe spins then dies)
In case you've forgotten, these days it is spammers who write (or fund the writing of) worms/viruses. The screen saver "took it up a notch" in the battle, and the spammers are just responding in the only way they know how; spamming :)
Can't the XML files just be fetched by HTTP ? Why introduce that SOAP layer? I mean, can't I just wget .../BOS.xml or something?
Show me the content, and I'll come back: old Simpsons, old Saturday Night Live, Married With Children, Seinfeld, Futurama, Family Guy.
- Connecting IP (immediate relay) - do a reverse lookup on it. Does the domain name match the domain name as the envelop sender?
- Take the domain name of the envelop sender and find alll mail exchangers for the domain. Do a reverse lookup on the connecting IP too. Do any of these domains overlap?
- Compare by network - is the connecting relay on the same network as the domain it claims to originate from (sender address)
Etc. As you can see this will definitely catch spam "forged" to come from domains like AOL, but the trouble point is that very often it's legitimate for mail to arrive from an unrelated network. Nothing about SMTP says it's wrong to put in the return address you want, despite the immediate relay delivering the mail.Abiword doesn't work for me because it just isn't stable under Windows. Out of curiosity (to see whether support for OpenOffice's document format existed yet) I tried using Abiword 2.2 to open an OpenOffice generated xml file. The software crashed without a trace - no error message, no warning, not even an exception message. It's this kind of crashing that has made me ditch Abiword on Windows (fine on Linux though).
I'm not saying the stability can't be fixed, but all of the 2.x releases I've tried - including 2.2, have proved to be unstable on my awfully stable Windows 2000 system. On the other hand, I have yet to see OpenOffice.org crash on either Linux or Windows (or SunOS for that matter).
If you're running low on space by the time you hit thunderbird, you could also try jbmail which similarly is a secure mail client that can be run straight off removable media (but is very small, 1 mb). but it doesn't share data with firefox. Hell, it doesn't do HTML either (displays as text) which may be a shortcoming or a feature depending on how paranoid you are...
Can someone tell me why there are so many articles about EA? What is this, the message board for one tech company?
I think that Google AdSense (if that's what they're talking about) is worth protecting... it is a lucrative system. I think that Google is being fair with their payout to advertisers -- personally their statistics look consistent to me; 4000 page views at my site versus the 3000 page views acknowledged through Google (not everyone has javascript enabled). Also the revenue I've collected from Google has been superior to other ad systems.
I think Google is fair to its ad publishers.
Well Google has all these geniuses they keep hiring from MIT, I'm sure they can fix up a way to detect likely click abuses. It's not rocket science, after all.
The CBC has been doing a good job recently reminding people about the magnitude of this disaster. I just can't image things on the order of 30,000 lives -- other than war -- and apparently the effects continue even today.
This just reminds me of a sad truth: large companies operating in the third world see the people there are disposable. A settlement of $300 million for something of this scale is just sick (way way too small).
When spammers hijack granny's cable modem, and waste my bandwidth with unsolicited mail, jacking up my hosting costs, they are doing illegal things for which they are liable. This is not free speech, this is theft of resources.