A year is 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes (365.2424 Universal days)
Why don't we just get a big rocket, and alter the orbit so that it is exactly 365 days ? Or better yet 366 days, then we can give everyone a holiday (in rememberance of all of the species that were extinguished for our selfish ends).
Too bad you don't live in Vancouver, I've got 486's coming out my asshole over here. They all have 8MB of ram, with 1MB simms dammit. I'm going to get linux on one, but what else do you do ? Maybe I'll submit this to ask slashdot.
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But what about mass mailings that I want to get ?
You could vary the authentication requirements for different email addresses. For people you know, or lists you subscribe to, you could require really weak authentication (for example, the weak scheme would only use the message content and the sender's key, so they would only have to calculate it once). Mailing lists would pretty much want to use the weak scheme, and then you'd have to allow it for that email address. Since the sender's private key is involved, nobody could spam you through the list.
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Better to scrap the current email protocols and develop a new one that enforces accountability. Don't ask me how this'll work, but I think it the best solution out there.
How about requiring authentication ? Messages would be signed using the public key of the recipient, the private key of the sender, and the content of the message. The computational overhead of doing this would make mass mailings unfeasible. As a bonus, you could verify the sender and recipient, as well as the message integrity. As a bonus, it would be easy to tack on encryption.
If you're going to reinvent the wheel, do it right.
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Inetd is an internet "superserver". For traditional, high use sites people usually run a dedicated service, or daemon, to provide the service. This daemon runs in the background listening for requests and doing whatever it is supposed to do. If your have to offer a lot of services (http, ftp, telnet, mail, ssh, etc...), but none of them are used very much, an internet superserver is a better way to go. Inetd sits in the background listening on a whole bunch of ports waiting for a request. When it gets an ftp request, it starts the ftp server to handle the request(s), and shuts it down after. This sort of thing will allow you to run lots of services on a very slow computer. Unfortunately, because of all the starting and stopping, none of those services can handle a high volume.
This is dead on. Younger people are far more exploitable (as a group) than older people. They are less likely to have their own families, more likely to be willing to work ridiculous hours, and less willing to stand up for themselves.
"We will not allow these tornados of terror to frighten our communities and threaten America. Our response must be decisive, this grave evil does not deserve to be protected, as American citizens were, by our constitution."
We should revise copyright back to the original (in the US, anyway) fourteen year term. That would solve a host of problems, including this one. A modern song can use samples from old music without concern, wheras "remixes" and "dance mixes", which get their appeal and commercial value from current commercial works would have to pay. Musicians would surely like this, but the copyright industry would never let it happen.
Am I the only one who plays this game already ? I aim for the holes. When that gets boring, try to write letters or draw things. Do not eat the big white mints.
The original Galactic Civilizations was a great game. It was fairly simple to get started in it (and beat the computer on patsy setting), but with a large universe and hard opponents, the game was incredibly deep. Any fan of strategy games should give this game their serious consideration. Now, if only I could get it on linux.
ISPs sometimes defend such language as necessary boilerplate necessary to clarify their necessary right to "present content" by doing things like serving web pages.
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A year is 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes (365.2424 Universal days)
Why don't we just get a big rocket, and alter the orbit so that it is exactly 365 days ? Or better yet 366 days, then we can give everyone a holiday (in rememberance of all of the species that were extinguished for our selfish ends).
Too bad you don't live in Vancouver, I've got 486's coming out my asshole over here. They all have 8MB of ram, with 1MB simms dammit. I'm going to get linux on one, but what else do you do ? Maybe I'll submit this to ask slashdot.
But what about mass mailings that I want to get ?
You could vary the authentication requirements for different email addresses. For people you know, or lists you subscribe to, you could require really weak authentication (for example, the weak scheme would only use the message content and the sender's key, so they would only have to calculate it once). Mailing lists would pretty much want to use the weak scheme, and then you'd have to allow it for that email address. Since the sender's private key is involved, nobody could spam you through the list.
Better to scrap the current email protocols and develop a new one that enforces accountability. Don't ask me how this'll work, but I think it the best solution out there.
How about requiring authentication ? Messages would be signed using the public key of the recipient, the private key of the sender, and the content of the message. The computational overhead of doing this would make mass mailings unfeasible. As a bonus, you could verify the sender and recipient, as well as the message integrity. As a bonus, it would be easy to tack on encryption.
If you're going to reinvent the wheel, do it right.
I got an Alienware-Ant-Farm, ba-doom, pssh!
I already have a completely transparent screen today, now if I could just remember where I put the darn thing...
When they're on our side, they're called Freedom Fighters!
Why not get a hamster, on a wheel, powering the computer ? Oh wait, I use an AMD... and 400 hamsters dying of heat exposure would not be nice.
Don't you know ? The Internet invented Al Gore.
Don't worry, in a few years when Bush has us all burning books, it won't be a problem.
Forget not reading the articles, I appearently don't even read the posts !
Jets are complex too. So is the Space Shuttle.
I notice that although you go on to talk about jets, you don't seem to mention the Space Shuttle again...
This is also a big incentive for the copyright industries to fight the public domain. They see it as competition.
Inetd is an internet "superserver". For traditional, high use sites people usually run a dedicated service, or daemon, to provide the service. This daemon runs in the background listening for requests and doing whatever it is supposed to do. If your have to offer a lot of services (http, ftp, telnet, mail, ssh, etc...), but none of them are used very much, an internet superserver is a better way to go. Inetd sits in the background listening on a whole bunch of ports waiting for a request. When it gets an ftp request, it starts the ftp server to handle the request(s), and shuts it down after. This sort of thing will allow you to run lots of services on a very slow computer. Unfortunately, because of all the starting and stopping, none of those services can handle a high volume.
This is dead on. Younger people are far more exploitable (as a group) than older people. They are less likely to have their own families, more likely to be willing to work ridiculous hours, and less willing to stand up for themselves.
Paid advertisement by MS ?
"We will not allow these tornados of terror to frighten our communities and threaten America. Our response must be decisive, this grave evil does not deserve to be protected, as American citizens were, by our constitution."
That's somewhat alarming, but it's not equivalent to outlawing a book.
Thank you, I was hoping someone would point this out.
Come on, this is funny
We should revise copyright back to the original (in the US, anyway) fourteen year term. That would solve a host of problems, including this one. A modern song can use samples from old music without concern, wheras "remixes" and "dance mixes", which get their appeal and commercial value from current commercial works would have to pay. Musicians would surely like this, but the copyright industry would never let it happen.
Am I the only one who plays this game already ? I aim for the holes. When that gets boring, try to write letters or draw things. Do not eat the big white mints.
The original Galactic Civilizations was a great game. It was fairly simple to get started in it (and beat the computer on patsy setting), but with a large universe and hard opponents, the game was incredibly deep. Any fan of strategy games should give this game their serious consideration. Now, if only I could get it on linux.
I don't read articles before I comment.
Well, at least you're honest about it...
ISPs sometimes defend such language as necessary boilerplate necessary to clarify their necessary right to "present content" by doing things like serving web pages.
Timothy, get some sleep !
PoseGimp and CakeGimp, what else ?