It is not separate. The Arab parties many times have been a deciding coalition member in Israeli governments. To say they have no real power is to ignore the actual political situation there. Would a police officer in South Africa be jailed for beating a Black? The answer is no. But when an Israeli police officer beats and Arab, he's put on trial and jailed. BIG difference.
Now you say equal rights. Define them. What rights need to be equal? Right to speak? Right to worship? Right to travel? Right to work at whatever job they want? All possible.
In South Africa blacks had no part of the political process. In Israel, there are Arab parties, Arab members of parliament, Arab diplomats, etc. I fail to see how the democracies of the two countries are the same. One is exclusive while the other is inclusive.
It can't be Flash as they're coming out with their own. It can't be ColdFusion as they have asp.net. It can't be Dreamweaver for obvious reasons. It can't be Breeze, Flex or anything else. Why would MS buy MM except to destroy it or keep it out of the hands of others?
Not only do I disagree with Dvorak but his comment about Flash shows his bias. All he's looking at is the negative, not any of the positives that MM might bring to the table to make the deal more than a 'get it before MS does'.
I don't think so. ColdFusion gets Adobe right into the server market with a product that has 10 strong years under its belt and it still holding its own against Microsoft and others (like PHP). As a loooong time CF guru I expect the language to stay strong, especially after this latest release.
And as usual, ColdFusion has been ignored by both. It was out before Rebol, Asp, PHP, etc. It's still running strong and it's a proof of concept that tag based languages (as now seen in JSP and Asp.Net) work. Where's the recognition?!?
Yes, I whine about the injustice of it and I'm sure enough of the righteousness of my complaints that I can whine with my name on the post rather than hiding.
To Quote an open source guru "Why would I want ColdFusion when I have Zope". He, like many in the open source world look down on and ignore ColdFusion because it's a product that goes against the open source religion. Doesn't matter how good it is. Doesn't matter how many are using it. Doesn't matter that it supports many open source ideals. It's 'for pay' and 'closed' so it sucks. This is why I do not put my effort into the open source community in general. I dedicate my energy to the community of users that use the language that I do. The community ignored on Slashdot. A community that you should embrace rather than reject.
Yes, I'm whiny and I have every right to be.
And as usual, ColdFusion is ignored. Doesn't matter that it's been around for 9 years and going strong. Doesn't matter how fast and easy it is to write a web app in it. It's not free, so ignore it. It's Macromedia, so ignore it. It's not open source, so ignore it. Damn, but this bias is getting real old.
It's a very human centered language that looks like HTML is ways so will familiar if she has any HTML experience. There personal server is free for dev use even if the production server costs cash. There's also a very strong and social community around it. http://www.houseoffusion.com is just one such community spot.
My spam code automatically blocks anything from rima-tde and let me tell you, it's never blocked anything but spam. I get mail from around the world for my mailing lists and not one Spanish ColdFusion programmer has complained.
I keep an online DB of all the spam I get and this is the (not current) list of spam from them. http://www.houseoffusion.com/spam/viewdomai n.cfm/d omain=rima-tde.net
Michael Dinowitz House of Fusion http://www.houseoffusion.com
I'm in Brooklyn, NY, USA which is nowhere near the town. On the scientific side I'm interested if a human body can produce an EM field of sufficient strength to interact with other EM fields and if this might be the cause. I want hard core scientific investigation here. No mumbo-jumbo science. It's either provable and replicatable or it's not. Occult events are entirely subjective and can not be proven scientifically. If this is an occult event then cool, but not as interesting.
I'm rather interested in this as well. I've had simular experiences in homes that I lived in. Radios would go on and off, clocks (battery, plug, etc.) would go back and forward. No fires, but some strange effects.
While I personally believe in magick (goes along with being an orthodox Jew), I'd like to see a technical reason for it if one exists. I'll be watching this story closely and contacting fellow programmers in Italy.
Forgive my ignorance, but is cable speed rated for both up and down? I ask as Comcast is the largest spammer out there (according to the spam I get with RR coming in 4th) and they NEVER respond to spam reports. If the new speed is for sending as well as receiving, it simply means more power to the spammers. Not something I'm looking forward to.
During the last week, while SoBig was flying around, my spam level was exceptionally low. Now that SoBig is basically gone (for now) the spam level has increased almost back to its normal level. Remember the basic rule: "correlation does not imply causation" Just because spam levels went down when this guy said he was getting out of the game does not mean that his departure was the cause.
And that explains why my black hole account was hammered so much. House of Fusion is a high traffic site and the BH account is hidden on all of the pages there.
Luckally, the virus has so many simple patterns in its header that it can be blocked and removed quite easily from a mailserver. I used the following RegEx on my mail system and it detects the virus with 100% accuracy from the headers alone.
Actually, in the ColdFusion community most of the posts have been going to mailing lists for the last 7 years. If MS is only looking at usenet then they are sure to miss most of the 'best' that they are looking for.
Let me update this a bit. My personal email address has had less than a dozen of these viruses sent to it. That address is not listed on my sites. My black hole address (bh@houseoffusion.com) exists only as a hidden link on my web pages and has had a few thousand hits from this virus so far. Other accounts that are listed only on my webpages are also being hit with my mailing lists getting 5-10 messages every few minutes. This does NOT look like its reading an address book. It looks like it's reading web pages.
Before being hammered by this virus, my sites were heavily scanned by a bot from hinet.net. Besides having virus attempts made to my lists (I have code that blocks it), I've gotten a few thousand sent to an address that exists ONLY as a hidden link on my webpages. Is there a connection? Was the bot collecting email addresses for the virus? How did the virus get an address that is not used by people. The news.com article mentioned that the virus reads the cache. Does this mean it has a parsing engine that reads all the cached HTML pages that someone has visited for email addresses? If so, then the hinet.net scanning may be unrelated. Of course, others have seen the scanning as well and made the connection but it may just be two unrelated events. Anyone have an informed comment?
And here's the evil that can come from this. A spam message with a link that says "by pressing this link, you signify that you wish to opt into our mailings". The spam filter automatically visits the link and boom, you've opted into God knows what. I can think of a TON of things that would be good for. or bad for as the case may be.
There's an additional issue here. What of mailing lists which go out to huge amounts of people and include such things as unsubscribe urls in the header or footer. My server is already overloaded with the lists I run as is. Having even 1% of those who get mail from it pining it for content can run into tens of thousands of extra hits a day for no constructive reason. In addition, if the advertising view scheme you mention goes into effect, it will drive advertising off the web even further than it is now. The article is interesting, but....
OK, I read the article and I must say I'm totally unimpressed by it. The focus is almost only on the body of the message and ignores all of the ways to detect spam from the header. It makes some broad statements about how spam can be formatted but not much else. I've seen tech docs on blocking spam from highschool kids with more detail and usefulness. I think that the author should go back and try to gather and review a LOT more spam. If he wants, I can foward him a few hundred unique ones that I get a day. I'm sure others here can forward him a whole lot more.
Note to self. Allow review of spam headers and body in spam dump (http://www.houseoffusion.com/spam/) for others to use.
Personally, I dislike Bayesian filters and instead write my own using RegEx (among other things). It's rather easy for someone to grab specific phrases from a subject and add them into a DB for blocking. For example viagra isn't a spam word alone, but generic viagra, prescription viagra, perscription viagra, etc. will all be flagged.
(generic|prescription|perscription) +viagra
For the word viagra with delimiters between each letter, this would work.
v[._*-]*i[._*-]*a[._*-]*g[._*-]*r[._*-]*a
Point is, spam has been growing in quantity but not quality and over 90% of it can be blocked from the header info alone by someone who can find the patterns in it.
As the poster said, it's not a science and it's not even thought of by most of those who send spam.
Yes, there are exceptions like the excellent ebay scams I've been seeing recently. So well put together that it would fool almost anyone. almost.
Write your RegEx visually using the free tool at www.cfregex.com
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It is not separate. The Arab parties many times have been a deciding coalition member in Israeli governments. To say they have no real power is to ignore the actual political situation there. Would a police officer in South Africa be jailed for beating a Black? The answer is no. But when an Israeli police officer beats and Arab, he's put on trial and jailed. BIG difference. Now you say equal rights. Define them. What rights need to be equal? Right to speak? Right to worship? Right to travel? Right to work at whatever job they want? All possible.
In South Africa blacks had no part of the political process. In Israel, there are Arab parties, Arab members of parliament, Arab diplomats, etc. I fail to see how the democracies of the two countries are the same. One is exclusive while the other is inclusive.
It can't be Flash as they're coming out with their own. It can't be ColdFusion as they have asp.net. It can't be Dreamweaver for obvious reasons. It can't be Breeze, Flex or anything else. Why would MS buy MM except to destroy it or keep it out of the hands of others? Not only do I disagree with Dvorak but his comment about Flash shows his bias. All he's looking at is the negative, not any of the positives that MM might bring to the table to make the deal more than a 'get it before MS does'.
They still use wheels. It has evolved past the stone. Many still use CF and it has evolved past 1999.
And that was how many generations internet time ago? How many versions? do you still complaining that the first wheel was made of stone?
I don't think so. ColdFusion gets Adobe right into the server market with a product that has 10 strong years under its belt and it still holding its own against Microsoft and others (like PHP). As a loooong time CF guru I expect the language to stay strong, especially after this latest release.
And as usual, ColdFusion has been ignored by both. It was out before Rebol, Asp, PHP, etc. It's still running strong and it's a proof of concept that tag based languages (as now seen in JSP and Asp.Net) work. Where's the recognition?!?
Yes, I whine about the injustice of it and I'm sure enough of the righteousness of my complaints that I can whine with my name on the post rather than hiding. To Quote an open source guru "Why would I want ColdFusion when I have Zope". He, like many in the open source world look down on and ignore ColdFusion because it's a product that goes against the open source religion. Doesn't matter how good it is. Doesn't matter how many are using it. Doesn't matter that it supports many open source ideals. It's 'for pay' and 'closed' so it sucks. This is why I do not put my effort into the open source community in general. I dedicate my energy to the community of users that use the language that I do. The community ignored on Slashdot. A community that you should embrace rather than reject. Yes, I'm whiny and I have every right to be.
And as usual, ColdFusion is ignored. Doesn't matter that it's been around for 9 years and going strong. Doesn't matter how fast and easy it is to write a web app in it. It's not free, so ignore it. It's Macromedia, so ignore it. It's not open source, so ignore it. Damn, but this bias is getting real old.
It's a very human centered language that looks like HTML is ways so will familiar if she has any HTML experience. There personal server is free for dev use even if the production server costs cash. There's also a very strong and social community around it. http://www.houseoffusion.com is just one such community spot.
My spam code automatically blocks anything from rima-tde and let me tell you, it's never blocked anything but spam. I get mail from around the world for my mailing lists and not one Spanish ColdFusion programmer has complained.
i n.cfm/d omain=rima-tde.net
I keep an online DB of all the spam I get and this is the (not current) list of spam from them.
http://www.houseoffusion.com/spam/viewdoma
Michael Dinowitz
House of Fusion
http://www.houseoffusion.com
I'm in Brooklyn, NY, USA which is nowhere near the town. On the scientific side I'm interested if a human body can produce an EM field of sufficient strength to interact with other EM fields and if this might be the cause. I want hard core scientific investigation here. No mumbo-jumbo science. It's either provable and replicatable or it's not.
Occult events are entirely subjective and can not be proven scientifically. If this is an occult event then cool, but not as interesting.
I'm rather interested in this as well. I've had simular experiences in homes that I lived in. Radios would go on and off, clocks (battery, plug, etc.) would go back and forward. No fires, but some strange effects. While I personally believe in magick (goes along with being an orthodox Jew), I'd like to see a technical reason for it if one exists. I'll be watching this story closely and contacting fellow programmers in Italy.
sorry, bad login.
Forgive my ignorance, but is cable speed rated for both up and down? I ask as Comcast is the largest spammer out there (according to the spam I get with RR coming in 4th) and they NEVER respond to spam reports. If the new speed is for sending as well as receiving, it simply means more power to the spammers. Not something I'm looking forward to.
During the last week, while SoBig was flying around, my spam level was exceptionally low. Now that SoBig is basically gone (for now) the spam level has increased almost back to its normal level. Remember the basic rule:
"correlation does not imply causation"
Just because spam levels went down when this guy said he was getting out of the game does not mean that his departure was the cause.
And that explains why my black hole account was hammered so much. House of Fusion is a high traffic site and the BH account is hidden on all of the pages there.
Luckally, the virus has so many simple patterns in its header that it can be blocked and removed quite easily from a mailserver. I used the following RegEx on my mail system and it detects the virus with 100% accuracy from the headers alone.
^(Re: ?)*(Your details|Details|My details|Approved|Wicked screensaver|That movie|Your application|Thank you!) *$
(note that the subject rotation is case specific)
A full writeup is here:
http://www.fusionauthority.com/
Actually, in the ColdFusion community most of the posts have been going to mailing lists for the last 7 years. If MS is only looking at usenet then they are sure to miss most of the 'best' that they are looking for.
Let me update this a bit. My personal email address has had less than a dozen of these viruses sent to it. That address is not listed on my sites. My black hole address (bh@houseoffusion.com) exists only as a hidden link on my web pages and has had a few thousand hits from this virus so far. Other accounts that are listed only on my webpages are also being hit with my mailing lists getting 5-10 messages every few minutes.
This does NOT look like its reading an address book. It looks like it's reading web pages.
Before being hammered by this virus, my sites were heavily scanned by a bot from hinet.net. Besides having virus attempts made to my lists (I have code that blocks it), I've gotten a few thousand sent to an address that exists ONLY as a hidden link on my webpages. Is there a connection? Was the bot collecting email addresses for the virus? How did the virus get an address that is not used by people.
The news.com article mentioned that the virus reads the cache. Does this mean it has a parsing engine that reads all the cached HTML pages that someone has visited for email addresses? If so, then the hinet.net scanning may be unrelated. Of course, others have seen the scanning as well and made the connection but it may just be two unrelated events.
Anyone have an informed comment?
And here's the evil that can come from this. A spam message with a link that says "by pressing this link, you signify that you wish to opt into our mailings". The spam filter automatically visits the link and boom, you've opted into God knows what.
I can think of a TON of things that would be good for. or bad for as the case may be.
There's an additional issue here. What of mailing lists which go out to huge amounts of people and include such things as unsubscribe urls in the header or footer. My server is already overloaded with the lists I run as is. Having even 1% of those who get mail from it pining it for content can run into tens of thousands of extra hits a day for no constructive reason.
In addition, if the advertising view scheme you mention goes into effect, it will drive advertising off the web even further than it is now.
The article is interesting, but....
OK, I read the article and I must say I'm totally unimpressed by it. The focus is almost only on the body of the message and ignores all of the ways to detect spam from the header. It makes some broad statements about how spam can be formatted but not much else. I've seen tech docs on blocking spam from highschool kids with more detail and usefulness. I think that the author should go back and try to gather and review a LOT more spam. If he wants, I can foward him a few hundred unique ones that I get a day. I'm sure others here can forward him a whole lot more.
Note to self. Allow review of spam headers and body in spam dump (http://www.houseoffusion.com/spam/) for others to use.
Personally, I dislike Bayesian filters and instead write my own using RegEx (among other things). It's rather easy for someone to grab specific phrases from a subject and add them into a DB for blocking. For example viagra isn't a spam word alone, but generic viagra, prescription viagra, perscription viagra, etc. will all be flagged. (generic|prescription|perscription) +viagra For the word viagra with delimiters between each letter, this would work. v[ ._*-]*i[ ._*-]*a[ ._*-]*g[ ._*-]*r[ ._*-]*a
Point is, spam has been growing in quantity but not quality and over 90% of it can be blocked from the header info alone by someone who can find the patterns in it.
As the poster said, it's not a science and it's not even thought of by most of those who send spam.
Yes, there are exceptions like the excellent ebay scams I've been seeing recently. So well put together that it would fool almost anyone. almost.
Write your RegEx visually using the free tool at www.cfregex.com
And its (finally) up for download. Have fun: http://www.cfregex.com