Yes. To whose benefit....most sysadmins hate spam already, their bosses hate it, the companies can implement solutions....ISPs can implement better solutions than they've ever had (Bayesian - tho I think my local ISP has a poorly written version, sigh) - why do we need to introduce another complexity into something which already functions?
On the functional note, yes, I'm aware of the limitations of IPv4. Let it evolve. At least with lots of programmers around nowadays, if we get into a crunch with addressing ( or anything else for that matter), we'll have code ready to go. If open source is legislated via the Chinese Water Torture method (one drop at a time) we won't.
Let it all just evolve. Standards are just like legislation; they can be hijacked and used for bad ends. We've all seen it happen.
There are already existing solutions to these problems - the above example being one - why do we need to change the base format of email transmission when there already are solutions to user authentication which are in use and work? Add it to the standard, maybe...find out which outside auth library is the best, and add it. But rewrite the standard completely? Come on. It would have to absorb into the internet slowly, anyway...so isn't evolution the best choice at this point? Kinda like introducing a server update slowly across the network is better than all at once? (trojans in the source code). Let it evolve, people.
Another thought: who would have control over how a new standard was implemented? Who chooses the people who are on the committee?
*hint* Who would we _not_ want to have control over it?
I smell the marketing stink here somewhere. This article has a whiff of it.
"Please. The problem with spammers isn't because SMTP is so weak. The primary cause of the modern deluge of spam is unsecured email servers around the world, "
and if I may add, also the number of ISPs who don't Give A Shit. Seems from my reading that most within the US and Europe are at least making a start at implementing some decent spam solutions ( complaint monitoring and the actions taken/not taken is really the biggest problem) but from the steadily growing amount of spam I've seen in the last few months, not enough are doing their jobs.
I don't think we need legislation to solve this. I think we need more education and public denial solutions (blacklisting till they've cleaned up their act - and possibly some standard rule set as to how to go about this). There are a lot of spam sites, but I haven't seen any yet who have a really comprehensive list of what should be "kosher" in anti-spam activism. Can anyone point me to a link?
Well, yes, it would reduce the vibrations - you are stealing kinetic energy from the system.
Your post made me wonder; take a finely engineered and balanced system like large turbines are; if we attach one of these devices and change the vibrations within the system, wouldn't there be a danger creating new harmonics not allowed for in the engineering design that could damage components? AFAIK most vibrations in mechnical systems are either modeled out or dealt with after the system is introduced. Wouldn't the addition of these devices on some systems require a thorough engineering remodeling? I would imagine there would be limits to how much one could change the vibrational harmonics of an already developed system.
Be interesting to hear a mech. engr. view on this.
What we really want is a Smart Windmill that drops the "scruff" birds straight into the mulcher, where they are converted to compost and go directly to the compost pile without passing go.
The "good" birds (pheasants, quail, ducks) go directly to an automated processing machine and are inserted directly into the freezer for later use.
Now THAT'S a windmill:-) Maybe a little expensive, but Hey! I can install Linux on it too!
Pretty slow, but there were some highlights, like David Weber/Baen coming out with War of Honor (the first book to _ever_ include a CD in the back which contains the entire series and lots more books).
There should be an award for "Best Publishing Innovation of the Year.":-)
You're not the only one who notices this kind of thing. I don't know if I'm just more sensitive to it for some reason, or (as a friend pointed out) more observant; but I've noticed flicker on several new movies at the local dig theater. This whole article is interesting, because I'd pretty much put it down to bad hardware/software or ineptness on the part of the projectionists (heh) who were running the hardware.
I'm wondering if there aren't "trials" running at various locations around the US.
I have to agree, at least where sophisticated FPS games are concerned. Even with easier ones, there tends to be more options than are easily accessible from a double pair of sticks + buttons.
F'r instance, my fav alltime FPS is Heavy Gear II. There is *no way* you could ever be effective in that game with two sticks and a few buttons; there are way too many complicated options. Playing that game for a few years taught me how to find anything on the keyboard with my left hand only, and I've found that that particular skill makes me more effective at any game in which I can set the keyboard up the way I want it.
I don't want to have to learn *another* interface to play the games I want. It reminds me of the old 80s arcade days where every game had it's own controllers, setup, and quirks. To get the best performance when I play I prefer an interface like mouse + keyboard + customizable keys, not just because I'm used to it, but because it can easily be made generic across games.
Great article. But there were a few things that made me cringe, like:
"He was so immersed in his task that he saw the world around him as an optical display. In the shower the next morning, three perfect bars of light reflected on the tiles. Hey, Carmack thought - that's a diffuse illumination by a specular reflection."
Isn't LSD wonderful?:-)
"When he rose from his desk, his photosensitivity lingered like a hangover."
Um....yeah. Something like that, yeah. ( 8:00 AM "Ah, my eyes!!!" ) Damn, John, that musta hurt.
I line the tins with scraps of denim or old t-shirt scraps (don't use old socks, you'll have fuzzies all over.) I always seem to have an old pair of cut up jeans or t's somewhere.
"I'm pleased at least to see that it's on the TODO list at NASA, but I don't take this too seriously."
Yeah, and it's been there for more than a generation now. I think I've seen hundreds of articles similar to this over the last twenty years. Nowadays I just think "Big deal." Truth is, the national will we had to push the moon landings thru just isn't there anymore. There's also too damned many bureaucrats at NASA. The Russians? Where would they get any money to contribute to this? For that matter, where we would get it...it just ain't gonna happen (again).
The AOL Empire is nearing completion on the Death CD. In alliance with the other local Empires, they have conceived of a plan to end the mechanical menace of millions of spambots spread thruout the galaxy, by cutting off transmission between the bots, they hope to cut their communications and cripple them.
In other news, the Rebel Alliance commanders are furious."We use the same channels! We must strike back!" Does this spell doom for the galaxy, or finally freedom from the menace of the spambots? Tune in later for our special report.
But how much, I wonder? I'm sure there will be a lot of people who leave....but I've got 14 AOL free CD cases on my desk right now, all received as junk mail at my home address. I wonder how much of the huge number of non-geek public are even going to notice, or care?
OTOH just the publicity might force them to change this policy back. I suppose it depends on whether their own techs get pissed off enough (and the helpdesk people;-)
I write the songs that make the whole world sing I write the songs you can sing totally free I write the songs to make Microsoft cry I write free songs I write free songs
Internal gravity, you can orient however you want. It'd be simpler to orient it according to ship design, as you said. He was arguing that you should orient the ship's axis according to the external reference points, "autoleveling". You weren't quite talking about the same thing.
You're right; it makes sense to orient AG according to the ship design.
I don't see TWager's point; why orient the ship according to the galactic plane just to sooth vertigo? This ain't a sailing ship or an aircraft. There is no overwhelming visual "horizon". Besides, what would you do when traveling directly toward "galactic north"?:-) This reminds me of how ridiculous the ships in Homeworld look when they're traveling up or down; they look like submarines. Iwar is much closer to reality.
If you're out on the hull in interplanetary/stellar space, you orient your personal perspective to the hull. Otherwise you're courting vertigo. "Up" is "out". In orbit "up" is "out", away from the planet.
In the ST book "My Enemy, My Ally" they actually use 3d battle tactics pretty decently; Sulu is running the ship thru simulations where he's looping and diving all over the place and confusing heck out of the enemy tacticians. IMHO, most of the orientation in 2d in the movies is done to keep the audience from becoming confused and disoriented.
It's time for coffee...too early to try to think about this stuff.
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Best. Rant. Ever.
Yes. To whose benefit....most sysadmins hate spam already, their bosses hate it, the companies can implement solutions....ISPs can implement better solutions than they've ever had (Bayesian - tho I think my local ISP has a poorly written version, sigh) - why do we need to introduce another complexity into something which already functions?
On the functional note, yes, I'm aware of the limitations of IPv4. Let it evolve. At least with lots of programmers around nowadays, if we get into a crunch with addressing ( or anything else for that matter), we'll have code ready to go. If open source is legislated via the Chinese Water Torture method (one drop at a time) we won't.
Let it all just evolve. Standards are just like legislation; they can be hijacked and used for bad ends. We've all seen it happen.
Damn, it's been a long Monday.
SB
more nekkid women
-Homer
That's exactly it.
There are already existing solutions to these problems - the above example being one - why do we need to change the base format of email transmission when there already are solutions to user authentication which are in use and work? Add it to the standard, maybe...find out which outside auth library is the best, and add it. But rewrite the standard completely? Come on. It would have to absorb into the internet slowly, anyway...so isn't evolution the best choice at this point? Kinda like introducing a server update slowly across the network is better than all at once? (trojans in the source code). Let it evolve, people.
Another thought: who would have control over how a new standard was implemented? Who chooses the people who are on the committee?
*hint* Who would we _not_ want to have control over it?
I smell the marketing stink here somewhere. This article has a whiff of it.
SB
"Please. The problem with spammers isn't because SMTP is so weak. The primary cause of the modern deluge of spam is unsecured email servers around the world, "
and if I may add, also the number of ISPs who don't Give A Shit. Seems from my reading that most within the US and Europe are at least making a start at implementing some decent spam solutions ( complaint monitoring and the actions taken/not taken is really the biggest problem) but from the steadily growing amount of spam I've seen in the last few months, not enough are doing their jobs.
I don't think we need legislation to solve this. I think we need more education and public denial solutions (blacklisting till they've cleaned up their act - and possibly some standard rule set as to how to go about this). There are a lot of spam sites, but I haven't seen any yet who have a really comprehensive list of what should be "kosher" in anti-spam activism. Can anyone point me to a link?
SB
Well, yes, it would reduce the vibrations - you are stealing kinetic energy from the system.
Your post made me wonder; take a finely engineered and balanced system like large turbines are; if we attach one of these devices and change the vibrations within the system, wouldn't there be a danger creating new harmonics not allowed for in the engineering design that could damage components? AFAIK most vibrations in mechnical systems are either modeled out or dealt with after the system is introduced. Wouldn't the addition of these devices on some systems require a thorough engineering remodeling?
I would imagine there would be limits to how much one could change the vibrational harmonics of an already developed system.
Be interesting to hear a mech. engr. view on this.
SB
You are sick.
:-) Maybe a little expensive, but Hey! I can install Linux on it too!
What we really want is a Smart Windmill that drops the "scruff" birds straight into the mulcher, where
they are converted to compost and go directly to the compost pile without passing go.
The "good" birds (pheasants, quail, ducks) go directly to an automated processing machine and are
inserted directly into the freezer for later use.
Now THAT'S a windmill
SB
Pretty slow, but there were some highlights, like David Weber/Baen coming out with War of Honor (the first book to _ever_ include a CD in the back which contains the entire series and lots more books).
:-)
There should be an award for "Best Publishing Innovation of the Year."
SB
Funny you should say that.
You're not the only one who notices this kind of thing. I don't know if I'm just more sensitive to it for some reason, or (as a friend pointed out) more observant; but I've noticed flicker on several new movies at the local dig theater. This whole article is interesting, because I'd pretty much put it down to bad hardware/software or ineptness on the part of the projectionists (heh) who were running the hardware.
I'm wondering if there aren't "trials" running at various locations around the US.
SB
"because of what people are willing to do."
But cameras != bombs. This makes it beyond sad, into disgraceful. Not to mention humiliating. Innocent before guilty, feh.
SB
I wish I had mod points. Someone, mod parent up.
;-) If wishes came true...
That was just too well said.
SB
"#3247, Level 12, Docking Bay Arm, Asimov Solar Transfer Station (L5)"
I have to agree, at least where sophisticated FPS games are concerned. Even with easier ones, there tends to be more options than are easily accessible from a double pair of sticks + buttons.
F'r instance, my fav alltime FPS is Heavy Gear II. There is *no way* you could ever be effective in that game with two sticks and a few buttons; there are way too many complicated options. Playing that game for a few years taught me how to find anything on the keyboard with my left hand only, and I've found that that particular skill makes me more effective at any game in which I can set the keyboard up the way I want it.
I don't want to have to learn *another* interface to play the games I want. It reminds me of the old 80s arcade days where every game had it's own controllers, setup, and quirks. To get the best performance when I play I prefer an interface like mouse + keyboard + customizable keys, not just because I'm used to it, but because it can easily be made generic across games.
SB
Great article. But there were a few things that made me cringe, like:
:-)
"He was so immersed in his task that he saw the world around him as an optical display. In the shower the next morning, three perfect bars of light reflected on the tiles. Hey, Carmack thought - that's a diffuse illumination by a specular reflection."
Isn't LSD wonderful?
"When he rose from his desk, his photosensitivity lingered like a hangover."
Um....yeah. Something like that, yeah. ( 8:00 AM "Ah, my eyes!!!" ) Damn, John, that musta hurt.
Keep on codin'
SB
Mohammed Al Shaheef : the Bernie Shifman of 2003.
SB
That was very well put.
SB
I line the tins with scraps of denim or old t-shirt scraps (don't use old socks, you'll have fuzzies all over.) I always seem to have an old pair of cut up jeans or t's somewhere.
SB
Small ones? You mean the 5 1/4"? ;-)
SB
1. Convince the goverment that OBL might just be on Mars. ...
2.
3. Funding!
"for under $60 billion"
Not if it's a government project.
SB
"I'm pleased at least to see that it's on the TODO list at NASA, but I don't take this too seriously."
Yeah, and it's been there for more than a generation now. I think I've seen hundreds of articles similar to this over the last twenty years. Nowadays I just think "Big deal." Truth is, the national will we had to push the moon landings thru just isn't there anymore. There's also too damned many bureaucrats at NASA. The Russians? Where would they get any money to contribute to this? For that matter, where we would get it...it just ain't gonna happen (again).
(Yup, I'm a little bitter about it)
SB
Spam Wars, Part III
The AOL Empire is nearing completion on the Death CD. In alliance with the
other local Empires, they have conceived of a plan to end the mechanical menace
of millions of spambots spread thruout the galaxy, by cutting off transmission
between the bots, they hope to cut their communications and cripple them.
In other news, the Rebel Alliance commanders are furious."We use the same
channels! We must strike back!" Does this spell doom for the galaxy, or finally
freedom from the menace of the spambots? Tune in later for our special report.
AOL might lose business.
;-)
But how much, I wonder? I'm sure there will be a lot of people who leave....but I've got 14 AOL free CD cases on my desk right now, all received as junk mail at my home address. I wonder how much of the huge number of non-geek public are even going to notice, or care?
OTOH just the publicity might force them to change this policy back. I suppose it depends on whether their own techs get pissed off enough (and the helpdesk people
SB
I write the songs that make the whole world sing
:-)
I write the songs you can sing totally free
I write the songs to make Microsoft cry
I write free songs I write free songs
or something like that
now I gotta go install Mandrake 9.1
SB
Yeah, then we'd have free gnu music. Let's just hope it wouldn't suck.
SB
Internal gravity, you can orient however you want. It'd be simpler to orient it according to ship design, as you said. He was arguing that you should orient the ship's axis according to the external reference points, "autoleveling". You weren't quite talking about the same thing.
:-) This reminds me of how ridiculous the ships in Homeworld look when they're traveling up or down; they look like submarines. Iwar is much closer to reality.
You're right; it makes sense to orient AG according to the ship design.
I don't see TWager's point; why orient the ship according to the galactic plane just to sooth vertigo? This ain't a sailing ship or an aircraft. There is no overwhelming visual "horizon". Besides, what would you do when traveling directly toward "galactic north"?
If you're out on the hull in interplanetary/stellar space, you orient your personal perspective to the hull. Otherwise you're courting vertigo. "Up" is "out". In orbit "up" is "out", away from the planet.
In the ST book "My Enemy, My Ally" they actually use 3d battle tactics pretty decently; Sulu is running the ship thru simulations where he's looping and diving all over the place and confusing heck out of the enemy tacticians. IMHO, most of the orientation in 2d in the movies is done to keep the audience from becoming confused and disoriented.
It's time for coffee...too early to try to think about this stuff.
SB