The point is that confirmation messages for transactions often come from addresses you don't know in advance. This allows the server to verify those messages.
It costs us a quarter of a million dollars a month to handle spam. You want to reduce spam? Get those Windows boxes off the Internet. If the majority of people don't need anything more than webtv, let them stick with that. Block port 25 outbound for consumer grade connections.
Oh, and bill people if their PCs get compromised regularly. Real money will drive security.
I live in a country with strict gun control laws. I have never had the problem of being threatened by violence. Note that this fails if any single section of society gets weapons.
Your logic is the same as mutually assured destruction on a smaller scale.
Then wouldn't it be useful for the biologists to define the context for the programmers? It shouldn't be impossible to do so (very hard, I will grant you).
Also, if we in the US are using 25% of the resources (inputs) and we're only 5% of the world's population, how can 100% of the world live like US? They can't. everyone's standard of living will have to be reduced (I'm trying - I'm using much less fuel and food!)
I agree with the reduction in standard of living. Less fuel, food (and reduced power usage) will help out a lot.
As for the work thing, the best resource I can suggest is opening up an Indian office and hiring a few people here. Now, if the Indian government made it easier for foreigners to get Indian work visas....
Keep in mind that you don't need to just park here. Sell to the local market, and use the same resources to grow in the US market too.
I am not earning twice as much as my manager. Money isn't the end all and be all of what I do (if that was the criterion, I would have been jumping all over the place for work, and getting more money each time (the job market in India at the moment is booming, like the US market in the web boom)).
PS: If you are the guy that writes Courier, thanks for a good IMAP server (don't use the MTA bit, but Courier IMAP rocks).
I find writing user interfaces and report generation boring. Give me systems to tune, networks to run, and let me loose. That is my territory. And before you claim that anyone can do what I do, let me point out that they can't. They can't run boxes which handle a few million messages an hour, serve millions of users, and stay available under DDoS like conditions for years.
Oh, and you get to do this without a vendor support contract. If you need a support contract, we can hire someone else.
I find WindowMaker _very_ friendly. I _am_ a user, and I find Macs unfriendly (yes, I have used them). KDE and GNOME both suck.
And when you are speaking of instllations, please let me know how you install applications automatically on a few hundred node farm. No drag and drop:).
So what kind of work do you do? Does any of it involve generating reports, writing user interfaces/forms? How much financial and trading floor knowledge do you need? How much system level programming do you do? How much new computing stuff do you learn?
A word processor provides simplified text processing and page layout capabilities. This makes it bad for both tasks for real use, and popular amongst people who need to do such things occasionally, or as part of other work but don't have the time to learn to do things right.
The original search engines used content. That broke down because SEOs would just stuff their pages full of keywords unrelated to the real content. Google worked because it was different.
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The Java programmer just allows SQL injection. Your data is still toast.
Not validating input is the error in both cases.
As every real; Slashdotter knows, the name is Rupert.
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The point is that confirmation messages for transactions often come from addresses you don't know in advance. This allows the server to verify those messages.
It costs us a quarter of a million dollars a month to handle spam. You want to reduce spam? Get those Windows boxes off the Internet. If the majority of people don't need anything more than webtv, let them stick with that. Block port 25 outbound for consumer grade connections.
Oh, and bill people if their PCs get compromised regularly. Real money will drive security.
The point of Goodmail is that the message can be cryptographically verified to be genuine. Faked signatures won't work (beyond what they do today).
I wouldn't even attack the US mainland. I would drop nukes at the bottom of the Pacific. Or really big ones under the Antarctican ice shelf.
And I would just drop a large volume of radioactive material in the water sources of the mainland US.
Your fundamental mistake is in assuming that nuclear explosions are the only way to use nukes.
Remember, the only way to win is not to play at all.
I live in a country with strict gun control laws. I have never had the problem of being threatened by violence. Note that this fails if any single section of society gets weapons.
Your logic is the same as mutually assured destruction on a smaller scale.
Then wouldn't it be useful for the biologists to define the context for the programmers? It shouldn't be impossible to do so (very hard, I will grant you).
More laptop thefts in an unarmed city?
More robberies in an unarmed city surrounded by armed neighbours. Think about it.
Global warming. Using _less_ energy will help a lot more.
I handle 20 to 30 Gigabytes of email per month. Peer to peer is above and beyond that (and it isn't movies, or music, or pr0n, just isos).
Snowcrash.
Blow your mind.
Also, if we in the US are using 25% of the resources (inputs) and we're only 5% of the world's population, how can 100% of the world live like US? They can't. everyone's standard of living will have to be reduced (I'm trying - I'm using much less fuel and food!)
I agree with the reduction in standard of living. Less fuel, food (and reduced power usage) will help out a lot.
As for the work thing, the best resource I can suggest is opening up an Indian office and hiring a few people here. Now, if the Indian government made it easier for foreigners to get Indian work visas....
Keep in mind that you don't need to just park here. Sell to the local market, and use the same resources to grow in the US market too.
It's not the paying for transfer volume that's bad
Until you try to actually use the underlying peer to peer architecture and not do what the ISP expect you to do (web surfing and email).
I am not earning twice as much as my manager. Money isn't the end all and be all of what I do (if that was the criterion, I would have been jumping all over the place for work, and getting more money each time (the job market in India at the moment is booming, like the US market in the web boom)).
PS: If you are the guy that writes Courier, thanks for a good IMAP server (don't use the MTA bit, but Courier IMAP rocks).
I find writing user interfaces and report generation boring. Give me systems to tune, networks to run, and let me loose. That is my territory. And before you claim that anyone can do what I do, let me point out that they can't. They can't run boxes which handle a few million messages an hour, serve millions of users, and stay available under DDoS like conditions for years.
Oh, and you get to do this without a vendor support contract. If you need a support contract, we can hire someone else.
- Bill Gates is more of a hero in India than a devil (his charitable contributions are well known)
This isn't an issue of charity. A rich man has more honour in a country with a lot of poor people.
Moore's law was about transistor density (and extended to CPU speeds).
I find WindowMaker _very_ friendly. I _am_ a user, and I find Macs unfriendly (yes, I have used them). KDE and GNOME both suck.
:).
And when you are speaking of instllations, please let me know how you install applications automatically on a few hundred node farm. No drag and drop
So what kind of work do you do? Does any of it involve generating reports, writing user interfaces/forms? How much financial and trading floor knowledge do you need? How much system level programming do you do? How much new computing stuff do you learn?
A word processor provides simplified text processing and page layout capabilities. This makes it bad for both tasks for real use, and popular amongst people who need to do such things occasionally, or as part of other work but don't have the time to learn to do things right.
Put out an ad for a DBA who understands the basics. Ask on the PostgreSQL user lists. Oh, and Oracle DBAs can easily move to PostgreSQL.
The original search engines used content. That broke down because SEOs would just stuff their pages full of keywords unrelated to the real content. Google worked because it was different.
It goes more like
End user Local ISP tier 2 ISP tier 1 ISP tier 1 ISP tier1 ISP Tier 2 provider End user
Now, any of the ISPs not directly connected to the end users can control the flow in the middle and bill for it.
Notice that both the ends are "end nodes" and not "provider" and "consumer". You are converting the peer to peer model into a producer/consumer one.