There are libraries your tax dollars fund to solve this dilemna.
My wife and I make heavy use of our local library. Not only for books, but for DVD movies and audio.
With all the time you save by not watching TV, you could spend some going to the library and picking up your items. I don't know about the library system in your area, but I can put holds on items online, and then just show up to check them out. Talk about convenient.
Linux is *not* user friendly, and until it is linux will stay with >1% marketshare.
Take installation. Linux zealots are now saying "oh installing is so easy, just do apt-get install package or emerge package": Yes, because typing in "apt-get" or "emerge" makes so much more sense to new users than double-clicking an icon that says "setup".
I hate to break it to you, but anyone with the attitude you display is the problem, not a lack of user friendliness.
I have used linux since.95pre2 when it was bootstrap your own days. I've used 386bsd/FreeBSD from a similar point in time (since linux had no real networking layer at that point I switched permanently until the past 2 years where I'm again using both for different reasons).
I just did a fedora core 1 install. What a joke! Less questions, less knowledge required than a Windows install.
Even once you get it up and running it is smooth and easy to find what you want, vs. a standard kde install on another distro leaving you 40 choices for each type of functionality you'd like to use.
Here's the problem - any installation is somewhat of a barrier because most people do not install windows themselves - it comes on their computers. The steps being taken by Sun, Lindo(w)s, SuSe, Xandros, and others to get their distros defaulted on budget machines will get the familiarity and ease-of-use out there to the masses.
Linux zealots are far too forgiving when judging the difficultly of Linux configuration issues and far too harsh when judging the difficulty of Windows configuration issues. Example comments:
You're right. A friend is helping me bootstrap debian on a running machine I have nothing but net access to. Obviously a little tricky, but once you understand the basics, it's really reasonably easy. However, most Linux "power-users" would expect everyone to be able to do it.
Your examples with Quake show just why we need a common push for progress in this area, and the individual camps are making great strides, but there's needs to be a more unified effort to get better traction.
So if someone is a wanted fugitive, yes, I can see using this to catch them. What if they have committed violent crimes and have paid for them, this prevents them from flying? Last I heard, the only thing you lost from being a convicted felon was your right to vote.
I have to agree. I've read the trilogy 4 times in my life (starting at about 7th grade). I've read the newer three books twice each.
The books make me think about much different things each time I read them. They are definitely focused on character development and have a lot worthy of critical literary praise.
I've seen their ads and considered them. I'll have to take another look and figure out if they're worth my while.
I'm actually considering cancelling our TV subscriptions altogether. I watch Enterprise, college football, and F1. I suppose I can live without for the $600/year savings.
Well, I'm using it for a home server. It has been worlds worse than FreeBSD 4.8 ever was for me. I have had numerous hangs that I cannot explain, 3 of which resulted in a corrupted/usr filesystem.
I just did a buildkernel/buildworld for 5.2.1. Here's hoping it is better, cause if it's not, I will have to roll back to 4.8 or heaven forbid, gentoo.
I do check for such things at the SMTP level and reject there. It's the stuff that passes muster on returnability and gets through to a spam filter I want to protect against being falsely identified as spam.
My primary goal would be to alleviate the issue that comes about when I haven't whitelisted someone legitimate who normally communicates with me, or someone legitimate who wants to communicate with me for the first time. They get a nice note telling them not to expect a response unless they take some further action. This addresses only false positives.
But thanks for responding. I hadn't actually considered the bit about having your email address spoofed as the sender of spam. That's not happened to me, but I can imagine it's quite devastating. That may be one reason by itself good enough to keep me from going this route. I agree with your assessment - you can't reduce the problem of unwanted email by generating more email, but I think there are more shades of gray.
I guess the bottom line is I'm not willing to change my email address. Why should I? Why should I be bullied by these bastards into changing an online identity? If there are things I can do to lessen the impact of spam on me and those who legitimately communicate with me, I should take those steps instead. I do, however, want to stop where I see those steps as being abusive to others. You identified TDMA as abusive in this regard. Another good example of an abusive step is RBLs. They have effectively squelched the hobbyist who runs servers on their residential internet access. And ONLY because people use them. If people didn't use them, they'd be gone.
This represents 8 days worth of spam for me. Yes, ~800 per day.
My address has been valid for 10 years. Why should I change it? Bogofilter is currently letting 2-3 per day into my inbox. I generally check for false-positives, but as the training has progressed, I am finding none anymore.
I plan to implement a single-shot, one try notification sender. I.e., if the mail gets classified as spam: lookup the mx record for the envelope return address, if it's nonexistent, lookup the a record. Make a connection and try to deliver a message indicating their message (include subject reference) was identified as spam, include a way for them to reliably get a message through to me. If any of the smtp exchange or address lookup fails, just forget it, they're probably not real anyway.
You have to fill out a web-form giving location information, then specifically activate 911. This could be made a mandatory process.
I guess I view regulation in two parts: rules, and fees. The rules I have no problem with. It's the fees that bug me - Vonage should only have to pay fees to cover what it costs to allow their NAPs to access 911 centers directly on behalf of a customer when that customer dials 911.
The VoIP companies should not have to comply with the same regulatory burdens. They should have to comply with the same portion of those regulatory burdens that address the emergency 911 service infrastructure.
Vonage relies on their customers to provide the plumbing. Regulating them in the same way as a traditional phone company that owns the plumbing does not make sense.
So, again, regulating them for 911 service? Yes. Regulating them identically to the traditional phone companies? NO.
My career isn't over yet, so who knows, but I may be a corrolary argument. I think having your eyes opened from a good diverse university experience can prepare you for business, even if your path was CS.
I've got a CS degree.
I've been in the field for approximately 8 years. I've worked up to management level, but am still in a technical role - primarily acting as a generalist, helping develop corporate IT strategies and providing coordination and communication both to director-level management above me and technologists below me.
Until a few years ago I looked at things much the way you describe - focused on the mechanics of software creation. Don't get me wrong - there's a huge share of business-focused people whose idea of work is 5 hours of talking about their kids, 30 minutes of coffee breaks, an hour of lunch, and 90 minutes of focused work. However, if you find some good development or corporate leaders, they demonstrate quite quickly how naive it is to be focused on the mechanics of software creation.
There's a heck of a lot more to focus on and weight appropriately if you want to successfully run a business. Managing to a P&L or the amount of dynamics an organization can cope with is significantly harder than choosing among several technical alternatives to find the one with the most merit - in a lot of cases that choice with the most merit may be impossible for the business to take on.
A part of me will always crave the "look back and see how much grass you've cut" qualitative nature of software creation, but there are significantly more challenging problems in leading IT, and they often require more in the way of personal devotion to achieve a solution.
I have used a number of these principles since beying laid off in 2002 for both finding a position with a new company and once there an internal move up the chain.
One intangible that beyond this (or maybe reading between the parent poster's lines): do whatever it takes to prepare yourself for a conversation with your interviewer. Yes, this can be hard in a question-answer-question-answer type format, but figure out how you're going to weave things into a conversation. When you engage your interviewer in a conversation they can better connect with and relate to you. It also helps them visualize what you would be like on the job - most people will want to work with others they can successfully interact and collaborate with.
I thought about this after seeing my inbox spam increase to about 80 a day (the box that contains what is filtered is usually 10 per hour - my adress has been valid for just short of 10 years).
Why not check the subject or first few lines of plain (not html) text and see if 80% of it is in/usr/share/dict/words? I thought about trying this out, but have been too busy to get off my ass and do it.
What your system cannot do is prove to the voter that its internal storage records exactly what the screen does in terms of the votes placed.
No electronic system can do this.
Of course, some of our current non-electronic voting machines cannot, but some can. The voter can actually see what physical piece of evidence will be later counted to determine their votes.
Since you cannot write a proof to guarantee code does something, you have no mechanism to tie any artifact (whether electronic on-screen results or a printout of voting choices) to the actual vote being counted.
A physical artifact counted by people is all that can do this.
Given the FCC's pro-corporation behavior of late, do you really believe this will happen? I think eventually it will, but certainly not right away. The FCC definitely wants to sell off that spectrum, but they're nowhere close at this point. If CBS in that market was all that's standing in the way, I could see this happening.
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There are libraries your tax dollars fund to solve this dilemna.
My wife and I make heavy use of our local library. Not only for books, but for DVD movies and audio.
With all the time you save by not watching TV, you could spend some going to the library and picking up your items. I don't know about the library system in your area, but I can put holds on items online, and then just show up to check them out. Talk about convenient.
Linux is *not* user friendly, and until it is linux will stay with >1% marketshare.
Take installation. Linux zealots are now saying "oh installing is so easy, just do apt-get install package or emerge package": Yes, because typing in "apt-get" or "emerge" makes so much more sense to new users than double-clicking an icon that says "setup".
I hate to break it to you, but anyone with the attitude you display is the problem, not a lack of user friendliness.
I have used linux since
I just did a fedora core 1 install. What a joke! Less questions, less knowledge required than a Windows install.
Even once you get it up and running it is smooth and easy to find what you want, vs. a standard kde install on another distro leaving you 40 choices for each type of functionality you'd like to use.
Here's the problem - any installation is somewhat of a barrier because most people do not install windows themselves - it comes on their computers. The steps being taken by Sun, Lindo(w)s, SuSe, Xandros, and others to get their distros defaulted on budget machines will get the familiarity and ease-of-use out there to the masses.
Linux zealots are far too forgiving when judging the difficultly of Linux configuration issues and far too harsh when judging the difficulty of Windows configuration issues. Example comments:
You're right. A friend is helping me bootstrap debian on a running machine I have nothing but net access to. Obviously a little tricky, but once you understand the basics, it's really reasonably easy. However, most Linux "power-users" would expect everyone to be able to do it.
Your examples with Quake show just why we need a common push for progress in this area, and the individual camps are making great strides, but there's needs to be a more unified effort to get better traction.
Wow, this sounds like exactly what I need to stream my at-home flac collection around the house in various formats.
Are you willing to publish patches for your mod that does transcoding from flac?
Thanks!
So if someone is a wanted fugitive, yes, I can see using this to catch them. What if they have committed violent crimes and have paid for them, this prevents them from flying? Last I heard, the only thing you lost from being a convicted felon was your right to vote.
What is a "violent criminal?"
I have to agree. I've read the trilogy 4 times in my life (starting at about 7th grade). I've read the newer three books twice each.
The books make me think about much different things each time I read them. They are definitely focused on character development and have a lot worthy of critical literary praise.
Read them before you see this miniseries.
I've seen their ads and considered them. I'll have to take another look and figure out if they're worth my while.
I'm actually considering cancelling our TV subscriptions altogether. I watch Enterprise, college football, and F1. I suppose I can live without for the $600/year savings.
Well, I'm using it for a home server. It has been worlds worse than FreeBSD 4.8 ever was for me. I have had numerous hangs that I cannot explain, 3 of which resulted in a corrupted /usr filesystem.
I just did a buildkernel/buildworld for 5.2.1. Here's hoping it is better, cause if it's not, I will have to roll back to 4.8 or heaven forbid, gentoo.
See my other post, but essentially:
Why should I be bullied by these bastards into changing an online identity?
My filters keep all but 5 a day out of my inbox.
I do check for such things at the SMTP level and reject there. It's the stuff that passes muster on returnability and gets through to a spam filter I want to protect against being falsely identified as spam.
My primary goal would be to alleviate the issue that comes about when I haven't whitelisted someone legitimate who normally communicates with me, or someone legitimate who wants to communicate with me for the first time. They get a nice note telling them not to expect a response unless they take some further action. This addresses only false positives.
But thanks for responding. I hadn't actually considered the bit about having your email address spoofed as the sender of spam. That's not happened to me, but I can imagine it's quite devastating. That may be one reason by itself good enough to keep me from going this route. I agree with your assessment - you can't reduce the problem of unwanted email by generating more email, but I think there are more shades of gray.
I guess the bottom line is I'm not willing to change my email address. Why should I? Why should I be bullied by these bastards into changing an online identity? If there are things I can do to lessen the impact of spam on me and those who legitimately communicate with me, I should take those steps instead. I do, however, want to stop where I see those steps as being abusive to others. You identified TDMA as abusive in this regard. Another good example of an abusive step is RBLs. They have effectively squelched the hobbyist who runs servers on their residential internet access. And ONLY because people use them. If people didn't use them, they'd be gone.
6000 over what period?
This represents 8 days worth of spam for me. Yes, ~800 per day.
My address has been valid for 10 years. Why should I change it? Bogofilter is currently letting 2-3 per day into my inbox. I generally check for false-positives, but as the training has progressed, I am finding none anymore.
I plan to implement a single-shot, one try notification sender. I.e., if the mail gets classified as spam: lookup the mx record for the envelope return address, if it's nonexistent, lookup the a record. Make a connection and try to deliver a message indicating their message (include subject reference) was identified as spam, include a way for them to reliably get a message through to me. If any of the smtp exchange or address lookup fails, just forget it, they're probably not real anyway.
They already do this.
You have to fill out a web-form giving location information, then specifically activate 911. This could be made a mandatory process.
I guess I view regulation in two parts: rules, and fees. The rules I have no problem with. It's the fees that bug me - Vonage should only have to pay fees to cover what it costs to allow their NAPs to access 911 centers directly on behalf of a customer when that customer dials 911.
The VoIP companies should not have to comply with the same regulatory burdens. They should have to comply with the same portion of those regulatory burdens that address the emergency 911 service infrastructure.
Vonage relies on their customers to provide the plumbing. Regulating them in the same way as a traditional phone company that owns the plumbing does not make sense.
So, again, regulating them for 911 service? Yes. Regulating them identically to the traditional phone companies? NO.
Interesting points.
My career isn't over yet, so who knows, but I may be a corrolary argument. I think having your eyes opened from a good diverse university experience can prepare you for business, even if your path was CS.
I've got a CS degree.
I've been in the field for approximately 8 years. I've worked up to management level, but am still in a technical role - primarily acting as a generalist, helping develop corporate IT strategies and providing coordination and communication both to director-level management above me and technologists below me.
Until a few years ago I looked at things much the way you describe - focused on the mechanics of software creation. Don't get me wrong - there's a huge share of business-focused people whose idea of work is 5 hours of talking about their kids, 30 minutes of coffee breaks, an hour of lunch, and 90 minutes of focused work. However, if you find some good development or corporate leaders, they demonstrate quite quickly how naive it is to be focused on the mechanics of software creation.
There's a heck of a lot more to focus on and weight appropriately if you want to successfully run a business. Managing to a P&L or the amount of dynamics an organization can cope with is significantly harder than choosing among several technical alternatives to find the one with the most merit - in a lot of cases that choice with the most merit may be impossible for the business to take on.
A part of me will always crave the "look back and see how much grass you've cut" qualitative nature of software creation, but there are significantly more challenging problems in leading IT, and they often require more in the way of personal devotion to achieve a solution.
Dude. TEN YEARS. TEN!
I have used a number of these principles since beying laid off in 2002 for both finding a position with a new company and once there an internal move up the chain.
One intangible that beyond this (or maybe reading between the parent poster's lines): do whatever it takes to prepare yourself for a conversation with your interviewer. Yes, this can be hard in a question-answer-question-answer type format, but figure out how you're going to weave things into a conversation. When you engage your interviewer in a conversation they can better connect with and relate to you. It also helps them visualize what you would be like on the job - most people will want to work with others they can successfully interact and collaborate with.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/vpe/
But if your knock sequence was generated similar to a one time password, the knock sequence would be unique each time and not replayable.
The ones that seems stuck forever in the "unconscious incompetence" stage of the progression of competency:
unconscious incompetence
conscious incompetence
conscious competence
unconscious competence
So to those who are working with User Mode Linux (UML) - would this make getting User Mode Linux under Win32 easier to accomplish?
I thought about this after seeing my inbox spam increase to about 80 a day (the box that contains what is filtered is usually 10 per hour - my adress has been valid for just short of 10 years).
/usr/share/dict/words? I thought about trying this out, but have been too busy to get off my ass and do it.
Why not check the subject or first few lines of plain (not html) text and see if 80% of it is in
What a great game it was. I used to play Paradise as well. So much action and strategy involved with such a simplistic looking game.
FUN!
What your system cannot do is prove to the voter that its internal storage records exactly what the screen does in terms of the votes placed.
No electronic system can do this.
Of course, some of our current non-electronic voting machines cannot, but some can. The voter can actually see what physical piece of evidence will be later counted to determine their votes.
Since you cannot write a proof to guarantee code does something, you have no mechanism to tie any artifact (whether electronic on-screen results or a printout of voting choices) to the actual vote being counted.
A physical artifact counted by people is all that can do this.
Mirror.
Like the U.S.?
Given the FCC's pro-corporation behavior of late, do you really believe this will happen? I think eventually it will, but certainly not right away. The FCC definitely wants to sell off that spectrum, but they're nowhere close at this point. If CBS in that market was all that's standing in the way, I could see this happening.