Using Stenography would manage to work for a while at least, however the problem is that it is a real waste of resources. The other issue is that it's just sleazy. If you want unshaped traffic then buy it. Otherwise your just playing cat and mouse with admins that are trying to keep their bandwith up for the "surfers".
The evolution debate is the greatest page-view generator since abortion. Slashdot is just milking it for all it's worth.
Ok, the topic is milkable. No question. But the thing is that we're drifting into neo-theocracy. Which scares the pants of quite a few of us. Science is a process of putting peices of a puzzle together in a way that seems to make the most sense, assuming a total lack of divine intervention. Science doesnt make something true, it just shows how the picture seems to fit together. Once something fits well enough it gets moved from hypothesis to theory.. and from there becomes a well founded theory, assuming that it holds up to scrutiny.
Countering Evolution Theory is a total short circuit of scientific method. Even assuming that evolution is untrue, there needs to be a new scientific theory that can better explain the diversity of life on earth, and the extreme coincidences that point to common ancestry. The very tightly linked genome information is really hard to just explain away with some alternate scientific theory..
Evolution is a theory that is brutally hard to poke any real holes in.. Most people try to counter with statistical arguments that skip some of the in between steps.
Anyway, the point is that rational people are afraid of whats happening, and arent going to simply look away when they see neo-theocracy coming closer.
Um yea,
Watch a molecular biologist perk up when you talk about UDP, (critical for glycogen synthesis). Then a computer scientist perk up about UDP (critical for webcasting, and other non-guaranteed traffic). And then the poor bioinformaticist who looks up UDP, just to find the wrong article in a journal, and cringes a little about acronym overuse.
um yea, Typo on N-> p+n rather than N-> p + e- doesnt conserve mass either.
Ahh totally didnt get the cross section dispersion that would totally shoot it all down.
I figured at galactic scales that gravity would overcome electromagnetism. But it wasnt based on math.
Thanks
I goofed neutrons degenereat to protons-electrons, otherwise I get to make up free mater..
I'm still a bit confused on building the electromagnetic charge without electrons though.. (I am not a physicist (sp?)) Because I normally think of that as a process of exciting electrons to higher energy levels. I guess I was more wondering why than looking for a number of what people beleive to be the case.
I'm wondering how much "dark matter" is simply protons..
From what I remember from RadioIsotopes class unbound neutrons decay in about 15 minutes to a proton an neutron.. But I'm not sure what would happen to masses of stray protons in interstellar gas. The repulsion alone would prevent some coalesing activity, making it harder to form stars.. And they should be invisible, as there are no electrons to change energy states. So it should be perfectly transparent. But I dont have the the math to really figure out the system on that scale... Anybody want to set me straight?
The rub is this... Insurance. If they feel that having the real information lets them know the actual cause of an accident, and you dont bother to have one running. your rates are going to be going up. If your not doing anything wrong then you have nothing to fear.. So the process simply adds cost on the insurance side of things.
I'm not a big fan of this level of privacy invasion but their is too much precident for privacy crushing actions that this will likley be mandatory in the near future(7-21 years out), as the added price will be negligible.
What I want is for the Cell companies to allows a set number of minutes for "social calling" that can be set by the parent. And when that time runs out they still have all the abilities to make the standard calls to family. I want the system where the minutes can build up over time, and where the kids will wind up with few minutes per day that get added to their minute bank.
What I want is a phone that is designed to be designed to be used by the irresponsible. I want it cheap, durable, with a minimum of features on the phone itself.
Really for a kid, I want a few things:
Being able to call 911.
Being able to call a few relatives.
Being able to accept a call (skip giving them the number).
I'd really love to get GPS tracking, just in case.
I'm realizing that I may never have a landline again (I havent had one for years).. So having a kid call her friends is getting a bit more complicated than back in the landline era. I'm still not sure how it will work out.....
Once they are old enough to afford a real cell phone then they can pay for it.
so instead of cAPS LOCK IN A SENTENCE. you wind up with...
pslock in a sentence.
Unless your typing at a nice rickety speed where you notice the change before you press the next letter. Really a 3 ounce push for caps lock is all I want there, so I dont screw up accidently. Really the control, alt, windows and escape keys are really far too powerful to be placed in the typing zone. And the capslock is still a bit obnoxious for the spot.
And while I'm at it, games that use alt and tab for major game functions are really horrible. yes I'm talking to you Oblivion designers, eaters of precious hours of my life. Devouring my sanity nearly as effectivly as nethack
The hosts thing is a bit funky, it would mean turning the DNS off the local boxes, which is easy to spot by a novice.
This is usually obscure enough that nobody is even going to realize that thay can do it..
type in: ROUTE PRINT
It will show you a bunch of routes.
You want to delete the 0.0.0.0 entry.. ie ROUTE DELETE 0.0.0.0
Then add entries for all of the destinations you want to talk to..... ie ROUTE ADD 10.0.69.69 MASK 255.255.255.255 192.168.0.1 METRIC 10
Where the 10.0.69.69 is your DNS server and the 192.168.0.1 would be the inner NAT gateway.. and repeat for the rest of the boxes
If you have a nice group of machines in an IP range you can just loosen the MASK to 255.255.255.0, assuming that you trust the rest of the machines in that subnet.
Pop the commands into a startup script, or add the -p flag to make the changes persistent, and your good to go.
Good Luck
I'm not a chip designer, but I still tend to run my mouth (er um fingers) quite a bit.
I totally agree that instruction level parallelism for a stack machine is a horrible monster to match up to a risc processor. But there are some nice peices for parallism that work well. The circuits for a stack processor take up a small amount of relative space, and require less power per stack "unit". So while making a given stack chip faster might be a monster problem, adding more stack units to a CPU die may allow for some serious performance gains. So there are a few items where the fine grained parallelism just isnt going to happpen. But as far as coarser grained parallelism goes there might be some possibilities.
There are some super low latency situations that I could see this as an untenable situation, and a few linear problems that just wont crumble down simply.
Of course I might be missing something obvious here...
Isn't that what Microsoft's been trying to do with the DX10 spec? Last I checked, things that 'fail DX10' don't get rated for it, so it can essentially start providing a DX10-compliant card that answers the basic questions. I think the biggest issue that MS has is with backwards compatability...People get cranky when they see a shiny new OS and are told that 'Your computer can't handle it'. Citius
As fas as I can tell (My factbase is weak here) the DirectX10 will still need a driver, a WDDM driver but still a driver. The Nice Thing is that the DX10 cards will all be able to perform a whole suite of functions, but the driver code should let them do it in different ways. The hardware must be able to do certain things to be certified, but I think the drivers can be pretty different from card to card. I have a feeling that without a driver the machine will still boot to 640x480x256.
I am hoping that the WDDM drivers are better than my current ATI garbage, somehow the letter D just doesnt get filled with the background color consistently (yep in slashdot). The retailer isnt keen on refunds due to driver issues.
Anyway enough rant.. Citius, I'm sure people will be plenty cranky when their current $500 graphic cards arent DX10 compatable. and theyre stuck in "legacy mode".
Actually I would love for the hardware to get some standardization back. I want to plug in a modern video card and have windows (or any OS) just use the "basic" functionality of that card. But by "basic" I mean having at least DirectX 5.0 compatability. Right now were dealing with a "standard" which goes back VESA 256 color mode. This is just retarded.
The logic that is being used is the same logic that spawned the winmodem. So that there is some silly peice of junk software that is coded by chimps that seems to have lockup problems on the OS that your using. In addition it makes the diagnostics of the device a total pain in the rear.
Leaving functionality up to "driver guys" really makes me cringe, its just really bad form. The hardware should be so simple to interface with that most people could just forgo the driver, leaving the drivers in the hands of the high performance nerds.
I completely understand that this would result in slightly more expensive graphics cards in the short term. I get that every 5-10 years the "basic" functionality needs to be bumped to something better. I even get that it seems like a pretty good way to have flexibility by not locking your hardware into a mold. There are some real issues that would need to be addressed, but I think the increased cost of hardware is really worth it.
I dont expect that the video card industry would even bother to move in a direction which may be less profitable, even if it did mean that systems would be more reliable. But I still feel the need to rant about solutions that save a nickle by causing a dollars worth of headache to the customer.
Some other silly parts that if your doing a pure DIY beowulf that might be important.
set up an NFS share on the head node, it will simplify a whole bunch of data collection.
oh, dont overwrite the home directory as your share, it will cause weird issues, make the directory something like "clustershare" it will make sure that you launch the exact same executable on all the boxes.
The LAMRSH variable needs to be set to "rsh" otherwise you get an error message.
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Most of this guide is if your looking to build a cluster to understand how they work, quite a bit of the software out there can make things quite a bit easier to initially set up, easier to maintain, and simpler to diagnose an issue.
I'm a fan of Warewulf, it has a reasonable memory footprint, a nice node management system. As far as diskless boxes go I've found it to be really doable. And learning how to build a bootable disk image is really gratifying (but not manditory). I havent played with "Rocks", but it seems to get rave reviews.
As far as MPI programming goes, it provides control over when and how you communicate, without totally leaving you at a bare metal interface. Systems that attempt to hide those layers may be nice, but leaves you wonderin if something wonky is making the system slowdown.
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The Hydrogen Fuel-Cell is able to both charge and provide power to the engine. The electronics are jacked if it doesnt work this way. My guess is that the H-power would go straight to the motor in a high drain situation, and in a lower drain the H power would work to keep the Li battery at a modest reserve. The regenerative braking couldnt recharge a fuel-cell, but would be great for the Li-battery.
My best guess is that the Li battery shouldnt need to be all that big (capacity wise), if your running a fuel cell then you already have a very efficient way of making electricity on demand, so there is less need to store the energy in the Li batteries. It could allow for quick bursts of speed, and a reasonable choice for regenerative braking.
1. I do beowulf, other clusters arent my thing. 2. I can handle C and C++, but I'm not a guru. 3. I can fumble my way through unix-linux but I get cranky with new versions (command/ flag changes in utilities). 4. I have 6 lazyish years as a unix sysadmin.
getting prepped,
You want to make sure that the boxes that are talking to eachother are very secure from the rest of the world. Most of the concepts on a cluster are about trashing the security of the machines in question. There are ways to make a secureish cluster, but a good firewall is a better way to go. let the firewall talk to your "head node", and preferably locks the "body nodes" from seeing the outside world. There are a ton of ways to get this done. on the cheap have all the body nodes have a non-existant gateway ie 192.168.0.1, set the firewall as 192.168.0.129 (forget dhcp) and let the head node point to the 192.168.0.129,, and have the firewall route services (ssh, ftp, telnet (ok not ftp or telnet)) to the head node.
getting started
1. Load all the boxes with the same OS. (the same way) (DONT select SELINUX or you will cry)
2. build a hosts file (names for machines)/etc/hosts
3. build a hosts.allow , hosts.equiv (still in/etc)
4. add in some entries into securetty for your rlogin rcp rsh..
5. youll probably have kerberos(weakly secured) rlogin rcp rsh... you want to rename those and replace them with the non secure versions, there are other ways, but this saves a bunch of hassle.
6. pop into/etc/pam.d and adjust the rlogin rcp rsh.. (this may not be needed in some cases).
7. add in a + + in the.rhosts file of each cluster user.
after you have pulled your hair out decyphering my glossed over instructions, you should be able to type: rsh node002 and be at the prompt for node002 with no password asked, and no silly kerberose failed: trying/usr/bin/rsh message given.
At this point then you can configure LAM (you may nee to download it and get it installed on your boxes)
basically it needs an arbitrary file Mynodes.txt that will contain the list of nodes you wish to launch. you type in lamboot Mynodes.txt and then it will kick back some silly error 99% of the time because something small was forgotten. you fight through those errors until it finally gives you a sucess.
Now your golden, then its just a matter of figuring out how to compile and run MPI programs with the mpiCC and mpirun. But if you got through the first gloss over then the rest is a snap.
Remember if these machines see the outside world they are naked, defenseless, and totally exploitable..
Be aware that these instructions can cause all sorts of havok and any reasonable person would just hire an expert.
Honestly I hope that this gives you a starting point. You'll still need a bunch of time with google.
Yup, and it only takes 4 times as long to read and looks like crap!! How about we teach people how to actually write and spell to begin with?
Honestly English spelling looks like garbage, it just happens to be trash to which we are accustomed. We spend years trying to teach children to make reasonable sentences with reasonable spelling. The system is so profoundly illogical that it requires vast amounts of rote memorization to keep track of frequently broken rules. We are spending valuable time teaching the nuances of a patchwork language. Leaving huge hole in education of how to effectivly communicate, as that time is eaten by grammar nazis.
English is a huge language with a vast amount of momentum, It needs to be replaced. Esperanto or LogLan seem to be a very nice seed to build a replacement language. In the long term this is a very good move. Of course this is a pipe dream, as America cant wean itself off standard weights and measures. There is no reason to believe that the world will wean itself off English as a common trade language.
A multitude of religious types manage to sell their faith door to door, over the media, and through social pressures. Now these Athiests have decided that they want to play the same game, and get people to move to their beliefs. Sure their riding along on the coattails of seperation of church and state, its what any good opportunist would do, religions arent above it.
And as for subversion, I kinda think that is a reasonable goal.. They want the church out of the government, therfore undermining the government. Or simply to destroy (with civil/social methods) the state religion.
While I might not applaud their actions, I still feel that they deserve the right to forward their beliefs.
I feel that your movie model is a reasonable analogy. However the premise that we should accept it is the tune of a pessimest (sp?).. letting the internet go the way of the movies is really depressing. How many James Cameroon explosions do you need to see? How many Michael Bay slow motion struts? How much hollywood candy can you swallow before needing an IV full of insulin?
I'm ranting, I like what the internet has going for it right now, even with the huge amount of garbage, it still feels alive. I'm not really keen on letting it go private.
The first part of the solution is that the legacy Email isnt thrown out, just upgraded. The Pop server should be able to receive both Email and EmailVersion2 (EV2), and post them into the same box. The SMTP server for EV2 could be build from scratch, and probably should be.
Guts for EV2 system
The pop server could request server message authentication, in multiple forms, it could request a work unit (ugly math function) to be completed of a specific size that should have a solid expected run time. The acceptable function types could be administered at the pop server (as some functions get cracked or too easy).. The SMTP server could reject the request for work as too hard, allowing the email to fall into the "unconfirmed" bin.
The pop server could also request other types of authentication, to allow inter office email to move without extra costs. This would allow user keys to be used instead of "proof of work" for some EV2's..
The pop admin or possibly the user could place a threshold for deliverability, allowing them to turn the threshold abouve what spammers are willing to send to.
So the idea is to have a negotiator whitelist emails, and drop the other emails into the greylist. Allowing the greylist to gradually become the spam folder of the next generation.
Storm
P.S. By all means If I havent thought this idea through enough, please knock it down....
Spiders manage to get multiple (molecular) strands aligned lengthwise. It allows part of each strand to have a rip-stop.. So even with the millions of bucks per year spent on it, it isnt easy.. However we did learn that goats are way easier to clone than sheep.
Personally speaking, I would be very unwilling to eat this rice, or any GMO produce in general, and most especially when animal genes have been spliced in. The whole thing skeeves me out like you wouldn't believe!!
Trying to avoid all GMO's in the US is a bear.. 80ish percent of all soy is GM, making most vegetable oils a GM food, making most processed foods GM.... Try going a normal week in the US eating only non-GMO foods its really tricky, I couldnt manage to skip out on social events, and poof game over.
Its a nitpick, but that big pile of cash is way over one million bucks.
each bundle of 100 should be $10000, leaving 100 bundles as one million.
a stack 4 deep, 5 across and 5 high (or any other combo that meets the size requirement).
Otherwise it would be a monster to make any kind of cash on a good bank heist. You would need to hire day laborers just to get all the cash into your rental truck..
Slashdot Mirror
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Countering Evolution Theory is a total short circuit of scientific method. Even assuming that evolution is untrue, there needs to be a new scientific theory that can better explain the diversity of life on earth, and the extreme coincidences that point to common ancestry. The very tightly linked genome information is really hard to just explain away with some alternate scientific theory..
Evolution is a theory that is brutally hard to poke any real holes in.. Most people try to counter with statistical arguments that skip some of the in between steps.
Anyway, the point is that rational people are afraid of whats happening, and arent going to simply look away when they see neo-theocracy coming closer.
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I'm not a big fan of this level of privacy invasion but their is too much precident for privacy crushing actions that this will likley be mandatory in the near future(7-21 years out), as the added price will be negligible.
Storm
What I want is for the Cell companies to allows a set number of minutes for "social calling" that can be set by the parent. And when that time runs out they still have all the abilities to make the standard calls to family. I want the system where the minutes can build up over time, and where the kids will wind up with few minutes per day that get added to their minute bank.
What I want is a phone that is designed to be designed to be used by the irresponsible. I want it cheap, durable, with a minimum of features on the phone itself.
I'm realizing that I may never have a landline again (I havent had one for years).. So having a kid call her friends is getting a bit more complicated than back in the landline era. I'm still not sure how it will work out.....
Once they are old enough to afford a real cell phone then they can pay for it.
Storm
pslock in a sentence.
Unless your typing at a nice rickety speed where you notice the change before you press the next letter. Really a 3 ounce push for caps lock is all I want there, so I dont screw up accidently. Really the control, alt, windows and escape keys are really far too powerful to be placed in the typing zone. And the capslock is still a bit obnoxious for the spot.
And while I'm at it, games that use alt and tab for major game functions are really horrible. yes I'm talking to you Oblivion designers, eaters of precious hours of my life. Devouring my sanity nearly as effectivly as nethack
Storm
This is usually obscure enough that nobody is even going to realize that thay can do it..
type in: ROUTE PRINT
It will show you a bunch of routes.
You want to delete the 0.0.0.0 entry.. ie ROUTE DELETE 0.0.0.0
Then add entries for all of the destinations you want to talk to..... ie ROUTE ADD 10.0.69.69 MASK 255.255.255.255 192.168.0.1 METRIC 10
Where the 10.0.69.69 is your DNS server and the 192.168.0.1 would be the inner NAT gateway.. and repeat for the rest of the boxes
If you have a nice group of machines in an IP range you can just loosen the MASK to 255.255.255.0, assuming that you trust the rest of the machines in that subnet.
Pop the commands into a startup script, or add the -p flag to make the changes persistent, and your good to go. Good Luck
Storm
I totally agree that instruction level parallelism for a stack machine is a horrible monster to match up to a risc processor. But there are some nice peices for parallism that work well. The circuits for a stack processor take up a small amount of relative space, and require less power per stack "unit". So while making a given stack chip faster might be a monster problem, adding more stack units to a CPU die may allow for some serious performance gains. So there are a few items where the fine grained parallelism just isnt going to happpen. But as far as coarser grained parallelism goes there might be some possibilities.
There are some super low latency situations that I could see this as an untenable situation, and a few linear problems that just wont crumble down simply. Of course I might be missing something obvious here...
Storm
I am hoping that the WDDM drivers are better than my current ATI garbage, somehow the letter D just doesnt get filled with the background color consistently (yep in slashdot). The retailer isnt keen on refunds due to driver issues.
Anyway enough rant.. Citius, I'm sure people will be plenty cranky when their current $500 graphic cards arent DX10 compatable. and theyre stuck in "legacy mode".
Storm
The logic that is being used is the same logic that spawned the winmodem. So that there is some silly peice of junk software that is coded by chimps that seems to have lockup problems on the OS that your using. In addition it makes the diagnostics of the device a total pain in the rear.
Leaving functionality up to "driver guys" really makes me cringe, its just really bad form. The hardware should be so simple to interface with that most people could just forgo the driver, leaving the drivers in the hands of the high performance nerds.
I completely understand that this would result in slightly more expensive graphics cards in the short term. I get that every 5-10 years the "basic" functionality needs to be bumped to something better. I even get that it seems like a pretty good way to have flexibility by not locking your hardware into a mold. There are some real issues that would need to be addressed, but I think the increased cost of hardware is really worth it.
I dont expect that the video card industry would even bother to move in a direction which may be less profitable, even if it did mean that systems would be more reliable. But I still feel the need to rant about solutions that save a nickle by causing a dollars worth of headache to the customer.
Storm
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set up an NFS share on the head node, it will simplify a whole bunch of data collection. oh, dont overwrite the home directory as your share, it will cause weird issues, make the directory something like "clustershare" it will make sure that you launch the exact same executable on all the boxes.
The LAMRSH variable needs to be set to "rsh" otherwise you get an error message.
________________
Most of this guide is if your looking to build a cluster to understand how they work, quite a bit of the software out there can make things quite a bit easier to initially set up, easier to maintain, and simpler to diagnose an issue.
I'm a fan of Warewulf, it has a reasonable memory footprint, a nice node management system. As far as diskless boxes go I've found it to be really doable. And learning how to build a bootable disk image is really gratifying (but not manditory). I havent played with "Rocks", but it seems to get rave reviews.
As far as MPI programming goes, it provides control over when and how you communicate, without totally leaving you at a bare metal interface. Systems that attempt to hide those layers may be nice, but leaves you wonderin if something wonky is making the system slowdown.
Storm
My best guess is that the Li battery shouldnt need to be all that big (capacity wise), if your running a fuel cell then you already have a very efficient way of making electricity on demand, so there is less need to store the energy in the Li batteries. It could allow for quick bursts of speed, and a reasonable choice for regenerative braking.
Storm
1. I do beowulf, other clusters arent my thing. 2. I can handle C and C++, but I'm not a guru. 3. I can fumble my way through unix-linux but I get cranky with new versions (command/ flag changes in utilities). 4. I have 6 lazyish years as a unix sysadmin.
getting prepped,
You want to make sure that the boxes that are talking to eachother are very secure from the rest of the world. Most of the concepts on a cluster are about trashing the security of the machines in question. There are ways to make a secureish cluster, but a good firewall is a better way to go. let the firewall talk to your "head node", and preferably locks the "body nodes" from seeing the outside world. There are a ton of ways to get this done. on the cheap have all the body nodes have a non-existant gateway ie 192.168.0.1, set the firewall as 192.168.0.129 (forget dhcp) and let the head node point to the 192.168.0.129,, and have the firewall route services (ssh, ftp, telnet (ok not ftp or telnet)) to the head node.
getting started
1. Load all the boxes with the same OS. (the same way) (DONT select SELINUX or you will cry) 2. build a hosts file (names for machines) /etc/hosts
3. build a hosts.allow , hosts.equiv (still in /etc)
4. add in some entries into securetty for your rlogin rcp rsh..
5. youll probably have kerberos(weakly secured) rlogin rcp rsh... you want to rename those and replace them with the non secure versions, there are other ways, but this saves a bunch of hassle.
6. pop into /etc/pam.d and adjust the rlogin rcp rsh.. (this may not be needed in some cases).
7. add in a + + in the .rhosts file of each cluster user.
after you have pulled your hair out decyphering my glossed over instructions, you should be able to type: rsh node002 and be at the prompt for node002 with no password asked, and no silly kerberose failed: trying /usr/bin/rsh message given.
At this point then you can configure LAM (you may nee to download it and get it installed on your boxes)
basically it needs an arbitrary file Mynodes.txt that will contain the list of nodes you wish to launch. you type in lamboot Mynodes.txt and then it will kick back some silly error 99% of the time because something small was forgotten. you fight through those errors until it finally gives you a sucess.
Now your golden, then its just a matter of figuring out how to compile and run MPI programs with the mpiCC and mpirun. But if you got through the first gloss over then the rest is a snap.
Remember if these machines see the outside world they are naked, defenseless, and totally exploitable..
Be aware that these instructions can cause all sorts of havok and any reasonable person would just hire an expert.
Honestly I hope that this gives you a starting point. You'll still need a bunch of time with google.
GOOD LUCK!!
Storm
English is a huge language with a vast amount of momentum, It needs to be replaced. Esperanto or LogLan seem to be a very nice seed to build a replacement language. In the long term this is a very good move. Of course this is a pipe dream, as America cant wean itself off standard weights and measures. There is no reason to believe that the world will wean itself off English as a common trade language.
Storm
And as for subversion, I kinda think that is a reasonable goal.. They want the church out of the government, therfore undermining the government. Or simply to destroy (with civil/social methods) the state religion.
While I might not applaud their actions, I still feel that they deserve the right to forward their beliefs.
Storm
I'm ranting, I like what the internet has going for it right now, even with the huge amount of garbage, it still feels alive. I'm not really keen on letting it go private.
Storm
The first part of the solution is that the legacy Email isnt thrown out, just upgraded. The Pop server should be able to receive both Email and EmailVersion2 (EV2), and post them into the same box. The SMTP server for EV2 could be build from scratch, and probably should be.
Guts for EV2 system
The pop server could request server message authentication, in multiple forms, it could request a work unit (ugly math function) to be completed of a specific size that should have a solid expected run time. The acceptable function types could be administered at the pop server (as some functions get cracked or too easy).. The SMTP server could reject the request for work as too hard, allowing the email to fall into the "unconfirmed" bin. The pop server could also request other types of authentication, to allow inter office email to move without extra costs. This would allow user keys to be used instead of "proof of work" for some EV2's..
The pop admin or possibly the user could place a threshold for deliverability, allowing them to turn the threshold abouve what spammers are willing to send to. So the idea is to have a negotiator whitelist emails, and drop the other emails into the greylist. Allowing the greylist to gradually become the spam folder of the next generation.
Storm P.S. By all means If I havent thought this idea through enough, please knock it down....
Storm
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Otherwise it would be a monster to make any kind of cash on a good bank heist. You would need to hire day laborers just to get all the cash into your rental truck..
Storm