"To put this in to perspective, if BayTSP were trying to bust me for doing drugs, it'd be like getting arrested because I was hanging out with some dealers, but they never saw me using, buying, or selling any drugs."
The problem with analogies is they break down somewhere, and now you will get many replies showing where it breaks down or offering counter analogies.
It's funny how people can take offense to replies to a communual bulletin board. I can see where you find it annoying the the above post is not formated into paragraphs, but really... is it that hard to read. For one, this is just a bulletin board, and I am replying off the cuff about a technical topic that had a few hyperlinks in it and did not want to spend that additional minute. But what irks me about your reply is that it adds nothing to the discussion. You spent some time to get in a cut/try to be funny/voice your pet peeve, but added nothing to the discussion concerning botnets and spam so why even bother? value added indeed.
I run a small mail server for friends and family and have been trying to tackle the recent rise in spam. Here is an article detaling some of the causes.
I was trying to think of solutions concerning this particular problem. (spammers utilzing ip addresses from virtually anywhere in the world where there are virus infected machines)
but this is mainly for dealing with spoofing the mail from of the email. The other problem is it works best if everyone buys into the system.
I had an idea for a similar tactic that would apply to eliminating spybot emailing nets.
What if, when you registered a domain, you had to also put in an record that identified your mail servers. It would be very similar to how you put in DNS servers that handle a domain.
Then it would be trivial to have receiving mail servers to do a DNS check to see if the ip address of the mail they just received was in the DNS records.
Now, granted, this would not prevent a spammer from buying a domain and setting up their own servers. Or from hijacking someone elses servers. But it would go far from eliminating people that have had their computers infected with a virus and are unknowingly sending out spam.
The problem I see with this solution is it would be additional work for the registrars and their is little monetary incentive for them to set it up. And all the design implemntations that would have to be worked out.
Did the video really need a soundtrack? When trying to convey information, I become a little irritated when their is some emotional song jingling in the background of the clipped together sound bytes that is trying to induce an emotional response.
I should have mentioned that I am aware of SpamAssassin (though I think it is not coded very well) and bayesian filters.
I was just commenting along the lines of the story, they seem to be using botnets, sending just a few messages per machine, and concentrate on sending from foreign countries.
I want to emphasize that this is for my own personal email, (not a work or isp related mail server)
I do not think automated blacklists are useless. Spamhaus does a pretty good job of blocking known spammer ip addresses. Some of the old blacklists use to block on a class C (or higher) basis without regards to how the ips were broken down. Their philosophy was one of collateral damage will just cause the problem to get solved more quickly. I do not think it is a good philosophy myself, but as I stated, this is just a private server with a private email address for friends and family.
As I have been making my list, I have been keeping SpamAssassin in mind. One of my thoughts was that I could incorporate my list into the filter and give it different weights based off ip address. I know that they are breaking down ip addresses, but it was my understanding that they are still striving to keep blocks along country lines. Way back in the day, ip addresses were not assigned along country lines, but it was determined that routing could be done more efficiently if blocks were kept to certain regions. Perhaps with todays routers, they no longer strive for that? I would be interested in reading about that.
I think the really interesting thing about this botnet, is how it is primarily (99%) using foreign countries, Eastern Europe, China, and Latin America.
I run my own mail server for my private email that I only use with friends. Lately, I have been getting spam about stock investments, and I notice that it was pretty consistent so I started investigating what was going on with my server. I started marking down ip addresses of the offending servers and blocking them if I felt they were not legitimate mail servers or if it was from a country that I know I will not get email from on my personal email account.
I have been blocking a new server every day for 2 months.
Here is the scarey part. I still get the same email spam every day, but only once.
My hunch is telling me that the purveyor of this message is using some sophisticated means of harnassing zombie machines to send messages, and is only sending a few messages at a time so that automated blackhole lists never catch on fast enough. (such as spamhaus)
I have noticed that these machines are almost always located in Asia, Latin America, or Eastern Europe...
It got so bad, I just started block entire class A's from countries I know I am not going to email to or from.
It has to do with mindshare and previous history. Way back in the day... 1997, postgres was difficult to setup for some people. It was not the default choice included in many setups at ISPs. If you wanted to have an interactive web application at an ISP, on a unix machine, the most common option was MySQL. (On a windows machine it would be an ODBC connection to an access database, or a MS SQL server) Once something has achieved a significant mindshare and some momentum it is difficult to overcome. (But not impossible, especially if you do a better job, just takes time)
Another theory I remember reading about is that the Oort comet cloud becomes disturbed by the sun shifting up and down in an oscillation. Apparently the sun wobbles up and down as it rotates around the center of the Milky Way.
I find it strange how people recommend Smarty for separation of code from content. Smarty implements its own while loops and if then statements. I have yet to come across a web application using Smarty that was easily readable. I would think if the goal was to separate code from content, one would use a templating engine more akin to QuickTemplates. It does not make you relearn a whole new programming language syntax for while loops and if then statements like Smarty does.
As with so many things, the Supreme Court case you speak of is not so cut and dry.
Basically, I believe that the case concerning copyrights brought before the Supreme Court was not argued correctly. Lawrence Lessing argued that the Supreme Court did not have the power to extend the copyright to the length they had (life plus 70 years/ 95 years prior works) because in essence they were making copyright forever and the constitution stated the government only had the responsibility to enact fair copyright terms for the public good.
The Supreme Court came back with a ruling that said... yes we do have the power to enact copyright for however long we deem. They even said in their ruling... You did not ask us if (life plus 70 years/ 95 years prior works) is fair so we are not rulling on that. You asked us if we had the power to set copyright to (life plus 70 years/ 95 years prior works)
I want to second your comment as I have had a similar experience. Now, do not get me wrong... I love linux. I have used RedHat and Debian for all kinds of tasks. I worked for a small ISP in the mid 90s and there were times, when in a pinch I had to setup a linux router or load balancer. And I got them to work. But there was always a lot of effort involved in getting it to work, and they were always precarious in operation. It was scarey to do upgrades. It was scarey to have hard drives fail. It was always just so much simpler to get a more expensive Cisco box in the long run due to its design, documentation, an performance.
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Latin phrase meaning, "It does not follow." The characteristic feature of arguments that fail to provide adequate support for their conclusions, especially those that commit one of the fallacies of relevance.
"After Hewlett Packard, who jumped off of supporting GNOME, Red Hat has followed by splitting their Desktop Linux out to Fedora which is community driven, and now distributions like Slackware have started to drop GNOME entirely in favor of KDE."
Here are some original pictures of a LaCie for comparison.
http://dp-now.com/archives/000349.html
One
http://www.shutterbug.net/test_reports/1001sb_laci e/
Two
I have heard this statement so many times but never have I seen proof that OOP actually leads to code reuse and/or more maintainable code. I know I can only add anecdotal evidence with my comment, but I have never encountered a project where OOP has led to any significant savings in time or reuse. I think where the idea that OOP leads to a better project is corollary.
No one starts off thinking in OOP. They learn it through books or college (etc...) and it is that process of thinking about your program before actually diving in and coding that leads to a "better program"
I swear every quarter I hear this same news story.
From 2001 http://librenix.com/?inode=984
The report shows Linux server revenue rising from 2,422,266,299 in 2001 to 9,142,634,360 in 2005 and total units rising from 543,778 to 2,610,235 over the same period.
End-user research done in 2000 presents a good picture of the real market share of Linux as a server operating system and serves to project the probable market share for Linux this year, as well as a Linux server forecast through 2005.
1. Do the Americans really have enough nukes to destroy the world ten times over?
This one I hear a lot. First of all, despite what you may have heard, really the majority of the energy of a nuclear explosion turns into heat and blast immediately, NOT radiation. The only exception to this is the so-called Neutron bomb, designed specifically with radiation (more specifically fast neutrons and gamma rays) in mind. But realistically, although the Americans have built approximately 70,000 warheads of almost 70 different types, they now possess a stockpile of around 9600 warheads. Surprising as it may sound, this is NOT enough to 'destroy' the world. Even hitting every city in the world with everything in every country's arsenal would not be able to 'destroy' the world. The world is still a BIG place. Keep in mind the Russians have around the same numbers of warheads.
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"To put this in to perspective, if BayTSP were trying to bust me for doing drugs, it'd be like getting arrested because I was hanging out with some dealers, but they never saw me using, buying, or selling any drugs."
The problem with analogies is they break down somewhere, and now you will get many replies showing where it breaks down or offering counter analogies.
It's funny how people can take offense to replies to a communual bulletin board. I can see where you find it annoying the the above post is not formated into paragraphs, but really... is it that hard to read. For one, this is just a bulletin board, and I am replying off the cuff about a technical topic that had a few hyperlinks in it and did not want to spend that additional minute. But what irks me about your reply is that it adds nothing to the discussion. You spent some time to get in a cut/try to be funny/voice your pet peeve, but added nothing to the discussion concerning botnets and spam so why even bother? value added indeed.
I run a small mail server for friends and family and have been trying to tackle the recent rise in spam. Here is an article detaling some of the causes.
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2060235,00.a
I believe it was also listed as a slashdot story.
I was trying to think of solutions concerning this particular problem. (spammers utilzing ip addresses from virtually anywhere in the world where there are virus infected machines)
One partial solution that aol, microsoft have been putting forth is
http://www.openspf.org/dns.html
but this is mainly for dealing with spoofing the mail from of the email. The other problem is it works best if everyone buys into the system.
I had an idea for a similar tactic that would apply to eliminating spybot emailing nets.
What if, when you registered a domain, you had to also put in an record that identified your mail servers. It would be very similar to how you put in DNS servers that handle a domain.
Then it would be trivial to have receiving mail servers to do a DNS check to see if the ip address of the mail they just received was in the DNS records.
Now, granted, this would not prevent a spammer from buying a domain and setting up their own servers. Or from hijacking someone elses servers. But it would go far from eliminating people that have had their computers infected with a virus and are unknowingly sending out spam.
The problem I see with this solution is it would be additional work for the registrars and their is little monetary incentive for them to set it up. And all the design implemntations that would have to be worked out.
Did the video really need a soundtrack? When trying to convey information, I become a little irritated when their is some emotional song jingling in the background of the clipped together sound bytes that is trying to induce an emotional response.
Correct.
I was just generalizing.
But they do tend to stick close to one another.
81 being under RIPE, should be in Europe, which sad to say... I have no friends there.
I should have mentioned that I am aware of SpamAssassin (though I think it is not coded very well)
and bayesian filters.
I was just commenting along the lines of the story, they seem to be using botnets, sending just
a few messages per machine, and concentrate on sending from foreign countries.
I want to emphasize that this is for my own personal email, (not a work or isp related mail server)
I do not think automated blacklists are useless. Spamhaus does a pretty good job of blocking known spammer ip addresses. Some of the old blacklists use to block on a class C (or higher) basis without regards to how the ips were broken down. Their philosophy was one of collateral damage will just cause the problem to get solved more quickly. I do not think it is a good philosophy myself, but as I stated, this is just a private server with a private email address for friends and family.
As I have been making my list, I have been keeping SpamAssassin in mind. One of my thoughts was that I could incorporate my list into the filter and give it different weights based off ip address. I know that they are breaking down ip addresses, but it was my understanding that they are still striving to keep blocks along country lines. Way back in the day, ip addresses were not assigned along country lines, but it was determined that routing could be done more efficiently if blocks were kept to certain regions. Perhaps with todays routers, they no longer strive for that? I would be interested in reading about that.
I think the really interesting thing about this botnet, is how it is primarily (99%) using foreign countries, Eastern Europe, China, and Latin America.
I run my own mail server for my private email that I only use with friends.
Lately, I have been getting spam about stock investments, and I notice that
it was pretty consistent so I started investigating what was going on with
my server. I started marking down ip addresses of the offending servers
and blocking them if I felt they were not legitimate mail servers or if it
was from a country that I know I will not get email from on my personal email
account.
I have been blocking a new server every day for 2 months.
Here is the scarey part. I still get the same email spam every day, but
only once.
My hunch is telling me that the purveyor of this message is using some
sophisticated means of harnassing zombie machines to send messages, and is
only sending a few messages at a time so that automated blackhole lists
never catch on fast enough. (such as spamhaus)
I have noticed that these machines are almost always located in Asia,
Latin America, or Eastern Europe...
It got so bad, I just started block entire class A's from countries I know
I am not going to email to or from.
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I wish someone would investigate "the true rocket car story"
about the rocket car story.
Something about it just screams BS to me.
It has to do with mindshare and previous history. Way back in the day... 1997, postgres was difficult to setup for some people. It was not the default choice included in many setups at ISPs. If you wanted to have an interactive web application at an ISP, on a unix machine, the most common option was MySQL. (On a windows machine it would be an ODBC connection to an access database, or a MS SQL server) Once something has achieved a significant mindshare and some momentum it is difficult to overcome. (But not impossible, especially if you do a better job, just takes time)
Another theory I remember reading about is that the Oort comet cloud becomes disturbed by the sun shifting up and down in an oscillation. Apparently the sun wobbles up and down as it rotates around the center of the Milky Way.
http://www.viewzone.com/nemesis.html
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDe
I find it strange how people recommend Smarty for separation of code from content. Smarty implements its own while loops and if then statements. I have yet to come across a web application using Smarty that was easily readable. I would think if the goal was to separate code from content, one would use a templating engine more akin to QuickTemplates. It does not make you relearn a whole new programming language syntax for while loops and if then statements like Smarty does.
As with so many things, the Supreme Court case you speak of is not so cut and dry.
Basically, I believe that the case concerning copyrights brought before the Supreme Court was not argued correctly. Lawrence Lessing argued that the Supreme Court did not have the power to extend the copyright to the length they had (life plus 70 years/ 95 years prior works) because in essence they were making copyright forever and the constitution stated the government only had the responsibility to enact fair copyright terms for the public good.
The Supreme Court came back with a ruling that said...
yes we do have the power to enact copyright for however long we deem.
They even said in their ruling...
You did not ask us if (life plus 70 years/ 95 years prior works) is fair so we are not rulling
on that.
You asked us if we had the power to set copyright to (life plus 70 years/ 95 years prior works)
Cheap Gas no longer functions for me.
Anyone know of a mirror or something similar?
I want to second your comment as I have had a similar experience. Now, do not get me wrong... I love linux. I have used RedHat and Debian for all kinds of tasks.
I worked for a small ISP in the mid 90s and there were times, when in a pinch I had to setup a linux router or load balancer. And I got them to work. But there was always a lot of effort involved in getting it to work, and they were always precarious in operation. It was scarey to do upgrades. It was scarey to have hard drives fail.
It was always just so much simpler to get a more expensive Cisco box in the long run due to its design, documentation, an performance.
A picture and a short bio from O'Reilly...3 496046
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1909
A series of articles she wrote...
http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/
She actually sounds like the kind of person I like to work with. Someone who learned things hands on.
Latin phrase meaning, "It does not follow." The characteristic feature of arguments that fail to provide adequate support for their conclusions, especially those that commit one of the fallacies of relevance.
"After Hewlett Packard, who jumped off of supporting GNOME, Red Hat has followed by splitting their Desktop Linux out to Fedora which is community driven, and now distributions like Slackware have started to drop GNOME entirely in favor of KDE."
6. Post a meta comment to show your superiority above the usual run of the mill comments.
Here are some original pictures of a LaCie for comparison.i e/
http://dp-now.com/archives/000349.html
One
http://www.shutterbug.net/test_reports/1001sb_lac
Two
I have heard this statement so many times but never have I seen proof that OOP actually leads to code reuse and/or more maintainable code. I know I can only add anecdotal evidence with my comment, but I have never encountered a project where OOP has led to any significant savings in time or reuse. I think where the idea that OOP leads to a better project is corollary.
No one starts off thinking in OOP. They learn it through books or college (etc...) and it is that process of thinking about your program before actually diving in and coding that leads to a "better program"
A website with more information about the judge in this case, along with a picture. http://www.co.oakland.mi.us/circuit/judges/chabot- rae.html
Every solaris install I have seen in the field has had the GNU development chain and/or tools installed to it. When I ask the developers/users why?
Because the GNU tools are easier to use and have more features (and are free)
I swear every quarter I hear this same news story.
From 2001
http://librenix.com/?inode=984
The report shows Linux server revenue rising from 2,422,266,299 in 2001 to 9,142,634,360 in 2005 and total units rising from 543,778 to 2,610,235 over the same period.
End-user research done in 2000 presents a good picture of the real market share of Linux as a server operating system and serves to project the probable market share for Linux this year, as well as a Linux server forecast through 2005.
1. Do the Americans really have enough nukes to destroy the world ten times over?
This one I hear a lot. First of all, despite what you may have heard, really the majority of the energy of a nuclear explosion turns into heat and blast immediately, NOT radiation. The only exception to this is the so-called Neutron bomb, designed specifically with radiation (more specifically fast neutrons and gamma rays) in mind. But realistically, although the Americans have built approximately 70,000 warheads of almost 70 different types, they now possess a stockpile of around 9600 warheads. Surprising as it may sound, this is NOT enough to 'destroy' the world. Even hitting every city in the world with everything in every country's arsenal would not be able to 'destroy' the world. The world is still a
BIG place. Keep in mind the Russians have around the same numbers of warheads.