My email client (not Outlook) is set to render the body of a message as text only. No freaking HTML. eBay sends me notifications, and I read them just fine. HTML email is crap. MS finally did something good for security.
The prior network stack was believed to have been lifted from BSD (based on fingerprinting techniques) and regardless of where it came from it was very reliable, relatively secure, and pretty much just worked
NT4's network stack was copied from BSD. You could find the BSD licensing bits if you looked around for them, no fingerprinting needed. They rewrote most of it for 2k. The 2k stack was pretty vanilla compared to what they are trying to put in Vista. This one looks much different and worries me a lot more.
A more secure internet? Less SPAM to worry about sorting?
The NSA gets more secure windows boxes in their office, along with the more secure SELinux boxes they have. You know that Linux distro that they also must have had 'strings attached' to somehow in your mind.
Funny, why aren't you also bitching about all the other Linux distro's including the patches from SELinux that the NSA also went over and thought would be more secure changes.
You couldn't possibly be biased could you? Nah, didn't think so.
Consider that the drive I bought at Costco 10 years ago (500MB) costs on the order of 500 to 1000 times more (that's almost two magnitudes) than storage today, and that Microsoft continues to charge at the same rate -- they even seem to adjust for inflation.
Wow, what a crap argument. Technology has allowed for the storage of the same amount of data in a smaller area, more refined machine tools.
Do you think programmer salaries are also decreasing at this rate? If the company you work for discovers more efficient methods of making their product, should their shrink your salary in a proportional amount so that their costs for all parts of the system are equally reduced? Ya, I didn't think you would agree with that part.
What a dumbass. Not everyone has the same money or priorities you do. You and I might make good money, but plenty of folks are out there making minimum wage or not a lot more an the $10/hour phone call (or whatever it is) is a decent wage for them. Also consider that most of that time on the phone is likely to be on hold or in phone queues. With a headset, someone can be in front of their PS3, cocktail in hand, and get back the $52 that they didn't want to spend on MSware. Yes, you can get computers without Windows (I always build my own), but Dell has lower prices than a lot of those custom shops for the same hardware. Getting back that $52 is additional savings.
Because we all know, no major software has undiscovered bugs, buffer overflows, yadda, yadda. Linux, Firefox, Apple, Microsoft, never put out patches for newly found security holes because all their software is well-designed.
It's not at all a bad thing to have in your phone's address book. Say you are on a trip and your wallet gets stolen, etc. You may want to call your bank, credit card company, etc, very quickly to put stops on your accounts.
Then you read it wrong. Some RBLs start small (an inital IP) and then expand the range they block if the ISP is hosting a lot of spammers and not getting rid of them. There are methods for getting off RBLs if you follow them. (and you can get off SORBS free and quickly if you follow them, read other posts from other folks here for examples)
I use spamd and RBLs and don't have to waste CPU cycles on Spamassasin, so don't give me any of this dynamic IP ranges are ok stuff...
He's free to use the tools he likes to do the job. It's his mail server folks are trying to talk to. He's free to reject whoever he wants and for whatever reason.
Wow, I'm glad they have you to tell them how they have to run a blacklist.
FYI, some ISPs give spammers new IP addresses every day. IMO there's just one way that should be dealt with, block the ISP entirely. There's no need to take in new spam every day until you catch that day's list of IPs from that ISP. Just blocking the ISP is much more efficient. If there is collateral damage, that's the fault of the crappy ISP.
Don't like how they run their blacklist? Tough. Don't use it. Others who like it will. They don't have to 'not run a blacklist' because you aren't happy about it.
No, that's what YOU think they are supposed to do. Myself, I like to know what asshole ISPs are out there that like to host spammers and give them a new IP every day, and just block the whole crappy ISP. If you want your mail to get to my mail server, start using another ISP with ethics, otherwise I'm just going to bounce everything you send because I'm tired of dealing with all the crud from your ISP. That's what I want them to do.:)
Oh, there is plenty of profit. From the oil trading done by Bush's buddies, to the truckloads of money being made by Cheney's friends at Haliburton. Now, not all/much of that money is coming from those foreign lands. Most of it is coming from US taxpayers who are paying for it now, and will be for decades to come thanks to Bush's deficit spending.
Don't be fooled. There's lots of profits. It's just going into the pockets of the corporate buddies of the current administration.
He said the 'little blurb' was misleading, not the article, and the blurb is.
The blurb states 'What's funny is that Microsoft is now backpedaling and telling bloggers to send back the laptops.', when MS asked to send them back or give them away to their readers
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They also generate a lot less heat, which will save you on air-conditioning if you live in a warm climate.
Agreed on all points. That's why I suggest the poster run Linux in VMWare instead of dual booting. Dual booting is a PITA if you need to switch back and forth. Besides, VMWare makes it easy to revert back to previous 'versions' if you mess up your *nix system while learning it. It also will allow him to try out a number of Linux distro's (as well as *BSDs if he feels like it) easily, so he can try out a variety to compare and play with to see what he really likes.
When the author states, as the grand parent quotes "This document looks purely at the cost of the technical portions of Vista's content protection. The political issues (under the heading of DRM) have been examined in exhaustive detail elsewhere and won't be commented on further...", and then begins spinning the politics like crazy, it blows away any desire to read the rest of his rant, or any confidence that any of his arguments might have real merit and makes me and many others regard him as a hater/FUD'er, etc.
Sorry, claiming not to be commenting on politics, and then commenting on them over and over doesn't make someone credible as far as I'm concerned. That's why OSS proponents should stay clear of if when explaining the concepts to 'normal' users. They come off as rabid fanboys rather than someone with a real argument. Ditto with the idiots who spread FUD about MS, then complain about MS spreading FUD. Hypocrites don't tend to win converts.
And all of this ignores the fact that the majority of spam is sent via compromised home machines not routing the traffic through an ISP mta, or vulnerable formmail/web scripts.
About half the ISPs I've used have blocked port 25 by default except to their MTAs (they will lift the block if specifically requested to by the user). Since a lot/most home users have no need to have port 25 opened to other hosts, that should kill off the bulk of the spam problem. If all ISPs blocked by default except by user request, spambot-armies would be a lot less useful.
That's crap. It shouldn't cost anything to send email. The answer is authentication on both ends. This requires a technical solution, not bureaucracy and government/corporate profits.
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My email client (not Outlook) is set to render the body of a message as text only. No freaking HTML. eBay sends me notifications, and I read them just fine. HTML email is crap. MS finally did something good for security.
The prior network stack was believed to have been lifted from BSD (based on fingerprinting techniques) and regardless of where it came from it was very reliable, relatively secure, and pretty much just worked
NT4's network stack was copied from BSD. You could find the BSD licensing bits if you looked around for them, no fingerprinting needed. They rewrote most of it for 2k. The 2k stack was pretty vanilla compared to what they are trying to put in Vista. This one looks much different and worries me a lot more.
A more secure internet? Less SPAM to worry about sorting?
The NSA gets more secure windows boxes in their office, along with the more secure SELinux boxes they have. You know that Linux distro that they also must have had 'strings attached' to somehow in your mind.
Yeah, Linux folks would never think of working with a SPY agency either. Oh, wait...
Funny, why aren't you also bitching about all the other Linux distro's including the patches from SELinux that the NSA also went over and thought would be more secure changes.
You couldn't possibly be biased could you? Nah, didn't think so.
Consider that the drive I bought at Costco 10 years ago (500MB) costs on the order of 500 to 1000 times more (that's almost two magnitudes) than storage today, and that Microsoft continues to charge at the same rate -- they even seem to adjust for inflation.
Wow, what a crap argument. Technology has allowed for the storage of the same amount of data in a smaller area, more refined machine tools.
Do you think programmer salaries are also decreasing at this rate? If the company you work for discovers more efficient methods of making their product, should their shrink your salary in a proportional amount so that their costs for all parts of the system are equally reduced? Ya, I didn't think you would agree with that part.
What a dumbass. Not everyone has the same money or priorities you do. You and I might make good money, but plenty of folks are out there making minimum wage or not a lot more an the $10/hour phone call (or whatever it is) is a decent wage for them. Also consider that most of that time on the phone is likely to be on hold or in phone queues. With a headset, someone can be in front of their PS3, cocktail in hand, and get back the $52 that they didn't want to spend on MSware. Yes, you can get computers without Windows (I always build my own), but Dell has lower prices than a lot of those custom shops for the same hardware. Getting back that $52 is additional savings.
How many Billions of dollars do you think the Concerned Scientists are going to make from their side of the issue this year?
How about the oil companies.
I think one has a lot higher motivation for bias than the other, Mr. Coward.
Because we all know, no major software has undiscovered bugs, buffer overflows, yadda, yadda. Linux, Firefox, Apple, Microsoft, never put out patches for newly found security holes because all their software is well-designed.
What color is the sky in your world?
It's not at all a bad thing to have in your phone's address book. Say you are on a trip and your wallet gets stolen, etc. You may want to call your bank, credit card company, etc, very quickly to put stops on your accounts.
Then you read it wrong. Some RBLs start small (an inital IP) and then expand the range they block if the ISP is hosting a lot of spammers and not getting rid of them. There are methods for getting off RBLs if you follow them. (and you can get off SORBS free and quickly if you follow them, read other posts from other folks here for examples)
I use spamd and RBLs and don't have to waste CPU cycles on Spamassasin, so don't give me any of this dynamic IP ranges are ok stuff...
He's free to use the tools he likes to do the job. It's his mail server folks are trying to talk to. He's free to reject whoever he wants and for whatever reason.
Don't like that? Don't run a blacklist.
Wow, I'm glad they have you to tell them how they have to run a blacklist.
FYI, some ISPs give spammers new IP addresses every day. IMO there's just one way that should be dealt with, block the ISP entirely. There's no need to take in new spam every day until you catch that day's list of IPs from that ISP. Just blocking the ISP is much more efficient. If there is collateral damage, that's the fault of the crappy ISP.
Don't like how they run their blacklist? Tough. Don't use it. Others who like it will. They don't have to 'not run a blacklist' because you aren't happy about it.
No, that's what YOU think they are supposed to do. Myself, I like to know what asshole ISPs are out there that like to host spammers and give them a new IP every day, and just block the whole crappy ISP. If you want your mail to get to my mail server, start using another ISP with ethics, otherwise I'm just going to bounce everything you send because I'm tired of dealing with all the crud from your ISP. That's what I want them to do. :)
Oh, there is plenty of profit. From the oil trading done by Bush's buddies, to the truckloads of money being made by Cheney's friends at Haliburton. Now, not all/much of that money is coming from those foreign lands. Most of it is coming from US taxpayers who are paying for it now, and will be for decades to come thanks to Bush's deficit spending.
Don't be fooled. There's lots of profits. It's just going into the pockets of the corporate buddies of the current administration.
He said the 'little blurb' was misleading, not the article, and the blurb is.
The blurb states 'What's funny is that Microsoft is now backpedaling and telling bloggers to send back the laptops.', when MS asked to send them back or give them away to their readers
They also generate a lot less heat, which will save you on air-conditioning if you live in a warm climate.
Agreed on all points. That's why I suggest the poster run Linux in VMWare instead of dual booting. Dual booting is a PITA if you need to switch back and forth. Besides, VMWare makes it easy to revert back to previous 'versions' if you mess up your *nix system while learning it. It also will allow him to try out a number of Linux distro's (as well as *BSDs if he feels like it) easily, so he can try out a variety to compare and play with to see what he really likes.
er, that was me.
Sorry, my bad.
When the author states, as the grand parent quotes "This document looks purely at the cost of the technical portions of Vista's content protection. The political issues (under the heading of DRM) have been examined in exhaustive detail elsewhere and won't be commented on further...", and then begins spinning the politics like crazy, it blows away any desire to read the rest of his rant, or any confidence that any of his arguments might have real merit and makes me and many others regard him as a hater/FUD'er, etc.
Sorry, claiming not to be commenting on politics, and then commenting on them over and over doesn't make someone credible as far as I'm concerned. That's why OSS proponents should stay clear of if when explaining the concepts to 'normal' users. They come off as rabid fanboys rather than someone with a real argument. Ditto with the idiots who spread FUD about MS, then complain about MS spreading FUD. Hypocrites don't tend to win converts.
There have been exploits before in mozilla/thunderbird, eudora, etc.
HTML doesn't belong in emails.
So exactly what is image import? I can't find it searching through the user manual from parallels website.
And all of this ignores the fact that the majority of spam is sent via compromised home machines not routing the traffic through an ISP mta, or vulnerable formmail/web scripts.
About half the ISPs I've used have blocked port 25 by default except to their MTAs (they will lift the block if specifically requested to by the user). Since a lot/most home users have no need to have port 25 opened to other hosts, that should kill off the bulk of the spam problem. If all ISPs blocked by default except by user request, spambot-armies would be a lot less useful.
That's crap. It shouldn't cost anything to send email. The answer is authentication on both ends. This requires a technical solution, not bureaucracy and government/corporate profits.