Officials could not comment on the captured disk's plans, but did say that it had been taken to Guantanamo Bay for further questioning. Any large amount of dust must be checked out, especially with so much 'nuculer' activity in the region.
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5 Judge me for my pr0n viewing habits 4 Cry when I turn them off at night 3 Get tired of everyone asking them to say stuff slowly to "Dave" 2 Scan thot cherry iMac's ports, if you know what I mean 1 Four words: Turing Test Prize Money
To complete the picture, it would also be nice if countries would blanket their land with tax-funded wireless internet access. With those two things in place (hand-held computer + ubiquitous wireless access), the way we live and work could change dramatically. (at least the way I do could..don't know about you all).
It won't be long (I'm assuming within 10 years) before you come to work, put your phone into your docking station, and use it as your desktop. The UI on the phone itself will be just a special-purpose program running on a general-purpose computer.
Almost all of our development machines use a Clear Case--it's definitely popular where I work. I told management that the difference was mostly just eye candy, and that Bitkeeper would do just fine (and be more scalable, at that). But, instead, they oooh'ed and aaah'ed over it, just like the slashdot posting said they would.
Perhaps a faded tattered Sun Microsystems tee-shirt on eBay to pretend to be an old time UNIX sort, but certainly nothing more.
Old-time UNIX sorts wear tattered PDP-11 t-shirts. They hope to one day name their two children Kernighan and Ritchie, but deep inside know it can never be.
...new protocol could start the rules over and require that the server that is named in the from field must confirm that the username provided actually sent the message. Spoofing for the use of spam would then become practically impossible.
To me, trying to stop spam is like trying to keep people from copying digital media. There is always a way around it.
When you think about it, the two concepts "I'll let anyone try to send me mail" and "I'll only actually get the mail I want to get" are not very compatible at all.
I think most of slashdot understands this. The only reason there aren't a bunch of "wonder how long before Spam gets through whatever they come up with" mails is that we hate Spam, and want to believe it can be stopped.
2. Mail client returns mail with some specific format and ask for confirmation mail. It the other client supports it can autogenerate a confirmation. Client would only autogenerate response if it knew it sent email for the requested confirmation.
As an added benefit, it would also send a huge amount of extra traffic to spoofed aol.com return email addresses. A new DOS attack is born every day!
This sounds better than the first post, where Alice tries to send mail again manually. In this setup, it sounds like Alice's mail gets through after the confirmation step.
Couldn't this be built in to the internet mail servers? They could always do this step, and stop forwarding mail that the return addresses don't think they sent?
From Sun: We're changing our strategy around Linux (but) we're pausing because we're trying to figure out what the implications of this are going to be.
From where I stand, the implication of you pausing is that you're embarassing yourself worse than SCO. I'd never buy a product from a company scared that SCO will somehow take IBM for $1Billion, or somehow stop Linux development.
At least we can understand that the lawsuit is SCO gasping its dying breath. Sun just looks stupid.
Re:Spammers too smart for this.
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Hi, arvindn, it's me, 1nv4d3r. Your spam filter blocked my mail, so rot-13 this to see what I sent you.
TEBJ LBHE CRAVF OL FVK VAPURF, VS LBH URYC ZR FZHTTYR ZBARL SEBZ AVTREVN.
(not to mention that return token let's them know that you at least look at your mail.)
IBM should countersue, buy their cold dead company, and then release the proprietary Unix source under the GPL! Not only would that be a massively funny up-yours reaction to this situation, but it'd finally make an important historical branch of Unix free.
I'll never call it GNU/SCO/Linux. IBM should crush them immediately.
"Some claims, though, have more potential merit, Eunice said. One is that creating Unix on Intel processors needed expertise that SCO developed but IBM lacked, Eunice said." (this was from the news.com article)
If IBM lacked it, which I doubt, I guess we can all be thankful that Linus had the expertise needed to create a Unix on Intel processors. What an idiot.
I don't agree with that at all. Imagine an accountant, sitting at her desk, working on a balance sheet, and she gets a tap on her shoulder. She loses complete focus, makes a mistake, and has to take several minutes to get back into things.
But, given that the original suggestion was about instant messaging, the same amount of in-your-face interruption would be going on.
If peaple turned it off or ignored it, then it wouldn't work any better than e-mail.
Slashdot Mirror
Judging by the excitement, I think it's no coincidence that "under palm os" can be rearranged to spell "unload sperm."
Tsu Dho Nimh my ass...John C. Dvorak, is that you?
Don't worry, if MTU is anything like my college, all he has to do is walk around campus signing up for pre-approved credit for a couple days.
mod parent to five
this was the best I could do
insensiteve clods
haiku in header
not viewed by your Aunt Tillie
she won't know to sue
step one is haiku
step two is vast deep unknown
step three is profit!
I love to get spam
you can block it all you want
meanwhile, my dick grows
Officials could not comment on the captured disk's plans, but did say that it had been taken to Guantanamo Bay for further questioning. Any large amount of dust must be checked out, especially with so much 'nuculer' activity in the region.
5 Judge me for my pr0n viewing habits
4 Cry when I turn them off at night
3 Get tired of everyone asking them to say stuff slowly to "Dave"
2 Scan thot cherry iMac's ports, if you know what I mean
1 Four words: Turing Test Prize Money
they'll patent it.
A more interesting question to me is: what would humans do?
To complete the picture, it would also be nice if countries would blanket their land with tax-funded wireless internet access. With those two things in place (hand-held computer + ubiquitous wireless access), the way we live and work could change dramatically. (at least the way I do could..don't know about you all).
It won't be long (I'm assuming within 10 years) before you come to work, put your phone into your docking station, and use it as your desktop. The UI on the phone itself will be just a special-purpose program running on a general-purpose computer.
I personally can't wait.
Almost all of our development machines use a Clear Case--it's definitely popular where I work. I told management that the difference was mostly just eye candy, and that Bitkeeper would do just fine (and be more scalable, at that). But, instead, they oooh'ed and aaah'ed over it, just like the slashdot posting said they would.
Perhaps a faded tattered Sun Microsystems tee-shirt on eBay to pretend to be an old time UNIX sort, but certainly nothing more.
Old-time UNIX sorts wear tattered PDP-11 t-shirts. They hope to one day name their two children Kernighan and Ritchie, but deep inside know it can never be.
...new protocol could start the rules over and require that the server that is named in the from field must confirm that the username provided actually sent the message. Spoofing for the use of spam would then become practically impossible.
To me, trying to stop spam is like trying to keep people from copying digital media. There is always a way around it.
When you think about it, the two concepts "I'll let anyone try to send me mail" and "I'll only actually get the mail I want to get" are not very compatible at all.
I think most of slashdot understands this. The only reason there aren't a bunch of "wonder how long before Spam gets through whatever they come up with" mails is that we hate Spam, and want to believe it can be stopped.
2. Mail client returns mail with some specific
format and ask for confirmation mail. It the
other client supports it can autogenerate a
confirmation. Client would only autogenerate
response if it knew it sent email for the
requested confirmation.
As an added benefit, it would also send a huge amount of extra traffic to spoofed aol.com return email addresses. A new DOS attack is born every day!
This sounds better than the first post, where Alice tries to send mail again manually. In this setup, it sounds like Alice's mail gets through after the confirmation step.
Couldn't this be built in to the internet mail servers? They could always do this step, and stop forwarding mail that the return addresses don't think they sent?
IETF to Look at Spam
I've been looking at spam for years. In fact, I can honestly say that I look at it more every year. Hasn't helped at all.
Come on, IETF, try something we haven't done yet! Like get congress to declare Spam an act of Terror.
From Sun: We're changing our strategy around Linux (but) we're pausing because we're trying to figure out what the implications of this are going to be.
From where I stand, the implication of you pausing is that you're embarassing yourself worse than SCO. I'd never buy a product from a company scared that SCO will somehow take IBM for $1Billion, or somehow stop Linux development.
At least we can understand that the lawsuit is SCO gasping its dying breath. Sun just looks stupid.
Hi, arvindn, it's me, 1nv4d3r. Your spam filter blocked my mail, so rot-13 this to see what I sent you.
TEBJ LBHE CRAVF OL FVK VAPURF, VS LBH URYC ZR FZHTTYR ZBARL SEBZ AVTREVN.
(not to mention that return token let's them know that you at least look at your mail.)
I tried it and went back to mutt. I do agree that evolution should be sped up, though. It was a little on the slow side, as I recall.
I never thought I'd see the day when only two of these were spam, and the others were actual opportunities of a lifetime.
"Make your penis 3 inches longer."
"Grow Muscle Mass without exercise."
"Horny cheerleaders wet 4 u"
"Run virtually forever without breaking a sweat."
Good luck to the SPAM Assassin folks if I can't tell the difference.
IBM should countersue, buy their cold dead company, and then release the proprietary Unix source under the GPL! Not only would that be a massively funny up-yours reaction to this situation, but it'd finally make an important historical branch of Unix free.
I'll never call it GNU/SCO/Linux. IBM should crush them immediately.
"Some claims, though, have more potential merit, Eunice said. One is that creating Unix on Intel processors needed expertise that SCO developed but IBM lacked, Eunice said."
(this was from the news.com article)
If IBM lacked it, which I doubt, I guess we can all be thankful that Linus had the expertise needed to create a Unix on Intel processors. What an idiot.
I don't agree with that at all. Imagine an accountant, sitting at her desk, working on a balance sheet, and she gets a tap on her shoulder. She loses complete focus, makes a mistake, and has to take several minutes to get back into things.
But, given that the original suggestion was about instant messaging, the same amount of in-your-face interruption would be going on.
If peaple turned it off or ignored it, then it wouldn't work any better than e-mail.