Buying A VeriSign Cert is a bad idea, for reasons already mentioned. What *would* be a good idea, however, is for Mozilla foundation to to set itself up as a CA and sign all of it's software, updates and "Official" or semi-official add-ons.
I trust Mozilla foundation much more than VeriSign, and protecting users from trojaned programs on mirrors is a good idea.
I've received several pieces of spam lately where the URL of the website being advertised (the subject varies, free porn, free downloads, etc) is invalid... In fact, the only valid domain in these e-mails was in the unsubscribe link. I can only conclude that the purpose of this e-mail is to harvest the e-mail address of people who 'unsubscribe.'
I agree completely. Although it would hypocrisy for me to condemn pirates, MS's crackdown on piracy benefits me personally in two ways.
1. It's harder for legitimate computer businesses to compete when resellers can casually pirate windows for everyone, undercutting your price.
2. It's hard to convince people, business or individual, to use free software (where it would be most logically appropriate to do so) when as far as the are concerned, all software is free. I personally think FOSS is a superior choice, for many reasons, but truth is, initial aquisitioon cost is a strong influence of purchase decisions, wisely or not. The harder MS fights against piracy, the more they are helping FOSS flourish.
And of course, that must be why he "defensively" sued B&N? Jeff's definition of defensive means to defend against competitors competing, not against lawsuits.
Something that surprised me was to see that Endorphin is a standalone Windows App. I thought that was strange. Aren't pro animation people all using Unix / Linux and maybe some Mac? Massive, for example, seems to be a native Red Hat app. Doesn't it seem odd to create something for a niche market that doesn't run on the same platform said niche market already uses? Any thoughts from the trenches?
Actually, configuring a "supported" video card in Linux is much easier and less trouble prone than doing the same in Windows. Hell, even "unsuported" video cards, where there is Vendor support (Nvidia/ATI), are a cakewalk.
New movies are still coming out on VHS. What makes you think producers are going to kill DVD's??? A technology like VHS and DVD that manages to become the standard for untold "joe blow" consumers is where the money is at, and is where producers will target prducts.
Another note: VHS is still popular because it is the only medium people can record on. Now that DVD player prices have dropped to obscene lows in price, where manufacturers are only making a few dollars proffit on a player, a DVD recorder (for regular people to use to record HDTV broadcasts), will be the next thing to hit the mass market.
I know there are tons of legal hassels, and no doubt lawyers on both sides of the debate will make off with huge sums of cash. But in the end, this is the only avenue left open for profit and exploitation by hardware makers, and therefore, eventually, is where the market is going to go. This will, of course, ensure that DVD becomes the entrenched standard for even longer.
All of this will piss off movie execs, who will whine and moan about piracy, at the same time as sales for cheaply produced discs will continue to boost profits year after year. Really, I just can't understand some people. I can only imagine how much profits on DVD's will increase once studios realize they can publish DVD's without paying licenses to MacroVision. After all, it will have no effect on Piracy (anyone who wants can get around it anyhow), so why pay for it?
Note: The above post contains forward looking statements that reflect the personal opinion of the author only. Any resemblance to what will happen in the future is purely coincidental.
Why would it be hard to accidentally translate from Female to Bitch? leaving asside the traditional connotation of Bitch in the vocabulary of the average Slashdotter (couldn't resist). A bitch is, when all said and done, a female canine.
Actually no,, I agree that it's unfortunate the Disk Cache ends up holding useless data, (like a movie file that gets read once sequentially). But even so, switching tasks is almost always instant. The only problem I've ever encoutered is with applications that eschew senseless amounts of memory. (Like Mozilla or Firebird. The longer those have been running, the longer they will have to swap when I switch back. For Mozilla, I find it necessary to close the application from time to time and restart it to prevent the eventual memory leak from causing swap storms.)
Besides, if this behaviour bothers you, you can change the value of swappiness to prevent your applications from being swapped out. Overall, however, on most average workloads, the default settings provide the best performance.
I just opened outlook and tried to use this feature. Right off the bat, there is no facility for me to create my ID or key, only a cryptic "Import" function....
So, allright, I stand corrected, it was implemented in Outlook.. If I had to come up with a less user friendly design, I would be very hard pressed to do so. (Well, ok, mutt is slightly more obscure.)
I think the whole point of filtering by this technique would be to filter out messages that were sent from unknonw senders. Someone sending me a message would have to either: have their key signed by a authority I trust. B), Encrypt the message with my public key. Otherwise, the message should land in my "Unknown Senders" pile, which I can scan through if I really feel like it.
Would be happy too.. I would even pay Rogers a premium to have a Static IP to go with my "Business Class" broadband connection....
Oh, except, Rogers doensn't offer Static IP.. Bell offers it, for an insane premium, but they block port 25. *Ha*. And why would a registered e-mail server by any easier to block than an IP only server??
If the solution were that simple, it would have been implemented years ago.
Well, I have to disagree with your proposal. I'm one of those stubborn bastards who sends mail through my own e-mail server.
1) I really hate webmail.
2) As the administrator for our small network, I prefer to have direct access to the e-mail server logs for security and verification purposes.
3)Your suggestion would still not solve the spam problem.
As annoying as the constant Viagra and porn ads are, not to mention offensive to some people, 3 years from now, those will be pleasant memories compared to what's going to happen once MS and friends convice the powers that be (FCC et al) that the real problem is porn and scams, and therefore the solution is to create a mechanism for legit businesses to send legit messages. I forget the statistics, but I remember a post somewhere about how many spams we'll be getting per day if every business in the US sent 1 unsolicted message per year.... it was frigthening.
((Besides, the Viagra ads are starting to get artful and entertaining.))
Besides, how can you say it's failed for 10 years, when it was never *even* tried. Thunderbird is the first mainstream e-mail client I've installed that supports Encryption out of the box. But calling it mainstream is a stretch, and it doens't really include key management. If MS is serious about fighting spam and improving security, I think they should start with *Implementing* technology and standards that have been around for 10 years.
Spam would very quickly cease being a problem if mail clients were configured to start using PGP (GPG) keys and signatures by default. There is no need to re-invent or even change the e-mail RFC's.
Very simply, people can choose whether they want to receive unsigned e-mail, or accept sinatures from unkown keys. We'll eventually start building a web of turst (mistrust), such as, being able to automatically accept a key signed by some people or orgs, and similarly, blacklisting keys.
I could very easily, for example, instruct unknown senders (people who aren't in my contact list yet) to download my public key from a specified location to encryp a message that would bypass my filtes. Only a person who followed the instructions would be able to send me an unsolicited message.
What was the cause of the Kernel Panics? Generally speaking, if you have problems with memory, CPU, or bad blocks or other IO errors, any filesystem is likely to suffer some damage.
> The #1 result for "fucktards" is PETA on Yahoo...
That's a very interesting observation. So basically, for #1 result, instead of displaying a page that actually contains the search term, Yahoo found a page that was linked too with the search word. That's just weird.
Slashdot Mirror
And downloading a trojaned plug-in because it was hosted on a compromised mirror would not?
Buying A VeriSign Cert is a bad idea, for reasons already mentioned. What *would* be a good idea, however, is for Mozilla foundation to to set itself up as a CA and sign all of it's software, updates and "Official" or semi-official add-ons. I trust Mozilla foundation much more than VeriSign, and protecting users from trojaned programs on mirrors is a good idea.
Now *that's* clever.. mod parent up.
I've received several pieces of spam lately where the URL of the website being advertised (the subject varies, free porn, free downloads, etc) is invalid... In fact, the only valid domain in these e-mails was in the unsubscribe link. I can only conclude that the purpose of this e-mail is to harvest the e-mail address of people who 'unsubscribe.'
I agree completely. Although it would hypocrisy for me to condemn pirates, MS's crackdown on piracy benefits me personally in two ways. 1. It's harder for legitimate computer businesses to compete when resellers can casually pirate windows for everyone, undercutting your price. 2. It's hard to convince people, business or individual, to use free software (where it would be most logically appropriate to do so) when as far as the are concerned, all software is free. I personally think FOSS is a superior choice, for many reasons, but truth is, initial aquisitioon cost is a strong influence of purchase decisions, wisely or not. The harder MS fights against piracy, the more they are helping FOSS flourish.
It's called a sting... Once you have a list of people/shops selling pirated software, you send an undercover 'buyer' for proof.
And of course, that must be why he "defensively" sued B&N? Jeff's definition of defensive means to defend against competitors competing, not against lawsuits.
Makes sense... Thanks
Something that surprised me was to see that Endorphin is a standalone Windows App. I thought that was strange. Aren't pro animation people all using Unix / Linux and maybe some Mac? Massive, for example, seems to be a native Red Hat app. Doesn't it seem odd to create something for a niche market that doesn't run on the same platform said niche market already uses? Any thoughts from the trenches?
Actually, configuring a "supported" video card in Linux is much easier and less trouble prone than doing the same in Windows. Hell, even "unsuported" video cards, where there is Vendor support (Nvidia/ATI), are a cakewalk.
I knew they were avaiable, although, I am somewhat surprised they are now under $300...
Give me a call when they record to dual layer DVD's.
New movies are still coming out on VHS. What makes you think producers are going to kill DVD's??? A technology like VHS and DVD that manages to become the standard for untold "joe blow" consumers is where the money is at, and is where producers will target prducts.
Another note: VHS is still popular because it is the only medium people can record on. Now that DVD player prices have dropped to obscene lows in price, where manufacturers are only making a few dollars proffit on a player, a DVD recorder (for regular people to use to record HDTV broadcasts), will be the next thing to hit the mass market.
I know there are tons of legal hassels, and no doubt lawyers on both sides of the debate will make off with huge sums of cash. But in the end, this is the only avenue left open for profit and exploitation by hardware makers, and therefore, eventually, is where the market is going to go. This will, of course, ensure that DVD becomes the entrenched standard for even longer.
All of this will piss off movie execs, who will whine and moan about piracy, at the same time as sales for cheaply produced discs will continue to boost profits year after year. Really, I just can't understand some people. I can only imagine how much profits on DVD's will increase once studios realize they can publish DVD's without paying licenses to MacroVision. After all, it will have no effect on Piracy (anyone who wants can get around it anyhow), so why pay for it?
Note: The above post contains forward looking statements that reflect the personal opinion of the author only. Any resemblance to what will happen in the future is purely coincidental.
Why would it be hard to accidentally translate from Female to Bitch? leaving asside the traditional connotation of Bitch in the vocabulary of the average Slashdotter (couldn't resist). A bitch is, when all said and done, a female canine.
Easy.
The most expensive Nvidia card you can find.
Actually no,, I agree that it's unfortunate the Disk Cache ends up holding useless data, (like a movie file that gets read once sequentially). But even so, switching tasks is almost always instant. The only problem I've ever encoutered is with applications that eschew senseless amounts of memory. (Like Mozilla or Firebird. The longer those have been running, the longer they will have to swap when I switch back. For Mozilla, I find it necessary to close the application from time to time and restart it to prevent the eventual memory leak from causing swap storms.)
Besides, if this behaviour bothers you, you can change the value of swappiness to prevent your applications from being swapped out. Overall, however, on most average workloads, the default settings provide the best performance.
I just opened outlook and tried to use this feature. Right off the bat, there is no facility for me to create my ID or key, only a cryptic "Import" function....
So, allright, I stand corrected, it was implemented in Outlook.. If I had to come up with a less user friendly design, I would be very hard pressed to do so. (Well, ok, mutt is slightly more obscure.)
I think the whole point of filtering by this technique would be to filter out messages that were sent from unknonw senders. Someone sending me a message would have to either: have their key signed by a authority I trust. B), Encrypt the message with my public key. Otherwise, the message should land in my "Unknown Senders" pile, which I can scan through if I really feel like it.
Would be happy too.. I would even pay Rogers a premium to have a Static IP to go with my "Business Class" broadband connection....
Oh, except, Rogers doensn't offer Static IP.. Bell offers it, for an insane premium, but they block port 25. *Ha*. And why would a registered e-mail server by any easier to block than an IP only server??
If the solution were that simple, it would have been implemented years ago.
Well, I have to disagree with your proposal. I'm one of those stubborn bastards who sends mail through my own e-mail server.
1) I really hate webmail.
2) As the administrator for our small network, I prefer to have direct access to the e-mail server logs for security and verification purposes.
3)Your suggestion would still not solve the spam problem.
As annoying as the constant Viagra and porn ads are, not to mention offensive to some people, 3 years from now, those will be pleasant memories compared to what's going to happen once MS and friends convice the powers that be (FCC et al) that the real problem is porn and scams, and therefore the solution is to create a mechanism for legit businesses to send legit messages. I forget the statistics, but I remember a post somewhere about how many spams we'll be getting per day if every business in the US sent 1 unsolicted message per year.... it was frigthening.
((Besides, the Viagra ads are starting to get artful and entertaining.))
I agree.. really, I do.
But then, I dont gripe about the 50 or so people a day who contact me.
Besides, how can you say it's failed for 10 years, when it was never *even* tried. Thunderbird is the first mainstream e-mail client I've installed that supports Encryption out of the box. But calling it mainstream is a stretch, and it doens't really include key management. If MS is serious about fighting spam and improving security, I think they should start with *Implementing* technology and standards that have been around for 10 years.
Spam would very quickly cease being a problem if mail clients were configured to start using PGP (GPG) keys and signatures by default. There is no need to re-invent or even change the e-mail RFC's.
Very simply, people can choose whether they want to receive unsigned e-mail, or accept sinatures from unkown keys. We'll eventually start building a web of turst (mistrust), such as, being able to automatically accept a key signed by some people or orgs, and similarly, blacklisting keys.
I could very easily, for example, instruct unknown senders (people who aren't in my contact list yet) to download my public key from a specified location to encryp a message that would bypass my filtes. Only a person who followed the instructions would be able to send me an unsolicited message.
What was the cause of the Kernel Panics? Generally speaking, if you have problems with memory, CPU, or bad blocks or other IO errors, any filesystem is likely to suffer some damage.
> The #1 result for "fucktards" is PETA on Yahoo...
That's a very interesting observation. So basically, for #1 result, instead of displaying a page that actually contains the search term, Yahoo found a page that was linked too with the search word. That's just weird.
Actually, it sounds as though your IP Stack has been farked by Adware. Happens in Windows.