Neat idea and looks to be working well for cars moving fast. What about traffic jams though where cars come to a stop on these bags. I'd imagine they'd sing in somewhat and might have trouble moving out of the hole from there.
It's somehow okay now that an extension goes behind the users back and circumvents other plug-ins? Especially a plug-in that most users use presumably to protect themselves against malware and intrusive JavaScript driven ads?
I sure hope the community will step up and create a new open source plug-in that goes "back to the basics" (disable JavaScript per site + whitelist) and people ditch NoScript faster than you can say "WTF!"....
Apparently the NoScript developers (which is btw. the most obnoxious plug-in I currently have installed; re: updates...) heads have gotten a bit to big for their own good.
I can't wait to see the fallout from this one. Hopefully at the end NoScript in it's current form won't exist anymore!
The Aptera is rear wheel drive. The "Axle" in the front is actually only the push-rod for the steering. There are no rotating parts exposed in the front (other than the wheels of course).
From the linked article it's apparent that many people are ignorant to the problem simply because mail admins block spam quietly, before it becomes a problem to the user. The journalists who think spam isn't a problem should really have their spam filters turned off.
Maybe we should disable _all_ spam filters for one day. Let's call it "Spam awareness day" and show the journalists just what Spamhaus etc. really do.
This ruling is a total farse IMHO, but with ignorant journalists, judges and so called "experts", nobody will ever be aware of the repercussions.
The comments on the original article are already moderated. If I want to read what users have to say about a topic, I go there! This purposefull regurgitaion of article comments is like a willful dupe to me - I really don't like it.
Could we please stop that? Or at least take them off the homepage?
EmigrantDirect.com has a very no-hassle savings account. It gives you 5% interest currently and the interest rate goes up every time the Fed raises the prime rate.
Your money won't be locked up at all which is very important in case you need it. And the yield is up there with most CDs (Certificat of Deposit) which would lock up your money over time.
Check them out!
Disclaimer: I'm a happy customer there, but in no way affiliated otherwise.
We own(ed) a N64, PS2, PSP, GBA, XBOX and others. But we have not bought a Xbox 360 yet. The reaons are multiple:
- The Price
The Xbox 360 is significantly more expensive than most other consoles before it. It simply doesn't fall into the "playmoney" category somehow. This makes the barrier of entry too high.
- The Games
I've bought the Xbox almost solely because of multiplayer Halo and because my wife is a big Oddworld fan. No sign of either for the 360. Call of duty looks nice, but nothing to shell out ~$350 for (X360+game).
- The Future
The Nintento Revolution is going to have Bluetooth (non proprietary) controllers, focus on gaming alone and is set to try a "different" angle on gaming. Hopefully it'll have a good Mario game and come thruogh on the hype.
The PS3 will have GT 5 (eventually). That's good enough for me:D.
Either one are worth waiting for to have something to compare the Xbox 360 against.
Hearing that Maureen will no longer publish her nonsense articles is certainly good news. But nowhere does it say she actually got sacked by sys-con.
Without evidence of the contrary , I must however assume she is still "Editor in chief" of "Linux Business Week" and thus still getting paid by sys-con.
The only thing which was made clear is that she could not publish articles authored by herself anymore.
I'm subscribed to the Linux kernel mailing list with a GMail account and it constantly marks legitimate messages as Spam. Since the emails have such a common format and subject matter, that's really surprising.
On the flip side, many Spam messages and phishing attempts make it through GMails filter.
My small business mail server running Spamassasin and some blacklists is much more efficient compared to Gmail.
Asides from the horrible name, clusty (a clustering search engine) is very innovative and easy to use. I hope more search engines will adapt similar technology soon.
Spam is a problem, but it's time journalists (online and otherwise) start taking stats with a grain of salt. Too many organizations are willing to publish questionable numbers in an attempt to sound like they have thoroughly researched the issue.
No actually. If inflating the stats is what it takes, then so be it! I don't think people realize yet how bad the problem really is. Since ISP spam filters are becoming more popular, end-users might not even see the full extend of bandwith wasting going on.
Otherwise you seem to be pretty lucky as well. On a good day about 25% of our email are legitimate (75% spam), but on a bad day I've seen about 93% spam on my server alone. Here are the current stats for our server: Spam stats
I'm tired of the argument you make honestly. A little "collateral damage" does not cause a business to go "out-of-business".
I host a mail server for 2 (small) businesses, both rely on their web site to win customers. Both sell products which require communication with the customer (usually through email).
The mail server gets about 6000+ emails per day. As of now: - Spamhaus SBL blocked 1084 (16%) - Spamhaus XBL blocked 2014 (30%) - Spamassassin caught 2067 (31%) - The virus scanner caught 105 (2%) only 1337 (how funny) or 20% were delivered today.
Are there falso positives? Maybe. Are they killing the businesses, which rely on customer communication - NO!
Going throught 1000+ spam emails a day would CERTAINLY have them go out of business. In fact, both business owners decided to have the Spamassassin spams discarded serverside. As in, they dont even want to go through them to check for false positives (anymore). Why? Because once again, if they had to check 1000 emails a day for false posisitves, they would never be able to read their legitimate emails.
Also, maybe there are some customers who try emailing them once and then give up, but I would suspect that most people are smart enough to pick up the phone or try a different form of communication.
Both businesses, are doing fine.
So it's a business tradeoff. Maybe you lose a few people through false positives, but you're gonna get your other customers served quicker and can build a reputation for good service.
I dont know why this rant still gets modded insightful...
First off, have you checked the KDE menu recently? Applications are groupped ("Editors", "Internet" etc) and then also have verbose names ("Web-Browser (Konqueror)", "Mail-Program (KMaiL)" etc...). So that issue is totally moot.
Otherwise, to me the "k" indicates it's a program written for KDE using KDE API's. As such, it wont use GTK, Gnome etc. and will integrate well into my desktop. As opposite to "gaim" or "gdesklets" etc. which are written for Gnome.
So to me the k/g/x/other naming conventions are very helpful in determening whether I want the program or not. And for less experienced users, they got the verbose names to go by and dont have to worry about it.
Yes, I agree with your points. The author spends way too much time dicrediting the study.
I also have to say that my experience was much more along the line of Cormacks. I've tried DSPAM for a while on my server, starting from scratch. Training on error with only new emails. On a small mail server with about 10 users of different types (geeks, businesses, moms etc). - DSPAM took way too long to produce any kind of results - 2500 emails before advanced features kick in is *a lot* for the average soccer mom - DPSAM produced way too many false positives early on - The spam filtering accuracy leveled off at about 80% (number from DSPAMs web interfac)
So this is not another overzealus CS student here, but real world testing.
The DSPAM author does not address any of the real points and just rags on Cormack.
Mind you I am a fulltime Linux user, but your post contains mostly non-arguments.
GAIM, Firefox, Thunderbird, Openoffice, Gimp etc etc all run on Windows just fine (well just fine maybe a bit too flattering for Gimp on windows). XP has a built-in firewall. And most importantly, XP starts before your X server is properly loaded (not even GDM yet) I bet.
There surely must be better arguments for not using Windows.
Slashdot Mirror
Neat idea and looks to be working well for cars moving fast.
What about traffic jams though where cars come to a stop on these bags. I'd imagine they'd sing in somewhat and might have trouble moving out of the hole from there.
It's somehow okay now that an extension goes behind the users back and circumvents other plug-ins? Especially a plug-in that most users use presumably to protect themselves against malware and intrusive JavaScript driven ads?
I sure hope the community will step up and create a new open source plug-in that goes "back to the basics" (disable JavaScript per site + whitelist) and people ditch NoScript faster than you can say "WTF!"....
Apparently the NoScript developers (which is btw. the most obnoxious plug-in I currently have installed; re: updates...) heads have gotten a bit to big for their own good.
I can't wait to see the fallout from this one. Hopefully at the end NoScript in it's current form won't exist anymore!
Nevermind....
Found it:
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/12/24/aptera-switches-to-front-wheel-drive-delivery-date-still-unknow/
Do you have any references to back this up?
I couldn't find anything about that on their site.
Also, that would mean completely re-configuring the motor layout etc. I highly doubt they would do this at this stage.
The Aptera is rear wheel drive. The "Axle" in the front is actually only the push-rod for the steering. There are no rotating parts exposed in the front (other than the wheels of course).
From the linked article it's apparent that many people are ignorant to the problem simply because mail admins block spam quietly, before it becomes a problem to the user. The journalists who think spam isn't a problem should really have their spam filters turned off.
Maybe we should disable _all_ spam filters for one day.
Let's call it "Spam awareness day" and show the journalists just what Spamhaus etc. really do.
This ruling is a total farse IMHO, but with ignorant journalists, judges and so called "experts", nobody will ever be aware of the repercussions.
Thank you! I forgot about that.
Still think they are useless, but I guess I'm in the minority there.
Why oh why do we need these "backslash"es?
The comments on the original article are already moderated. If I want to read what users have to say about a topic, I go there! This purposefull regurgitaion of article comments is like a willful dupe to me - I really don't like it.
Could we please stop that?
Or at least take them off the homepage?
Cheers,
andre
EmigrantDirect.com has a very no-hassle savings account. It gives you 5% interest currently and the interest rate goes up every time the Fed raises the prime rate.
Your money won't be locked up at all which is very important in case you need it. And the yield is up there with most CDs (Certificat of Deposit) which would lock up your money over time.
Check them out!
Disclaimer: I'm a happy customer there, but in no way affiliated otherwise.
Not with the phone, but why not with a PC for example.
The simple fact that it's regular Bluetooth should mean there's opportunity for a wide aftermarket as well as all sorts of crazy hacks.
We own(ed) a N64, PS2, PSP, GBA, XBOX and others.
:D.
But we have not bought a Xbox 360 yet. The reaons are multiple:
- The Price
The Xbox 360 is significantly more expensive than most other consoles before it. It simply doesn't fall into the "playmoney" category somehow. This makes the barrier of entry too high.
- The Games
I've bought the Xbox almost solely because of multiplayer Halo and because my wife is a big Oddworld fan. No sign of either for the 360. Call of duty looks nice, but nothing to shell out ~$350 for (X360+game).
- The Future
The Nintento Revolution is going to have Bluetooth (non proprietary) controllers, focus on gaming alone and is set to try a "different" angle on gaming. Hopefully it'll have a good Mario game and come thruogh on the hype.
The PS3 will have GT 5 (eventually). That's good enough for me
Either one are worth waiting for to have something to compare the Xbox 360 against.
Just my $.02
Cheers,
Andre
Hearing that Maureen will no longer publish her nonsense articles is certainly good news. But nowhere does it say she actually got sacked by sys-con.
Without evidence of the contrary , I must however assume she is still "Editor in chief" of "Linux Business Week" and thus still getting paid by sys-con.
The only thing which was made clear is that she could not publish articles authored by herself anymore.
Cheers,
Andre
I disagree completely.
I'm subscribed to the Linux kernel mailing list with a GMail account and it constantly marks legitimate messages as Spam. Since the emails have such a common format and subject matter, that's really surprising.
On the flip side, many Spam messages and phishing attempts make it through GMails filter.
My small business mail server running Spamassasin and some blacklists is much more efficient compared to Gmail.
Cheers,
Andre
NVU [1] is a standalone version of the composer which is actively developed (probably more so than composer) and works nicely alongside Firefox.
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[1] http://www.nvu.com
Asides from the horrible name, clusty (a clustering search engine) is very innovative and easy to use. I hope more search engines will adapt similar technology soon.
Link to clusty.com search engine
I guess Irrlicht is pretty good then...
Irrlicht Documentation
No actually. If inflating the stats is what it takes, then so be it! I don't think people realize yet how bad the problem really is. Since ISP spam filters are becoming more popular, end-users might not even see the full extend of bandwith wasting going on.
Otherwise you seem to be pretty lucky as well. On a good day about 25% of our email are legitimate (75% spam), but on a bad day I've seen about 93% spam on my server alone. Here are the current stats for our server:
Spam stats
Lets hope people become more aware.
Cheers,
André
I'm tired of the argument you make honestly. A little "collateral damage" does not cause a business to go "out-of-business".
I host a mail server for 2 (small) businesses, both rely on their web site to win customers. Both sell products which require communication with the customer (usually through email).
The mail server gets about 6000+ emails per day. As of now:
- Spamhaus SBL blocked 1084 (16%)
- Spamhaus XBL blocked 2014 (30%)
- Spamassassin caught 2067 (31%)
- The virus scanner caught 105 (2%)
only 1337 (how funny) or 20% were delivered today.
Are there falso positives? Maybe. Are they killing the businesses, which rely on customer communication - NO!
Going throught 1000+ spam emails a day would CERTAINLY have them go out of business. In fact, both business owners decided to have the Spamassassin spams discarded serverside. As in, they dont even want to go through them to check for false positives (anymore). Why? Because once again, if they had to check 1000 emails a day for false posisitves, they would never be able to read their legitimate emails.
Also, maybe there are some customers who try emailing them once and then give up, but I would suspect that most people are smart enough to pick up the phone or try a different form of communication.
Both businesses, are doing fine.
So it's a business tradeoff. Maybe you lose a few people through false positives, but you're gonna get your other customers served quicker and can build a reputation for good service.
YMMV
Cheers,
Andre
I dont know why this rant still gets modded insightful...
First off, have you checked the KDE menu recently? Applications are groupped ("Editors", "Internet" etc) and then also have verbose names ("Web-Browser (Konqueror)", "Mail-Program (KMaiL)" etc...). So that issue is totally moot.
Otherwise, to me the "k" indicates it's a program written for KDE using KDE API's. As such, it wont use GTK, Gnome etc. and will integrate well into my desktop. As opposite to "gaim" or "gdesklets" etc. which are written for Gnome.
So to me the k/g/x/other naming conventions are very helpful in determening whether I want the program or not. And for less experienced users, they got the verbose names to go by and dont have to worry about it.
Cheers,
André
Yes, I agree with your points. The author spends way too much time dicrediting the study.
I also have to say that my experience was much more along the line of Cormacks. I've tried DSPAM for a while on my server, starting from scratch. Training on error with only new emails. On a small mail server with about 10 users of different types (geeks, businesses, moms etc).
- DSPAM took way too long to produce any kind of results
- 2500 emails before advanced features kick in is *a lot* for the average soccer mom
- DPSAM produced way too many false positives early on
- The spam filtering accuracy leveled off at about 80% (number from DSPAMs web interfac)
So this is not another overzealus CS student here, but real world testing.
The DSPAM author does not address any of the real points and just rags on Cormack.
Not much of a "rebutal" in my book.
I am a contributor/developer for the Mantis project. What did you not like about it?
Is there something we can improve upon?
Thanks,
André
Is it really too much to ask to explain the more obscure terms used in Slashdot posts?
I have no idea what Manga is and would not have cared to click the article if I knew what it was about before hand.
Thanks,
André
Mind you I am a fulltime Linux user, but your post contains mostly non-arguments.
GAIM, Firefox, Thunderbird, Openoffice, Gimp etc etc all run on Windows just fine (well just fine maybe a bit too flattering for Gimp on windows). XP has a built-in firewall.
And most importantly, XP starts before your X server is properly loaded (not even GDM yet) I bet.
There surely must be better arguments for not using Windows.
You are confusing Spamhaus with SpamCop...
Spamhaus has no affiliation with IronPort!
Nope, the Sasser author is going to Jail (http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/47205 - sorry, in german). ;)
SP1 will be a while