I hope you also have another word, because the Postini service is incredibly bad. I had it enabled on my account at acm.org, and the Postini system was generating roughly one false positive for every 10 true positives. I disabled the Postini filtering and started using Spamassassin. Both the false positive and false negative rates are much improved. Among the traffic that Postini was flagging as spam were the Wikipedia article of the day, my daily email from musicbrainz.org, all messages to the BATN mailing list, many replies to my items for sale on craigslist, and other kinds of completely legitimate traffic. Among the mail they chose to deliver were messages in Korean, Cyrillic, other scripts I can't read, and known viruses.
Their main problem is the system doesn't learn. Using their web interface, I look through the spam folder and request delivery of all the false positives. The next day, nearly-identical mails are still generating false positives. You'd think it would be easy these days to design a filter that learns from negative reinforcement.
The problem with the spam filters, which you have stated, is that eventually a spammer figures out how to craft a spam which avoids the feature detection systems. Right now there's some zombie network sending around a stock market scam, of which I am getting roughly 300 copies per hour, even though spamassassin correctly classifies virtually all other unwanted mail.
Lately, I've been thinking about this problem a lot. The classic method of computer classification systems (Bayes, SVM, whatever) are all based on trying to detect features in a set of objects which separate the objects into two classes. But there is only one feature which is shared by all spam, and which is not shared by mail I wish to receive: all spam is sent by assholes. The problem is, you can't algorithmically detect the asshole coefficient solely from the contents of an SMTP transmission. Therefore I have recently come to the conclusion that we need to revert to a web of trust for accepting email. I have long avoided webs of trust because they seem difficult to manage, but I've come to believe that they are the only way to solve this spam problem.
Hi, SoundPolitics is an avowed right-wing website which has been running an anti-Gregoire campaign for a long time. I suggest you do not take their opinion on the election process seriously.
The Republican party tried, in that Washington State election, to disenfranchise as many Democratic voters as they possibly could, in one case by swearing falsely that they believed hundreds of addresses of registered voters did not in fact exist. All these people turned out to be Democratic voters living in apartments in Seattle. It was one of the most blatant examples of election corruption in a year that saw a bumper crop of such shenanigans.
You only have to look at their current front page to see how seriously you should treat SoundsPolitics.com. They insist on calling Gregoire "Mrs. Gregoire" instead of Gov. Gregoire. I would not take advice on the health of the Repulic from people who stoop to such petty namecalling.
The appropriate move for the state of Mass. would be to force Bechtel to repair the tunnel, at their own expense. If they decline, the state should revoke the corporate charter which allows the firm to do business in the state. It is, after all, the 13th-largest state in the nation. They should have some pull.
IE7 is not a "good push" towards web standards because web standards do not exist at all inside the Microsoft development organization. Mozilla strives to comply with published standards, and with each revision it approaches that goal. Internet Explorer is developed with the goal of steering revenue toward Microsoft, possibly in strange and unpredictable ways. Developers can try to code to standards and just cross their fingers hoping that IE7/8/9 start to converge with the standards, but that situation is hopeless. Successive versions of IE are going to be broken in very strange ways, and Microsoft will not even recognize that this is a defect. Unless and until Microsoft adopts a stated goal of standards compliance, this situation cannot change.
I've tested with IE7 and believe me it's just as broken as IE6, but differently. And all those hacks* you added to make IE6 work? They fuck shit up in IE7. So if 70% of web users wake up on the Wednesday after patch Tuesday with a web browser which follows no known standards and isn't compatible with the bugs of its predecessors, what then? How does this improve the situation?
*Hacks like having to put a 1px white border around absolutely positioned elements in order to make their height be greater than 0px. I spent almost 4 hours tearing my hair out on that one yesterday before stumbling upon the solution.
My Shuttle box actually has a BIOS setting for the LED level (including completely off). But I agree it's annoying. I once bought a cheapo toaster at Target, unpacked it, and found that it had an ALWAYS ON blue LED. Naturally I returned it.
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I second the Areca recommendation. Their cards are very capable of detecting a failed disk, taking it offline, mailing the operator, and sounding the buzzer, all without skipping a beat as far as the host operating system can tell. And their RAID engine is bleeding fast, too.
I just wish the kernel folks would try harder to get their driver into the mainline. Areca is the rare example of a manufacturer who undertook the cost to write their own Linux driver and release it under the GPL, and the kernel maintainers have spent more than a year whining and bitching about how the code doesn't fit in their 80-column terminals.
KFOG is owned by Cumulus Media and a consortium of private equity firms. Previously KFOG was owned by Susquehanna Pfaltzgraff Co. I've never heard that it was employee-owned.
See, even the Slashdot editors fell for the "HD Radio" scam. The "HD" doesn't stand for anything, much less "High Definition". In fact in-band digital radio sounds much worse than analog FM radio. The CODEC sounds so bad that the FCC came close to not approving it. Only strong lobbying by iBiquity, the holders of the patents on the CODEC, convinced the FCC to approve.
HD Radio has many many problems, notably that its sideband transmission scheme crowds out adjacent low-power FM stations. Basically, it's Clear Channel's master plan to finally kill off the local competition. Oh, and guess who is a major investor in iBiquity and its patent portfolio? Yeah, Clear Channel.
So have fun with your "HD" Radio. It's a great way to crowd three times as many commercials and mindless corporate pop music crap into the same FM band, while destroying local stations, implementing DRM, and removing fair-use rights. Joy!
Better yet, fax it to yourself.
Still, Adobe or whomever is responsible for generating these PDFs really should try to export the maximally-flat expurgated version including only what's necessary to draw what the user sees.
As Mr. Graham points out in the article, Silicon Valley is not unique because Google and Apple and HP have offices here, it's special because those companies were started here.
HP, IBM, and BellSouth...
Again referring to the article, you do realize that these companies are not startups, or even young, do you not? BellSouth, also known as AT&T, is the one company that comes to mind as the polar opposite of high technology.
But I guess it's easier to be incredulous...
I am always incredulous. Check the dictionary.
... spend the five seconds it probably takes to google it.
Instead of using Google, a Silicon Valley product, I used another tool which produces a google map of all the publicly traded companies worth at least $10,000,000 within 100 miles of Atlanta, including their names, addresses, brief descriptions, stock ticker, and historical stock chart. And that tool was also written in Silicon Valley.
But really, the universities and the national laboratories have been key in the region's history. Why else do dozens of Nobel Prize winners live here?
As for the original question, Silicon Valley has been reproduced on smaller scales in several places. Cambridge is notable, as is Beaverton (home to many companies which are often mistakenly said to be in Silicon Valley).
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A related and much worse problem is when the developers refuse to consider your bug report because you failed to test is against the latest CVS. "Well that's interesting but 2.7.92-pre2-test19-rr-gg-123 is over 16 minutes old. Could you please retest with..." and that sort of thing. That is a true copout because the developers know damn well they haven't addressed the problem specifically, so there's no reason to believe that it's resolved in newer code. But it does give developers an excuse to delay addressing the problem.
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Right, because who ever heard of a gasoline-powered car catching on fire?
What about the millions of passengers who cancel their travel plans because the TSA are a bunch of uppity goons?
CTs should be allowed to pick up the bomb. Ts should be allowed to move the hostages.
Please rectify the contradiction formed by these competing stories:
1) A Virtual Machine will not defend us from viruses, because the virus can detect when it is running under the VM.
2) Blue Pill or its successor can execute Windows inside an undetectable VM.
Thanks.
So I should add every person who sends mail to a busy email list to a white list, one by one? No thanks.
I hope you also have another word, because the Postini service is incredibly bad. I had it enabled on my account at acm.org, and the Postini system was generating roughly one false positive for every 10 true positives. I disabled the Postini filtering and started using Spamassassin. Both the false positive and false negative rates are much improved. Among the traffic that Postini was flagging as spam were the Wikipedia article of the day, my daily email from musicbrainz.org, all messages to the BATN mailing list, many replies to my items for sale on craigslist, and other kinds of completely legitimate traffic. Among the mail they chose to deliver were messages in Korean, Cyrillic, other scripts I can't read, and known viruses.
Their main problem is the system doesn't learn. Using their web interface, I look through the spam folder and request delivery of all the false positives. The next day, nearly-identical mails are still generating false positives. You'd think it would be easy these days to design a filter that learns from negative reinforcement.
There is no classification system with zero real risk, except for delivering all mail to the Inbox. Sorry.
If your mail is that important, you should be using couriers instead of email.
The problem with the spam filters, which you have stated, is that eventually a spammer figures out how to craft a spam which avoids the feature detection systems. Right now there's some zombie network sending around a stock market scam, of which I am getting roughly 300 copies per hour, even though spamassassin correctly classifies virtually all other unwanted mail.
Lately, I've been thinking about this problem a lot. The classic method of computer classification systems (Bayes, SVM, whatever) are all based on trying to detect features in a set of objects which separate the objects into two classes. But there is only one feature which is shared by all spam, and which is not shared by mail I wish to receive: all spam is sent by assholes. The problem is, you can't algorithmically detect the asshole coefficient solely from the contents of an SMTP transmission. Therefore I have recently come to the conclusion that we need to revert to a web of trust for accepting email. I have long avoided webs of trust because they seem difficult to manage, but I've come to believe that they are the only way to solve this spam problem.
Hi, SoundPolitics is an avowed right-wing website which has been running an anti-Gregoire campaign for a long time. I suggest you do not take their opinion on the election process seriously.
The Republican party tried, in that Washington State election, to disenfranchise as many Democratic voters as they possibly could, in one case by swearing falsely that they believed hundreds of addresses of registered voters did not in fact exist. All these people turned out to be Democratic voters living in apartments in Seattle. It was one of the most blatant examples of election corruption in a year that saw a bumper crop of such shenanigans.
You only have to look at their current front page to see how seriously you should treat SoundsPolitics.com. They insist on calling Gregoire "Mrs. Gregoire" instead of Gov. Gregoire. I would not take advice on the health of the Repulic from people who stoop to such petty namecalling.
The appropriate move for the state of Mass. would be to force Bechtel to repair the tunnel, at their own expense. If they decline, the state should revoke the corporate charter which allows the firm to do business in the state. It is, after all, the 13th-largest state in the nation. They should have some pull.
IE7 is not a "good push" towards web standards because web standards do not exist at all inside the Microsoft development organization. Mozilla strives to comply with published standards, and with each revision it approaches that goal. Internet Explorer is developed with the goal of steering revenue toward Microsoft, possibly in strange and unpredictable ways. Developers can try to code to standards and just cross their fingers hoping that IE7/8/9 start to converge with the standards, but that situation is hopeless. Successive versions of IE are going to be broken in very strange ways, and Microsoft will not even recognize that this is a defect. Unless and until Microsoft adopts a stated goal of standards compliance, this situation cannot change. I've tested with IE7 and believe me it's just as broken as IE6, but differently. And all those hacks* you added to make IE6 work? They fuck shit up in IE7. So if 70% of web users wake up on the Wednesday after patch Tuesday with a web browser which follows no known standards and isn't compatible with the bugs of its predecessors, what then? How does this improve the situation? *Hacks like having to put a 1px white border around absolutely positioned elements in order to make their height be greater than 0px. I spent almost 4 hours tearing my hair out on that one yesterday before stumbling upon the solution.
My Shuttle box actually has a BIOS setting for the LED level (including completely off). But I agree it's annoying. I once bought a cheapo toaster at Target, unpacked it, and found that it had an ALWAYS ON blue LED. Naturally I returned it.
Since always. HD-DVD uses a 405nm laser.
I second the Areca recommendation. Their cards are very capable of detecting a failed disk, taking it offline, mailing the operator, and sounding the buzzer, all without skipping a beat as far as the host operating system can tell. And their RAID engine is bleeding fast, too. I just wish the kernel folks would try harder to get their driver into the mainline. Areca is the rare example of a manufacturer who undertook the cost to write their own Linux driver and release it under the GPL, and the kernel maintainers have spent more than a year whining and bitching about how the code doesn't fit in their 80-column terminals.
KFOG is owned by Cumulus Media and a consortium of private equity firms. Previously KFOG was owned by Susquehanna Pfaltzgraff Co. I've never heard that it was employee-owned.
See, even the Slashdot editors fell for the "HD Radio" scam. The "HD" doesn't stand for anything, much less "High Definition". In fact in-band digital radio sounds much worse than analog FM radio. The CODEC sounds so bad that the FCC came close to not approving it. Only strong lobbying by iBiquity, the holders of the patents on the CODEC, convinced the FCC to approve.
HD Radio has many many problems, notably that its sideband transmission scheme crowds out adjacent low-power FM stations. Basically, it's Clear Channel's master plan to finally kill off the local competition. Oh, and guess who is a major investor in iBiquity and its patent portfolio? Yeah, Clear Channel.
So have fun with your "HD" Radio. It's a great way to crowd three times as many commercials and mindless corporate pop music crap into the same FM band, while destroying local stations, implementing DRM, and removing fair-use rights. Joy!
See, you actually have no idea where Bloomberg makes their money. Hint: it's not the TV, and it's not radio, and it's not newspaper editorials.
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http://about.bloomberg.com/about/professional/ind
Actually, Bloomberg makes his money by selling a very valuable information service to the financial services industry all over the world.
Better yet, fax it to yourself. Still, Adobe or whomever is responsible for generating these PDFs really should try to export the maximally-flat expurgated version including only what's necessary to draw what the user sees.
As Mr. Graham points out in the article, Silicon Valley is not unique because Google and Apple and HP have offices here, it's special because those companies were started here.
HP, IBM, and BellSouth...
Again referring to the article, you do realize that these companies are not startups, or even young, do you not? BellSouth, also known as AT&T, is the one company that comes to mind as the polar opposite of high technology.
But I guess it's easier to be incredulous...
I am always incredulous. Check the dictionary.
Instead of using Google, a Silicon Valley product, I used another tool which produces a google map of all the publicly traded companies worth at least $10,000,000 within 100 miles of Atlanta, including their names, addresses, brief descriptions, stock ticker, and historical stock chart. And that tool was also written in Silicon Valley.
Such as? Home Depot?
Way to leave out Berkeley ;)
But really, the universities and the national laboratories have been key in the region's history. Why else do dozens of Nobel Prize winners live here?
As for the original question, Silicon Valley has been reproduced on smaller scales in several places. Cambridge is notable, as is Beaverton (home to many companies which are often mistakenly said to be in Silicon Valley).
A related and much worse problem is when the developers refuse to consider your bug report because you failed to test is against the latest CVS. "Well that's interesting but 2.7.92-pre2-test19-rr-gg-123 is over 16 minutes old. Could you please retest with ..." and that sort of thing. That is a true copout because the developers know damn well they haven't addressed the problem specifically, so there's no reason to believe that it's resolved in newer code. But it does give developers an excuse to delay addressing the problem.
SVG works wonderfully in FF 1.5/Debian (and Ubuntu). If there are problems with the rendering backends in portage, that's a local problem.
And here's a link to the video:
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http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Countdown-nsa-Ha