Enhanced SMTP better known as ESMTP is not hypothetical. It's out there, it works, mail clients know about it. It's optional and most ISP's I've used don't have strong authentication. They could, but choose not to. Search Google for Ehanced SMTP or you'll find an ESMTP mail server.
It seems your proposing the same argument the article does. Basically security needs to be enabled by default. The internet is no longer a place where you can trust. They are suggesting a hardware fix, your suggesting software.
Either way it will most likely require some pretty big players like AOL or Microsoft to implement it before it would achieve critical mass. Designing a different way of doing things isn't hard, it's getting everyone else to agree to it and use it.
AOL started implementing SPF to stop spam. If AOL/MSN/Yahoo all decide to stop accepting mail that doesn't come form SPF using sites, adoption should happen in about a fortnight.
He has lots of other projects out there. My favorite is the mouse trap. I love the description...
The body of the trap is made from a shortbread tin. Mice enter through a hole cut in the lower-right side of the tin. Once inside, they are forced to walk though a toilet paper tube to reach the bait. On the bottom of the tube is an infra-red LED which is aimed at a photo transistor at the top. These components are taken from the write-protect sensors of a 5.25" disk drive. When the light beam is interrupted, the floppy drive's main motor starts to spin. This instantly retracts a piece of coat hanger wire that was holding the door open. The door (which is made from shielding from a television set and is hinged with a rod from a clothes drier and a drinking straw) falls closed, and is secured by five fridge magnets. A switch from a vending machine detects that the door has shut, and cuts power to the motor. A computer power supply provides 5v for the sensor and 12v for the motor. Only minor modifications had to be made to the floppy drive's controller board to get it to spin the motor when the infra-red sensor was tripped.
I remember Doom taking out our networks. For some reason it broadcast every packet to all other computers on the network. I still have a Qic-120 tape backup in my closet with all the versions of Doom that ever floated through my college. 0.666 even. That and lots of Epic games.
Now if only I had a tape backup unit that would read these huge old tapes. 30 Complete games in 100 megabytes. And we liked it!
I agree with you that this isn't silent, but I would be much more interested in this because it sounds pleasant. I would much rather listen to something like a fountain or rain then the constant droning of computer fans.
Anyway, it's the same anywhere in society. If you have a good reputation, people will at least listen to you. They won't necessary agree, but they will be willing to listen...
Or in Slashdots case, a Low ID can be substituted for a good reputation.;)
Use one of some underpowered FM radio, get something that transmits the reverse sound waves just as loundly. It would be great to have someone pull up and suddenly come into your silent zone. I'm not sure if you can buy the devices for a car radio, but I've seen them in headsets, and train/pilot chairs.
There is a rule that the last 8 characters of a VIN are used to ID the car. The previous ones the make/model/manufacturer. Strike the last 4 numeric rule and you've suddenly got a shitload more unique codes.
That would be a much simpler solution then extending the field length because the expensive dinosaur systems that run car dealerships right now probably wouldn't handle a change in the length of the field.
The rules say numbers and capital letters only, no I, O or Q. Can some bored CS major out there tell use how many new cars would be added by changing from 4Alphanumberic+4Numeric to 8Alphanumeric?
Most chips are made in taiwan/asia area aren't they? So once it comes to the US we have to keep it here. Other countries could import direct from East Asia.
Even assuming it's this plan somehow works, within the next 2-4 years almost all chips would be banned for export.
In my experience every time I call support it's 30-60 minutes on hold to wait for someone from India to blindly lead you through a newbie script, and then possibly send you a new part. They don't seem to have much problem sending the parts out, but I've often been sent the wrong part. I've also had replacement orders lost or forgotten somehow.
Add your own horror story, but I recommend avoiding Dell if your time is worth much. I know I'll never choose them again.
I must admit I know next to nothing about the porn industry. I wasn't suggesting the billing system was the problem, or that he ran the dialer company. I didn't even know there was a dialer company. Sounds like a hello world company to me.
A dialer is super easy to write. I just don't see how any one could make money from it. The source code of how to do it is available in almost every programming language. They must make their money by tricking people into installing taking a cut of phone call charges. Maybe I'm wrong on that account too.
My point is dialer makers create and profit from tools that hijack computers. That's a Bad Thing. Porn sites use those companies to somehow make money. Getting rid of one spammer is not the solution, others will replace them. I believe it's the same with dialer makers. So go after the companies, porn or otherwise who use hidden dialers to hijack computers and make money.
I guess G.W. couldn't even sit through The Lion King. Remember kids, like Mufasa said "There's a lot more to being king than getting your way all the time."
That's very stupid. They should go after your friend and people who make money from others. You can bet some poor sucker got paid $50 or less to write the dialer if they even got paid. Once it's made, you have it, just change the number it dials.
It's the telco's and the porn companies that need to be held accountable since they are the ones distributing and profiting from this computer hijacking. They could possibly face jail time for that if they are in the US. Not sure, but it seems there are stricter laws all the time.
Writing a dialer is pathetically easy. Even from a simple DOS prompt, one liner
echo "atdt 1-123-456-7890" > com1:
This is once step BELOW spammers in my opinion, and your using the same pathetic excuses they do. People shouldn't make it so easy to do. Spam at least is only for idiots. Your taking control of computers and waiting until people won't notice.
It's not email software or dialer software that is the problem. It's the scum who take these useful tools and use them to try to rip people off.
I think one way to sum it up is to say that errors occur when you force the progammer to think about what the computer should do, instead of what they want done. Why should the programmer have to think about memory allocation, garbage collection, pointers, etc?
Still someone has to do it. Every new device out there needs drivers, bios, etc and when you write those things. The operating system has to deal with mouse input, interrupts, and everything else.
With all the talk of pointers and memory access, I'm surprised that he didn't mention the newer processors and their ability to mark certain portions of memory as execute or non-execute. It won't fix buggy programming, but it would stop those bug leaks from causing a buffer exploit if used correctly. Still it was an interesting read if something of a rant.
News Flash: As of Feb 1 through March 1, 2004, 8738 messages (4240 spam, 4498 nonspam), and my total error rate was ONE. That translates to better than 99.984% accuracy, which is over ten times more accurate than human accuracy
Maybe I'm missing something human accuracy always going to be 100%? I tell the computer what is spam, it learns. I may decide that regardless of what it thinks, this last message is OK. So aside from clicking too fast or changing your mind (which is a common thing to do) how can a filter ever suggest it is be better then people at deciding what people want to see?
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Enhanced SMTP better known as ESMTP is not hypothetical. It's out there, it works, mail clients know about it. It's optional and most ISP's I've used don't have strong authentication. They could, but choose not to. Search Google for Ehanced SMTP or you'll find an ESMTP mail server.
It seems your proposing the same argument the article does. Basically security needs to be enabled by default. The internet is no longer a place where you can trust. They are suggesting a hardware fix, your suggesting software.
Either way it will most likely require some pretty big players like AOL or Microsoft to implement it before it would achieve critical mass. Designing a different way of doing things isn't hard, it's getting everyone else to agree to it and use it.
AOL started implementing SPF to stop spam. If AOL/MSN/Yahoo all decide to stop accepting mail that doesn't come form SPF using sites, adoption should happen in about a fortnight.
An eon is the human version of a hrair :o)
He has lots of other projects out there. My favorite is the mouse trap. I love the description...
A million Itanium CPU's running all in the same building?
And people think global warming is caused by clouds....
I remember Doom taking out our networks. For some reason it broadcast every packet to all other computers on the network. I still have a Qic-120 tape backup in my closet with all the versions of Doom that ever floated through my college. 0.666 even. That and lots of Epic games.
Now if only I had a tape backup unit that would read these huge old tapes. 30 Complete games in 100 megabytes. And we liked it!
A moron with at least one extra mod point it seems. :P
I agree with you that this isn't silent, but I would be much more interested in this because it sounds pleasant. I would much rather listen to something like a fountain or rain then the constant droning of computer fans.
Actually there are only 4 blades. They used Sun's marketing department to choose their next product name.
Anyway, it's the same anywhere in society. If you have a good reputation, people will at least listen to you. They won't necessary agree, but they will be willing to listen...
;)
Or in Slashdots case, a Low ID can be substituted for a good reputation.
Use one of some underpowered FM radio, get something that transmits the reverse sound waves just as loundly. It would be great to have someone pull up and suddenly come into your silent zone. I'm not sure if you can buy the devices for a car radio, but I've seen them in headsets, and train/pilot chairs.
Silence International is one maker I know of, but no car audio.
There is a rule that the last 8 characters of a VIN are used to ID the car. The previous ones the make/model/manufacturer. Strike the last 4 numeric rule and you've suddenly got a shitload more unique codes.
That would be a much simpler solution then extending the field length because the expensive dinosaur systems that run car dealerships right now probably wouldn't handle a change in the length of the field.
The rules say numbers and capital letters only, no I, O or Q. Can some bored CS major out there tell use how many new cars would be added by changing from 4Alphanumberic+4Numeric to 8Alphanumeric?
Most chips are made in taiwan/asia area aren't they? So once it comes to the US we have to keep it here. Other countries could import direct from East Asia.
Even assuming it's this plan somehow works, within the next 2-4 years almost all chips would be banned for export.
In my experience every time I call support it's 30-60 minutes on hold to wait for someone from India to blindly lead you through a newbie script, and then possibly send you a new part. They don't seem to have much problem sending the parts out, but I've often been sent the wrong part. I've also had replacement orders lost or forgotten somehow.
Add your own horror story, but I recommend avoiding Dell if your time is worth much. I know I'll never choose them again.
They say recycle. What's dishonest about it? Just make sure to take the CF card or HD out before you send it in.
There is another video without the guy. http://www.ikp.liu.se/evolve/2004/filmer/Park_auto .wmv
I must admit I know next to nothing about the porn industry. I wasn't suggesting the billing system was the problem, or that he ran the dialer company. I didn't even know there was a dialer company. Sounds like a hello world company to me.
A dialer is super easy to write. I just don't see how any one could make money from it. The source code of how to do it is available in almost every programming language. They must make their money by tricking people into installing taking a cut of phone call charges. Maybe I'm wrong on that account too.
My point is dialer makers create and profit from tools that hijack computers. That's a Bad Thing. Porn sites use those companies to somehow make money. Getting rid of one spammer is not the solution, others will replace them. I believe it's the same with dialer makers. So go after the companies, porn or otherwise who use hidden dialers to hijack computers and make money.
I guess G.W. couldn't even sit through The Lion King. Remember kids, like Mufasa said "There's a lot more to being king than getting your way all the time."
That's very stupid. They should go after your friend and people who make money from others. You can bet some poor sucker got paid $50 or less to write the dialer if they even got paid. Once it's made, you have it, just change the number it dials.
It's the telco's and the porn companies that need to be held accountable since they are the ones distributing and profiting from this computer hijacking. They could possibly face jail time for that if they are in the US. Not sure, but it seems there are stricter laws all the time.
Writing a dialer is pathetically easy. Even from a simple DOS prompt, one liner
echo "atdt 1-123-456-7890" > com1:
This is once step BELOW spammers in my opinion, and your using the same pathetic excuses they do. People shouldn't make it so easy to do. Spam at least is only for idiots. Your taking control of computers and waiting until people won't notice.
It's not email software or dialer software that is the problem. It's the scum who take these useful tools and use them to try to rip people off.
I think one way to sum it up is to say that errors occur when you force the progammer to think about what the computer should do, instead of what they want done. Why should the programmer have to think about memory allocation, garbage collection, pointers, etc?
Still someone has to do it. Every new device out there needs drivers, bios, etc and when you write those things. The operating system has to deal with mouse input, interrupts, and everything else.
With all the talk of pointers and memory access, I'm surprised that he didn't mention the newer processors and their ability to mark certain portions of memory as execute or non-execute. It won't fix buggy programming, but it would stop those bug leaks from causing a buffer exploit if used correctly. Still it was an interesting read if something of a rant.
Maybe in this culture Spider Man will actually have some extra limbs. Like Vishnu
Will ESR translate this into Halloween XII? Good thing someone reported this leaked document.
Maybe I'm missing something human accuracy always going to be 100%? I tell the computer what is spam, it learns. I may decide that regardless of what it thinks, this last message is OK. So aside from clicking too fast or changing your mind (which is a common thing to do) how can a filter ever suggest it is be better then people at deciding what people want to see?
The money will be paid in one lump sum.
In Cash.
Tax Free.
The Catch? The cash is sitting in an unmarked briefcase somewhere on the moon.
...to BMW 2002 or greater
Funny, my first thought was there was another new /. Section. Like Developers: title or YRO: title