I work at a top 20 email provider and can concur that spam levels are down since the November, 2011. We were rejecting 96% at the perimeter back then, today we're rejecting around 73% with the same % making it to the inbox and getting marked as junk. Not a crazy reduction in spam, just a reduction in spam.
Thank you for posting that question. I think the answer is yes. Yes it's pointless. How do I know? I work at a top 20 email hosting company serving several million customers, and we graph inbound rejects, caught spam, and email that finally makes it through to the customer inbox. The graphs haven't fluctuated as much as one might expect. So, IMO, the botnets are still active, or the level of activity was overestimated.
And this is why I'm harassing the crap out of my local politicians to drop almost every other issue they're discussing and focus on energy independence. Not independence FROM foreign sources of energy, but independence FOR the individual consumer. i.e. push home-grown sources of fuel like this story could produce. I urge them to study and support bio fuel cooperatives to follow the plan of the big milk cooperatives found in many regions. We could wind up with a world wide system of local bio fuel farmers providing stock to local distributors who sell the product to the consumer and for export. We could also wind up with a back-yard reactor providing enough fuel from clippings and algae to give the average family most of it's commute and heating fuel.
Because, frankly, between this story and the recent research successes with bio fuels from algae and bacteria, it looks more and more likely that we can scale these research successes into production capacity, and ultimately, that would eliminate many of the worlds' problems and allow us to focus more acutely on the issues we had to abandon to get to that point.
this sort of flame baiting the subby engages in just annoys the shit out of me. Utah might be a tight-ass place to live, what with all the clean cut, non offending Mormons about, and I would never consider living without beer, but I can think of a whole pile of worse places to live. Like New York City, or maybe anywhere where the lovely other religious majorities slaughter non believers, like most of the rest of the planet.
Hell, the only complaint I can come up with against the LDS people is the whole subjugation of women thing, but that's hardly unique to them, and the vast majority of the time, the women can get away. It's not like the Mormon Mafia will track them down and honour-kill them.
there's no evidence he was illiterate, and there's no evidence from the story that the recommendations are because the word democrat is offensive. The article makes no mention of the reason behind it, other than perhaps ACCURACY.
I don't see anyone bypassing the Twizlers ads on "Warehouse 13" with software anytime soon. That's where advertising is on SyFy, direct, in your face product placement like "The Truman Show" where the actor looks into the camera and tells you how much they love "chubs beer" or whatever.
that's the most sensible solution I've heard in a long time. People always propose building a stronger firehouse, but you only really need a cheap tent hut made of nylon fabric and fibreglass poles to protect those trucks.
Maybe the solution is too inexpensive. You should open a company and sell million dollar pup tents to California. Guarantee them earthquake proof. Hell, they really would be earthquake proof, ever shake a tent? They just pop right back into shape. Even if it collapses, a pocket knife will free the vehicles.
If they complain about sustainability make the tents out of bamboo and charge them more.
I suspect the differences in social priorities between the various states of the US and Canada are less radical than you think. Certainly, even in one US state, the differences in social priorities between counties and towns are at least as large as the perceived differences between the Provinces and the States, let alone the opinions between the various states.
I submit New York as an example. Downstate vs upstate or Albany vs Buffalo.
And the issues you suggest as deal breakers are all issues that are firmly in the control of the states, and each Province could decide for itself without fear of more federal intervention than they experience today. On top of that, Canadian opinions on things like guns varies significantly, there are many many gun owners in Canada, just as there are many many non gun owners in Canada.
So while it might be personally disquieting to you as a Canadian to consider losing provinces to the US, the reality of it is that those citizens would likely suffer no ill effects.
not if the company can produce and sell these biofuel reactors directly to the consumer. There will be enough people who will want a completely independent energy source, enough people at least, to help ensure the technology wouldn't die, it would be distributed throughout the world to the end users, regardless of the price of fossil fuels per barrel.
And you know, a co-op style production system using this method on the backend, copying the way farmers produce cow's milk, would be adopted in many communities.
we're in the matrix, the matrix hosts some people in various histories, some in ancient times, some in modern times, based on a deep understanding of the human condition. The ghosts are merely people from other areas of the matrix shifting positions in time/space based on random errors in calculations. A small bit shift here or there, and you wind up in the same house, different generation, staring at mcgrew taking a dump. It's as likely as "ghosts are manifestations of long lost personalities" I guess.
we will never reduce our population enough to satisfy people that say "saving Earth requires a massive reduction in the human population." It'll never happen. Let alone by shipping humans off to some other planet.
First off, there will never be too few humans for those people to be happy. You could reduce the worldwide population to a few million, and those people would say that's too many.
Second off, there's no way that we could ever ship enough people off planet to alleviate the pressure here at home. The remaining people will simply fill in the gaps left by the people leaving.
Can you imagine shipping tens and hundreds of millions off every year, and it having almost no impact on population growth here on Earth?
There would be mass rocket launches on a daily basis and you would only scratch the surface. Hell, even a 747 sized payload of people into orbit every hour of every day, and it would be an insignificant loss of population. Worse, it would be brain drain like never experienced before.
<booming announcer voice> Spammer Island! The new pay per view event in which notorious spammers, 419ers, and love life scammers are dropped, unarmed and naked onto a deserted island and given a 24 hour head start! They choose a strategy, build a defense perimeter, combine forces, hide?! Do they go it alone?! Watch as we drop angry systems administrators from around the globe into the action! There's Tim, master of the bayonette! There's Tubby Tom, he prefers the Katana. Last but not least there Big Jim, he likes baseball bats! Catch the exiting action on... Spammer Island! <booming announcer voice>
or captured, certainly an elegant hack with enemy agents inside the controlling agency could redirect the ship to land in enemy territory, it might not be easy, but it would be spectacular and not out of the question
that's not off topic, silly mod, the story is about a mechanical/pneumatic arm that's like an elephant's trunk, and it's also like an elephant's penis.
no, they never will catch on, they'll never change. The only option for us is the B ship. Send them ahead to prepare the next planet for the little people, the rest of us.
didn't RTFM... but one of the biggest problems with roofing shingles is UV, hopefully that's the same radiation this stuff is supposed to absorb... so, coat your roof in it and your roof lasts longer, bonus electricity.
my 1979 VW Dasher Diesel got a standard and reliable 55 MPG, so much so that I stopped calculating when after almost a year of fill ups the mileage was almost always the same. Too bad it shook like a paint mixer and parts literally fell off it...
They really like recursive product placement. An ad for soap gets a scene with a Disney movie in it, ad for a Disney movie gets a scene with their soap! The money making machine works the same way with all their products from their singers to their amusement parks. They cross promote to improve the lot of their weaker brands, they test and test and test new faces to see who will be next, they just keep turning the crank to create more cranks to turn.
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I don't believe you can purchase a chassis with an externally accessible hard drive array, hard drives and carriages for the drives to emulate a tape changer for less money than you can purchase a large capacity tape changer and the equivalent storage in tapes.
If you're backing up a small office, home office or tiny corporate environment, then go for it, just use some externally accessible array that can export everything JBOD and manage the device by hand, but if you need more than a few drives to back things up, the overhead and maintenance cost would quickly outstrip the cost of the tapes, drive and tape changer.
at $0.0375 per GB for LTO4 tape, the hard drives aren't really cheaper either.
What I do is have a multi TB array used for disk-to-disk backups and as a cache for the disk-to-tape backups. Write the disk backups as virtual tapes, then shuffle off the virtuals to real tapes. That leaves the latest full backup and incremental on hard drive, and old backups on tape. Someone deletes a file, just restore it from hard drive backups. Someone deletes a file and realizes it was last week, recall the tapes and restore it from there if there is business justification for the added cost to retrieve one file.
As prices drop, and capacities increase, the solution to this equation changes to favor hard drives as tapes aren't increasing in capacity or decreasing in price to match hard drives.
Give it three years and then start grinding up your old tapes.
that's right AC, compare STONING A WOMAN TO DEATH for a private act to the public act whose consequences are nothing compared to being stoned to death. Or lashes, maybe they'll just give her 40 lashes and leave her physically disfigured. Or dump acid in her face. Yup, those are so comparable.
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I work at a top 20 email provider and can concur that spam levels are down since the November, 2011. We were rejecting 96% at the perimeter back then, today we're rejecting around 73% with the same % making it to the inbox and getting marked as junk. Not a crazy reduction in spam, just a reduction in spam.
Thank you for posting that question. I think the answer is yes. Yes it's pointless. How do I know? I work at a top 20 email hosting company serving several million customers, and we graph inbound rejects, caught spam, and email that finally makes it through to the customer inbox. The graphs haven't fluctuated as much as one might expect. So, IMO, the botnets are still active, or the level of activity was overestimated.
And this is why I'm harassing the crap out of my local politicians to drop almost every other issue they're discussing and focus on energy independence. Not independence FROM foreign sources of energy, but independence FOR the individual consumer. i.e. push home-grown sources of fuel like this story could produce. I urge them to study and support bio fuel cooperatives to follow the plan of the big milk cooperatives found in many regions. We could wind up with a world wide system of local bio fuel farmers providing stock to local distributors who sell the product to the consumer and for export. We could also wind up with a back-yard reactor providing enough fuel from clippings and algae to give the average family most of it's commute and heating fuel.
Because, frankly, between this story and the recent research successes with bio fuels from algae and bacteria, it looks more and more likely that we can scale these research successes into production capacity, and ultimately, that would eliminate many of the worlds' problems and allow us to focus more acutely on the issues we had to abandon to get to that point.
imagine a time when homebrewing was illegal, <shudder>. Now if we can make home distillation legal, we'll be even more free.
this sort of flame baiting the subby engages in just annoys the shit out of me. Utah might be a tight-ass place to live, what with all the clean cut, non offending Mormons about, and I would never consider living without beer, but I can think of a whole pile of worse places to live. Like New York City, or maybe anywhere where the lovely other religious majorities slaughter non believers, like most of the rest of the planet.
Hell, the only complaint I can come up with against the LDS people is the whole subjugation of women thing, but that's hardly unique to them, and the vast majority of the time, the women can get away. It's not like the Mormon Mafia will track them down and honour-kill them.
Hate much?
there's no evidence he was illiterate, and there's no evidence from the story that the recommendations are because the word democrat is offensive. The article makes no mention of the reason behind it, other than perhaps ACCURACY.
I don't see anyone bypassing the Twizlers ads on "Warehouse 13" with software anytime soon. That's where advertising is on SyFy, direct, in your face product placement like "The Truman Show" where the actor looks into the camera and tells you how much they love "chubs beer" or whatever.
that's the most sensible solution I've heard in a long time. People always propose building a stronger firehouse, but you only really need a cheap tent hut made of nylon fabric and fibreglass poles to protect those trucks.
Maybe the solution is too inexpensive. You should open a company and sell million dollar pup tents to California. Guarantee them earthquake proof. Hell, they really would be earthquake proof, ever shake a tent? They just pop right back into shape. Even if it collapses, a pocket knife will free the vehicles.
If they complain about sustainability make the tents out of bamboo and charge them more.
I suspect the differences in social priorities between the various states of the US and Canada are less radical than you think. Certainly, even in one US state, the differences in social priorities between counties and towns are at least as large as the perceived differences between the Provinces and the States, let alone the opinions between the various states.
I submit New York as an example. Downstate vs upstate or Albany vs Buffalo.
And the issues you suggest as deal breakers are all issues that are firmly in the control of the states, and each Province could decide for itself without fear of more federal intervention than they experience today. On top of that, Canadian opinions on things like guns varies significantly, there are many many gun owners in Canada, just as there are many many non gun owners in Canada.
So while it might be personally disquieting to you as a Canadian to consider losing provinces to the US, the reality of it is that those citizens would likely suffer no ill effects.
not if the company can produce and sell these biofuel reactors directly to the consumer. There will be enough people who will want a completely independent energy source, enough people at least, to help ensure the technology wouldn't die, it would be distributed throughout the world to the end users, regardless of the price of fossil fuels per barrel.
And you know, a co-op style production system using this method on the backend, copying the way farmers produce cow's milk, would be adopted in many communities.
we're in the matrix, the matrix hosts some people in various histories, some in ancient times, some in modern times, based on a deep understanding of the human condition. The ghosts are merely people from other areas of the matrix shifting positions in time/space based on random errors in calculations. A small bit shift here or there, and you wind up in the same house, different generation, staring at mcgrew taking a dump. It's as likely as "ghosts are manifestations of long lost personalities" I guess.
we will never reduce our population enough to satisfy people that say "saving Earth requires a massive reduction in the human population." It'll never happen. Let alone by shipping humans off to some other planet.
First off, there will never be too few humans for those people to be happy. You could reduce the worldwide population to a few million, and those people would say that's too many.
Second off, there's no way that we could ever ship enough people off planet to alleviate the pressure here at home. The remaining people will simply fill in the gaps left by the people leaving.
Can you imagine shipping tens and hundreds of millions off every year, and it having almost no impact on population growth here on Earth?
There would be mass rocket launches on a daily basis and you would only scratch the surface. Hell, even a 747 sized payload of people into orbit every hour of every day, and it would be an insignificant loss of population. Worse, it would be brain drain like never experienced before.
no but I would drop him on....
<booming announcer voice>
Spammer Island! The new pay per view event in which notorious spammers, 419ers, and love life scammers are dropped, unarmed and naked onto a deserted island and given a 24 hour head start! They choose a strategy, build a defense perimeter, combine forces, hide?! Do they go it alone?! Watch as we drop angry systems administrators from around the globe into the action! There's Tim, master of the bayonette! There's Tubby Tom, he prefers the Katana. Last but not least there Big Jim, he likes baseball bats! Catch the exiting action on... Spammer Island!
<booming announcer voice>
I thought of this before running man.
it's like the boy who cried wolf.
unless you wanted your X plane itself to become a nice tidy kinetic energy weapon. high apogee, ground level perigee...
either way, working on the X-37B project would be the awesomest job in the world to me
or captured, certainly an elegant hack with enemy agents inside the controlling agency could redirect the ship to land in enemy territory, it might not be easy, but it would be spectacular and not out of the question
that's not off topic, silly mod, the story is about a mechanical/pneumatic arm that's like an elephant's trunk, and it's also like an elephant's penis.
sheesh.
an elephant's penis is prehensile
now you know.
no, they never will catch on, they'll never change. The only option for us is the B ship. Send them ahead to prepare the next planet for the little people, the rest of us.
didn't RTFM... but one of the biggest problems with roofing shingles is UV, hopefully that's the same radiation this stuff is supposed to absorb... so, coat your roof in it and your roof lasts longer, bonus electricity.
my 1979 VW Dasher Diesel got a standard and reliable 55 MPG, so much so that I stopped calculating when after almost a year of fill ups the mileage was almost always the same. Too bad it shook like a paint mixer and parts literally fell off it...
They really like recursive product placement. An ad for soap gets a scene with a Disney movie in it, ad for a Disney movie gets a scene with their soap! The money making machine works the same way with all their products from their singers to their amusement parks. They cross promote to improve the lot of their weaker brands, they test and test and test new faces to see who will be next, they just keep turning the crank to create more cranks to turn.
I don't believe you can purchase a chassis with an externally accessible hard drive array, hard drives and carriages for the drives to emulate a tape changer for less money than you can purchase a large capacity tape changer and the equivalent storage in tapes.
If you're backing up a small office, home office or tiny corporate environment, then go for it, just use some externally accessible array that can export everything JBOD and manage the device by hand, but if you need more than a few drives to back things up, the overhead and maintenance cost would quickly outstrip the cost of the tapes, drive and tape changer.
at $0.0375 per GB for LTO4 tape, the hard drives aren't really cheaper either.
What I do is have a multi TB array used for disk-to-disk backups and as a cache for the disk-to-tape backups. Write the disk backups as virtual tapes, then shuffle off the virtuals to real tapes. That leaves the latest full backup and incremental on hard drive, and old backups on tape. Someone deletes a file, just restore it from hard drive backups. Someone deletes a file and realizes it was last week, recall the tapes and restore it from there if there is business justification for the added cost to retrieve one file.
As prices drop, and capacities increase, the solution to this equation changes to favor hard drives as tapes aren't increasing in capacity or decreasing in price to match hard drives.
Give it three years and then start grinding up your old tapes.
that's right AC, compare STONING A WOMAN TO DEATH for a private act to the public act whose consequences are nothing compared to being stoned to death. Or lashes, maybe they'll just give her 40 lashes and leave her physically disfigured. Or dump acid in her face. Yup, those are so comparable.
the predictions are real too, they're just random and not accurate or precise.