This flaw is valuable because it's clear proof that whitelists don't work. No domain is above suspicion when it comes to sending spam. About the only real use the domain can be is as an adjustment to your filters. Done properly, mail from gmail.com is marked as less likely to be spam than mail from cyberpromo.com, but it's still checked.
(a room that sued to be a utility room so there's water/power mains running through it)
Really? What were the grounds for the suit? Has the company appealed the judgment or did management decide that it cost more to appeal than to do the remodeling?
Of course it sounds like open office spaces and bullpens have always been normal. This is Slashdot. Most of the people commenting aren't old enough to remember anything different.
Exactly like that. And, of course, when people complain about all the bad side effects of those changes, the Greens will shout them down. After all, they mean well, and their ideas aren't allowed to have bad consequences.
you'll have a hard time convincing me that you can maintain nanosecond timing long enough for the difference between two nanosecond timestamps to be accurate down to the nanosecond.
Not now, and not in the near future, sure. However, who's to say that it won't happen, possibly sooner than we think? The developers had the room to store times that accurate, so they probably just put it in to allow for future developments.
A surprising number of my users are still on 95 (or its ugly sisters, 98 and ME)
Personally, I've always felt that '98 is what '95 would have been if Microsoft knew when they wrote it what they learned in the next few years. Me, OTOH (And yes, it's Me, not ME.) was inexcusable.
I have no idea what hes on about with the hard-pathed file references.
This goes back even before Windows. I used to have some DOS programs that would only let you save a file to a floppy. Not just games, a poster-creating program had A:> built into the path for saving files, and there was no way to change it. Granted, even the most rabid Microsoft-basher can't blame that on them, but it's part of the way programs used to be written. It's the same type of mindset as caused game designers in the early DOS days to hardcode timing loops because, of course, the PC would always run at 4.77Mhz.
I think you missed the point. For the sake of backwards compatibility, Microsoft supports applications which do all these things, and drags all the associated crap into future versions of Windows so they still run.
So what you're saying is Windows has always been bug compatible with previous versions.
Why? Because that would be the sensible approach, rather than the technological approach. A slashdotter will always prefer technology over common sense. You must be new here.
Meanwhile my snail-mail box will continue to overflow with junk mail everyday? Something is amiss.
The people sending that junk mail pay to have it designed, pay to have it printed, pay to have it sent through the mail. In fact, if there weren't any junk mail, first class postage rates would be higher. This is the exact opposite of the spammer who does their best to make sure other people pay for the advertisements they send out. This is why junk mail is legal and spam isn't.
The First Amendment isn't relevant to this case and bringing it up is just an attempt to draw attention away from the facts. Jeremy Jaynes used mailing lists he'd stolen from AOL, eBay and other places for his spamming. The First Amendment doesn't give you the right to shout "FIRE!" in a crowded theater and it doesn't give you the right to use stolen addresses to direct your advertisements.
Of course, I will remove the goto when I have to share the code
Why bother? It works, so don't fix it. Just make sure there's a comment at the goto saying why it's there and where it goes, and another one at the destination documenting where the goto is, and let it go at that. In general, a goto is bad if and only if it's not clear where it goes, or if it's not clear what the destination's label is for.
I must admit that you've had a number of weird callers. I have too, but for the most part, I've put it behind me as I don't work there any more. I have fond memories, however, of hanging up on a caller after 45 minutes and getting a standing ovation from all the supervisors on the floor who were listening in on the call because I was the only tech who'd been able to keep the stupid git on track long enough to deal with his main issue. At that, I'd only hung up after telling him that the remainder of his complaints were a telco issue (line noise) and only after getting permission as hanging up was normally forbidden.
I also remember dealing with a self-proclaimed system administrator who wanted me to troubleshoot his office's connectivity issues even though he was calling from a cell phone in his car, twenty miles away. The funny thing about it is that I was the third of four techs that day to tell him we couldn't do it without somebody being on site.
The point here is that stupid people are everywhere. No matter what you do, you'll find them. Somehow, the help/hell desk seems to get more than their share of it, but you can't let them spoil all your days or you'll go crazy.
It wasn't true when I started, either. What was true is that I was unemployed and this company was willing to pay me to talk to people on the phone. I figured that if I'd survived being a telemarketer, I could survive tech support, and as it turned out, I was right.
As long as people are allowed to call up after using super glue to plug the modem port to keep kids from surfing porn & scream at you that it's your job to get them back online; help desk is going to be hell desk.
Never ran across that one, but I know what our policy was: "I'm sorry, that's a hardware issue. Not our responsibility. Get the crazy glue cleaned out if you can or a new port put in. Have a nice day!"
As long as people are allowed to call up in the middle of disasters & scream at you that the modem is slow (Manhattan customers on 9/11); help desk is going to be hell desk.
Funny you should mention that. One of the major DSL centers in Manhattan actually went down that afternoon. Totally unrelated. It took about a week to get everybody connected again, and that only by routing through someplace about a hundred miles away. Things took over a month to come back to normal. Again, however, it's not our problem because we were leasing our DSL from local telcos. If there's an outage like that, we report it and it's out of our hands. Oddly enough, almost all customers understand that we can't fix equipment we don't control and that the phone company's doing its best.
That's not to say that there aren't unreasonable, stupid callers out there. I ran across enough of them that I actually wrote a book about some of the funnier ones. Maybe the fact that I laughed about the weird callers instead of yelling at them is why I enjoyed my job.
People that have been help desk for five+ years scare me.
Why? Because we know the product inside out, can solve problems you've never heard of before just by recognizing the symptoms and like what we're doing?
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This flaw is valuable because it's clear proof that whitelists don't work. No domain is above suspicion when it comes to sending spam. About the only real use the domain can be is as an adjustment to your filters. Done properly, mail from gmail.com is marked as less likely to be spam than mail from cyberpromo.com, but it's still checked.
Really? What were the grounds for the suit? Has the company appealed the judgment or did management decide that it cost more to appeal than to do the remodeling?
Of course it sounds like open office spaces and bullpens have always been normal. This is Slashdot. Most of the people commenting aren't old enough to remember anything different.
I'd like to see what happens the first time they try that on somebody with either kidney or bladder problems.
Exactly like that. And, of course, when people complain about all the bad side effects of those changes, the Greens will shout them down. After all, they mean well, and their ideas aren't allowed to have bad consequences.
I think you misspelled the word "Coal."
It makes the people doing it feel good. That's all it does and all it needs to do.
Not now, and not in the near future, sure. However, who's to say that it won't happen, possibly sooner than we think? The developers had the room to store times that accurate, so they probably just put it in to allow for future developments.
I can tell you're a slashdotter. When most people fsck they want it to last as long as possible.
Personally, I've always felt that '98 is what '95 would have been if Microsoft knew when they wrote it what they learned in the next few years. Me, OTOH (And yes, it's Me, not ME.) was inexcusable.
This goes back even before Windows. I used to have some DOS programs that would only let you save a file to a floppy. Not just games, a poster-creating program had A:> built into the path for saving files, and there was no way to change it. Granted, even the most rabid Microsoft-basher can't blame that on them, but it's part of the way programs used to be written. It's the same type of mindset as caused game designers in the early DOS days to hardcode timing loops because, of course, the PC would always run at 4.77Mhz.
So what you're saying is Windows has always been bug compatible with previous versions.
The idea is that they'll take out money and use it to take enemy lives instead of friendly ones. I think your cynicism meter needs adjusting.
You'd better be careful about that or you just might reincarnate as a Dali llama!
Why? Because that would be the sensible approach, rather than the technological approach. A slashdotter will always prefer technology over common sense. You must be new here.
Don't forget to pack your fur-lined jockstrap. We wouldn't want you to turn into a Unix eunuch, now would we?
The people sending that junk mail pay to have it designed, pay to have it printed, pay to have it sent through the mail. In fact, if there weren't any junk mail, first class postage rates would be higher. This is the exact opposite of the spammer who does their best to make sure other people pay for the advertisements they send out. This is why junk mail is legal and spam isn't.
The First Amendment isn't relevant to this case and bringing it up is just an attempt to draw attention away from the facts. Jeremy Jaynes used mailing lists he'd stolen from AOL, eBay and other places for his spamming. The First Amendment doesn't give you the right to shout "FIRE!" in a crowded theater and it doesn't give you the right to use stolen addresses to direct your advertisements.
Why bother? It works, so don't fix it. Just make sure there's a comment at the goto saying why it's there and where it goes, and another one at the destination documenting where the goto is, and let it go at that. In general, a goto is bad if and only if it's not clear where it goes, or if it's not clear what the destination's label is for.
With any luck, they'll be cellmates. They deserve each other.
I also remember dealing with a self-proclaimed system administrator who wanted me to troubleshoot his office's connectivity issues even though he was calling from a cell phone in his car, twenty miles away. The funny thing about it is that I was the third of four techs that day to tell him we couldn't do it without somebody being on site.
The point here is that stupid people are everywhere. No matter what you do, you'll find them. Somehow, the help/hell desk seems to get more than their share of it, but you can't let them spoil all your days or you'll go crazy.
It wasn't true when I started, either. What was true is that I was unemployed and this company was willing to pay me to talk to people on the phone. I figured that if I'd survived being a telemarketer, I could survive tech support, and as it turned out, I was right.
Never ran across that one, but I know what our policy was: "I'm sorry, that's a hardware issue. Not our responsibility. Get the crazy glue cleaned out if you can or a new port put in. Have a nice day!"
As long as people are allowed to call up in the middle of disasters & scream at you that the modem is slow (Manhattan customers on 9/11); help desk is going to be hell desk.
Funny you should mention that. One of the major DSL centers in Manhattan actually went down that afternoon. Totally unrelated. It took about a week to get everybody connected again, and that only by routing through someplace about a hundred miles away. Things took over a month to come back to normal. Again, however, it's not our problem because we were leasing our DSL from local telcos. If there's an outage like that, we report it and it's out of our hands. Oddly enough, almost all customers understand that we can't fix equipment we don't control and that the phone company's doing its best.
That's not to say that there aren't unreasonable, stupid callers out there. I ran across enough of them that I actually wrote a book about some of the funnier ones. Maybe the fact that I laughed about the weird callers instead of yelling at them is why I enjoyed my job.
Why? Because we know the product inside out, can solve problems you've never heard of before just by recognizing the symptoms and like what we're doing?
In Korea, only old people use stupid phrases.