Use a negative filter: Only accept the stuff addressed to you and dump the rest.
Even the simplest mail clients allow filtering and will execute these in top down order. So as the first filter, move mail to your address to another folder, then as a second filter, delete what is left.
That will remove about 90% of all spam.
Duplicating drives work if all the machines are brand new and identical, but they never are.
I have never been in the fortunate position to order a large bunch of identical machines. They may have been identical years ago, but as things break, get repaired and upgraded, you end up with many different machines. So, individual installs is the only practical way to handle it, but with Mandrake, that is very quick and I have on occation installed about 20, very different, machines in one afternoon.
Mandrake is used on lots of business servers. In a business, time is money, so Mandrake's quick and easy installation is a huge plus point. I'm working at three companies and we use Mandrake everywhere, for servers and engineering work stations.
Spam varies a lot from domain to domain. One of my mail servers gets 90% spam, the other gets about 40% spam.
So, 40% and rising is probably correct for the average.
All numbers are public, by definition, but some numbers are more public than others.
A SSN has value if you know that it belongs to a live human being of a certain age group, with a good credit rating and without a passport, if you have a bad credit rating, no passport and the same age. In contrast, a non-existent SSN, or one that belongs to a dead person has zero value.
See for example an old guy who got arrested in South Africa recently, due to an FBI most wanted listing. A criminal stole his SSN and is probably a serial murderer, so this old guy spent a very hard time in a very tough jail for a few weeks. Not a nice holiday, but one he'll never forget.
A ribbon will flutter and will soon turn into a messed up twisted round shape, so you would do better by designing it to be a round cable to begin with.
Handling oscillations, weather and collisions would require it to be hundreds, if not thousands of times stronger than required. So even carbon nonotubes would not necessarily be strong enough for a practical system.
According to the Ford company, a pickup's aerodynamics is better with the tailgate on.
With the gate on, you get a bubble of air behind the cab. With the gate off, this bubble gets deflated, resulting in more turbulance and more drag.
Cars travel so slowly most of the time, that aerodynamics simply isn't important. What is important, is to reduce turbulance noise - wind hiss. The importance of reduced drag on cars is mostly advertizing hype.
As a case in point: Look at the bottom side of a sleek looking car. The manufacturers clearly are only interested in 'visible' aerodynamics and don't care about the other half that is not visible. So it is just about looks, not drag.
Those big spoilers on the back of Hondas are not to reduce drag. They increase drag. If anything, their main purpose is to provide a handlebar to push them with.
Any medicine (programming language) that is held to be a cure for all ills, isn't. This has been documented long ago (in the 19th century already?) in the form of the song 'Lily the Pink' and her medicinal compound, that saved the world from misery by killing everyone that used it.
"You have to use the appropriate hammer for a screw of a given size.";-)
One wheel would have been way more cool and with all that balancing schtuff in it, it would work better than a two wheeler. It would be less wobbly as it would be able to bank in turns.
So, when he gets his act together and makes a one wheeler, I *may* be interested.
I think the most important thing in this presentation is that statement about "less than real-time".
Ye Gawd, I'd like to see that work!
The secret of time travel at last...
Nope, spammers do *not* sell stuff to Joe Public. Joe Public does *not* buy stuff from spammers.
Spammers defraud Joe Businessowner making him pay for useless advertisements. Joe Businessowner is the sucker. He is the idiot who is paying the spammer.
The spammer can't care less where he sends the advertisements to, whether they are wanted or not, or sent straight to/dev/null.
Educating Joe Public won't help. You have to educate Joe Businessowner who is so busy running his business, that he has no idea how idiotic spam is and who doesn't realize he being ripped off.
I can't believe that they get so little spam. Only about 5% of my e-mail is legit. Therefore, I need a very good spam filter system and uses a combination of procmail pattern matching, scoring and Bayesian statistics.
Fords have always been fully recycleable. Just leave a new Ford outside for a few years and it will be almost completely recycled into iron ore and other carbonaceous goop.
Motorcars are probably the most recycled things ever produced by mankind. You just have to look at all the scrap merchants to appreciate it.
The networks have no idea how many people are watching anyway. The TV broadcasts are one-way only...
So, who do they want to shoot?
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Urrrk, in Chapterhouse Dune, it is said that the tanks were actually made from donated female parts. So, Jeffrey Damer here we come...
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Well, now, will a lab grown steak have a soul or part of a soul? If it has even just a tiny bit of soul, then the religious fanatics will still have a problem with eating it.
Animals do not have a soul? Go read your Greek history...
Does a cloned human baby have a soul? If so, where did it come from? If not, can the US government outlaw cloning and hunt clones down and kill them without remorse? Are they going to make a tiny electric chair to execute clone babies? Will a Catholic Priest commit a crime if he rapes a soulless clone altar boy?
No, DC just requires different technology to control it.
There are many high voltage DC transmission lines in the world. Eg.: the 1 Megavolt line from the Cahora Bassa Hydro Dam in Southern Africa. One major advantage of DC transmission lines is that they do not need to be synchronized.
So, if we used DC distribution, then the ubiquitous walwart would just have been different technology...
It would be easy to make a shopping cart system using no mouse clicks at all...
In fact, I can think of many ways to do a shopping cart using no mouse clicks, no eye blinks, no foot pedals, no voice commands, no pencil strokes...
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Use a negative filter: Only accept the stuff addressed to you and dump the rest. Even the simplest mail clients allow filtering and will execute these in top down order. So as the first filter, move mail to your address to another folder, then as a second filter, delete what is left. That will remove about 90% of all spam.
Duplicating drives work if all the machines are brand new and identical, but they never are. I have never been in the fortunate position to order a large bunch of identical machines. They may have been identical years ago, but as things break, get repaired and upgraded, you end up with many different machines. So, individual installs is the only practical way to handle it, but with Mandrake, that is very quick and I have on occation installed about 20, very different, machines in one afternoon.
Mandrake is used on lots of business servers. In a business, time is money, so Mandrake's quick and easy installation is a huge plus point. I'm working at three companies and we use Mandrake everywhere, for servers and engineering work stations.
Spam varies a lot from domain to domain. One of my mail servers gets 90% spam, the other gets about 40% spam. So, 40% and rising is probably correct for the average.
All numbers are public, by definition, but some numbers are more public than others. A SSN has value if you know that it belongs to a live human being of a certain age group, with a good credit rating and without a passport, if you have a bad credit rating, no passport and the same age. In contrast, a non-existent SSN, or one that belongs to a dead person has zero value. See for example an old guy who got arrested in South Africa recently, due to an FBI most wanted listing. A criminal stole his SSN and is probably a serial murderer, so this old guy spent a very hard time in a very tough jail for a few weeks. Not a nice holiday, but one he'll never forget.
A ribbon will flutter and will soon turn into a messed up twisted round shape, so you would do better by designing it to be a round cable to begin with. Handling oscillations, weather and collisions would require it to be hundreds, if not thousands of times stronger than required. So even carbon nonotubes would not necessarily be strong enough for a practical system.
According to the Ford company, a pickup's aerodynamics is better with the tailgate on. With the gate on, you get a bubble of air behind the cab. With the gate off, this bubble gets deflated, resulting in more turbulance and more drag.
Cars travel so slowly most of the time, that aerodynamics simply isn't important. What is important, is to reduce turbulance noise - wind hiss. The importance of reduced drag on cars is mostly advertizing hype. As a case in point: Look at the bottom side of a sleek looking car. The manufacturers clearly are only interested in 'visible' aerodynamics and don't care about the other half that is not visible. So it is just about looks, not drag. Those big spoilers on the back of Hondas are not to reduce drag. They increase drag. If anything, their main purpose is to provide a handlebar to push them with.
should be ssh. You certainly don't want to write your own buggy backdoor. That is just schtoopidttt.
What is the use of that, I already have lots of flat batteries... Battery technology hasn't improved much in 2000 years it seems.
or 'billyware' which means: Expensive, crappy software that crashes unexpectedly...
Any medicine (programming language) that is held to be a cure for all ills, isn't. This has been documented long ago (in the 19th century already?) in the form of the song 'Lily the Pink' and her medicinal compound, that saved the world from misery by killing everyone that used it. "You have to use the appropriate hammer for a screw of a given size." ;-)
One wheel would have been way more cool and with all that balancing schtuff in it, it would work better than a two wheeler. It would be less wobbly as it would be able to bank in turns. So, when he gets his act together and makes a one wheeler, I *may* be interested.
I think the most important thing in this presentation is that statement about "less than real-time". Ye Gawd, I'd like to see that work! The secret of time travel at last...
Nope, spammers do *not* sell stuff to Joe Public. Joe Public does *not* buy stuff from spammers. Spammers defraud Joe Businessowner making him pay for useless advertisements. Joe Businessowner is the sucker. He is the idiot who is paying the spammer. The spammer can't care less where he sends the advertisements to, whether they are wanted or not, or sent straight to /dev/null.
Educating Joe Public won't help. You have to educate Joe Businessowner who is so busy running his business, that he has no idea how idiotic spam is and who doesn't realize he being ripped off.
I can't believe that they get so little spam. Only about 5% of my e-mail is legit. Therefore, I need a very good spam filter system and uses a combination of procmail pattern matching, scoring and Bayesian statistics.
Fords have always been fully recycleable. Just leave a new Ford outside for a few years and it will be almost completely recycled into iron ore and other carbonaceous goop. Motorcars are probably the most recycled things ever produced by mankind. You just have to look at all the scrap merchants to appreciate it.
TurboTax has always been like this. Stupid, but consistent...
The networks have no idea how many people are watching anyway. The TV broadcasts are one-way only...
Will these drones be used to take out Senators/Congressmen/Drugrunners?
Urrrk, in Chapterhouse Dune, it is said that the tanks were actually made from donated female parts. So, Jeffrey Damer here we come...
Well, now, will a lab grown steak have a soul or part of a soul? If it has even just a tiny bit of soul, then the religious fanatics will still have a problem with eating it. Animals do not have a soul? Go read your Greek history... Does a cloned human baby have a soul? If so, where did it come from? If not, can the US government outlaw cloning and hunt clones down and kill them without remorse? Are they going to make a tiny electric chair to execute clone babies? Will a Catholic Priest commit a crime if he rapes a soulless clone altar boy?
No, DC just requires different technology to control it. There are many high voltage DC transmission lines in the world. Eg.: the 1 Megavolt line from the Cahora Bassa Hydro Dam in Southern Africa. One major advantage of DC transmission lines is that they do not need to be synchronized. So, if we used DC distribution, then the ubiquitous walwart would just have been different technology...
Well, I have copyright on my finger prints. Sue the bastard. Up with the DMCA!
It would be easy to make a shopping cart system using no mouse clicks at all... In fact, I can think of many ways to do a shopping cart using no mouse clicks, no eye blinks, no foot pedals, no voice commands, no pencil strokes...