I routinely see over 10% of windows users show up with spyware on my anti-spyware page, and that's just what can be detected with a simple javascript utility over the web, so the actual total must be even higher than that.
Next you'll be reading the article they linked to above and find out that they are using their blog content analysis to to create a ranking system where they rank blogs by how much their original ideas get dispersed among other blogs.
In other words, don't be surprised that they don't exist, as the article is actually ABOUT such a blog-rating/tracking service.
But of course, this is slashdot and I must be new here...
First, this isn't a "first in the nation", even though the article claims it is. We've had BPL in Manassas for a few months now. I'm pretty sure I've also heard about a city in Florida and somewhere out west, but I'm too lazy too search Google for them.
On the impact to Telcos, Qwest has announced "naked" DSL where you don't need to purchase dial-tone to get DSL and one of the reasons they cited for packaging it that way was to compete with BPL.
At some point, will the neverending stream of stuff that MS expects people to DL (service packs, windows messenger updates, now virus updates) ever stop?
If they can't get their patching model quite right just yet, how do they expect to get virus downloads and updates right, which are sometimes even more timely?
I can't wait for the MS personal mail server with built-in MSN spam filtering that constantly downloads spam rules....
Looking at a candidate's website is a good way to see what THEY think is important.
I would agree that you should also plug their name into a decent search engine and see what else is out there. If there is anything significant out there, it will likely be online. Everything from ratings by various organizations to statements of their opponents.
Those who used to research candidates before can now hit their website and get a quick summary instead of digging through newspapers and mass mailers.
Those who never really cared, pretty much still don't care, even if all they have to do is click on a website and read.
The biggest affect has been that communication within groups of like-minded individuals has been greatly increased. Between sites like meetup.com for live meetings and email discussion lists for ongoing meetings online, if you care about an issue or set of issues, you can coordinate with others who feel the same way.
It's gotten to the point where non-internet enabled members of political organizations are starting to feel left out because they miss 90% of what goes on in their group.
Most switches have, uhh.... "features" that allow an experienced attacker to trick them into broadcasting traffic to multiple ports.
Essentially, with a little judicious arp spoofing and a flood or two, the switch can be confused into just "making sure" the packets get to the right destination by broadcasting like a hub when it would normally be switching.
Yeah. Let's get real. Here's how it would really go:
1. Yahoo, AOL, MSN, whoever decides that they are going to setup a system where it costs users to send emails. 2. People notice email costs money now. 3. Several million new "free" email services appear on the Internet run by anyone smart enough to setup SMTP services on whatever port is settled on if they start blocking 25, in combination with all the ISPs in the world that didn't go along with (1) above. 4. Yahoo, AOL, MSN, whoever that was doing (1) above start to either suffer a massive user drain because they just started charging their users a bunch of new fees, or they roll the cost of sending email into their "normal" fees to avoid that. This makes (1) above completely pointless, other than to encourage semi-secret gateways between the free and paid email systems. 5. ???? (just to keep tradition) 6. No profit, no affect on spam, paid email goes away.
Yeah, next they'll be telling us that researchers have "discovered" that Men think worse when you put a pretty woman in front of them.......wait, wasn't that already a "news" story a few months ago?
Yah, most people don't realize that it's not any sort of necessity that airports have to be out of town, it's stupid "planning" boards and commissions that decide they want to grow that direction and not upset anyone who may live near one because of the noise.
So to not have to pay off a few homeowners at market price for their houses if they don't like the noise, they make the whole area travel an extra 30 minutes to the airport.
And of course, then they regulate things so that no one can compete with their chosen airport, resulting in lack of efficiency so that no one can show up their chosen location.
No, just read the attached disclaimer. They would have shipped you a CD for shipping costs, but note the date:
"* Terms and Conditions Offer good in United States until December 31, 2003 or while supplies last. This offer is extended exclusively to IT Professionals who successfully and accurately complete the online registration process on this site. This offer is only available via http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/unixproresour ces/freesfu30.asp, and any attempt to enter this promotion via any other website will be void. This offer is limited to one per person. Shipping & handling are not included. Please allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery. The approximate retail value of Windows Services for UNIX 3.0 is US$99. Void where prohibited."
FAST-WebCrawler from Overture and Slurp from Inktomi.
Personally, since Google has spidered a large percentage of the pages on my sites and Inktomi/Overture has only done a very minimal amount of pages, they're going to have to really pick up their index size if they hope to compete with Google and ATW on finding anything that isn't on a site's home page.
If you're going to pay for College, then get your money's worth and take classes you don't already know about or can't pickup the details of by reading a book for a week. CLEP or test out of the rest.
In other words, investigate and take as many CLEP tests as you possibly can. It's cheaper than tuition and you won't have to sit through a semester of English 101 (or even 201 in most cases).
Even if you have to study a textbook to refresh your memory of biology, it's cheaper and easier (not to mention much less time wasting) to take the CLEP test.
Along the same lines, if there isn't a relevent CLEP test for you to take or you just need to pad out your number of units, most schools will let you register for a class, then arrange to take the final on the first day of class and be done with the class without attending all semester.
Taking a "spreadsheet" class this way can seriously help out your GPA if you need it and it's an excellent method for taking care of prereq's when you already know all or most of the material.
In summary, if you are going to sit in class, do it in an interesting or fun class and skip out of the others.
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Yeah, there's no better way to wash away your own sins than going on a worldwide crusade to wash away those of everyone else. Save the world to save yourself? I wouldn't put much stock in those moral beliefs.
You appear to be advocating not trusting moral beliefs that are effective in doing good.
What alternative do you propose, people not wanting to "save the world" as you put it? Ignoring helping or not helping others altogether? You aren't seriously suggesting that the British being the driving force in ending world-wide slavery is a bad thing, are you?
I prefer to think that if a group or individual does something good, like ending slavery world-wide, they should be complimented on that, not denigrated.
Since we're on the topic of unspeakable things, perhaps we're dealing now with the current U.S. school taboo of never praising anything done by white males?
The really sad thing is that we've gone so far down the path of government redistribution of the wealth that if someone says "welfare", it becomes an implicit "government welfare".
Let's not forget that charitable shelters, giving poor people food, etc... are all done by private individuals and groups as well.
Those of us who oppose the "government" kind of welfare (AKA, forced redistribution of wealth) are generally very much in favor of the free (as in freedom) alternative of private welfare. It's not only a better system (as in more effective in helping people), but it has other moral benefits to the participants as well.
A related unfounded conviction is that "school teachers are smart". That may have been true 50 or 100 years ago, but nowadays most people don't realize that most school teachers went into teaching because they couldn't handle or weren't interested in a harder major in college. This leads to little-known statistics like teaching majors having the lowest average IQ and SAT scores of any major. (Yeah, phys ed majors average higher.)
Of course, this isn't to say that there aren't any really smart teachers, just that the group as a whole has a lingering undeserved reputation as overly intelligent.
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In contrast to your point about the horrible "European ancestors", it was primarily the white Christian British who ended slavery over most of the world. Until that time, slavery was common just about everywhere.
Now about the only place slavery is still wide-spread is in a few locations that it's been going on for as far back as recorded history goes, being practiced by black muslims.
Hate to burst your bubble, but slavery was practiced by blacks on blacks, whites on blacks, whites on whites, blacks on whites, etc... by just about everyone for just about all of history until those "white Christians" finally put an end to it because of their moral beliefs informing their political decisions.
As for your rant on Native Americans, our people did plenty worse to each other for thousands of years before any Europeans showed up. It wasn't exactly a unique experience in history.
If you want a serious study of the issues, try reading a book like "Conquest and Cultures" by Thomas Sowell.
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Yeah, 87% of statistics aren't actually accurate.
I routinely see over 10% of windows users show up with spyware on my anti-spyware page, and that's just what can be detected with a simple javascript utility over the web, so the actual total must be even higher than that.
Next you'll be reading the article they linked to above and find out that they are using their blog content analysis to to create a ranking system where they rank blogs by how much their original ideas get dispersed among other blogs.
In other words, don't be surprised that they don't exist, as the article is actually ABOUT such a blog-rating/tracking service.
But of course, this is slashdot and I must be new here...
First, this isn't a "first in the nation", even though the article claims it is. We've had BPL in Manassas for a few months now. I'm pretty sure I've also heard about a city in Florida and somewhere out west, but I'm too lazy too search Google for them.
On the impact to Telcos, Qwest has announced "naked" DSL where you don't need to purchase dial-tone to get DSL and one of the reasons they cited for packaging it that way was to compete with BPL.
Yeah, that foreign grammer really sucks.
If they outsourced, pretty soon you'd have characters in games saying stuff like "All your base are belong to us..." and "Make your time...."
At some point, will the neverending stream of stuff that MS expects people to DL (service packs, windows messenger updates, now virus updates) ever stop?
If they can't get their patching model quite right just yet, how do they expect to get virus downloads and updates right, which are sometimes even more timely?
I can't wait for the MS personal mail server with built-in MSN spam filtering that constantly downloads spam rules....
There's a Reuters article on Yahoo that discusses MS teaming up with RSA for Windows authentication, but nothing about sendmail.
This is usually most effective if you can include someone who has a solution that competes with yours in the demonstration with your boss's boss.
Looking at a candidate's website is a good way to see what THEY think is important.
I would agree that you should also plug their name into a decent search engine and see what else is out there. If there is anything significant out there, it will likely be online. Everything from ratings by various organizations to statements of their opponents.
Those who used to research candidates before can now hit their website and get a quick summary instead of digging through newspapers and mass mailers.
Those who never really cared, pretty much still don't care, even if all they have to do is click on a website and read.
The biggest affect has been that communication within groups of like-minded individuals has been greatly increased. Between sites like meetup.com for live meetings and email discussion lists for ongoing meetings online, if you care about an issue or set of issues, you can coordinate with others who feel the same way.
It's gotten to the point where non-internet enabled members of political organizations are starting to feel left out because they miss 90% of what goes on in their group.
Most switches have, uhh.... "features" that allow an experienced attacker to trick them into broadcasting traffic to multiple ports.
Essentially, with a little judicious arp spoofing and a flood or two, the switch can be confused into just "making sure" the packets get to the right destination by broadcasting like a hub when it would normally be switching.
I'm tired of being a guinea pig for OS releases that aren't production ready.
Install FreeBSD 5.3 when it comes out as the stable release in a couple of months with full support for AMD64?
Yeah. Let's get real. Here's how it would really go:
1. Yahoo, AOL, MSN, whoever decides that they are going to setup a system where it costs users to send emails.
2. People notice email costs money now.
3. Several million new "free" email services appear on the Internet run by anyone smart enough to setup SMTP services on whatever port is settled on if they start blocking 25, in combination with all the ISPs in the world that didn't go along with (1) above.
4. Yahoo, AOL, MSN, whoever that was doing (1) above start to either suffer a massive user drain because they just started charging their users a bunch of new fees, or they roll the cost of sending email into their "normal" fees to avoid that. This makes (1) above completely pointless, other than to encourage semi-secret gateways between the free and paid email systems.
5. ???? (just to keep tradition)
6. No profit, no affect on spam, paid email goes away.
I agree.
I've found that typing `pkg_add -r (port name without version)` will get me the latest binary version installed 8 times out of 10.
If that doesn't work, yeah, it's slightly slower to cd to the port's directory and type `make install`, but it's not exactly that hard.
Yeah, next they'll be telling us that researchers have "discovered" that Men think worse when you put a pretty woman in front of them.... ...wait, wasn't that already a "news" story a few months ago?
Yah, most people don't realize that it's not any sort of necessity that airports have to be out of town, it's stupid "planning" boards and commissions that decide they want to grow that direction and not upset anyone who may live near one because of the noise.
So to not have to pay off a few homeowners at market price for their houses if they don't like the noise, they make the whole area travel an extra 30 minutes to the airport.
And of course, then they regulate things so that no one can compete with their chosen airport, resulting in lack of efficiency so that no one can show up their chosen location.
Why would ladies be looking for geeks?
I mean, maybe "Management, move along, these are not the geeks you are looking for..." would have been a little better...
Besides, Jeff Gordon already drove the star wars car, didn't he? Of course, his version doesn't look as cool, but it's a bit faster...
Here's an actual mirror of some of the images at aintitcool.com
No, just read the attached disclaimer. They would have shipped you a CD for shipping costs, but note the date:
r ces/freesfu30.asp, and any attempt to enter this promotion via any other website will be void. This offer is limited to one per person. Shipping & handling are not included. Please allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery. The approximate retail value of Windows Services for UNIX 3.0 is US$99. Void where prohibited."
"* Terms and Conditions
Offer good in United States until December 31, 2003 or while supplies last. This offer is extended exclusively to IT Professionals who successfully and accurately complete the online registration process on this site. This offer is only available via http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/unixproresou
Inktomi and Overture's bots belong to Yahoo now.
FAST-WebCrawler from Overture and Slurp from Inktomi.
Personally, since Google has spidered a large percentage of the pages on my sites and Inktomi/Overture has only done a very minimal amount of pages, they're going to have to really pick up their index size if they hope to compete with Google and ATW on finding anything that isn't on a site's home page.
If you're going to pay for College, then get your money's worth and take classes you don't already know about or can't pickup the details of by reading a book for a week. CLEP or test out of the rest.
In other words, investigate and take as many CLEP tests as you possibly can. It's cheaper than tuition and you won't have to sit through a semester of English 101 (or even 201 in most cases).
Even if you have to study a textbook to refresh your memory of biology, it's cheaper and easier (not to mention much less time wasting) to take the CLEP test.
Along the same lines, if there isn't a relevent CLEP test for you to take or you just need to pad out your number of units, most schools will let you register for a class, then arrange to take the final on the first day of class and be done with the class without attending all semester.
Taking a "spreadsheet" class this way can seriously help out your GPA if you need it and it's an excellent method for taking care of prereq's when you already know all or most of the material.
In summary, if you are going to sit in class, do it in an interesting or fun class and skip out of the others.
You appear to be advocating not trusting moral beliefs that are effective in doing good.
What alternative do you propose, people not wanting to "save the world" as you put it? Ignoring helping or not helping others altogether? You aren't seriously suggesting that the British being the driving force in ending world-wide slavery is a bad thing, are you?
I prefer to think that if a group or individual does something good, like ending slavery world-wide, they should be complimented on that, not denigrated.
Since we're on the topic of unspeakable things, perhaps we're dealing now with the current U.S. school taboo of never praising anything done by white males?
The really sad thing is that we've gone so far down the path of government redistribution of the wealth that if someone says "welfare", it becomes an implicit "government welfare".
Let's not forget that charitable shelters, giving poor people food, etc... are all done by private individuals and groups as well.
Those of us who oppose the "government" kind of welfare (AKA, forced redistribution of wealth) are generally very much in favor of the free (as in freedom) alternative of private welfare. It's not only a better system (as in more effective in helping people), but it has other moral benefits to the participants as well.
A related unfounded conviction is that "school teachers are smart". That may have been true 50 or 100 years ago, but nowadays most people don't realize that most school teachers went into teaching because they couldn't handle or weren't interested in a harder major in college. This leads to little-known statistics like teaching majors having the lowest average IQ and SAT scores of any major. (Yeah, phys ed majors average higher.)
Of course, this isn't to say that there aren't any really smart teachers, just that the group as a whole has a lingering undeserved reputation as overly intelligent.
In contrast to your point about the horrible "European ancestors", it was primarily the white Christian British who ended slavery over most of the world. Until that time, slavery was common just about everywhere.
Now about the only place slavery is still wide-spread is in a few locations that it's been going on for as far back as recorded history goes, being practiced by black muslims.
Hate to burst your bubble, but slavery was practiced by blacks on blacks, whites on blacks, whites on whites, blacks on whites, etc... by just about everyone for just about all of history until those "white Christians" finally put an end to it because of their moral beliefs informing their political decisions.
As for your rant on Native Americans, our people did plenty worse to each other for thousands of years before any Europeans showed up. It wasn't exactly a unique experience in history.
If you want a serious study of the issues, try reading a book like "Conquest and Cultures" by Thomas Sowell.