Since when does a law prevent anybody with a certain criminal potential from doing something? Will the law apply to spammers in China, Korea or other countries? Do these countries have legal treaties about spam with Western countries? Does the death penalty in many US states reduce the number of murders in these states? Duh.
This isn't entirely true. In 1997 when I worked for IBM I would have gotten all the specs from the EMEA storage product manager. I also had contact to one or two skilled developers who were more than anxious to start programming. I had adapters from Pathlight and IBM. The only part that was missing was an 7133 or 7131 or two. I couldn't get the hardware for more than 90 days internally. That was the IBM process, and IBM wasn't a lot into Linux back then. That was the problem, otherwise we would have had Linux SSA device drivers in the end of 1997. Part of the story is documented in the original Linux High Availability HOWTO (which is utterly outdated because I don't actively maintain it any more).
Now in 2003 it makes no sense to re-start this effort I guess. Although there are probably hundreds and thousands of "full metal" 7133s around which are replaced by SAN technology their storage capacity isn't what people want today. As for manageability, it makes more sense to put them behind a SAN-SSA gateway (which the ESS basically is).
I must have been working for a different IBM than you. Or maybe it was an IBM in a parallel universe with a high strangeness factor. In my universe, IBM was quite strong making computers and operating systems, and they had stopped making typewriters long ago. Or maybe that was only a dream, I don't know.
This is OK to start with, but IMHO they should disclose the information ASAP. This would allow skilled admins to implement temporary fixes, like disabling a service, of (in this case) finally replacing sendmail by postfix.
Security by Obscurity is a yesterday's item, but the current US government is a yesterday's government to begin with.
One big security problem ist that it is far too easy for clueless morons to get connected to the internet. And you can hardly force private end users to have a staff or contractor. It is the task of the ISPs imho to make sure they connect only properly skilled people.
Man pages are not the most important feature for enterprise level computing. A more serious feature lack is volume group locking in LVM. For now there is no way in an HA cluster which prevents dual-attached storage from being activated on more than one node. Heinz, this is a must (have been begging for it for years)...
Given the fact that this scam has been around for ages (at least since 1988, for one), and that the number of variations is very limited, I really wonder why this scam is still a success. Are people so gormless (a.k.a. dumb, foolish, dopey) that they still fall victim for it? Oh my god.
Many mail servers and open relays are fairly restricted as to the size of RCPT lists. I've seen some which don't allow more than, say, 100 recipients per transaction. This in turn speaks by and large for using teergrubes (a.k.a. tarpits).
No, it is not your fault to find yourself a customer of an ISP harboring a spammer, if that was not going on when you started with the ISP. But, the customer can choose to move (at least their mail sending operation) to another ISP, and bill (or sue) the guilty ISP for the costs of doing this.
Nonsense. 99% of all internet customers are far to clueless to understand what happens. Some of their e-mails don't reach the recipient. They will never understand why.
Apart from that, your philosophy forces people who just want internet access for homebanking or e-mail to fight a war which isn't theirs, and which they don't understand. While this may be an option for the current US government it definitely isn't an option for long-term internet users who are used to tolerance and freedom.
Content based filtering also is a direct violation of the principles of the US First Amendment right to free speech
Well - sort of. The 1st Amendment may give you the right to speak but it does not make me liable to listen. I still have the choice to listen or not. I can filter locally whatever I want, based on whatever criteria.
Sender and ISP based filtering is more of a 1st Amendment violation because it affects innocents who happen to be the same ISPs' customers. Like filtering *@hotmail.com or something.
Besides, about 80% of internet users are not US citizens, and thus not 1st Amendment "users". Besides (2), mail headers are easily forged, and there are so many open relays around that sender/ISP based filtering may be very unreliable. This is where RBLs come in, and then you are very close to Spamassassin again.
The scenario is somewhat different I guess. Analogous to the US not subscribing to the last biological weapons memorandum, the goal is to protect the US biotech industry. Actually, this move makes it easier to spread biological weapons because the creation of a supervision regime (like the IAEA) is blocked.
This has never failed me during the last 35 or so years:
1. Get a glass of water (or another favourite drink) 2. Take a mouthful of water but don't swallow it yet. 3. Shut your ears with your fingers. 4. Swallow 5. Repeat Step 1-4 2 or 3 times 6. Be happy:-)
Anyone surprised by Bush's proposal to research hydrogen as a fuel source?
It's funny how he avoided mentioning where the energy for producing hydrogen should come from, and how one would transport it from the plant to the gas station. Hydrogen is an ideal case for moving to dislocated energy production. Where you've got sun energy and water you can produce hydrogen without too much energy loss over distances. The energy multis cannot be interested in this at all. So... go figure.
I think EVERY politician is in some way vulnerable to blackmail. Based on what we now know about Mr. Clinton's weakness for pretty much anything in a skirt, I'd say he was a bad choice for president.
When it came to skirts JFK wasn't much better. Maybe that was before most/.ers were born but after all he was with Marilyn Monroe when married to Jackie O. Did anybody think he was inappropriate? Maybe those who ordered to kill him, yes.
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Since when does a law prevent anybody with a certain criminal potential from doing something? Will the law apply to spammers in China, Korea or other countries? Do these countries have legal treaties about spam with Western countries? Does the death penalty in many US states reduce the number of murders in these states? Duh.
Now in 2003 it makes no sense to re-start this effort I guess. Although there are probably hundreds and thousands of "full metal" 7133s around which are replaced by SAN technology their storage capacity isn't what people want today. As for manageability, it makes more sense to put them behind a SAN-SSA gateway (which the ESS basically is).
I must have been working for a different IBM than you. Or maybe it was an IBM in a parallel universe with a high strangeness factor. In my universe, IBM was quite strong making computers and operating systems, and they had stopped making typewriters long ago. Or maybe that was only a dream, I don't know.
Security by Obscurity is a yesterday's item, but the current US government is a yesterday's government to begin with.
One big security problem ist that it is far too easy for clueless morons to get connected to the internet. And you can hardly force private end users to have a staff or contractor. It is the task of the ISPs imho to make sure they connect only properly skilled people.
Man pages are not the most important feature for enterprise level computing. A more serious feature lack is volume group locking in LVM. For now there is no way in an HA cluster which prevents dual-attached storage from being activated on more than one node. Heinz, this is a must (have been begging for it for years)...
Given the fact that this scam has been around for ages (at least since 1988, for one), and that the number of variations is very limited, I really wonder why this scam is still a success. Are people so gormless (a.k.a. dumb, foolish, dopey) that they still fall victim for it? Oh my god.
Many mail servers and open relays are fairly restricted as to the size of RCPT lists. I've seen some which don't allow more than, say, 100 recipients per transaction. This in turn speaks by and large for using teergrubes (a.k.a. tarpits).
this time as a thesis work? Well ...
Nonsense. 99% of all internet customers are far to clueless to understand what happens. Some of their e-mails don't reach the recipient. They will never understand why.
Apart from that, your philosophy forces people who just want internet access for homebanking or e-mail to fight a war which isn't theirs, and which they don't understand. While this may be an option for the current US government it definitely isn't an option for long-term internet users who are used to tolerance and freedom.
Well - sort of. The 1st Amendment may give you the right to speak but it does not make me liable to listen. I still have the choice to listen or not. I can filter locally whatever I want, based on whatever criteria.
Sender and ISP based filtering is more of a 1st Amendment violation because it affects innocents who happen to be the same ISPs' customers. Like filtering *@hotmail.com or something.
Besides, about 80% of internet users are not US citizens, and thus not 1st Amendment "users". Besides (2), mail headers are easily forged, and there are so many open relays around that sender/ISP based filtering may be very unreliable. This is where RBLs come in, and then you are very close to Spamassassin again.
The scenario is somewhat different I guess. Analogous to the US not subscribing to the last biological weapons memorandum, the goal is to protect the US biotech industry. Actually, this move makes it easier to spread biological weapons because the creation of a supervision regime (like the IAEA) is blocked.
This has never failed me during the last 35 or so years:
:-)
1. Get a glass of water (or another favourite drink)
2. Take a mouthful of water but don't swallow it yet.
3. Shut your ears with your fingers.
4. Swallow
5. Repeat Step 1-4 2 or 3 times
6. Be happy
Dunno why. YMMV.
Whatever, but he's definitively not going to push open source.
It's funny how he avoided mentioning where the energy for producing hydrogen should come from, and how one would transport it from the plant to the gas station. Hydrogen is an ideal case for moving to dislocated energy production. Where you've got sun energy and water you can produce hydrogen without too much energy loss over distances. The energy multis cannot be interested in this at all. So ... go figure.
No prob after the US were dismissed.
When it came to skirts JFK wasn't much better. Maybe that was before most /.ers were born but after all he was with Marilyn Monroe when married to Jackie O. Did anybody think he was inappropriate? Maybe those who ordered to kill him, yes.