I just spent over two hours reading through Paul Graham's web pages, POPFile's web pages, this slashdot thread and most of the other links provided as well. Some points come to mind:
1. Yahoo Mail has an interesting way of dealing with spam - you can "report as spam" any message that comes into your inbox. I suspect that they don't have a human reading these, but instead try to match multiple copies of the same e-mail being reported as spam by multiple people. When you have millions of users, if 10,000 report the same e-mail message as spam, it's probably spam. It would be interesting to have an open source program using P2P technology to do the same thing.
2. Like somebody mentioned above, this could be very useful in categorizing helpdesk e-mails, and even providing some canned automatic repsonses for them. E-mails with the words "forgot", "password" and "can't" and "login" would have a very high probability of being about a user can't logging in for some reason, and could be resolved by an automated "HOWTO" and save a company some man hours.
3. I'm going to try to integrate this into our exchange server at work tomorow if the IT guys will let me mess with it, and if not I'll try to integrate it into my (gasp) outlook exchange client.
As part of their interview process, the KDE project has prospective candidates try to pronounce and spell "Sirtaj Singh Kang" correctly. So far the only members are Sirtaj and Sirtaj's mom.
Microsoft Corp. anounces MS Lawyer 2k - This exciting new product translates any sentence or paragraph into pages upon pages of unintelligable lawyer speak. Vanessa Roberts, VP of Public Relations at Microsoft was quoted as saying "we have been using this product for years for our EULA's and to intimidate small competitors, we just figured it's about time we shared the wealth".
AOL Time Warner is suing the IETF. From the lawsuit:
As you can see in Patent#93993229, we invented the idea of instant message interopability. You don't believe us? Look at our next version of AIM and ICQ, they're combined! combined I tell you!
Satellite hackers around the US and Canada are outraged at this move by the FCC. Rob Mishka, a long time connoisseur of free (read: stolen) satellite TV, was quoted as saying "We are just sick of having to deal with two different encryption keys every damn week. If they merged we would only have to deal with one!". Rob then spit out the tobacco he was chewing and went to work on the Trans-Am that has been raised on 8 bricks in his front yard since 1998.
Meanwhile, in an attempt to one-up Ken's website californiacoastline.org, photographer J. Smiley has published a new web site: jennascoastline.org in which he promises to photograph every 500mm of Jenna Jameson's body. Environmentalists hope they can use this new data to finally settle the "are those real" debate.
When I get a call from a telemarketers I try to slashdot them at home by putting them on speakerphone and having my whole family (and the bird) yell at them at once.
I usually don't give out my home phone# to anyone, and the only people who call it are telemarketers - that's why I started leaving the ringer off.
My cell phone is the # I give to everyone, and I haven't received a single telemarketing call on it.
Microsoft Corp Company Press Release
REDMOND - 11:03 AM PST - We're happy to announce that in response to Real Network's move, Microsoft Corp is releasing the source code to our acclaimed Windows Media Player. The code isn't complete, it's missing things like burning-to-cd routines, playing audio routines, playing video routines, encoding, decoding, recording, saving, loading files, or generally functioning as a Media Player. However, we are sure the open source community will embrace our efforts and the three lines of code we did release.
Next Weeek On Ask Slashdot: "Let's assume I want to pump gas into my car through the radiator and mix in diet cherry 7-up. WHY is not up for debate. I just need the schematics and blue prints of how to achieve this, and I need this NOW."
Rumors have it that in the 1st episode of Stargate next season, MacGyver builds a new stargate out of three tablets of XTC and a paper clip, and Kurt Russel (from the original StarGate movie) comes back as Tango and gives MacGyver some Cash.
Page faults happen all the time. They're probably happening to you right now. A computer without page faults is a computer without virtual memory. Page faults aren't going to reported in any System Event Log.
you're right... my mistake. I meant Global Protection Faults !
let's click on that url and see what the link to my page looks like!
I think it's more than the web site's owner clicking on the page - a lot of bloggers post a list of "top referrers" on their web site as a way of thanking the referrers, and therefore they generate a lot of traffic to their referrers from their own visitors.
Tiny computers were there first, and I believe they even have a patent for the worlds smallest computers. Pictures of the products on their web site are actual size.
LOS ANGELES 6:39PM PST - The American Assocation of Midgets issued a press release stating "finally a computer company is aligned with our cause. We, the worlds smallest people have been waiting for decades for the worlds smallest computer."
First of all, WHO are these people are getting distressed and intimidated by spam? They need some help.
Further....especially when it comes to real junk-mail in your postal mail box - the trend I've noticed is that the less important it is the more important they make the envelope look.
"Joe Smith, this is your ONE IN A FUCKING LIFE TIME OPPORTUNITY TO ______________"
(get a secured visa gold, get dept consolidation, get pet food for cheap, get a new life insurance policy for your parrot, contact your long lost relative, help me transfer funds out of nigeria)
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1. Yahoo Mail has an interesting way of dealing with spam - you can "report as spam" any message that comes into your inbox. I suspect that they don't have a human reading these, but instead try to match multiple copies of the same e-mail being reported as spam by multiple people. When you have millions of users, if 10,000 report the same e-mail message as spam, it's probably spam. It would be interesting to have an open source program using P2P technology to do the same thing.
2. Like somebody mentioned above, this could be very useful in categorizing helpdesk e-mails, and even providing some canned automatic repsonses for them. E-mails with the words "forgot", "password" and "can't" and "login" would have a very high probability of being about a user can't logging in for some reason, and could be resolved by an automated "HOWTO" and save a company some man hours.
3. I'm going to try to integrate this into our exchange server at work tomorow if the IT guys will let me mess with it, and if not I'll try to integrate it into my (gasp) outlook exchange client.
As part of their interview process, the KDE project has prospective candidates try to pronounce and spell "Sirtaj Singh Kang" correctly. So far the only members are Sirtaj and Sirtaj's mom.
Really smart posting as Anonymous Coward when anyone can click on "Freaks" on my profile and see your name.
Microsoft Corp. anounces MS Lawyer 2k - This exciting new product translates any sentence or paragraph into pages upon pages of unintelligable lawyer speak. Vanessa Roberts, VP of Public Relations at Microsoft was quoted as saying "we have been using this product for years for our EULA's and to intimidate small competitors, we just figured it's about time we shared the wealth".
As you can see in Patent#93993229, we invented the idea of instant message interopability. You don't believe us? Look at our next version of AIM and ICQ, they're combined! combined I tell you!
Satellite hackers around the US and Canada are outraged at this move by the FCC. Rob Mishka, a long time connoisseur of free (read: stolen) satellite TV, was quoted as saying "We are just sick of having to deal with two different encryption keys every damn week. If they merged we would only have to deal with one!". Rob then spit out the tobacco he was chewing and went to work on the Trans-Am that has been raised on 8 bricks in his front yard since 1998.
You're looking in the wrong place. Check the "Feature List".
Meanwhile, in an attempt to one-up Ken's website californiacoastline.org, photographer J. Smiley has published a new web site: jennascoastline.org in which he promises to photograph every 500mm of Jenna Jameson's body. Environmentalists hope they can use this new data to finally settle the "are those real" debate.
We can finally see if Samuel Jackson was actually quoting the bible in Pulp Fiction, or if he was just making shit up...
When I get a call from a telemarketers I try to slashdot them at home by putting them on speakerphone and having my whole family (and the bird) yell at them at once.
I usually don't give out my home phone# to anyone, and the only people who call it are telemarketers - that's why I started leaving the ringer off. My cell phone is the # I give to everyone, and I haven't received a single telemarketing call on it.
Are you legally allowed to sell your copy of Windows 2K to a third party?
If you are, then they should be able to add the "price" of the licenses to the price of the company and list it as an asset.
If you're not, then this makes more sense.
A search for "Microsoft Windows" on ebay returns 1040 results.
Microsoft Corp
Company Press Release
REDMOND - 11:03 AM PST - We're happy to announce that in response to Real Network's move, Microsoft Corp is releasing the source code to our acclaimed Windows Media Player. The code isn't complete, it's missing things like burning-to-cd routines, playing audio routines, playing video routines, encoding, decoding, recording, saving, loading files, or generally functioning as a Media Player. However, we are sure the open source community will embrace our efforts and the three lines of code we did release.
Next Weeek On Ask Slashdot: "Let's assume I want to pump gas into my car through the radiator and mix in diet cherry 7-up. WHY is not up for debate. I just need the schematics and blue prints of how to achieve this, and I need this NOW."
I think I'm going to adopt Sun's policy on this one and start charging all my QA testers instead of paying them a salary.
"we put the fuck m$ in ffmpeg"
Rumors have it that in the 1st episode of Stargate next season, MacGyver builds a new stargate out of three tablets of XTC and a paper clip, and Kurt Russel (from the original StarGate movie) comes back as Tango and gives MacGyver some Cash.
Page faults happen all the time. They're probably happening to you right now. A computer without page faults is a computer without virtual memory. Page faults aren't going to reported in any System Event Log. you're right... my mistake. I meant Global Protection Faults !
I think it's more than the web site's owner clicking on the page - a lot of bloggers post a list of "top referrers" on their web site as a way of thanking the referrers, and therefore they generate a lot of traffic to their referrers from their own visitors.
Windows users are complaining that Microsoft is filling up their computer's System Event Log with spam about illegal exceptions and page faults.
...just some blogger that was slashdotted, unwilling to believe that (s)he's really getting that many hits referred to from just one site.
Yeah "they don't have anywhere else to talk about it" is definitely a good reason. BTW, my mom doesn't have anywhere else to talk about her recipes.
Tiny computers were there first, and I believe they even have a patent for the worlds smallest computers. Pictures of the products on their web site are actual size.
LOS ANGELES 6:39PM PST - The American Assocation of Midgets issued a press release stating "finally a computer company is aligned with our cause. We, the worlds smallest people have been waiting for decades for the worlds smallest computer."
First of all, WHO are these people are getting distressed and intimidated by spam? They need some help.
Further....especially when it comes to real junk-mail in your postal mail box - the trend I've noticed is that the less important it is the more important they make the envelope look.
"Joe Smith, this is your ONE IN A FUCKING LIFE TIME OPPORTUNITY TO ______________"
(get a secured visa gold, get dept consolidation, get pet food for cheap, get a new life insurance policy for your parrot, contact your long lost relative, help me transfer funds out of nigeria)