Given that BT tried to get loads of revenue with some obscure link patent (which would mean mega bucks from anything using weblinks) I hope this system fails.
They're an undeserving lot who are holding back the development of high speed internet in the UK.
I'm not bothered which is the best solution, the point is there's no mailserver side tricks being employed at the moment. We need zero tolerance to stop these scumbags from wasting peoples time and resources. You think "scumbag" is a bit harsh, not when you consider the content of some of pr0n spams in recent times.
Anyway, I like the tarpit solution but these are all methods that need to be all combined into one system to make lives easier for ISPs Nobody will risk the stability of their servers by kludging together 4 or 5 spam systems together now will they?
Not to mention that if you forward on a picture of pr0n spam that is illegal to the ASA saying you received it when going to a certain website, you might be had for transmitting obscene material.
Hence the "account age" check. Ok when you get a new email address you are likely to email all your friends about it. But a small limit to start with would be a price worth paying to control spam.
Can't mail servers become more intelligent, after all who sends 100 emails a day in one big batch from a hotmail account?
If a hotmail server for example looked at the age of an email address/account when deciding to accept an email then it might prevent some spam. If an email account is minutes or hours old and the user attempts to send 1000 emails from it then you know you're dealing with a spammer. Also if you check for replies to that message you also can validate if the mail was potentially a valid one.
I personally receive very little spam since installing Popfile, in the the true tradition of networking and the internet it's free. Works hundreds of times better than any commercial tool I have used. Best thing is it's cross platform too, if you can run perl on an OS you can run popfile.
Or lack of OS choices you mean, they have tried to offer Linux only to have Microsoft bring them back in line.
They make their serious cash by offering PCs and popular laptops, not by preaching on the future of operating systems. We have Microsoft's takeover crosshairs and their fat wallet to provide us with the vision of the future:)
Exactly, the term "fail safe" doesn't seem to be known by some people.
Brake systems in cars don't fail safe, yet they do on some trains. This isn't a fault of braking systems, just the application of the system in one vehicle.
"It's a computer glitch", "the computer made a mistake" etc.. I hate such lines, computers don't design themselves. Humans design processors, humans write software.
Such news articles should say "hardware failure" if it is a hardware failure, if a computer crashes due to software it should say a bug in the software caused the problem.
Not to mention that using your own product can result in less productivity and increased costs.
Microsoft used to develop all their own internal tools but found that outsourcing them saved money. Probably since the software would be deployed very quickly with less testing than an externally sourced product.
How can anyone listen to opinions of a company that is too scared of Microsoft to dare to ship their desktops with anything else? even their FreeDOS bundled machines still include the Microsoft license fee.
Not to mention the cheesy PSU and HDD rack arrangement, why not bolt about 4 PC cases together for a very full size tower case? (stabilisers required of course).
Bulbs have a shorter life, tail lights on cars for example would be better using LEDs, however the limited viewing angle combined with the brightness is a problem. Clusters of LEDs are required as a result of this.
True, however the above method allows resetting the root password. You wouldn't be resetting the root password if you knew what it was.
You sometimes have to have a balance between security and manageability. Preventing physical access to a server is the first thing you can do, lock the door, use a key to disable the keyboard etc.. remote hacking should be the main focus then.
Religion has been the dividing factor throughout history. Religion makes people look to the past, the bible for example is a book listing events that happened thousands of years ago. How do you expect people to live together in harmony when you encourage them to look backwards in time? if they look back they see that X killed so many Y, etc.. Who cares where a person came from, what colour they are etc..? we're no better than animals if we can't all get along.
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Wonder if they got their caps from Taiwan? since most caps coming from there in the late 90s early 00s have been failing.
If the system fails will it come up with an URU Mediation error? :)
Given that BT tried to get loads of revenue with some obscure link patent (which would mean mega bucks from anything using weblinks) I hope this system fails.
They're an undeserving lot who are holding back the development of high speed internet in the UK.
I'm just waiting for Disney to buy it and call it Disney's Lupin. Cus like yeh dood we created it :)
I'm not bothered which is the best solution, the point is there's no mailserver side tricks being employed at the moment. We need zero tolerance to stop these scumbags from wasting peoples time and resources. You think "scumbag" is a bit harsh, not when you consider the content of some of pr0n spams in recent times.
Anyway, I like the tarpit solution but these are all methods that need to be all combined into one system to make lives easier for ISPs Nobody will risk the stability of their servers by kludging together 4 or 5 spam systems together now will they?
Not to mention that if you forward on a picture of pr0n spam that is illegal to the ASA saying you received it when going to a certain website, you might be had for transmitting obscene material.
Seems people are thinking about such things:
p ai n.html
m l
http://www.martiansoftware.com/articles/spammer
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/29545.ht
Or have a spam filter that trashes the URLs in the message? then nobody will visit their site :)
Hence the "account age" check. Ok when you get a new email address you are likely to email all your friends about it. But a small limit to start with would be a price worth paying to control spam.
Can't mail servers become more intelligent, after all who sends 100 emails a day in one big batch from a hotmail account?
If a hotmail server for example looked at the age of an email address/account when deciding to accept an email then it might prevent some spam. If an email account is minutes or hours old and the user attempts to send 1000 emails from it then you know you're dealing with a spammer. Also if you check for replies to that message you also can validate if the mail was potentially a valid one.
I personally receive very little spam since installing Popfile, in the the true tradition of networking and the internet it's free. Works hundreds of times better than any commercial tool I have used. Best thing is it's cross platform too, if you can run perl on an OS you can run popfile.
Or lack of OS choices you mean, they have tried to offer Linux only to have Microsoft bring them back in line.
:)
They make their serious cash by offering PCs and popular laptops, not by preaching on the future of operating systems. We have Microsoft's takeover crosshairs and their fat wallet to provide us with the vision of the future
Exactly, the term "fail safe" doesn't seem to be known by some people.
Brake systems in cars don't fail safe, yet they do on some trains. This isn't a fault of braking systems, just the application of the system in one vehicle.
"It's a computer glitch", "the computer made a mistake" etc.. I hate such lines, computers don't design themselves. Humans design processors, humans write software.
Such news articles should say "hardware failure" if it is a hardware failure, if a computer crashes due to software it should say a bug in the software caused the problem.
Not to mention that using your own product can result in less productivity and increased costs.
Microsoft used to develop all their own internal tools but found that outsourcing them saved money. Probably since the software would be deployed very quickly with less testing than an externally sourced product.
How can anyone listen to opinions of a company that is too scared of Microsoft to dare to ship their desktops with anything else? even their FreeDOS bundled machines still include the Microsoft license fee.
Not to mention the cheesy PSU and HDD rack arrangement, why not bolt about 4 PC cases together for a very full size tower case? (stabilisers required of course).
But this technology could also be used to easily insert serial numbers onto CDs.
These seem to be big factors in the success of modern processors.
Bulbs have a shorter life, tail lights on cars for example would be better using LEDs, however the limited viewing angle combined with the brightness is a problem. Clusters of LEDs are required as a result of this.
Look in an electronics catalog, most high brightness LEDs quote a viewing angle, anywhere from 8 degrees to 30 normally.
This renders them useless for some applications, bulbs have a much better viewing angle since the light comes out of the bulb in most directions.
True, however the above method allows resetting the root password. You wouldn't be resetting the root password if you knew what it was.
You sometimes have to have a balance between security and manageability. Preventing physical access to a server is the first thing you can do, lock the door, use a key to disable the keyboard etc.. remote hacking should be the main focus then.
Or *BSD where for example when you forget the root password you use the single user login and just change it from there.
u ck /1002317496/index_html
http://lantech.geekvenue.net/chucktips/jason/ch
Hopefully it will help solve the viewing angle problem with LEDs, that's the reason we still have filiment bulbs for some indicator purposes.
Why Iraq? they don't have a nuclear capability, North Korea does and they're pretty unstable.
Religion has been the dividing factor throughout history. Religion makes people look to the past, the bible for example is a book listing events that happened thousands of years ago. How do you expect people to live together in harmony when you encourage them to look backwards in time? if they look back they see that X killed so many Y, etc..
Who cares where a person came from, what colour they are etc..? we're no better than animals if we can't all get along.