"Spiderman 2 was the only movie where I had difficulty telling.."
What? Spiderman 2 had CG about the same quality as the much-overhyped-piece-of-shit 'burly brawl' from Matrix 6 or whatever. All the CG in spiderman looked a bit too 'cartoony' for me. Cartoony is fine, if you're Shrek. Mixing it with live-action means spending a bit more time on lighting and textures. Plus, all the CG motion-capture was overacted. You can always tell when it switches to CG-spidey cos the actions become very pronounced, like some kind of second-rate pantomime.
Due to the lack of obvious sarcasm in your post, I'll reply. Ignoring the obvious stupidity of a virus to fix a virus, I take issue with the following
...sends out copies of itself to every person in the address book... ...spreads like wildfire...
In my experience, the major problem with most viruses is the spreading, not the payload. These days it's very rare to find a virus that actually does any serious damage (and I'd have to agree that with most viruses-exploiting-months-old-holes any damage is probably deserved).
The problem is the viruses don't just affect those who get infected. Every time there's a decent outbreak, every bloody person on the planet gets upwards of a dozen emails, either with the virus, or a bogus 'you sent a virus' message from retarded anti-virus scanners.
Upshot of this is that the internet slows down for *everyone*. Email service dies for some people. Famine, drought, riots, AIDS, cancer.
It's just a general pain-in-the-ass.
For every viral-anti-virus email you send out, I shall kill you.
Hey, don't knock Magnet Medicine. My uncle complained that his Windows kept crashing. So I put a couple of strong magnets on his hard drive, and hey presto - problem went away!
I think the technology will help the climbers make everest *even harder*, therefore *escalating* it from a 'really fucking hard' climb to a 'even superman shits himself at the thought' climb.
Although quite _why_ you'd want to do that, I don't know. But hey, that's the only way that sentence makes sense, so it must be right.
"If I were one of my users, I would have clicked Install, because I'd be jawdroppingly retarded."
Funniest fucking thing I've read in this discussion. I think it's funny because it's true, and because I (and I'm sure many others here) know _exactly_ how you feel..
Medicine is complicated, but most people know enough that if they have a headache, aspirin will make it go away. They don't need to know exactly what aspirin does at the molecular-biology level.
Almost every complex thing breaks down into simpler parts, or concepts.
This can be applied to cars - you've got a seat, an engine, wheels. The engine is connected to the wheels by something (we could call it the drivetrain if we so wished). The front wheels are connected to the steering wheel, and can turn left and right.
Using just this basic information you can start to diagnose problems - if the engine is going, but the car's not moving, the problem must be either a lack of wheels or something's wrong with the drivetrain. That kind of thing.
Same thing works for computers - except because it's mostly software (where the problems lie) it's a bit harder to grasp. People just need to be told the basic steps computers go through (after all, that's all they do, just step through instructions).
If my mother was to ask me how Internet Explorer works, I wouldn't start by telling her the names of API calls (not that I know them). I would tell her you type in a URL (which includes the name of a server), it asks another computer where that server lives and then goes to that server and asks for a document.
My point is that just because something's complicated isn't an excuse, or an invitation, to be ignorant. Almost everything can be abstracted to high enough a level for anyone to understand, at a basic level.
Yes, I can imagine not too far from now people will stop using email because one in every X emails is a virus. People will have to resort to phoning each other with information. Argh! Then we'll start getting phone calls saying "type the following commands into your computer to make your net connection 200% faster!" or "your computer is broadcasting an IP address. Download this program from www.virusmofo.com to fix it"
Of course, I can also imagine a world where we are ruled by giant grashoppers.
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The best way to make them feel stupid is to beat them, in a crappy old car.
My mate has a 1961 Morris Minor with an old Datsun 1200 engine in it. The gear ratios are so low that first gear tops out at about 30 km/h. But that thing *moves* off the line, and still has the original paint (what's left of it).
We used to go out every few weeks and beat all the little civics and mazdas in the usual Friday night 'traffic light drags' (ie, first-to-50km/h or first-across-the-intersection).
I still remember the look on the face of the first punk-kid-driving-mummy's-civic-with-type-R-sticker s we whipped. The next time we stopped everyone in his car was staring, like 'what the fuck just happened?'. We replied with a look that said 'that's right, that's how shit you are'
Yeah, but you'll most likely blow your engine and for some reason the floor will fall out.
And Vin Diesel will kick your ass anyway.
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Hello, mods? Put down the crack pipes!
The post suggests using Word Docs for The Linux Documentation Project.
On Slashdot.
A Microsoft, proprietary format.
For documenting linux.
I'm thinking he's probably not serious.
Dude even ends his message with 'lol' and still gets modded interesting!!
One can only conclude that, once again, the moderators are on crack.
I guess it would explain all the "Frist post! j00 i5 teh suxx0rs" posts that have been getting +5, insightful...
I was in a building once where the lifts had an LCD display above the door saying what level you were on. Found out that these displays were running windows. How I found out - got into a lift and saw 'this program has executed an invalid instruction'.
The Blue Screen of Death does not inspire confidence when stepping into a metal cage hundreds of feet above the ground!:)
While this system is not perfect and, yes it may cause some headaches for most, having sendmail match the MX record to the IP of the sendind server would eliminate almost 100% of all the SPAM that I have encountered in the last 3 months.
You're right, this system is not perfect, and would cause a *lot* of headaches for almost all users (or at least, us admins).
Firstly, it creates a lot of technical headaches..
The way I see it, the only way I could send email under your proposed system would be through a relay whose IP address was the same as the server listed in the domain's MX record, right?
So, in order to send email from myaddress@somedomain.com, my MTA has to have the same IP address as somedomain.com's mail exchanger?
Not. Gonna. Work.
I send mail from several different physical locations (home, work, etc), as several different addresses/domains. This means in order to send email as my home address while I'm at work, I'd have to send through my home ISP's mail relay. Which I can't do, because I'm not on their network (and they don't have an open relay, to prevent *spam*).
I also send email as being from a couple of domains I own, but I send this email thru whatever system I happen to be on (ISP or work, whatever), as my domain just points at things, rather than running a full-time MTA just to deliver my email..
Not to mention the fact that most ISPs I can think of would have more than one server in charge of mail, and it would be possible, if not likely, that the outgoing mail relay is a different machine than the one that accepts incoming mail (ie, the one in the MX record).
But let's just assume, for argument's sake, that everything was working as you outline. Everyone sends mail thru a relay whose IP corresponds to the domain they're sending from.
All I need to do to send spam is get an account at an ISP, let's say I get username foo at ISP isp.com. Now I dial up, and send a big bunch of spam, from false.address@isp.com. So your domain/mx/ip check works ok, but it's still a false address. Sure, my IP address will be in the headers, but how different is that from the current situation?
Next you'll be suggesting that to combat terrorism, before getting on a plane passengers should have to pass a 1/2 hour series of tests with questions like 'are you a terrorist?' and 'Is this flight for: a) business; b) pleasure; or c) terrorism?'
Not going to make it any harder for the terrorists (except the really dumb ones), but a big pain in the ass for Joe Citizen.
I remember a story of a guy (maybe in Australia?) who rewound the voice coil on a single woofer so that it blew itself apart. Apparently he turned up at a dB drag race event with his little old hatchback with one speaker in it, 2 seconds of silence was followed by one hell of a bang and he drives away with the trophy. Anyone else heard this story? It could be urban legend, but it sounds vaguely plausible (and funny)
Who do you sue, the spammer or the company the spammer is trying to make you a customer of?
The company! It's win-win. Not only is it easier to find the company than the spammer (just click the link), but if you take away the spammer's revenue..
Same thing happened with fast food chains and the meat industry. The fast food industry (well, at least a couple of the big players) wanted their suppliers to clean up their act WRT e.coli etc, and they did.
Remember the golden rule!
Hit them in the pocket!
It's a trap!
(sorry, cliche machine broke)
country-specific country-specific country-spec ific Country
? As in, the post office (I think that's what the real world equivalent of an MTA is called) just needs to know what country to send it to. That country can figure out the rest. That way I can write a whole lot of foreign language stuff (eg kanji) on an envelope, put 'Japan' at the bottom, and my local post office can flick it over to Japan for them to sort out.
This is just like network comms, people. OSI layers anyone? The hardware layer doesn't need to know the format of the application data..
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"Spiderman 2 was the only movie where I had difficulty telling.."
What? Spiderman 2 had CG about the same quality as the much-overhyped-piece-of-shit 'burly brawl' from Matrix 6 or whatever.
All the CG in spiderman looked a bit too 'cartoony' for me. Cartoony is fine, if you're Shrek. Mixing it with live-action means spending a bit more time on lighting and textures.
Plus, all the CG motion-capture was overacted. You can always tell when it switches to CG-spidey cos the actions become very pronounced, like some kind of second-rate pantomime.
Due to the lack of obvious sarcasm in your post, I'll reply. Ignoring the obvious stupidity of a virus to fix a virus, I take issue with the following
...sends out copies of itself to every person in the address book...
...spreads like wildfire...
In my experience, the major problem with most viruses is the spreading, not the payload. These days it's very rare to find a virus that actually does any serious damage (and I'd have to agree that with most viruses-exploiting-months-old-holes any damage is probably deserved).
The problem is the viruses don't just affect those who get infected. Every time there's a decent outbreak, every bloody person on the planet gets upwards of a dozen emails, either with the virus, or a bogus 'you sent a virus' message from retarded anti-virus scanners.
Upshot of this is that the internet slows down for *everyone*. Email service dies for some people. Famine, drought, riots, AIDS, cancer.
It's just a general pain-in-the-ass.
For every viral-anti-virus email you send out, I shall kill you.
How about applying a Sharpen/Unsharp Mask after resampling them down to a lower res?
That's not JPEG blur, it's resampling blur.
Hey, don't knock Magnet Medicine. My uncle complained that his Windows kept crashing. So I put a couple of strong magnets on his hard drive, and hey presto - problem went away!
No, it's right.
I think the technology will help the climbers make everest *even harder*, therefore *escalating* it from a 'really fucking hard' climb to a 'even superman shits himself at the thought' climb.
Although quite _why_ you'd want to do that, I don't know. But hey, that's the only way that sentence makes sense, so it must be right.
"If I were one of my users, I would have clicked Install, because I'd be jawdroppingly retarded."
Funniest fucking thing I've read in this discussion. I think it's funny because it's true, and because I (and I'm sure many others here) know _exactly_ how you feel..
Medicine is complicated, but most people know enough that if they have a headache, aspirin will make it go away. They don't need to know exactly what aspirin does at the molecular-biology level.
Almost every complex thing breaks down into simpler parts, or concepts.
This can be applied to cars - you've got a seat, an engine, wheels. The engine is connected to the wheels by something (we could call it the drivetrain if we so wished). The front wheels are connected to the steering wheel, and can turn left and right.
Using just this basic information you can start to diagnose problems - if the engine is going, but the car's not moving, the problem must be either a lack of wheels or something's wrong with the drivetrain. That kind of thing.
Same thing works for computers - except because it's mostly software (where the problems lie) it's a bit harder to grasp. People just need to be told the basic steps computers go through (after all, that's all they do, just step through instructions).
If my mother was to ask me how Internet Explorer works, I wouldn't start by telling her the names of API calls (not that I know them). I would tell her you type in a URL (which includes the name of a server), it asks another computer where that server lives and then goes to that server and asks for a document.
My point is that just because something's complicated isn't an excuse, or an invitation, to be ignorant. Almost everything can be abstracted to high enough a level for anyone to understand, at a basic level.
Yes, I can imagine not too far from now people will stop using email because one in every X emails is a virus. People will have to resort to phoning each other with information. Argh!
Then we'll start getting phone calls saying "type the following commands into your computer to make your net connection 200% faster!" or "your computer is broadcasting an IP address. Download this program from www.virusmofo.com to fix it"
Of course, I can also imagine a world where we are ruled by giant grashoppers.
The best way to make them feel stupid is to beat them, in a crappy old car.
r s we whipped. The next time we stopped everyone in his car was staring, like 'what the fuck just happened?'. We replied with a look that said 'that's right, that's how shit you are'
My mate has a 1961 Morris Minor with an old Datsun 1200 engine in it. The gear ratios are so low that first gear tops out at about 30 km/h. But that thing *moves* off the line, and still has the original paint (what's left of it).
We used to go out every few weeks and beat all the little civics and mazdas in the usual Friday night 'traffic light drags' (ie, first-to-50km/h or first-across-the-intersection).
I still remember the look on the face of the first punk-kid-driving-mummy's-civic-with-type-R-sticke
Yeah, but you'll most likely blow your engine and for some reason the floor will fall out.
And Vin Diesel will kick your ass anyway.
Hello, mods? Put down the crack pipes!
The post suggests using Word Docs for The Linux Documentation Project.
On Slashdot.
A Microsoft, proprietary format.
For documenting linux.
I'm thinking he's probably not serious.
Dude even ends his message with 'lol' and still gets modded interesting!!
One can only conclude that, once again, the moderators are on crack.
I guess it would explain all the "Frist post! j00 i5 teh suxx0rs" posts that have been getting +5, insightful...
Reminds me of a spam I got with the subject "Are you satisfied with the smallness of your c0ck?"
Talk about a loaded question..
Holy shit! Someone tell Dubya!
I'd like to see a group of boy racers ('ricers') get charged with having Weapons of Mass Destruction..
I thought it was intentional at first - clicked on the 'quote of the day' link and got:
/home/garweb/inc/connection.php on line 15
Warning: mysql_pconnect(): Too many connections in
I thought that was a pretty poignant quote, as any php/mysql admin will attest..
Dude, you need to get out more. Seriously.
give us something to do at the bar other than use the sniper scope to zoom-in on the bartender's nipples
Seriously.
I was in a building once where the lifts had an LCD display above the door saying what level you were on.
:)
Found out that these displays were running windows.
How I found out - got into a lift and saw 'this program has executed an invalid instruction'.
The Blue Screen of Death does not inspire confidence when stepping into a metal cage hundreds of feet above the ground!
I can't beleive a user meeting those qualifications is going to be making any major software purchases soon...
Are you kidding? That's Microsoft's target market!
you obviously haven't got an email from my boss :)
+4, insightful?
I beg to differ!
While this system is not perfect and, yes it may cause some headaches for most, having sendmail match the MX record to the IP of the sendind server would eliminate almost 100% of all the SPAM that I have encountered in the last 3 months.
You're right, this system is not perfect, and would cause a *lot* of headaches for almost all users (or at least, us admins).
Firstly, it creates a lot of technical headaches..
The way I see it, the only way I could send email under your proposed system would be through a relay whose IP address was the same as the server listed in the domain's MX record, right?
So, in order to send email from myaddress@somedomain.com, my MTA has to have the same IP address as somedomain.com's mail exchanger?
Not. Gonna. Work.
I send mail from several different physical locations (home, work, etc), as several different addresses/domains. This means in order to send email as my home address while I'm at work, I'd have to send through my home ISP's mail relay. Which I can't do, because I'm not on their network (and they don't have an open relay, to prevent *spam*).
I also send email as being from a couple of domains I own, but I send this email thru whatever system I happen to be on (ISP or work, whatever), as my domain just points at things, rather than running a full-time MTA just to deliver my email..
Not to mention the fact that most ISPs I can think of would have more than one server in charge of mail, and it would be possible, if not likely, that the outgoing mail relay is a different machine than the one that accepts incoming mail (ie, the one in the MX record).
But let's just assume, for argument's sake, that everything was working as you outline. Everyone sends mail thru a relay whose IP corresponds to the domain they're sending from.
All I need to do to send spam is get an account at an ISP, let's say I get username foo at ISP isp.com. Now I dial up, and send a big bunch of spam, from false.address@isp.com. So your domain/mx/ip check works ok, but it's still a false address. Sure, my IP address will be in the headers, but how different is that from the current situation?
Next you'll be suggesting that to combat terrorism, before getting on a plane passengers should have to pass a 1/2 hour series of tests with questions like 'are you a terrorist?' and 'Is this flight for: a) business; b) pleasure; or c) terrorism?'
Not going to make it any harder for the terrorists (except the really dumb ones), but a big pain in the ass for Joe Citizen.
(sorry, in a bit of a ranting mood)
I remember a story of a guy (maybe in Australia?) who rewound the voice coil on a single woofer so that it blew itself apart.
Apparently he turned up at a dB drag race event with his little old hatchback with one speaker in it, 2 seconds of silence was followed by one hell of a bang and he drives away with the trophy.
Anyone else heard this story? It could be urban legend, but it sounds vaguely plausible (and funny)
Who do you sue, the spammer or the company the spammer is trying to make you a customer of?
The company! It's win-win. Not only is it easier to find the company than the spammer (just click the link), but if you take away the spammer's revenue..
Same thing happened with fast food chains and the meat industry. The fast food industry (well, at least a couple of the big players) wanted their suppliers to clean up their act WRT e.coli etc, and they did.
Remember the golden rule!
Hit them in the pocket!
It's a trap!
(sorry, cliche machine broke)
What's wrong with
c ific
country-specific
country-specific
country-spe
Country
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As in, the post office (I think that's what the real world equivalent of an MTA is called) just needs to know what country to send it to. That country can figure out the rest.
That way I can write a whole lot of foreign language stuff (eg kanji) on an envelope, put 'Japan' at the bottom, and my local post office can flick it over to Japan for them to sort out.
This is just like network comms, people. OSI layers anyone? The hardware layer doesn't need to know the format of the application data..
That's just beautiful, man. *sniff*
/. has had it for a while, only subscribers get it :)
No, I think you mean other people. :p