Multi Terabyte harddrives are on the way. There was once a time that ripping a DVD was considered ubsurd because of the amount of space it consumed. Before that, ripping uncompressed CD audio was considered ubsurd for the same reason. With new developments like vertical storage, I don't think space will stay an issue for long.
It's been a long time since I've been bothered by any ads either at home or at work. Thanks to firefox and the adblock extension along with filterset-g updater, I don't see much bulls**t content at all. I even hacked a slax live-cd with all my favorite browsing filteration, and it works great. BTW, I wonder if verizon's FIOS will run on a linux box. (i.e. is it standard network stuff?).
As long as stupid users dictate policy (and it always seems to be the most idiotic, uninformed, timetable pounding and ego-blinded of all users usually are in the upper echelons of an organization), security problems do to software choice will prevail. This is how microsnot products usually get pushed into an organization. Score one for the DoD getting rid of freaking html-mail and outhouse web access. One can only hope they s**tcan ms-exchange while they're at it.
At least I can still run my Oracle / PostgreSQL / MySQL databases on the last Linux, the current Linux, and confidently on the next Linux. Seems for now I'll have to keep that stupid Windows 2003 server box around to keep SQL server running for an app that requires it...
I just started a RPM build based on the livna 0.8.5 spec file and dependencies...heading back to work for a few hours. If this works, I'll post the resultant SRPM and FC6 RPMs. The spec file that comes with 0.8.6 is marked version 0.8.0, so I didn't even bother with it.
Here on Ward Island / TAMUCC we've got over 10 million of related research going on. This is a sad day and I hope doesn't effect us.:(
http://www.sp.tamucc.edu/pulse/info.shtml
Bandwidth management _must_ not rely on the host's cooperation. All will work beautifully until a virus totally rapes the network because QoS responsibility had been shifted from the network to the hosts. Damn, this isn't just stupid, it's freaking pathetic. What next Microsoft, pull in layer 2 into your stack as well?
Hmmm...I didn't realize they were using animated gifs to do this. It would be easy enough to come up with some sort of filter to strip all but the last frame and run the check on that. I expect the guys working on spamassassin are probably already on it, but I'll try and hack some sort of detector together myself for fun.;-)
No, we're not using FuzzyOCR but it's on our list of things to experiement with. Although FuzzyOCR is better at reading text buried in a noisy image, I'm thinking that the noise itself is what we should detect. The presence of a noise of a certain signature could be a good indication of a message's spam probability. The common "chicken scratch" noise I think would be easy to detect. Short, straight lines at varying angles and placements that bare no relation to eachother would count as the "chicken scratch". The little dots (or clusters of few dots) sometimes used would be also fairly easy to detect as they aren't really part of anything else. If it is a dot or line, count it. If it looks like a more complex figure, skip it. Count the number of dots/lines and contribute to the message's spaminess factor.
This would force spammers into using more complex noise. I suspect this isn't free to generate, so they would probably be more likely to use the same image in multiple spam messages which would lead to us anti-spammers being able to keep a database of some sort of robust yet easy to calculate image hash (not md5/sha1).
At work we use spam assassin with a gpl OCR plugin, however, it's getting foiled by intentional added noise in the images. I propose we come up with a way to detect these non-character elements (noise) in the associated spam images instead of just trying to OCR the text. The noise I've seen seems to be like it should be easily detectable.
Call me an elitist, but I really do believe my vote should count more than some straight-ticket voting fool's vote. Why should those of us who actually care have our votes diluted down by someone who's given their right to choose away to a political party? As a matter a fact, straight-ticket voting should be outlawed. At least force people to read each candidate's name.
Washington reminds me of a stable. Im not sure if it is the bullshit, or the horse's asses in office, but it is certainly overflowing with feces.
So, if I design some sort of Internet utility, and I happen to break the laws of some piss-ant country, and they sue...wtf should I care? They have no authority over me anyway...provided I don't have any sort of branch in that country, I'm safe, right?
...and don't you forget it! (actually, we could care less about stuff that high up in frequency. It doesn't propogate beyond line of sight, and dissipates quickly. Just don't aim that shit at any of our ham satellites. (yes, we have our own)
Microsoft's biggest enemy is not Linux nor Apple but is rather Microsoft itself. Microsoft's entire business model is built on growth and expansion. They have now saturated the desktop and a major portion of the server market. Their quality has improved...and this is actually going to work against them since there is less and less incentive to upgrade. The windows 98 to XP migration was a no-brainer. XP is a lot more stable and capable than 98/95/me. Server 2003 is a lot easier to deal with than Windows 2000 ever was.
If Vista can't provide incentive to get current Microsoft customers to shell out money once again to sustain the financial monster of Microsoft, then Microsoft's place in the software market will shink in a way only remnicent of IBM.
I suspect when this happens, there will be a major but temporary dip it Microsoft's stock. Microsoft is well aware they're dead in the software market and have since poised themselves to emerge as the world's premiere media/content distributor. I'm going to ride this one for all its worth;-)
The European model of forcing you to watch ads will probably be used. People WILL view the ad when it contains strong sexual innuendo, or at the very least, BOOBIES!
This brings up an interesting point concerning the 5th...if decrypting required by subpoena in a civil case would implicate the user on related criminal charges, can this be a defense against having to decrypt? I have a gut feeling the user would still have to decrypt, but whatever is discovered would not be admissiable in criminal court. IANAL, however. If I were, I'd probably have a little more money, and know the answer to this.
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Multi Terabyte harddrives are on the way. There was once a time that ripping a DVD was considered ubsurd because of the amount of space it consumed. Before that, ripping uncompressed CD audio was considered ubsurd for the same reason. With new developments like vertical storage, I don't think space will stay an issue for long.
It's been a long time since I've been bothered by any ads either at home or at work. Thanks to firefox and the adblock extension along with filterset-g updater, I don't see much bulls**t content at all. I even hacked a slax live-cd with all my favorite browsing filteration, and it works great. BTW, I wonder if verizon's FIOS will run on a linux box. (i.e. is it standard network stuff?).
Free cellphone access? Reduced rates? Free internet access from my cellphone in return for these ads?
s/do/due
As long as stupid users dictate policy (and it always seems to be the most idiotic, uninformed, timetable pounding and ego-blinded of all users usually are in the upper echelons of an organization), security problems do to software choice will prevail. This is how microsnot products usually get pushed into an organization. Score one for the DoD getting rid of freaking html-mail and outhouse web access. One can only hope they s**tcan ms-exchange while they're at it.
Basically, this boils down to giving up your air conditioning. Mankind evolved without HVAC...seems like a silly waste of energy IMHO.
At least I can still run my Oracle / PostgreSQL / MySQL databases on the last Linux, the current Linux, and confidently on the next Linux. Seems for now I'll have to keep that stupid Windows 2003 server box around to keep SQL server running for an app that requires it...
dit-dah dah-dah-dit dit-dah-dit dit dit dah-dit-dit
Time for the classic battle to resume. ;-)
-Michael
Here on Ward Island / TAMUCC we've got over 10 million of related research going on. This is a sad day and I hope doesn't effect us. :(
http://www.sp.tamucc.edu/pulse/info.shtml
Bandwidth management _must_ not rely on the host's cooperation. All will work beautifully until a virus totally rapes the network because QoS responsibility had been shifted from the network to the hosts. Damn, this isn't just stupid, it's freaking pathetic. What next Microsoft, pull in layer 2 into your stack as well?
...not if you work for microsoft...pretty standard, really.
Hmmm...I didn't realize they were using animated gifs to do this. It would be easy enough to come up with some sort of filter to strip all but the last frame and run the check on that. I expect the guys working on spamassassin are probably already on it, but I'll try and hack some sort of detector together myself for fun. ;-)
No, we're not using FuzzyOCR but it's on our list of things to experiement with. Although FuzzyOCR is better at reading text buried in a noisy image, I'm thinking that the noise itself is what we should detect. The presence of a noise of a certain signature could be a good indication of a message's spam probability. The common "chicken scratch" noise I think would be easy to detect. Short, straight lines at varying angles and placements that bare no relation to eachother would count as the "chicken scratch". The little dots (or clusters of few dots) sometimes used would be also fairly easy to detect as they aren't really part of anything else. If it is a dot or line, count it. If it looks like a more complex figure, skip it. Count the number of dots/lines and contribute to the message's spaminess factor.
This would force spammers into using more complex noise. I suspect this isn't free to generate, so they would probably be more likely to use the same image in multiple spam messages which would lead to us anti-spammers being able to keep a database of some sort of robust yet easy to calculate image hash (not md5/sha1).
At work we use spam assassin with a gpl OCR plugin, however, it's getting foiled by intentional added noise in the images. I propose we come up with a way to detect these non-character elements (noise) in the associated spam images instead of just trying to OCR the text. The noise I've seen seems to be like it should be easily detectable.
"Begun, this Captcha Wars has."
-Yada
Call me an elitist, but I really do believe my vote should count more than some straight-ticket voting fool's vote. Why should those of us who actually care have our votes diluted down by someone who's given their right to choose away to a political party? As a matter a fact, straight-ticket voting should be outlawed. At least force people to read each candidate's name.
Washington reminds me of a stable. Im not sure if it is the bullshit, or the horse's asses in office, but it is certainly overflowing with feces.
100 degrees in your dorm? Where'd you go to school? There is only one place I can think of in the South with a dorm that hot...Walton Hall at A&M.
So, if I design some sort of Internet utility, and I happen to break the laws of some piss-ant country, and they sue...wtf should I care? They have no authority over me anyway...provided I don't have any sort of branch in that country, I'm safe, right?
you forgot torture
...and don't you forget it! (actually, we could care less about stuff that high up in frequency. It doesn't propogate beyond line of sight, and dissipates quickly. Just don't aim that shit at any of our ham satellites. (yes, we have our own)
Hilarious video created in W.O.W. about what the internet is really for. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5430343841 227974645
Microsoft's biggest enemy is not Linux nor Apple but is rather Microsoft itself. Microsoft's entire business model is built on growth and expansion. They have now saturated the desktop and a major portion of the server market. Their quality has improved...and this is actually going to work against them since there is less and less incentive to upgrade. The windows 98 to XP migration was a no-brainer. XP is a lot more stable and capable than 98/95/me. Server 2003 is a lot easier to deal with than Windows 2000 ever was.
If Vista can't provide incentive to get current Microsoft customers to shell out money once again to sustain the financial monster of Microsoft, then Microsoft's place in the software market will shink in a way only remnicent of IBM.
I suspect when this happens, there will be a major but temporary dip it Microsoft's stock. Microsoft is well aware they're dead in the software market and have since poised themselves to emerge as the world's premiere media/content distributor. I'm going to ride this one for all its worth ;-)
The European model of forcing you to watch ads will probably be used. People WILL view the ad when it contains strong sexual innuendo, or at the very least, BOOBIES!
This brings up an interesting point concerning the 5th...if decrypting required by subpoena in a civil case would implicate the user on related criminal charges, can this be a defense against having to decrypt? I have a gut feeling the user would still have to decrypt, but whatever is discovered would not be admissiable in criminal court. IANAL, however. If I were, I'd probably have a little more money, and know the answer to this.