Something I've been wondering about though is SpamCop's yearly stats. Since April, spam reporting has been going down. Is it simply fewer people reporting/people reporting fewer spam, or is it a sign that actual spam is going down or at least being better handled?
I use to report my spam to spamcop. Starting sometime this year, whenever I reported spam, I'd get 5-10 more spams the next day. I stopped reporting and suddenly my spam goes down.
I'm not saying spamcop is in league with the spammers (although I understand their new owner isn't an angel). I think the spammers are now able to figure out (even from the munged reports) which addresses are active and punish them with more spam. Am I the only one thinking this?
My Chrysler LHS gets 23 in the city and 31 on the Interstate. This is a big 10 year old car. These hybrids should get way better than it. I'm glad I'm sticking with it instead of trying one of these "fuel efficient" things.
the only cause of me exceeding my space limit was all of the spam that I got from having a Hotmail account, and Microsoft is still the only company (that I know of) that counts your junk mail folder against your quota.
Yahoo! mail counts the Bulk Mail folder against your total. If I don't empty it every few days my account gets full. I'm so looking forward to gmail!
The article mentions that the salary tops out at the "mid- to upper-$60,000 range.", and that doesn't sound like a whole lot to me (especially this day in age).
According to http://www.bls.gov/cew/state2002.txt the average income in the US for 2003 was $36,764.
The median income for a family of 4 can be found at
http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/4person.html and is $63,278. If you're making $60k/yr from one job then your wife only needs a really crappy part-time job to bring your family up to average.
What I'm trying to say is that $60k/yr is a lot.
The problem most people seem to have is that they don't understand that they have to live within their means. Do you really need that $5.00 Starbucks cup of coffee each morning? Do you really need to each out 3 times a week? Somewhere along the line we've lost the ability to pinch pennies. I think it happened about the time Americans became extremely rich.
I've never make over $40k/yr from my job in my life, and yet I should be a millionaire within the next couple of years. My Dad just retired last month. He's never made more than $30k/yr from his job, almost flunked out of High School, and has been a blue collar worker for all of his life. He's a millionaire several times over. The secret to wealth is hard work and saving.
For someone that wants to remain on the technical side of things rather than the business side, where do you go?
Sorry but if you want to go higher, you're going to have to move into management and the business side. Become the PHB from Dilbert.
That's not exactly the Libertarian solution.
The only legimiate purpose of government is to punish fraud and defend against force (and I'm not sure we should even let government have these powers).
Open Source and Free Software are both great in the eyes of Libertarians. People come together without threat of force and volunterly create a product to compeate with another product. I haven't yet decided if the cost of Linux is truly cheaper than the cost of Windows, they both have many hidden costs.
Anyway I suggest the Anonymous Coward take a closer look at Libertarian philosophy.
If you don't like what MSN is doing, don't use the site. They shouldn't have to be forced to live exactly like you want them to. They should be free to do as they please and shouldn't be blackmailed for doing something to help inferior browser users.
If they're doing something really stupid they'll lose customers and then they'll figure out they need to change.
Of the 5 positive _two_ were spews.org. When I checked there they claim my IP is listed, but when I click on the "Click here to see the data/evidence file." link my IP isn't anywhere to be found. From what I can tell they just don't like Comcast.
The other four just seem to list it b/c it is technically a dynamic IP (although it hasn't changed since the huricane Isabel knocked everyone offline and my previous one didn't change in 5 years).
And I just love how you're supposed to get off of some of these lists by asking the postmaster of the system that rejected your email. How the heck are you supposed to do that when they're blocking your email server.
I'm becoming more convinced that blacklists aren't the way to go. If they're going to be used for something as serious as disrupting mail flow then they need to be alot more careful about about who they add to the list.
Paying blackmailers and terrorists only leads to more blackmailers and terrorists. A similar principle exists with litigious companies. No
one here would think of paying SCO for their blackmail why should MS pay Opera for this blackmail.
What MS is doing with their site is fine. Some browsers have more and better features which would confuse other browsers. It's perfectly legit to deliver content based on browser; You wouldn't want to send Mozilla a bunch of VBScript meant for IE (ok I agree you don't want to send VBScript to any browser, but it is done). Content based on
browser is necessary.
If a site looks crappy in your preferred browser, do one of the following:
use a better browser
tell the webmaster to fix their site
tell your browser maker to
have more features
or just don't visit the site (who the heck wants
to visit MSN anyway).
Wow, who would have thought I'd see this on slashdot? It makes little sense to post this question here, but yet, it was posted.
I think it makes some sense. I imagine most/. readers are male, in their teens & 20's, and are socially isolated weirdos. Aren't most people who are diagnosed with Schizophrenia male in their 20's and socially isolated weirdos?
Our incoming spam rate, normally a clean, rising, exponential curve, dropped 20% the day CAN-SPAM went into effect. It happened again the day last month that it was announced that 4 had been indicted under the Act.?
Interesting but I don't believe it.
Even after getting my ISP to filter at the server level, and running my own filters, I'm getting more spam than ever. Most of it is for viagra-like drugs, but a large percentage is some interesting porn. I reciently started using Spamcop.net to track and report spam. With the exception of one spammer on a comcast.net IP everything that gets by my filters comes from outside of this country (mainly China).
I'd like someone to post some real data regarding spam.
Looking at Data from Message Labs This CAN-SPAM act has not reduced spam. Infact April was the highest month by far. It looks like May is on track to beat April!
I've been voting Libertarian every election since Reagan, and it's not working.
Well you've got to do more than just vote.
I've been voting Libertarian since I was 18 and I didn't think it was working until I started volunteering to help the party a few years ago. One person can do a whole lot. And if they bring a few friends along a lot of progress can be made.
Just in the two years since I been helping my local LP, we've gotten rid of several gun bans, called a lot of attention to the wasteful spending of our state and local governmetns, and had our city council pass a resolution against the PATRIOT Act. We even got a similar resolution introducted in the General Assembly.
It is also getting easier to attract people to the party. As the D&R keep doing more and more stupid things, people are finally waking up.
My suggestion is get involved. If you don't do it , who will?
A similar article can be found here
Here's a brief quote from it.
A fundamental mistake made by the critics of outsourcing has been to confuse the passing pain of the IT recession with an alleged long-term decline in the sector. That mistake is compounded when current output and employment levels are compared with levels at the frenzied peak of the boom in 2000 rather than with more normal levels from the late 1990s. A more accurate and less alarming picture of the industry emerges if we compare the state of the industry a few years after the bubble burst with its state a few years before.
Beginning in the early 1990s, with the takeoff of Windows-based computing and the Internet, employment in the IT industry surged. Employment in software and related services grew by one million between 1993 and 2000, before dropping by 166,000 between 2000 and 2002. The story has been much the same across other IT sectors: stupendous growth throughout the 1990s, then a pullback in employment of 10 to 20 percent during the recession. In the IT industry as a whole, employment levels even after the recession were still no lower than in 1998. During the past decade, annual employment in the industry has still grown at a rate twice as fast as employment in private industry in general.(emphasis added)
I call upon the self-proclaimed conservatives who never tire of claiming they're against "big government". Stop for a minute punctuating every sentence with "terrorism," and "support the troops; we're at war!" like some sort of right-wing Speak and Spell. Remember this on election day: Bush believes the PATRIOT Act should be renewed and celebrated. There's your big government, pal.
All of the true small government conservatives have already become Libertarians(http://www.lp.org). The current Administration is nothing more that a buch of big brother loving statists.
In most African countries for example, governments first priority is to feed, clothe and house people and public libraries (If there are any) come very low down on the list of priorities.
This is where many people make a very bad mistake. The only legit purpose of government is to protect people from fraud, theft, and foreign invasion. Food, clothing, and shelter are the individual's responsibility. A government that provides you with every meal is going to be in a position to force you to do some very nasty things (either to your fellow serfs or to the neighboring country). If you're lucky you'll be the one hold the guns keeping the mob away from the food truck as you distribute just enough to keep the masses from starving while leaving the rest for you the others the dictator favors.
As for Internet in public libraries...They way it works here you have to "check out" on your library card "Internet time." There is tracking and filtering software on the computers. Being a government entity, they are prone to the same corruption and snooping by bureaucrats that plagues many localities. Do you really want the neighborhood busybody religious nutcase checking up on what porn or subversive sites you've been visiting?
If the library was a private org it would be better. They would have a $$ incentive to keep people from tracking and snooping their customers (otherwise their customers would go somewhere else).
I use to be a Librarian six years ago. I saw our first Internet stations installed. There was no filtering or tracking software. Within a month the administration was asking what filtering and monitoring software could be installed, b/c too many old church ladies were offended by the atheist site or the gun site etc. I luckily got my first web gig shortly before they installed all that silly software.
Long story short, If I'm going to be using a public place to surf the 'net, it will be at an Internet cafe not some government run "lets spy on our citizens and keep them looking at only good wholesome sites" library.
First of all, if you want overtime pay have it in your contract otherwise find a better place to work.
Second of all if you're making $21k/yr or more (which these rules apparently affect) then you're making more that most Americans. These rules only affect the rich.
And IIRC, 2600 lost their appeal for publishing links.
Not exactly. They are not allowed to have a clickable link (i.e. use the A tag), but can display the URL in text. Totally shows that the judge is stupid.
When I first started using Linux, I used the rpms. However after several disasters where the dependencies wouldn't work out or the binaries just wouldn't work, I started doing source only.
Reciently I've started using rpms again. Mainly b/c if it works, it's easier to upgrade, uninstall, etc. They seem to be a lot better now than they were a few years ago.
I only use source now when something doesn't work right or I want some special configuration.
My cable company (Comcast) which I hate, does offer me a variarity of packages. If the government would ever allow more than one cable company to serve an area I bet they would offer me even more choice and for less cost.
This is a solution looking for a problem. Better would be to lift the current regulations on TV.
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Once you find the search bar on Yahoo, do a search and then compair the look and feel of the results page with the look and feel of the google results page.
While they'll alinate the/. group the average AOLuser is going to say "Oh they care enough about me to advertise here, I love Dubbya. I will vote for him so he and and his big government socalist friends can keep me safe from those nasty slashdotter terrorists"
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I'm shocked no one has posted a link to the article that doesn't require registration.
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Here it is: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/12/business/12barc
Now give me Karma!
I use to report my spam to spamcop. Starting sometime this year, whenever I reported spam, I'd get 5-10 more spams the next day. I stopped reporting and suddenly my spam goes down.
I'm not saying spamcop is in league with the spammers (although I understand their new owner isn't an angel). I think the spammers are now able to figure out (even from the munged reports) which addresses are active and punish them with more spam. Am I the only one thinking this?
My Chrysler LHS gets 23 in the city and 31 on the Interstate. This is a big 10 year old car. These hybrids should get way better than it. I'm glad I'm sticking with it instead of trying one of these "fuel efficient" things.
Excellent point. I wish I had mod points. The parent should be a +5 Informative
The median income for a family of 4 can be found at http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/4person.html and is $63,278. If you're making $60k/yr from one job then your wife only needs a really crappy part-time job to bring your family up to average.
What I'm trying to say is that $60k/yr is a lot.
The problem most people seem to have is that they don't understand that they have to live within their means. Do you really need that $5.00 Starbucks cup of coffee each morning? Do you really need to each out 3 times a week? Somewhere along the line we've lost the ability to pinch pennies. I think it happened about the time Americans became extremely rich.
I've never make over $40k/yr from my job in my life, and yet I should be a millionaire within the next couple of years. My Dad just retired last month. He's never made more than $30k/yr from his job, almost flunked out of High School, and has been a blue collar worker for all of his life. He's a millionaire several times over. The secret to wealth is hard work and saving.
Sorry but if you want to go higher, you're going to have to move into management and the business side. Become the PHB from Dilbert.That's not exactly the Libertarian solution. The only legimiate purpose of government is to punish fraud and defend against force (and I'm not sure we should even let government have these powers). Open Source and Free Software are both great in the eyes of Libertarians. People come together without threat of force and volunterly create a product to compeate with another product. I haven't yet decided if the cost of Linux is truly cheaper than the cost of Windows, they both have many hidden costs. Anyway I suggest the Anonymous Coward take a closer look at Libertarian philosophy.
You're missing the point.
If you don't like what MSN is doing, don't use the site. They shouldn't have to be forced to live exactly like you want them to. They should be free to do as they please and shouldn't be blackmailed for doing something to help inferior browser users.
If they're doing something really stupid they'll lose customers and then they'll figure out they need to change.
Positive=5, Negative=27
Of the 5 positive _two_ were spews.org. When I checked there they claim my IP is listed, but when I click on the "Click here to see the data/evidence file." link my IP isn't anywhere to be found. From what I can tell they just don't like Comcast.
The other four just seem to list it b/c it is technically a dynamic IP (although it hasn't changed since the huricane Isabel knocked everyone offline and my previous one didn't change in 5 years).
And I just love how you're supposed to get off of some of these lists by asking the postmaster of the system that rejected your email. How the heck are you supposed to do that when they're blocking your email server.
I'm becoming more convinced that blacklists aren't the way to go. If they're going to be used for something as serious as disrupting mail flow then they need to be alot more careful about about who they add to the list.
Paying blackmailers and terrorists only leads to more blackmailers and terrorists. A similar principle exists with litigious companies. No one here would think of paying SCO for their blackmail why should MS pay Opera for this blackmail.
What MS is doing with their site is fine. Some browsers have more and better features which would confuse other browsers. It's perfectly legit to deliver content based on browser; You wouldn't want to send Mozilla a bunch of VBScript meant for IE (ok I agree you don't want to send VBScript to any browser, but it is done). Content based on browser is necessary.
If a site looks crappy in your preferred browser, do one of the following:
I just stick with a Dr. Pepper at 10 2 and 4.
Try the Personality Disorder Quiz
Even after getting my ISP to filter at the server level, and running my own filters, I'm getting more spam than ever. Most of it is for viagra-like drugs, but a large percentage is some interesting porn. I reciently started using Spamcop.net to track and report spam. With the exception of one spammer on a comcast.net IP everything that gets by my filters comes from outside of this country (mainly China).
I'd like someone to post some real data regarding spam.
Looking at Data from Message Labs This CAN-SPAM act has not reduced spam. Infact April was the highest month by far. It looks like May is on track to beat April!
Nope there is not a legislative solution to spam.
I've been voting Libertarian every election since Reagan, and it's not working.
Well you've got to do more than just vote.
I've been voting Libertarian since I was 18 and I didn't think it was working until I started volunteering to help the party a few years ago. One person can do a whole lot. And if they bring a few friends along a lot of progress can be made.
Just in the two years since I been helping my local LP, we've gotten rid of several gun bans, called a lot of attention to the wasteful spending of our state and local governmetns, and had our city council pass a resolution against the PATRIOT Act. We even got a similar resolution introducted in the General Assembly.
It is also getting easier to attract people to the party. As the D&R keep doing more and more stupid things, people are finally waking up.
My suggestion is get involved. If you don't do it , who will?
So when are we going GNOME intergrate Mozilla and have them brought up on Anti-trust violations?
This is where many people make a very bad mistake. The only legit purpose of government is to protect people from fraud, theft, and foreign invasion. Food, clothing, and shelter are the individual's responsibility. A government that provides you with every meal is going to be in a position to force you to do some very nasty things (either to your fellow serfs or to the neighboring country). If you're lucky you'll be the one hold the guns keeping the mob away from the food truck as you distribute just enough to keep the masses from starving while leaving the rest for you the others the dictator favors.
As for Internet in public libraries...They way it works here you have to "check out" on your library card "Internet time." There is tracking and filtering software on the computers. Being a government entity, they are prone to the same corruption and snooping by bureaucrats that plagues many localities. Do you really want the neighborhood busybody religious nutcase checking up on what porn or subversive sites you've been visiting?
If the library was a private org it would be better. They would have a $$ incentive to keep people from tracking and snooping their customers (otherwise their customers would go somewhere else).
I use to be a Librarian six years ago. I saw our first Internet stations installed. There was no filtering or tracking software. Within a month the administration was asking what filtering and monitoring software could be installed, b/c too many old church ladies were offended by the atheist site or the gun site etc. I luckily got my first web gig shortly before they installed all that silly software.
Long story short, If I'm going to be using a public place to surf the 'net, it will be at an Internet cafe not some government run "lets spy on our citizens and keep them looking at only good wholesome sites" library.
Bush is anything but right wing.
First of all, if you want overtime pay have it in your contract otherwise find a better place to work.
Second of all if you're making $21k/yr or more (which these rules apparently affect) then you're making more that most Americans. These rules only affect the rich.
When I first started using Linux, I used the rpms. However after several disasters where the dependencies wouldn't work out or the binaries just wouldn't work, I started doing source only.
Reciently I've started using rpms again. Mainly b/c if it works, it's easier to upgrade, uninstall, etc. They seem to be a lot better now than they were a few years ago.
I only use source now when something doesn't work right or I want some special configuration.
My cable company (Comcast) which I hate, does offer me a variarity of packages. If the government would ever allow more than one cable company to serve an area I bet they would offer me even more choice and for less cost. This is a solution looking for a problem. Better would be to lift the current regulations on TV.
Once you find the search bar on Yahoo, do a search and then compair the look and feel of the results page with the look and feel of the google results page.
Subject says it all. Why?!?
If popups didn't work they wouldn't be used.
/. group the average AOLuser is going to say "Oh they care enough about me to advertise here, I love Dubbya. I will vote for him so he and and his big government socalist friends can keep me safe from those nasty slashdotter terrorists"
While they'll alinate the