And no mod points. That idea is simply awesome. I'm sure my initial reaction will be overturned due to some unforseen circumstance, but it seems quite logical as I look at it now.
You simply must be able to confirm that each registered voter was credited ONE vote in their account to begin with. No more, no less.
When in fact, a quick google search reveals....ta dah...Vitamin A is in fact the dangerous part of the polar bear liver due to the fact that polar bears feast upon fish-eating mammals and the vitamin A accumulates in their liver.
Not to be picky or anything, but you've received 4MB in 3 days.....how can you read it all? Is it actual text data or did someone send you a movie?
I guess my original, false impression of your statement was that it was simply words [and not possibly binary data]. So, if you do receive >1MB/day of text data to read from mailing lists, do you actually read it all or end up deleting it like spam?
What about the mythical man month? Putting together an OS is not something simple one man can do himself. You need teams that build tools to build the OS and you need other people to communicate etc. More people leads to more delays due to communication and learning and everything.
Actually, Hotmail must have done something magical to reduce the spam [or maybe I accidentally set my options to reject all mail or something].
Around the big blackout last August my friend commented that his spam in his hotmail account went down to almost nothing. I short while later, I also noticed the same thing. For an account that got 4 spams within a few hours of signing up, I can now check it once per week and maybe remove 5 spam emails. I admit I have some stuff directed to a junk folder, but I also had that when I received 20-30/day.
We get about 300,000-400,000 emails a day representing about 10 spams/user/day which is much lower then you, but we've been told [by a spam software salesperson] that we have a high spam count....90% of our mail is spam.
Spam is free for the sender, but we're required to have equipment that would have been enough for an ISP 4 times our size 5-6 years ago [numbers in the last paragraph were made up on the spot, but are meant to provide an example of cost]
Get rid of HTML tags in message bodies and preview panes in Outlook Express. Previewing messages with HTML just leads to confirmations that the email has been delivered to a certain address. Address confirmed, put it on a list somewhere.
I mean, how many legitimate emails from friends/business partners do you get that have big red letters.
Plain text is all you need. Readers can then be written to identify URL's and allow the user to CLICK them.
Why on earth would anyone be amazed? The/10's and/12's you give cover MILLIONS of computers. Of course you're going to get lots of hits. The addresses probably contain millions of dynamically assigned addresses that get assigned to compromised machines..... Just like everywhere else on the planet that has internet.
Try blocking dynamic ranges and you'll probably do as well. Probably better because you'll end up blocking all the dynamic DSL connections from the big guys in North America like Comcast, Verizon and Bell etc.
Playing UT2003 one day [purchased, legitimate copy] and for an hour I kept getting booted off the network because some pirate had a key generator that was generating MY key. Boy was I bitter at that one.
I guess the same thing could happen with WindowsXP...someone generates your key and then you look like the pirate because to the microsoft servers, this key is showing up on two [or more] computers.
So, imagine how you, the legitimate consumer would feel being denied updates and accused of being a pirate because of a real pirate.
I was so proud when I found that little dot in the labyrinth of the black castle. Amazing game. In fact, I thought that I was the only one who ever found it.
Never mind paying for the regular licensing for anti-virus software, but you're going to significantly increase the amount of email you have to scan.
More hardware is required to do this extra scanning. Several anti-virus packages limit how many messages/hour you can scan [I realize there are free ones, but that is beside the point]. This is all part of the cost of spam/viruses. A new mail server/virus scanner [or many more], more licensing for anti-virus software and more bandwidth to handle the spam/viruses that get out there.
No matter how much we would like it, not everything is free.
Throttling just informs the customer of a problem with their machine [maybe].
As I mentioned earlier, I've seen thousands of complaints generated from a simple 1-2 hour dialup session. Not a whole lot of bandwidth there and you can bet not everyone who received an email complained.
So, if you do throttle down a high speed connection to dialup speeds, you're still leaving the window open for sending out thousands of spam emails by the virus.
And everyone shows all these steps...increase latency, disable ports, restricting this and that. This is unreasonable for any business with more than a few hundred customers.
Well, by disconnecting them you block certain ports....on the customers machine.
Is this something you want to get into if you're the size of Comcast? I have no idea how many customers they have, but you can't block specific ports for every customer that's infected. First of all, there are too many customers and second of all, there are too many ports. It would be a logistical nightmare.
That's crazy. They probably only disconnect AFTER receiving complaints about an IP address at a certain time. I've seen people on dialup that are infected and have generated 3000+ complaints from AOL customers after only being online for a few hours. What is the ISP supposed to do? Let them continue getting IP addresses blacklisted and sending out thousands more emails!!
Exactly. I would be willing to pay $1/song [that I wanted] if it was in MP3 format and I could move it to a couple of my computers, an MP3 player or burn it to CD. But something that can only be played on the computer it was downloaded onto is ridiculous.
I've only ever downloaded 1 song through Napster and all it did was prove to me that I didn't really want the song [sounded good on the commercial when it was all edited up]
The only problem I can see with not voting for your given reasons is that you are then indistinguishable from the 50% that didn't vote because they're too lazy or didn't care.
I've heard of purposely wrecking your ballot. Do they count wrecked ballots officially?
The image file ISN'T running a command. I'm not claiming that I understand the code or what specifically triggers the problem [negative offsets or something], but there is something special about the bitmap image that causes the rendering program to break in such a way that data in the image can be copied into memory and then executed.
Images are just data and everyone agrees with that, but you can display source code [C, perl whatever] as a bitmap file if you really want to, in numerous ways. Won't look like much, but you can't deny that the code is now a picture. Why can't a picture be formatted in such a way as to be interpreted as code.
The problem here is the renderer [have I mentioned that already], not the picture.
My new computer I just purchased came with XP installed on an SATA drive. I was going to re-install right away anyway, so I installed Suse 9.0 Pro and it detected the drive wothout problem. Trying to do windows XP on the primary partition was the difficult part. It needed a disk full of drivers for the SATA drive before it would stop complaining about no mass storage device being detected or available.
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And no mod points. That idea is simply awesome. I'm sure my initial reaction will be overturned due to some unforseen circumstance, but it seems quite logical as I look at it now.
You simply must be able to confirm that each registered voter was credited ONE vote in their account to begin with. No more, no less.
+1 Insightful/Interesting.
When in fact, a quick google search reveals....ta dah...Vitamin A is in fact the dangerous part of the polar bear liver due to the fact that polar bears feast upon fish-eating mammals and the vitamin A accumulates in their liver.
I thought it was Vitamin E [something in a Farley Mowat book years ago that I have probably not remembered properly]
Not to be picky or anything, but you've received 4MB in 3 days.....how can you read it all? Is it actual text data or did someone send you a movie?
I guess my original, false impression of your statement was that it was simply words [and not possibly binary data]. So, if you do receive >1MB/day of text data to read from mailing lists, do you actually read it all or end up deleting it like spam?
What about the mythical man month? Putting together an OS is not something simple one man can do himself. You need teams that build tools to build the OS and you need other people to communicate etc. More people leads to more delays due to communication and learning and everything.
There...I said it.
Actually, Hotmail must have done something magical to reduce the spam [or maybe I accidentally set my options to reject all mail or something].
Around the big blackout last August my friend commented that his spam in his hotmail account went down to almost nothing. I short while later, I also noticed the same thing. For an account that got 4 spams within a few hours of signing up, I can now check it once per week and maybe remove 5 spam emails. I admit I have some stuff directed to a junk folder, but I also had that when I received 20-30/day.
We get about 300,000-400,000 emails a day representing about 10 spams/user/day which is much lower then you, but we've been told [by a spam software salesperson] that we have a high spam count....90% of our mail is spam.
Spam is free for the sender, but we're required to have equipment that would have been enough for an ISP 4 times our size 5-6 years ago [numbers in the last paragraph were made up on the spot, but are meant to provide an example of cost]
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Get rid of HTML tags in message bodies and preview panes in Outlook Express. Previewing messages with HTML just leads to confirmations that the email has been delivered to a certain address. Address confirmed, put it on a list somewhere.
I mean, how many legitimate emails from friends/business partners do you get that have big red letters.
Plain text is all you need. Readers can then be written to identify URL's and allow the user to CLICK them.
Why on earth would anyone be amazed? The /10's and /12's you give cover MILLIONS of computers. Of course you're going to get lots of hits. The addresses probably contain millions of dynamically assigned addresses that get assigned to compromised machines..... Just like everywhere else on the planet that has internet.
Try blocking dynamic ranges and you'll probably do as well. Probably better because you'll end up blocking all the dynamic DSL connections from the big guys in North America like Comcast, Verizon and Bell etc.
Playing UT2003 one day [purchased, legitimate copy] and for an hour I kept getting booted off the network because some pirate had a key generator that was generating MY key. Boy was I bitter at that one.
I guess the same thing could happen with WindowsXP...someone generates your key and then you look like the pirate because to the microsoft servers, this key is showing up on two [or more] computers.
So, imagine how you, the legitimate consumer would feel being denied updates and accused of being a pirate because of a real pirate.
ARRRGGGHHHHH! Darn crooks.
And I'm wearing my zombo.com t-shirt today....I feel soooo special.
And nerdy.
I was so proud when I found that little dot in the labyrinth of the black castle. Amazing game. In fact, I thought that I was the only one who ever found it.
Never mind paying for the regular licensing for anti-virus software, but you're going to significantly increase the amount of email you have to scan.
More hardware is required to do this extra scanning. Several anti-virus packages limit how many messages/hour you can scan [I realize there are free ones, but that is beside the point].
This is all part of the cost of spam/viruses. A new mail server/virus scanner [or many more], more licensing for anti-virus software and more bandwidth to handle the spam/viruses that get out there.
No matter how much we would like it, not everything is free.
Throttling just informs the customer of a problem with their machine [maybe]. As I mentioned earlier, I've seen thousands of complaints generated from a simple 1-2 hour dialup session. Not a whole lot of bandwidth there and you can bet not everyone who received an email complained. So, if you do throttle down a high speed connection to dialup speeds, you're still leaving the window open for sending out thousands of spam emails by the virus. And everyone shows all these steps...increase latency, disable ports, restricting this and that. This is unreasonable for any business with more than a few hundred customers.
Well, by disconnecting them you block certain ports....on the customers machine.
Is this something you want to get into if you're the size of Comcast? I have no idea how many customers they have, but you can't block specific ports for every customer that's infected. First of all, there are too many customers and second of all, there are too many ports. It would be a logistical nightmare.
That's crazy. They probably only disconnect AFTER receiving complaints about an IP address at a certain time. I've seen people on dialup that are infected and have generated 3000+ complaints from AOL customers after only being online for a few hours. What is the ISP supposed to do? Let them continue getting IP addresses blacklisted and sending out thousands more emails!!
Somebody pointed this out last week and it has since stuck in my memory.
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This is offtopic and just in response to your sig.
You cannot mod someone down AND post in the same discussion.
Exactly. I would be willing to pay $1/song [that I wanted] if it was in MP3 format and I could move it to a couple of my computers, an MP3 player or burn it to CD. But something that can only be played on the computer it was downloaded onto is ridiculous.
I've only ever downloaded 1 song through Napster and all it did was prove to me that I didn't really want the song [sounded good on the commercial when it was all edited up]
The only problem I can see with not voting for your given reasons is that you are then indistinguishable from the 50% that didn't vote because they're too lazy or didn't care.
I've heard of purposely wrecking your ballot. Do they count wrecked ballots officially?
The image file ISN'T running a command. I'm not claiming that I understand the code or what specifically triggers the problem [negative offsets or something], but there is something special about the bitmap image that causes the rendering program to break in such a way that data in the image can be copied into memory and then executed.
Images are just data and everyone agrees with that, but you can display source code [C, perl whatever] as a bitmap file if you really want to, in numerous ways. Won't look like much, but you can't deny that the code is now a picture. Why can't a picture be formatted in such a way as to be interpreted as code.
The problem here is the renderer [have I mentioned that already], not the picture.
I think I read something about this on Slashdot not too long ago. Specifically, the potato breed was called the 'lumper'.
And as for starving to death, it wasn't just a few people, it was millions over a few years.
High uptime is cool because it means high availability and reliability.
Downtime definitely ISN'T cool.
My new computer I just purchased came with XP installed on an SATA drive. I was going to re-install right away anyway, so I installed Suse 9.0 Pro and it detected the drive wothout problem. Trying to do windows XP on the primary partition was the difficult part. It needed a disk full of drivers for the SATA drive before it would stop complaining about no mass storage device being detected or available.