Great! Look at it this way: now you can say to your friends "I have a faster chip than any of you and _still_ with tiny power consumption - and I mean tiny! Less than the fan that's cooling it! Much less!"
You don't expect to fly a Brazilian airliner? Well, I have, more than once. The company is called Embraer and builds small/medium airplanes. The polish LOT airlines have some and they don't seem too bad.
The jump to large planes would not be easy and probably unnecessary anyway - there is a much larger market for small and medium airliners. Attacking the long range market is a different question, their current planes are in the 3000-4000km group.
Yup. Also don't forget the other thing - less sleep often means you're overworked. If you can't even find enough time for sleeping, are you going to work out at all? More stress + less physical activity + stress induced snacks...
No wonder - if you have cheap storage, why delete anything? Especially if it wasn't entirely easy to find (say, 5+ minutes of googling) and/or large. And if you use a modem or so-called-but-not-quite-broadband...
The implications are more interesting - this tendency to use the storage available may be quite a problem for companies dreaming of dominating the world with streaming video applications "Real Soon Now". Anyone offering the same content with ability to just download it will win. And that shifts the weight for network engineering - except VoIP and some videoconferences, realtime streaming media may never become the killer app, the traffic may still be FTP-like, whether or not high end-to-end bandwidth is available. On the other hand, expect more and more P2P.
But that was obvious, wasn't it? Streaming, multicast... it's TV-thinking.
So? Ok, so Russia ratified this treaty for non-environmental reasons. What exactly does this change? US is still behind. And for economical reasons, so it's even less ethical. Of course, I'm being stupid talking about ethics in political context...
Don't get too excited about the "no-monoculture effect". It will get weaker as more and more "Average Joes" use Linux. A simple example. Imagine you are a simple user. What is your WM/DE/whatever? GNOME or KDE. Point! Yes, there are others, so what? Just target the 2 and you win. Still, 2 is better than 1.
The/. crowd is not helping, by the way. What I see all the time lately is "why use Opera/Konq/Safari/IE(I agree here)/whatever? Firefox is lean, mean, great, wonderful, oh, I just wet myself!" Great. So, do you suggest I replace Opera on my machine with Firefox, even though it feels better to me? Just because... what exactly? That Firefox is open source?
The more you promote Firefox over everything else, the more unified Linux gets. Afterwards, just target Firefox and you can attack most people.
The same can be said about other software. OpenOffice.org, for example. In short - there is no monoculture in Linux, but if 50% of desktops were linux-based, you could target most of them with simple crapware using a few exploits in most popular software.
The key to security in this case is diversity. Fanatics of any software are simply pushing for MS-like model.
DISCLAIMER: I still think Linux and OSS in general is inherently more secure than MS world and that the entire system is better designed from security standpoint. Just don't count on diversity just because it used to be there.
If hackers are left uninformed, a security hole is only found by few industrious hackers. Some are white hats, some are not. Some will inform Microsoft, some will exploit the code, few will propagate the knowledge. The system is not secure, but few attacks happen. The few, however, might be very dangerous, as the attacker knows, what he's doing and is probably after something.
After a patch is released, thousands of crackers can find out, what was wrong. The knowledge barrier to writing a successful exploit drops, worms are written... Suddenly everyone's computers are under attack.
He's not saying, that only Microsoftees find exploitable bugs. He's just saying what everyone knows - once a hole is well known, it's a greater danger and soon even script kiddies start using it.
The article mainly says, that in case of a target as popular, as Windows, once a patch is available, you have to get it _quickly_, because the number of attacks grows very rapidly then.
Unknown hole = exploitable by some hackers Well known and patched = safe Well known and unpatched = goodbye, sweet data
"A few people will start working on something that is open, free and capable of replacing Linux"?
Start? Excuse me - *BSD anyone?
Besides, Linux can be replaced without changing the whole system. That would take a while (although it already "works", see Hurd), so I think the cute Daemon would be the answer.
The problem is Linux in embedded devices - hard to replace, but it makes money, so as svanstrom said - pay, and it's business as usual.
Polish has a lot of "ogonkified" characters too, and uses Alt Gr for that. There was a time when the default layout (Win 3.11?) had a "typewriter" setting, just as weird as german layout (z-y, etc). The trick was, hardly any real polish keyboards could be bought, so if you didn't know the layout by heart... Hardly anyone used this, switching to the "Polish (programmers)" layout and now this is the standard.
Basically, Polish layout is the same as US, but with Alt Gr used for polish characters (9 lower case, 9 upper case).
US might not need AltGr, but the rest of the world does. Leave it alone.;-)
Hmmm... Ever seen Opera's small screen rendering? More than acceptable, 100% client side. Only scroll vertically. Looks fine to me. If I ever use a PDA/cellphone to browse, that's the way I want it to work.
You can see it for yourself, even on a PC - run Opera 7.x and use shift-F11.
Hmmm... RTFA? Following the links? The trick is, the composition of a few rocks doesn't matter, more general results are needed. That's what they're going to do - scan the moon in X-ray (using X-rays from the Sun) and figure out if there is significantly less iron on the Moon than on the Earth. The important thing is, that a large area will be scanned, giving a good overview of the moon's surface composition. The rocks we already have wouldn't suffice. Would you judge the composition of the entire Earth's surface based on a few rocks from a few places?
To cite the article: "Surprisingly, no one has yet made the observations that we plan. That's why our small instrument on the small SMART-1 spacecraft has the chance to make a big contribution to understanding the Moon and its relation to the Earth." Manuel Grande, UK's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, D-CIXS Team Leader
They agree, that this is a simple test and actually should have been done earlier, but noone did it. A good mission for a spacecraft that is generally a technology sample, a flying experiment, which just needs to go somewhere, somewhere close, preferably (like Moon?), so that it can take little fuel and stay small and cheap. It had to be launched, it had to be small, they found a useful job for it. Good! Why waste money?
So? They manetion it, and they don't claim a record range. What they have achieved ia a world record ground-to-ground wireless connection. OK, so they used a mountain, but it's still ground based.
Translating from the article, word by word (I'm not much of a translator):
"It has to be stressed, that the realised link was fully ground-based (unlike the link realised in 2002 using a stratospheric baloon in Sweden by the companies Alvarion and Swedish Space Corporation).
Also important is, that all elements used in the experiment of the INTERLINE company are unmodified hardware available on the market (parabolic antenna 1.1m and 500mW amplifier), while in Sweden a 2.4m parabolic antenna and 6000mW amplifier were used."
See? That's the difference. Maybe I should translate more of this for/., but I have to leave now. Oh, boy, so much karma, so close, and yet so far away...
OK, let me get this straight: a laptop with Pentium4, GeForceFX, a burner, 17" (rather lo-res) screen, almost (God have mercy) 5kg... And 2hrs on battery?
Ok, that's it. We desperately need a new name. We need to distinguish portable laptops and portable desktops. THIS IS A DESKTOP. I mean - what's 2hrs? There was a time when this was a lot, but now I usually work for over 4 hours at a time, with no other power source within reach. Something like that would be a paperweight for me, and oh, what a paperweight, I could keep my bed sheet in a tornado under this! Lug 5kgs with me for hours every day? No, thanks.
And what do I need all that power for? 1GHz is more than I need in a laptop, thank you. 256+MB RAM would be nice though.
There are two distinct classes of laptops nowadays: the "medium power, huge battery" class and the "ultra monster but fits in a very heavy bag" class. It really is time to introduce a new word. Maybe just split laptops from portables?
There is a point. For a short message an SMS has the advantage of not forcing that person to take it at the moment you call. Since it is impolite (if you don't agree, I hate you) to take calls in a theatre , on a tennis court, etc., or even if you are talking to someone, SMS is the way to go. And guess what, it costs a lot less than voice mail! Plus, I get 80 minutes free, that is 320 SMS messages (they add up, 4SMS=1min) - more than I usually can use in one month. Even with my old plan, where I only had 10 SMS free, I still used them a lot, as they were cheap enough and very practical.
The trick is, that SMS is cheap, but you pay per SMS sent, not received, you can also have free SMS, but limited in number. This way sending an SMS is always a good choice, public places are a lot quieter with less people talkin aloud, you don't care if you get a lot of messages from someone, as the sender pays, not you, and SMS spam is rare, as cost grows with the number of messages sent.
As a matter of fact I only got about seven spams in two years, most from my provider and two from the government, reminding me to vote (about joining the EU) - now that last one really made me MAD, as I got spammed, actually paid for it with my tax money, and would vote anyway.
Before you warn me about free www->SMS messaging: all polish providers set limits on that. This might reduce the functionality somewhat (not much), but prevents spam. Plus, you can decide to reject such messages.
Yup, I'm a happy SMS user, even if I pay for it. And if I was offered to pay for receiving them, I would go to a different provider. Only I decide what I pay for.
Weeks? You wish. Where I live until quite recently (say, 10 years ago?) you waited years. Yes, years. In the capital city, too. Then it was months, now it varies from about a week to a few months, depending on your lack of patience and willingness to phone/visit them every day, until they do their job.
It is getting a lot better, but hey, our monopolist is no longer nationalized. Still, being in fact a monopoly, even though some minor competition exists, it doesn't have to work too hard. Actually it would still be that bad, but in the mean time cellular networks appeared and actually became competitive.
Me! Me! Please, let me do it! I'd be more than glad to stand there and watch SCO kill itself, and then, at the right moment _not_ swing my sword. Ah, the beauty of slow death...
No buyout... bad days in court... shares dropping like an ant off Mount Everest... more evidence against the claims... still no buyout... the agony of bankruptcy...
Nice... but I like the thought of actual seppuku by SCO's management too... Ah, the sweet dreams of a sadist...
Talk for yourself! I happen to live in Poland. One of the countries that even sent their troops to Iraq. Now we even have a 1/4 sector of Iraq to occupy (which we can't afford, so we're looking for NATO help and american funds). What you're saying would imply, that we are unanimously for that war.
Bullshit. Most of the people I know are against the war and ashamed of our recent international politics. Over the country the voices are split I guess about 50/50 - so show the discussions, polls, etc. Our "glorious" politicians had to break the f... constitution to send the troops (war must be declared by the Sejm - it wasn't), but noone brings this up now. Yes, we lived under an oppressive regime. No, it does not mean we think US was right.
The fact that you only saw thousands of people on the streets agains the war here only means that people here are tired of politics - any politics. The economy is bad, work is hard, or not available, democracy failed to impress, as recent events prove that the voice of the people is far less important than the money of few... For many people survival is far more important than a war far away.
Besides, we are so used to having a Big Brother our government automatically supports, that many don't even expect anything else. Scratch Moscow, join Washington.:-P
And about the "simply for wanting to get rid of Saddam" part: you should have heard our media coverage of the whole affair. WMD was the default excuse, terror second. Saddam's dictatorship wasn't quite as emphasized as you might think. Less than Taliban, anyway, but even there terrorism was more important.
1. Call it PolyX (How do you want to succeed if you dont capitalize the final X in your product's name?) 2. Use GNOME. Use C# a lot. The GNU compiler, of course. 3. Make a distro. Call it GNU/Mono/PolyX. 4. ??? 5. Pro... OK, forget it.
You do things right and you know it's easy. Good for you and your users, but I still don't think I'm wrong.
I know there is that kind of notification system, though I don't really know any details (not my job, far from it, actually), I used "monitor Internet law" just as a simplification. Yet I still expect trouble. The ISPs with good admins will react quickly, but not all ISPs work according to rules. Besides, it doesn't have to be an ISP, it can be just some company's e-mail server's admin. It can be just about anyone.
Yes, I agree, if something like this happens to you, there is something wrong near you, someone should be educated or fired, but this still doesn't mean that no problems will arise.
And there will be "zombie" errors, cases where forgotten filters still work on some small ISPs servers just because they weren't removed immediately and never interfered with anything.
If you don't agree, look at the net. How many RedHat servers are there? How many of them are in a virgin state, with _no_ updates, waiting for a script kiddie? None? Then why are there script kiddies? I mention RedHat, because I use it on some machines and know this:
errata is easily accessible
you can get e-mail notification of all updates
installation is usually trivial (unless you use a very non-standard config)
there is a semi-automatic update system. I never tried it though.
It just doesn't get any easier, and yet there are people out there that call themselves admins, get paid for their jobs and patch their servers once in a century (man, talk about a dream job! Do nothing and get paid). Just because something is easy doesn't mean it will be done properly everywhere. RFCs won't change this.
Users whine about spam? Filter out Indonesia. Noone whines now. Indonesia no longer a problem? Who cares, users don't seem to. One more deathmatch and let's go to lunch. RFC? What RFC? Not a BOFH, just L(azy)OFH.
Let me guess, -1 Offtopic. Sorry, I had to write this. I guess I'm getting bitter.
...so now spam is illegal in Indonesia too. But the users will still be cut off from EU and US for a long time. Years later you will still sometimes find out that you can't send an e-mail to someone, because his small ISP can't be bothered to monitor Internet law in all countries. It's a big, big trap, it'll take years to recover from such "internet death".
If this goes through, the rest of the world will have to follow or there will be trouble. Still, they won't and there will be. Oh, well...
As a Pole I already feel threatened. And we ARE in the axis of Evil. The Washington/London/Warsaw one, that is. I better build myself a potato gun. You won't take me alive! Ha! Your Ambrams is no match for my mighty potato!
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Great! Look at it this way: now you can say to your friends "I have a faster chip than any of you and _still_ with tiny power consumption - and I mean tiny! Less than the fan that's cooling it! Much less!"
Bzzzt, wrong!
You don't expect to fly a Brazilian airliner? Well, I have, more than once. The company is called Embraer and builds small/medium airplanes. The polish LOT airlines have some and they don't seem too bad.
The jump to large planes would not be easy and probably unnecessary anyway - there is a much larger market for small and medium airliners. Attacking the long range market is a different question, their current planes are in the 3000-4000km group.
Yup. Also don't forget the other thing - less sleep often means you're overworked. If you can't even find enough time for sleeping, are you going to work out at all? More stress + less physical activity + stress induced snacks...
No wonder - if you have cheap storage, why delete anything? Especially if it wasn't entirely easy to find (say, 5+ minutes of googling) and/or large. And if you use a modem or so-called-but-not-quite-broadband...
The implications are more interesting - this tendency to use the storage available may be quite a problem for companies dreaming of dominating the world with streaming video applications "Real Soon Now". Anyone offering the same content with ability to just download it will win. And that shifts the weight for network engineering - except VoIP and some videoconferences, realtime streaming media may never become the killer app, the traffic may still be FTP-like, whether or not high end-to-end bandwidth is available. On the other hand, expect more and more P2P.
But that was obvious, wasn't it? Streaming, multicast... it's TV-thinking.
So? Ok, so Russia ratified this treaty for non-environmental reasons. What exactly does this change? US is still behind. And for economical reasons, so it's even less ethical. Of course, I'm being stupid talking about ethics in political context...
Don't get too excited about the "no-monoculture effect". It will get weaker as more and more "Average Joes" use Linux. A simple example. Imagine you are a simple user. What is your WM/DE/whatever? GNOME or KDE. Point! Yes, there are others, so what? Just target the 2 and you win. Still, 2 is better than 1.
/. crowd is not helping, by the way. What I see all the time lately is "why use Opera/Konq/Safari/IE(I agree here)/whatever? Firefox is lean, mean, great, wonderful, oh, I just wet myself!" Great. So, do you suggest I replace Opera on my machine with Firefox, even though it feels better to me? Just because... what exactly? That Firefox is open source?
The
The more you promote Firefox over everything else, the more unified Linux gets. Afterwards, just target Firefox and you can attack most people.
The same can be said about other software. OpenOffice.org, for example. In short - there is no monoculture in Linux, but if 50% of desktops were linux-based, you could target most of them with simple crapware using a few exploits in most popular software.
The key to security in this case is diversity. Fanatics of any software are simply pushing for MS-like model.
DISCLAIMER: I still think Linux and OSS in general is inherently more secure than MS world and that the entire system is better designed from security standpoint. Just don't count on diversity just because it used to be there.
I read it quite differently.
If hackers are left uninformed, a security hole is only found by few industrious hackers. Some are white hats, some are not. Some will inform Microsoft, some will exploit the code, few will propagate the knowledge. The system is not secure, but few attacks happen. The few, however, might be very dangerous, as the attacker knows, what he's doing and is probably after something.
After a patch is released, thousands of crackers can find out, what was wrong. The knowledge barrier to writing a successful exploit drops, worms are written... Suddenly everyone's computers are under attack.
He's not saying, that only Microsoftees find exploitable bugs. He's just saying what everyone knows - once a hole is well known, it's a greater danger and soon even script kiddies start using it.
The article mainly says, that in case of a target as popular, as Windows, once a patch is available, you have to get it _quickly_, because the number of attacks grows very rapidly then.
Unknown hole = exploitable by some hackers
Well known and patched = safe
Well known and unpatched = goodbye, sweet data
"A few people will start working on something that is open, free and capable of replacing Linux"?
Start? Excuse me - *BSD anyone?
Besides, Linux can be replaced without changing the whole system. That would take a while (although it already "works", see Hurd), so I think the cute Daemon would be the answer.
The problem is Linux in embedded devices - hard to replace, but it makes money, so as svanstrom said - pay, and it's business as usual.
Man, it's sad, seeing Netscape as a name of a cheap alternative to AOL... Somehow it just feels inappropriate.
Does it? I just checked - works for me. Opera 7.21 Preview 2 on RedHat Linux 7.1.
Why go there - that's another question...
Polish has a lot of "ogonkified" characters too, and uses Alt Gr for that. There was a time when the default layout (Win 3.11?) had a "typewriter" setting, just as weird as german layout (z-y, etc). The trick was, hardly any real polish keyboards could be bought, so if you didn't know the layout by heart... Hardly anyone used this, switching to the "Polish (programmers)" layout and now this is the standard.
;-)
Basically, Polish layout is the same as US, but with Alt Gr used for polish characters (9 lower case, 9 upper case).
US might not need AltGr, but the rest of the world does. Leave it alone.
Hmmm... Ever seen Opera's small screen rendering? More than acceptable, 100% client side. Only scroll vertically. Looks fine to me. If I ever use a PDA/cellphone to browse, that's the way I want it to work.
You can see it for yourself, even on a PC - run Opera 7.x and use shift-F11.
Hmmm... RTFA? Following the links? The trick is, the composition of a few rocks doesn't matter, more general results are needed. That's what they're going to do - scan the moon in X-ray (using X-rays from the Sun) and figure out if there is significantly less iron on the Moon than on the Earth. The important thing is, that a large area will be scanned, giving a good overview of the moon's surface composition. The rocks we already have wouldn't suffice. Would you judge the composition of the entire Earth's surface based on a few rocks from a few places?
To cite the article:
"Surprisingly, no one has yet made the observations that we plan. That's why our small instrument on the small SMART-1 spacecraft has the chance to make a big contribution to understanding the Moon and its relation to the Earth."
Manuel Grande, UK's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, D-CIXS Team Leader
They agree, that this is a simple test and actually should have been done earlier, but noone did it. A good mission for a spacecraft that is generally a technology sample, a flying experiment, which just needs to go somewhere, somewhere close, preferably (like Moon?), so that it can take little fuel and stay small and cheap. It had to be launched, it had to be small, they found a useful job for it. Good! Why waste money?
So? They manetion it, and they don't claim a record range. What they have achieved ia a world record ground-to-ground wireless connection. OK, so they used a mountain, but it's still ground based.
/., but I have to leave now. Oh, boy, so much karma, so close, and yet so far away...
Translating from the article, word by word (I'm not much of a translator):
"It has to be stressed, that the realised link was fully ground-based (unlike the link realised in 2002 using a stratospheric baloon in Sweden by the companies Alvarion and Swedish Space Corporation).
Also important is, that all elements used in the experiment of the INTERLINE company are unmodified hardware available on the market (parabolic antenna 1.1m and 500mW amplifier), while in Sweden a 2.4m parabolic antenna and 6000mW amplifier were used."
See? That's the difference. Maybe I should translate more of this for
I don't know why, but somehow I imagined it said (with the proper accent, and everything) by a Microsoft lawyer. Sounds proper, somehow...
OK, let me get this straight: a laptop with Pentium4, GeForceFX, a burner, 17" (rather lo-res) screen, almost (God have mercy) 5kg... And 2hrs on battery?
Ok, that's it. We desperately need a new name. We need to distinguish portable laptops and portable desktops. THIS IS A DESKTOP. I mean - what's 2hrs? There was a time when this was a lot, but now I usually work for over 4 hours at a time, with no other power source within reach. Something like that would be a paperweight for me, and oh, what a paperweight, I could keep my bed sheet in a tornado under this! Lug 5kgs with me for hours every day? No, thanks.
And what do I need all that power for? 1GHz is more than I need in a laptop, thank you. 256+MB RAM would be nice though.
There are two distinct classes of laptops nowadays: the "medium power, huge battery" class and the "ultra monster but fits in a very heavy bag" class. It really is time to introduce a new word. Maybe just split laptops from portables?
Hmmm... Perhaps Opera 7 innovated navigation a bit by adding the next/rewind options? Completely useless, I hate them, but it's a bit new.
There is a point. For a short message an SMS has the advantage of not forcing that person to take it at the moment you call. Since it is impolite (if you don't agree, I hate you) to take calls in a theatre , on a tennis court, etc., or even if you are talking to someone, SMS is the way to go. And guess what, it costs a lot less than voice mail! Plus, I get 80 minutes free, that is 320 SMS messages (they add up, 4SMS=1min) - more than I usually can use in one month. Even with my old plan, where I only had 10 SMS free, I still used them a lot, as they were cheap enough and very practical.
The trick is, that SMS is cheap, but you pay per SMS sent, not received, you can also have free SMS, but limited in number. This way sending an SMS is always a good choice, public places are a lot quieter with less people talkin aloud, you don't care if you get a lot of messages from someone, as the sender pays, not you, and SMS spam is rare, as cost grows with the number of messages sent.
As a matter of fact I only got about seven spams in two years, most from my provider and two from the government, reminding me to vote (about joining the EU) - now that last one really made me MAD, as I got spammed, actually paid for it with my tax money, and would vote anyway.
Before you warn me about free www->SMS messaging: all polish providers set limits on that. This might reduce the functionality somewhat (not much), but prevents spam. Plus, you can decide to reject such messages.
Yup, I'm a happy SMS user, even if I pay for it. And if I was offered to pay for receiving them, I would go to a different provider. Only I decide what I pay for.
Hmmm... A disaster... Waiting how long?
Weeks? You wish. Where I live until quite recently (say, 10 years ago?) you waited years. Yes, years. In the capital city, too. Then it was months, now it varies from about a week to a few months, depending on your lack of patience and willingness to phone/visit them every day, until they do their job.
It is getting a lot better, but hey, our monopolist is no longer nationalized. Still, being in fact a monopoly, even though some minor competition exists, it doesn't have to work too hard. Actually it would still be that bad, but in the mean time cellular networks appeared and actually became competitive.
A second, you say...
Me! Me! Please, let me do it! I'd be more than glad to stand there and watch SCO kill itself, and then, at the right moment _not_ swing my sword. Ah, the beauty of slow death...
No buyout... bad days in court... shares dropping like an ant off Mount Everest... more evidence against the claims... still no buyout... the agony of bankruptcy...
Nice... but I like the thought of actual seppuku by SCO's management too... Ah, the sweet dreams of a sadist...
Bullshit. Most of the people I know are against the war and ashamed of our recent international politics. Over the country the voices are split I guess about 50/50 - so show the discussions, polls, etc. Our "glorious" politicians had to break the f... constitution to send the troops (war must be declared by the Sejm - it wasn't), but noone brings this up now. Yes, we lived under an oppressive regime. No, it does not mean we think US was right.
The fact that you only saw thousands of people on the streets agains the war here only means that people here are tired of politics - any politics. The economy is bad, work is hard, or not available, democracy failed to impress, as recent events prove that the voice of the people is far less important than the money of few... For many people survival is far more important than a war far away.
Besides, we are so used to having a Big Brother our government automatically supports, that many don't even expect anything else. Scratch Moscow, join Washington. :-P
And about the "simply for wanting to get rid of Saddam" part: you should have heard our media coverage of the whole affair. WMD was the default excuse, terror second. Saddam's dictatorship wasn't quite as emphasized as you might think. Less than Taliban, anyway, but even there terrorism was more important.
1. Call it PolyX (How do you want to succeed if you dont capitalize the final X in your product's name?)
2. Use GNOME. Use C# a lot. The GNU compiler, of course.
3. Make a distro. Call it GNU/Mono/PolyX.
4. ???
5. Pro... OK, forget it.
I know there is that kind of notification system, though I don't really know any details (not my job, far from it, actually), I used "monitor Internet law" just as a simplification. Yet I still expect trouble. The ISPs with good admins will react quickly, but not all ISPs work according to rules. Besides, it doesn't have to be an ISP, it can be just some company's e-mail server's admin. It can be just about anyone.
Yes, I agree, if something like this happens to you, there is something wrong near you, someone should be educated or fired, but this still doesn't mean that no problems will arise.
And there will be "zombie" errors, cases where forgotten filters still work on some small ISPs servers just because they weren't removed immediately and never interfered with anything.
If you don't agree, look at the net. How many RedHat servers are there? How many of them are in a virgin state, with _no_ updates, waiting for a script kiddie? None? Then why are there script kiddies? I mention RedHat, because I use it on some machines and know this:
- errata is easily accessible
- you can get e-mail notification of all updates
- installation is usually trivial (unless you use a very non-standard config)
- there is a semi-automatic update system. I never tried it though.
It just doesn't get any easier, and yet there are people out there that call themselves admins, get paid for their jobs and patch their servers once in a century (man, talk about a dream job! Do nothing and get paid). Just because something is easy doesn't mean it will be done properly everywhere. RFCs won't change this.Users whine about spam? Filter out Indonesia. Noone whines now. Indonesia no longer a problem? Who cares, users don't seem to. One more deathmatch and let's go to lunch. RFC? What RFC? Not a BOFH, just L(azy)OFH.
Let me guess, -1 Offtopic. Sorry, I had to write this. I guess I'm getting bitter.
...so now spam is illegal in Indonesia too. But the users will still be cut off from EU and US for a long time. Years later you will still sometimes find out that you can't send an e-mail to someone, because his small ISP can't be bothered to monitor Internet law in all countries. It's a big, big trap, it'll take years to recover from such "internet death".
If this goes through, the rest of the world will have to follow or there will be trouble. Still, they won't and there will be. Oh, well...
As a Pole I already feel threatened. And we ARE in the axis of Evil. The Washington/London/Warsaw one, that is. I better build myself a potato gun. You won't take me alive! Ha! Your Ambrams is no match for my mighty potato!