I've had the dvd for a few months... in Japanese of course... which is the way it was meant to be. I've also seen the English version and they are both great. I prefer the Japanese version however due to it being a Japanese film. I think it adds something to it... even if I have to read what they are saying.
then shouldn't it also be enough to justify invasion of North Korea
The decision to attack Iraq before NK happened because Iraq had called dibs first. They pissed us off first, they called dibs, therefore we attacked the first. NK will just have to wait it's turn... but don't worry, we have enough bombs to go around. It's just a matter of time before we end up in the same mess with NK that we are currently in with Iraq.
A 20 mile caravan of tanks leaves the base at 8 pm. It's traveling at 25 mph. Your 200 miles away in the caravans direct path. They are currently 50 miles away. How long until your dead?
I would have been thinking surrender long ago... I would have fled Iraq long ago... but then again, I wouldn't have wanted to be in the military back when they were fighting Iran either... it's not like they have ever had a "great" military in Iraq. They couldn't beat Iran and they sure the hell are no match for us.
I think the CNN coverage is kinda like watching a boxing match on pay-per-view...I keep waiting for the guy to say "LETS GET READY TO RUMBLE!!!!"
Now I can't stop laughing. Apple has always though different and I think that through all of the problems they have had, they have done pretty good. Not many companies have taken on MS and lived to tell the tale. Apple has. But what is the reasoning behind hiring Al Gore?
Yes I read the bloody article and yes I know what Apple is telling us, but what is the real reasoning behind the scenes? Do they honestly think Al Gore can bring something to Apple? What does he know about computer companies, software companies, or the Apple way of doing things? Why not bring back Woz? At least Woz had an idea of what the hell is going on. Maybe this is just a gimmick though. Something crazy to get Apple in the news for a while. To make people remember they exist. Or maybe Steve really thinks Al can add to the Apple brand.
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That's freakin awesome!!!!! I love stuff like this. Someone should write a book about all the funny stuff you can do with Google.
Ok you bastards... you have squashed my love for Mandrake. I've had problems since 8.0. With 8.0 I couldn't get my mount points to work correctly. Accessing my cd drives and Winblows partitions was a nightmare. 8.1 fixed most of that. I was moving and doing other stuff for most of 8.2's life so I never tried that. Came back when one of the 9.0 betas came out. Now running the latest 9.1 and it locks up 3 to 4 times per day.
So now I'm going to try Suse. I've never used it before but all I keep hearing is how great it is and so I've got to see for myself. It has to be more stable than my current setup, and it looks like they release packages as soon as they can, which Mandrake has never done. For example, KDE has Suse packages for 3.1 for several differnt versions of Suse. None listed for Mandrake at all. For those of us that don't have much luck installing from source in Mandrake, that really blows.
the playing field these days is being narrowed down to RedHat and SuSE
You left Mandrake off of this list because of what? Maybe your lack of experience with Mandrake products... or maybe your simply biased. I use RedHat for my servers and Mandrake for my desktop units. Each has it's strengths and weaknesses. Mandrake is slowly becoming better and better for servers and RedHat has never been very good for desktops, and is continually making things worse... at least if your a KDE fan/user (I use KDE exclusively).
SuSE plays mp3s out of the box.
What distro doesn't play mp3's out of the box? Oh wait, I know this one... RedHat... right. Forgot about them not bothering to ship the proper software for mp3 decoding in 8.0. At least that is what I read was the problem. I haven't tried playing mp3's with RH 8.0 so I can't say for sure. See, I've been too busy enjoying my Mandrake desktop with KDE 3.1 and the new version of Mozilla (which freakin rocks btw)
Anyway, my point is that before you make a statement about the playing field being narrowed down to only 2 of the many distros, why don't you do some research and see just how many users the other distros have. I would wager that Mandrake has a considerable user base. Everyone I know uses it for desktops (and almost everyone I know uses RH for servers... with a few FreeBSD installs for good measure).
I have all of my servers running up2date on a schedule. I just setup a quickie cron job for up2date to run once per day and that seems to take care of things very nicely, and I'm not paying anything for the service. I do get emails telling me when updates come out and I check periodically to make sure that my systems are staying updated but I haven't had any problems so far. Only been running it on auto-pilot for about 3 months though so YMMV.
Umm... wtf? I have a Compaq laptop that has an AMD chip in it. I bought it solely because it had and AMD chip in it. Of the various models I looked at, most things that I cared about were about the same, so the choice for me was easy. I have two desktop machines that both have dual AMD chips in them and have had much better luck with AMD than Intel so I wanted to stick with AMD in my mobile unit. You can buy AMD products in notebook computers, you just have to do a bit of searching.
I think they should tie the phone company into this law. I think it would be pretty simple but I'll admit that I'm not fully versed on the intricaceis (sp?) of the phone system.
What I think should happen is that the phone company has a database that contains the do-not-call list. They also have a database that has known call centers (should be simple... any place that has a crap load of outgoing phone calls everyday would be on this list). Then every call that is made from any of these places checks the list. If the number being called is on the list, the call is not put through and the call is logged. At the end of the month, a report is generated and sent to whoever collects the penalty fees. This saves us from getting calls even though we are on the list, and keeps the enforcement simple and cheap.
Ah, I got you. For some reason I had to see the numbers for it to click. I'm thinking for really large sites, like Hotmail, Yahoo, etc., it would still be worth it, but it would be damn slow. It has to check each and every address with the mail server and if you are checking millions of addresses, that could take a very long time.
So I was wrong. Your method would work well. It might not stop every email generation program, but it would slow them down to the point that most (if not all) would no longer bother.
Umm... why don't you do the math? If everyone has 1000 character email addresses, there is no point in generating email addresses with anything less than 1000 characters, so you really aren't solving the problem are you?
For some reason your thinking that a spammer would generate all of the possibles between a@ and the 1000 character address before hitting a valid address. That would be pointless if everyone had 1000 character addresses.
Another issue that you haven't discussed is space. 1000 character addresses take up more space than what we are using now. Having super long email addresses would solve nothing. You would still have directory services that you could harvest from, or email addresses posted on web pages, and if everyone has an address that is the same length, or has at least 1000 characters, it would still be easy to generate those.
Lastly, the program that I tried checked each address with the mail server. You could set how many for it to test per second and it supposedly can test thousands per second if it has a fast connection to a fast mail server. So even if it takes me a bit longer to generate 1000 character email addresses, and I don't see why it would since I would be starting with 1000 characters, once my bank of computers have generated millions of valid addresses on a long list of domains, I can then sell that list and make a huge profit. I can also rerun the program once per month or however often I want to keep the addresses current, and sell updates to my customers.
Just so you know, I don't spam nor do I use any software such as I describe. I only tried it one time to see if it actually worked and it did indeed generate several thousand email addresses for Hotmail.com in a matter of minutes.
I think I'm very fair... but I just today received mod points for the first time and have yet to use any of them so only time will tell for sure.
At the same time, I can't afford to get a subscription to/. With the way the economy is now, the lack of job security for most of us (those of us lucky enough to have jobs right now), and the insane cost of gas, how can I afford to spend more money on things that I can get by without?
I really like/. and I don't post crap, or troll, nor will I be unfair with my mod points. My financial situation doesn't affect my judgement.
Actually, I am on several mailing lists and do post my email address publicly. Why I'm not getting hammered with spam is something I've pondered more than once.
I'm still not understanding why you think most addresses would be misses rather than hits. The software that I've seen (and I did try it once just to see if it worked), generated email addresses, then checked with the receiving email server to see if they were valid. It would pretend to be sending an email, would initiate, get back some headers, and then check the headers. If the address was rejected, it deleted it and went on to the next, otherwise it logged the address.
With software like this, it doesn't matter how long the email address is.
And anyone sending that much spam would be quickly noticed.
Spammers usually are quickly noticed as it is but that doesn't seem to stop them. You have to realize how the system works as it's setup now. You lease a dozen servers in some other country, but a mailing list or a program that will generate one, then start spamming. You may have several hundred ip addresses that you send from, hundreds of domains, etc. If that setup gets shut down, you move on to the next isp. Your back up and running the next day, or maybe you already have several isp's lined up and so your not even down for a couple of hours.
1000 character email addresses? What about those of us who don't use address books very much? I have most of the email addresses I need memorized. This allows me to contact people no matter where I am. With what you are suggesting, I would have to keep an address book of all my clients, causing me to do more work, even though spam is not a problem for me.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't have a problem with spam. I may get 5 spams a week tops. I don't hide my email addresses, and most of them are common words, yet I don't get flooded with spam. I am careful about what email address I use when I fill out a form and that has worked quite well for me. I don't want to have use an address book. I like things how they are, as far as addressing is concerned.
Why use a dictionary? Just use letters, and start putting them together. For example, say you want to spam aol.com. So you send an email to a@aol.com, then b@, then c@, etc. Then you go to aa, ab, ac, bb, bc, bd, and you work up until you have however many letters you want to limit it to. It will cover every possibility. You also include numbers of course, and any punctuation that is acceptable.
I've seen programs that do exactly this. They are brutal. The one that I looked at would check each one with the mail server to see if it would accept each email or not. If it would, it logged the address. All you did was install the program, type in a domain such as aol.com and tell it how many email addresses you wanted. Then it would do the rest. Depending on the speed of the receiving mail server, it could generate a lot of addresses very quickly.
Then you just dump your file that it has generated into your mail program and your in business. I think programs like this should be illegal. Their obvious purpose is to assist spammers. What legit use could anyone have for a program like this?
people on the freeway in the afternoon rush really didn't *need* to be there
Need to be there? Who cares?!?!?! Maybe I just want to go for a drive or I'm lost. I have a right to use the roads that my tax dollars pay for, yet I often am subject to tolls that supposedly go towards maintenance fees. When the Golden Gate Bridge was built, the plan was to only charge a toll until the cost of the bridge was completed. Once they met that mark, they said that they needed the money to pay for maintenance. We knew at the beginning that once they start charging us for something, they'll never stop.
And if you look at how much they collect per month on the GGB compared to what it costs to maintain it, you'll see that they collect much more than they need. So why don't they lower the toll? They aren't supposed to be making a profit. But that extra money is already being spent and they don't want to stop now.
I drive to Seattle from my home in Burien (10 miles away) twice per day to take my GF to work and to pick her up. That means that I'm on the road twice as much as usual commuters because I have to make two trips. I do this because it's much cheaper than paying for parking in downtown Seattle. I don't like driving in heavy traffic anymore than the next guy but I have a right to use the roads that I need to use, an so does everyone else that is on the road. Saying that someone doesn't *need* to use the road is dumb. The road is there, paid for by taxpayers, and should be used by taxpayers whenever they want to use it.
No offense man, but get a different GF. For fscks sake.... that's just.... I can't even think of the right word to describe her lack of intelligence.
Now on to the topic at hand:
Why aren't companies limited to one or maybe a couple domains, rather than being able to register thousands if they want to? This makes no sense to me. Someone else mentioned peosi.net, pepsi.com, and pepsi.org... why not just pepsi.com and call it good? Lots of companies register all three even though they only need one. This was very common a few years back and I think it still happens far too often.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the only time you would have use for all three is if you are a commercial (.com) isp (.net) run by an organization (.org)? And if you are in the US, you should also get.US. And if your company has a name, you may want a.name address... and if you ever give out info, what the hell, add on a.info domain just for kicks. See how ridiculous this is? Get one domain, have one site, and then let it be.
but it's insulting that you think from what I told you that you could tell I had a possible security problem
Isn't there ALWAYS a possible security problem? I also run RedHat on the servers I manage and there are several security patches released each week, which get installed immediately on my servers. But you have to realize that until those patches are installed, a security problem exists. There may be a new patch tomorrow to fix a problem that exists today.
There is always a security issue somewhere that can be exploited... but from the sound of things, you know your shit and are doing what you can to minimize the risk. All I'm saying is that you should never get over-confident and start to believe that your boxen are secure. Security is an ongoing process, not a destination.
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I've had the dvd for a few months... in Japanese of course... which is the way it was meant to be. I've also seen the English version and they are both great. I prefer the Japanese version however due to it being a Japanese film. I think it adds something to it... even if I have to read what they are saying.
The decision to attack Iraq before NK happened because Iraq had called dibs first. They pissed us off first, they called dibs, therefore we attacked the first. NK will just have to wait it's turn... but don't worry, we have enough bombs to go around. It's just a matter of time before we end up in the same mess with NK that we are currently in with Iraq.
I would have been thinking surrender long ago... I would have fled Iraq long ago... but then again, I wouldn't have wanted to be in the military back when they were fighting Iran either... it's not like they have ever had a "great" military in Iraq. They couldn't beat Iran and they sure the hell are no match for us.
I think the CNN coverage is kinda like watching a boxing match on pay-per-view...I keep waiting for the guy to say "LETS GET READY TO RUMBLE!!!!"
Now I can't stop laughing. Apple has always though different and I think that through all of the problems they have had, they have done pretty good. Not many companies have taken on MS and lived to tell the tale. Apple has. But what is the reasoning behind hiring Al Gore?
Yes I read the bloody article and yes I know what Apple is telling us, but what is the real reasoning behind the scenes? Do they honestly think Al Gore can bring something to Apple? What does he know about computer companies, software companies, or the Apple way of doing things? Why not bring back Woz? At least Woz had an idea of what the hell is going on. Maybe this is just a gimmick though. Something crazy to get Apple in the news for a while. To make people remember they exist. Or maybe Steve really thinks Al can add to the Apple brand.
That's freakin awesome!!!!! I love stuff like this. Someone should write a book about all the funny stuff you can do with Google.
So now I'm going to try Suse. I've never used it before but all I keep hearing is how great it is and so I've got to see for myself. It has to be more stable than my current setup, and it looks like they release packages as soon as they can, which Mandrake has never done. For example, KDE has Suse packages for 3.1 for several differnt versions of Suse. None listed for Mandrake at all. For those of us that don't have much luck installing from source in Mandrake, that really blows.
You left Mandrake off of this list because of what? Maybe your lack of experience with Mandrake products... or maybe your simply biased. I use RedHat for my servers and Mandrake for my desktop units. Each has it's strengths and weaknesses. Mandrake is slowly becoming better and better for servers and RedHat has never been very good for desktops, and is continually making things worse... at least if your a KDE fan/user (I use KDE exclusively).
SuSE plays mp3s out of the box.
What distro doesn't play mp3's out of the box? Oh wait, I know this one... RedHat... right. Forgot about them not bothering to ship the proper software for mp3 decoding in 8.0. At least that is what I read was the problem. I haven't tried playing mp3's with RH 8.0 so I can't say for sure. See, I've been too busy enjoying my Mandrake desktop with KDE 3.1 and the new version of Mozilla (which freakin rocks btw)
Anyway, my point is that before you make a statement about the playing field being narrowed down to only 2 of the many distros, why don't you do some research and see just how many users the other distros have. I would wager that Mandrake has a considerable user base. Everyone I know uses it for desktops (and almost everyone I know uses RH for servers... with a few FreeBSD installs for good measure).
I have all of my servers running up2date on a schedule. I just setup a quickie cron job for up2date to run once per day and that seems to take care of things very nicely, and I'm not paying anything for the service. I do get emails telling me when updates come out and I check periodically to make sure that my systems are staying updated but I haven't had any problems so far. Only been running it on auto-pilot for about 3 months though so YMMV.
Umm... wtf? I have a Compaq laptop that has an AMD chip in it. I bought it solely because it had and AMD chip in it. Of the various models I looked at, most things that I cared about were about the same, so the choice for me was easy. I have two desktop machines that both have dual AMD chips in them and have had much better luck with AMD than Intel so I wanted to stick with AMD in my mobile unit. You can buy AMD products in notebook computers, you just have to do a bit of searching.
But how much pr0n do you need? 5 gigs would be plenty for me... after about 3 or 4 gigs of pr0n I start to get blisters anyway.
What I think should happen is that the phone company has a database that contains the do-not-call list. They also have a database that has known call centers (should be simple... any place that has a crap load of outgoing phone calls everyday would be on this list). Then every call that is made from any of these places checks the list. If the number being called is on the list, the call is not put through and the call is logged. At the end of the month, a report is generated and sent to whoever collects the penalty fees. This saves us from getting calls even though we are on the list, and keeps the enforcement simple and cheap.
Either your a very slow eater, or you eat a lot... 3 hours is the middle of dinner? How long do your dinners usually last?
So I was wrong. Your method would work well. It might not stop every email generation program, but it would slow them down to the point that most (if not all) would no longer bother.
For some reason your thinking that a spammer would generate all of the possibles between a@ and the 1000 character address before hitting a valid address. That would be pointless if everyone had 1000 character addresses.
Another issue that you haven't discussed is space. 1000 character addresses take up more space than what we are using now. Having super long email addresses would solve nothing. You would still have directory services that you could harvest from, or email addresses posted on web pages, and if everyone has an address that is the same length, or has at least 1000 characters, it would still be easy to generate those.
Lastly, the program that I tried checked each address with the mail server. You could set how many for it to test per second and it supposedly can test thousands per second if it has a fast connection to a fast mail server. So even if it takes me a bit longer to generate 1000 character email addresses, and I don't see why it would since I would be starting with 1000 characters, once my bank of computers have generated millions of valid addresses on a long list of domains, I can then sell that list and make a huge profit. I can also rerun the program once per month or however often I want to keep the addresses current, and sell updates to my customers.
Just so you know, I don't spam nor do I use any software such as I describe. I only tried it one time to see if it actually worked and it did indeed generate several thousand email addresses for Hotmail.com in a matter of minutes.
At the same time, I can't afford to get a subscription to /. With the way the economy is now, the lack of job security for most of us (those of us lucky enough to have jobs right now), and the insane cost of gas, how can I afford to spend more money on things that I can get by without?
I really like /. and I don't post crap, or troll, nor will I be unfair with my mod points. My financial situation doesn't affect my judgement.
Damn it!!!! That was my password! I found it first!!!! Now I have to try to think up another one....
I'm still not understanding why you think most addresses would be misses rather than hits. The software that I've seen (and I did try it once just to see if it worked), generated email addresses, then checked with the receiving email server to see if they were valid. It would pretend to be sending an email, would initiate, get back some headers, and then check the headers. If the address was rejected, it deleted it and went on to the next, otherwise it logged the address.
With software like this, it doesn't matter how long the email address is.
Spammers usually are quickly noticed as it is but that doesn't seem to stop them. You have to realize how the system works as it's setup now. You lease a dozen servers in some other country, but a mailing list or a program that will generate one, then start spamming. You may have several hundred ip addresses that you send from, hundreds of domains, etc. If that setup gets shut down, you move on to the next isp. Your back up and running the next day, or maybe you already have several isp's lined up and so your not even down for a couple of hours.
1000 character email addresses? What about those of us who don't use address books very much? I have most of the email addresses I need memorized. This allows me to contact people no matter where I am. With what you are suggesting, I would have to keep an address book of all my clients, causing me to do more work, even though spam is not a problem for me.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't have a problem with spam. I may get 5 spams a week tops. I don't hide my email addresses, and most of them are common words, yet I don't get flooded with spam. I am careful about what email address I use when I fill out a form and that has worked quite well for me. I don't want to have use an address book. I like things how they are, as far as addressing is concerned.
Why use a dictionary? Just use letters, and start putting them together. For example, say you want to spam aol.com. So you send an email to a@aol.com, then b@, then c@, etc. Then you go to aa, ab, ac, bb, bc, bd, and you work up until you have however many letters you want to limit it to. It will cover every possibility. You also include numbers of course, and any punctuation that is acceptable. I've seen programs that do exactly this. They are brutal. The one that I looked at would check each one with the mail server to see if it would accept each email or not. If it would, it logged the address. All you did was install the program, type in a domain such as aol.com and tell it how many email addresses you wanted. Then it would do the rest. Depending on the speed of the receiving mail server, it could generate a lot of addresses very quickly. Then you just dump your file that it has generated into your mail program and your in business. I think programs like this should be illegal. Their obvious purpose is to assist spammers. What legit use could anyone have for a program like this?
Even us depraved souls appreciate a nice spring-time-fresh scent. Now if only I could get gasoline that didn't smell so much like... well, gasoline.
Need to be there? Who cares?!?!?! Maybe I just want to go for a drive or I'm lost. I have a right to use the roads that my tax dollars pay for, yet I often am subject to tolls that supposedly go towards maintenance fees. When the Golden Gate Bridge was built, the plan was to only charge a toll until the cost of the bridge was completed. Once they met that mark, they said that they needed the money to pay for maintenance. We knew at the beginning that once they start charging us for something, they'll never stop.
And if you look at how much they collect per month on the GGB compared to what it costs to maintain it, you'll see that they collect much more than they need. So why don't they lower the toll? They aren't supposed to be making a profit. But that extra money is already being spent and they don't want to stop now.
I drive to Seattle from my home in Burien (10 miles away) twice per day to take my GF to work and to pick her up. That means that I'm on the road twice as much as usual commuters because I have to make two trips. I do this because it's much cheaper than paying for parking in downtown Seattle. I don't like driving in heavy traffic anymore than the next guy but I have a right to use the roads that I need to use, an so does everyone else that is on the road. Saying that someone doesn't *need* to use the road is dumb. The road is there, paid for by taxpayers, and should be used by taxpayers whenever they want to use it.
Now on to the topic at hand:
Why aren't companies limited to one or maybe a couple domains, rather than being able to register thousands if they want to? This makes no sense to me. Someone else mentioned peosi.net, pepsi.com, and pepsi.org... why not just pepsi.com and call it good? Lots of companies register all three even though they only need one. This was very common a few years back and I think it still happens far too often.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the only time you would have use for all three is if you are a commercial (.com) isp (.net) run by an organization (.org)? And if you are in the US, you should also get .US. And if your company has a name, you may want a .name address... and if you ever give out info, what the hell, add on a .info domain just for kicks. See how ridiculous this is? Get one domain, have one site, and then let it be.
You can hot swap a cpu? HTF does that work? I know you can hot swap a lot of stuff, but a cpu?
Isn't there ALWAYS a possible security problem? I also run RedHat on the servers I manage and there are several security patches released each week, which get installed immediately on my servers. But you have to realize that until those patches are installed, a security problem exists. There may be a new patch tomorrow to fix a problem that exists today.
There is always a security issue somewhere that can be exploited... but from the sound of things, you know your shit and are doing what you can to minimize the risk. All I'm saying is that you should never get over-confident and start to believe that your boxen are secure. Security is an ongoing process, not a destination.