How many spammers do you know that don't forge the return address? This isn't a very good validation because they don't want to know if all of their emails get out. If they did, I wouldn't continue to be spammed on the same (dead) email address for 6 years now. The image-based technique mentioned above, along with bogus "unsubscribe" links, are seemingly the most oft-used techniques.
They are tried and true, and accuracy is very high, in most places 98% or higher.
The problem is that in the last presidential election, the margin of difference was way below that 2% error rate.
But I agree with you here. The arrow ballots are really easy to deal with, and people who can't figure them out are probably not smart enough to vote intelligently, anyway.
Do we really need more space? Why not a 20,000 rpm spindle? We need SPEED
Simple laws of geometry and physics should tell you that by increasing the data storage of the drive without increasing its size DOES increase the speed of the drive. Think about it - the spindle moves the same speed, but in doing so it is able to cover a more densly-packed data surface, thus giving it the ability to read more data in the same period of time.
Then again, unless you're a video editor (in which case, you should have SCSI or at least an ide raid), it's unlikely that you'll really want to use these particular drives for anything other than they were designed for - storage.
You've obviously never tried to copy many modern cd's... An oft-used copy protection scheme (used most often on game CD's) places physically bad sectors (or something that appears as such) on the disk that prevents bit-by-bit copies from completing (SCSI drives can handle it better, but IDE drives go NUTS when they hit these spots due to some 30-second timeout mess). Once you get your copy (if you used a SCSI drive to rip it) and burn it, your result won't work because your disk doesn't have those "bad" sectors on it - ie. it still needs a cracked version of the.exe that won't check those spots.
Again, this is mostly games, since they almost always require you to put in the CD as verification. To get around this, well, I don't play games.;)
My wife owns an iRiver SlimX, and when we showed it off to one of my ogg-loving friends, he immediately emailed them and asked about future ogg support (for those who don't know, iRiver releases frequent firmware updates based on user suggestions). Their reply was that they were already considering ogg, and support would most likely be in one of the next major firmware releases (unfortunately, a major release could be awhile). So, there may yet be hope.
You missed the "to an optional faith question" in the post. The government isn't really concerned about people who don't fill out the form, but that people filled out a religion which is entirely based on the [imho] fictional writings and producings of George Lucas, Joseph Cambell and whoever else helped write the original storylines.
And my guess is that they are more concerned that people will also fill out false information about other things (the US does give grants to many religious-based nonprofits, so maybe AU does, too). Those census things drive a LOT of funding, in many different areas.
Often links to websites - and the manner in which they are linked - imply a relationship or endorsement of a website that an organization might not accept.
Now this, I don't really understand. If I create a website, and put a link on it that points to another website, I'm generally aware of what I'm doing (If I don't want to imply endorsement/agreement, it'll either be clear from the context, or stated in a disclaimer near the link). Any traffic I'm sending to that other website is most likely going to be from my users who read the link and find it interesting (and thus worthy to follow). That's the whole reason of linking in the first place, isn't it? Redirect users to RELATED sites that they might find interesting?
The only time that any substantial amount of "misdirected" traffic might happen is if I maliciously create a misleading link (say, telling people that they're visiting "educational site A" when they're actually being redirected to "porn site B").
I agree with an earlier post - If a company doesn't want people linking to them, set up a good robots.txt file and implement some kind of referer checking.
From what I've read (unless it's changed recently) in their linux client forum, they won't be SELLING the linux client. You will buy the windows client, install it in windows, and then copy a bunch of files over to a linux box after you download the linux client. Pretty crappy for those who don't run windows.
Let the RIAA etc. do what grocery stores do and add the "losses" due to piracy onto everyone else's bill.
Don't they already do this? This is one of their canned responses when people complain about the high prices of software, music, etc. And honestly, if the prices go much higher, I'd guess that more people would start copying things.
Like communism, DRM is a *great* idea, but there's no way to actually make it work in real life like it's supposed to (so we get M$-DRM, just like we got Stalinism, Maoism, etc.). It's better to just raise awareness and get people to buy music (which in my case would be to make it CHEAPER).
When I got engaged (just got married on the 27th), I decided not to go with a diamond for many of the same reasons as the main poster. My (now) wife and I decided on a sapphire ring, with a few channel-set diamonds (to at least have a little of the so-called tradition). But instead of a dug-out-of-the-ground sapphire (which has many of the same problems that a diamond does), we got one made by Chatham - it cost about $400 and is equivalent to about a $10k "real" sapphire. The only difference? a little bit of spectrography (no matter what any jewellry store person will tell you, a good manufactured gem is identical to the "real" ones unless you have extra tools to test with).
The other problem with getting a non-standard gem is that a lot of jewellers won't help you (even that warehouse place with the "factory in the store" wouldn't change a setting for me). We ran across Talisman and they were more than happy to do all kinds of custom stuff (they did my wedding ring, too) and they don't charge extra for custom work, which is amazing. They were a bit flakey with my wedding ring, but their workmanship more than makes up for the difference. (I had to go for a blue diamond in mine because of the setting - no matter what you do, you can't get anything else to shine like a diamond).
Anyway, I love the fact that my wife's blue stone shines much more vibrantly (as in, you notice it right away amid the diamonds in the ring) than a mere diamond. The geek in me can't get enough of the fact that the stone was grown in an oven (or in the case of my blue diamond, was blasted by radiation until it turned blue), and the environmentalist in me is happy that no more huge holes were dug in the ground to get it.
By looking at this timeline, Linux's competitors (BSD, Micro$oft, Sun...) may get an idea of how we managed to do so much with so little
Didn't ESR sum this up perfectly in "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" with the whole "release early and often" mentality? This, combined with its open source, is what made/makes linux great. That said, I wouldn't mind in the least if M$, Sun, etc started following this mentality.
Not to start a distro-war here (since I really think it still lies in your personal preference), but there is an apt-get for redhat (called of all things, apt-rpm). Works just like apt does in debian, though with slightly fewer sources for files (but the lists are growing as people catch on).
exactly. In my case, no keystroke works (that includes control-alt-delete). And honestly, sometimes it's just easier to reboot the machine than try to manually kill/respawn bad processes. This is a desktop machine, not a server. A little downtime won't hurt anything.
OK, you lost me here. I work with a couple of NTFS partitions, containing a total of 2-4 million small files (about 40 gigs total, split on two 40 gig drives), and when my machine crashed the other day, it took OVER AN HOUR before it finished its mandatory file check. Not to mention the fact that it takes windows about a minute and a half to "find itself" after the bios checks and begin booting whenever I have to restart. Hell, I even tried to format one of the drives in FAT32 since it handles small files better, but the Win2k programmers decided that no one should format Fat32 partitions larger than 32 gigs (and you can't unless you use something other than Win2k)
My linux box (not quite as many files) recovers its ext3 journal seemingly instantly after any crash (oh wait, it doesn't crash) or forced reboot (I'll admit that sometimes it's just easier to reboot the machine than try to restart X when the screensaver won't power my monitor back up)
Well maybe he doesn't want to pay ridiculous prices for Apple hardware?
This excuse went out the door several years ago. Apple's hardware isn't ANY more expensive than comparable WIntel hardware. People just don't understand that macs tend to outperform PC stuff hands down. But really, when you go to Dell or any other big manufacturer advertising a whole system for "under $500", you end up paying well over $1000 by the time the machine is remotely usable. When you go to apple and buy an iMac for $1100 (or one of the older ones for as low as $700-800), you're getting a system that's WAY more powerful than that PC one, with a better OS.
Plus, you're contributing to the size of Steve Jobs' ego, just in case someone else might be catching up in the race for world's-largest.
Now if only my poor old mac could run OSX, I wouldn't have become so enamored with linux!
The problem with this idea becoming a "contest" sort of defeats the purpose of having ads, or paying more for "clicks" than "views." If people were just randomly clicking ads, for the sake of generating revenue for the host, but theoretically not paying attention to the CONTENT of those ads (I do it occasionally for places like thehungersite.com), the value of those ads will decrease incredibly, to the point that a "click" would be worth no more than a "view". And since people would rarely actually be looking at the ads, neither would be worth very much (sad, considering how little they're worth now).
I think it would be MORE important to host advertisers that actually have interesting stuff to sell, so users would be genuinely interested in clicking and browsing the site, thus making the advertisements worth more, not less.
Actually, the opposite of bitter is salty. Sour is the opposite of sweet. (trust me, I'm marrying a pastry chef) If you don't believe me, just try it. Add salt to something bitter (like grapefruit), the bitter goes away and you can taste the other flavors (like "sweet").
If you're just talking about colours, is it really that big a deal?
Yes, it is. I spend 10-12 hours each day sitting in front of a computer screen. Reading dark text set on a light background may be fine for paper, but when that light background is essentially a glowing white light bulb, your eyes REALLY have to work hard to keep that black text in focus. Personally, I enjoy not needing glasses, and so I use a theme (gtk) that uses a dark grey background with light-grey text (or when forced to use Windows at work, I at least tweak my editor to look similar). This has the effect of SERIOUSLY reducing my eye strain.
So yes, colors are quite important, and though Aqua may look nice for the average user, it's not such a good them for programmers (and I would do my best to change it if my mac could actually run OSX - as it stands, I'm running a light-on-dark theme in OS 9).
This really is on topic, in the sense that because of the bulk of spam coming in, there should be some consideration for it in how mail is stored. Maybe even by creating a special bit of meta-data for handling things just like this (so spamassassin wouldn't have to modify the actual message body) - or anything else for that matter.
Personally, I'd try to stay away from any mail storage format that doesn't let me get at the ORIGINAL email source so I can report the spam to spamcop and/or the WA State Attorney General (being that some suggestions mentioned splitting off the attachments/etc - this is something that the CLIENT should do, not the MDA/server).
Personally, I really like Maildir. It works great for IMAP, and with the file system improvements mentioned before (and maybe some db-type improvements like indexing, caching, etc) it does its job well.. but NEVER take away my email source.
Heck, with drive space so cheap lately, you could easily store both the source AND (a cache of) the extracted pieces..
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How many spammers do you know that don't forge the return address? This isn't a very good validation because they don't want to know if all of their emails get out. If they did, I wouldn't continue to be spammed on the same (dead) email address for 6 years now. The image-based technique mentioned above, along with bogus "unsubscribe" links, are seemingly the most oft-used techniques.
The problem is that in the last presidential election, the margin of difference was way below that 2% error rate.
But I agree with you here. The arrow ballots are really easy to deal with, and people who can't figure them out are probably not smart enough to vote intelligently, anyway.
Simple laws of geometry and physics should tell you that by increasing the data storage of the drive without increasing its size DOES increase the speed of the drive. Think about it - the spindle moves the same speed, but in doing so it is able to cover a more densly-packed data surface, thus giving it the ability to read more data in the same period of time.
Then again, unless you're a video editor (in which case, you should have SCSI or at least an ide raid), it's unlikely that you'll really want to use these particular drives for anything other than they were designed for - storage.
Yes, but "trivial" is. Thus, at least according to them, this is an "inconsequential change in meaning."
You've obviously never tried to copy many modern cd's... An oft-used copy protection scheme (used most often on game CD's) places physically bad sectors (or something that appears as such) on the disk that prevents bit-by-bit copies from completing (SCSI drives can handle it better, but IDE drives go NUTS when they hit these spots due to some 30-second timeout mess). Once you get your copy (if you used a SCSI drive to rip it) and burn it, your result won't work because your disk doesn't have those "bad" sectors on it - ie. it still needs a cracked version of the .exe that won't check those spots.
Again, this is mostly games, since they almost always require you to put in the CD as verification. To get around this, well, I don't play games. ;)
My wife owns an iRiver SlimX, and when we showed it off to one of my ogg-loving friends, he immediately emailed them and asked about future ogg support (for those who don't know, iRiver releases frequent firmware updates based on user suggestions). Their reply was that they were already considering ogg, and support would most likely be in one of the next major firmware releases (unfortunately, a major release could be awhile). So, there may yet be hope.
And my guess is that they are more concerned that people will also fill out false information about other things (the US does give grants to many religious-based nonprofits, so maybe AU does, too). Those census things drive a LOT of funding, in many different areas.
I've heard from friends that Connector works great. However, I believe that the poster is looking for a server solution, not a client.
Now this, I don't really understand. If I create a website, and put a link on it that points to another website, I'm generally aware of what I'm doing (If I don't want to imply endorsement/agreement, it'll either be clear from the context, or stated in a disclaimer near the link). Any traffic I'm sending to that other website is most likely going to be from my users who read the link and find it interesting (and thus worthy to follow). That's the whole reason of linking in the first place, isn't it? Redirect users to RELATED sites that they might find interesting?
The only time that any substantial amount of "misdirected" traffic might happen is if I maliciously create a misleading link (say, telling people that they're visiting "educational site A" when they're actually being redirected to "porn site B").
I agree with an earlier post - If a company doesn't want people linking to them, set up a good robots.txt file and implement some kind of referer checking.
From what I've read (unless it's changed recently) in their linux client forum, they won't be SELLING the linux client. You will buy the windows client, install it in windows, and then copy a bunch of files over to a linux box after you download the linux client. Pretty crappy for those who don't run windows.
Don't they already do this? This is one of their canned responses when people complain about the high prices of software, music, etc. And honestly, if the prices go much higher, I'd guess that more people would start copying things.
Like communism, DRM is a *great* idea, but there's no way to actually make it work in real life like it's supposed to (so we get M$-DRM, just like we got Stalinism, Maoism, etc.). It's better to just raise awareness and get people to buy music (which in my case would be to make it CHEAPER).
The other problem with getting a non-standard gem is that a lot of jewellers won't help you (even that warehouse place with the "factory in the store" wouldn't change a setting for me). We ran across Talisman and they were more than happy to do all kinds of custom stuff (they did my wedding ring, too) and they don't charge extra for custom work, which is amazing. They were a bit flakey with my wedding ring, but their workmanship more than makes up for the difference. (I had to go for a blue diamond in mine because of the setting - no matter what you do, you can't get anything else to shine like a diamond).
Anyway, I love the fact that my wife's blue stone shines much more vibrantly (as in, you notice it right away amid the diamonds in the ring) than a mere diamond. The geek in me can't get enough of the fact that the stone was grown in an oven (or in the case of my blue diamond, was blasted by radiation until it turned blue), and the environmentalist in me is happy that no more huge holes were dug in the ground to get it.
Didn't ESR sum this up perfectly in "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" with the whole "release early and often" mentality? This, combined with its open source, is what made/makes linux great. That said, I wouldn't mind in the least if M$, Sun, etc started following this mentality.
also, this parasite is the reason that pregnant women shouldn't go near dirty cat litter, so it's not just otters who are affected by this.
Not to start a distro-war here (since I really think it still lies in your personal preference), but there is an apt-get for redhat (called of all things, apt-rpm). Works just like apt does in debian, though with slightly fewer sources for files (but the lists are growing as people catch on).
exactly. In my case, no keystroke works (that includes control-alt-delete). And honestly, sometimes it's just easier to reboot the machine than try to manually kill/respawn bad processes. This is a desktop machine, not a server. A little downtime won't hurt anything.
My linux box (not quite as many files) recovers its ext3 journal seemingly instantly after any crash (oh wait, it doesn't crash) or forced reboot (I'll admit that sometimes it's just easier to reboot the machine than try to restart X when the screensaver won't power my monitor back up)
This excuse went out the door several years ago. Apple's hardware isn't ANY more expensive than comparable WIntel hardware. People just don't understand that macs tend to outperform PC stuff hands down. But really, when you go to Dell or any other big manufacturer advertising a whole system for "under $500", you end up paying well over $1000 by the time the machine is remotely usable. When you go to apple and buy an iMac for $1100 (or one of the older ones for as low as $700-800), you're getting a system that's WAY more powerful than that PC one, with a better OS.
Plus, you're contributing to the size of Steve Jobs' ego, just in case someone else might be catching up in the race for world's-largest.
Now if only my poor old mac could run OSX, I wouldn't have become so enamored with linux!
I think it would be MORE important to host advertisers that actually have interesting stuff to sell, so users would be genuinely interested in clicking and browsing the site, thus making the advertisements worth more, not less.
Actually, the opposite of bitter is salty. Sour is the opposite of sweet. (trust me, I'm marrying a pastry chef) If you don't believe me, just try it. Add salt to something bitter (like grapefruit), the bitter goes away and you can taste the other flavors (like "sweet").
Yes, it is. I spend 10-12 hours each day sitting in front of a computer screen. Reading dark text set on a light background may be fine for paper, but when that light background is essentially a glowing white light bulb, your eyes REALLY have to work hard to keep that black text in focus. Personally, I enjoy not needing glasses, and so I use a theme (gtk) that uses a dark grey background with light-grey text (or when forced to use Windows at work, I at least tweak my editor to look similar). This has the effect of SERIOUSLY reducing my eye strain.
So yes, colors are quite important, and though Aqua may look nice for the average user, it's not such a good them for programmers (and I would do my best to change it if my mac could actually run OSX - as it stands, I'm running a light-on-dark theme in OS 9).
-xris
This really is on topic, in the sense that because of the bulk of spam coming in, there should be some consideration for it in how mail is stored. Maybe even by creating a special bit of meta-data for handling things just like this (so spamassassin wouldn't have to modify the actual message body) - or anything else for that matter. Personally, I'd try to stay away from any mail storage format that doesn't let me get at the ORIGINAL email source so I can report the spam to spamcop and/or the WA State Attorney General (being that some suggestions mentioned splitting off the attachments/etc - this is something that the CLIENT should do, not the MDA/server). Personally, I really like Maildir. It works great for IMAP, and with the file system improvements mentioned before (and maybe some db-type improvements like indexing, caching, etc) it does its job well.. but NEVER take away my email source. Heck, with drive space so cheap lately, you could easily store both the source AND (a cache of) the extracted pieces..