Right I know that, but "Darwin" is what basically runs OS X.
I don't want to get into a trivial argument, but what I meant was a LARGE section of OS X is already open source...hence my statement.
I'm not familiar with Ron's post actually. DO you know where I could find a copy?
I work for a regional ISP and anything we can do to stop spam would be something we would be willing to do.
Excellent Analogy. If more thought were put into a system that made spamming much more difficult, as well as easier to track and punish the abusers, I don't think we would have much of a problem...
Whoa there. I'm guessing that you are just ranting in general. Considering half of the comments you "rebuffed" in my post were NOT even mentioned in my post, I'm hoping that you weren't personally attacking me, because I largely agree with you.
Until a method is found that kills or significantly makes spam nearly impossible to send or makes the profits significantly less than the costs of operating, all legislation will do is drive the spammers further and further underground...
Some people are already receiving cell phone spam and telemarketing calls.
I've gotten cell phone spam on every carrier i've been with for the past 2 years (3 carriers).
TMobile was the worst....i got 25 spam messages in one day. I also got billed for it (SMS overuse). They claimed that since I never logged in to change my "cell phone number email address" on TMobile's site, I was getting the messages and didn't try to prevent them.
Man did that customer retention supervisor get her ass chewed. After I got done with her, I ended up with a new phone, a changed "email address" and 4 months free:)
Your post doesn't have ANYTHING to do with the topic.
You honestly think they built this machine to "stick it to the mac"
Wow, talk about zealot distorted reality. I'm amazed by your total lack of intelligent thought.
"Some might argue that powerpc and sparc64 is more scalable than x86. But ask yourself, is it really?"
Last I checked, this ITANIUM2 machine isn't about proving scalabity on x86 arch machines (btw ITANIUM isn't your typical home consumer x86 boxen). In fact I think they were going for specific types of computation when this was developed, but you know...I may wrong.:rolleyes:
Its all about choosing the right hardware for the job.
Your last statement is bullshit too. x86 is the most common arch because of original ease of use and relatively cheap hardware. Just because you can get drivers for a lot of "NIC's" on Linux boxes doesn't exactly prove that x86 is more scalable.
The data is carried via RF over the shielding on the outside of the line...not through the line itself (at least for the Wifi BPL).
There are interference problems from transformer to transformer, which is why you place repeaters to change the "line" you are on. Basically, you keep finding the cleanest line and place the signal on top of that.
I work for IDACOMM. We are CURRENTLY doing testing with both Ambient (to the plug) and Amperion (wifi) and let me just say....Ambient doesn't work. The technology is just way to infant. We were lied to by their sales, president, and engineering departments about how far along their "techology trials" in New York were.
We currently have about 50 people deployed on Amperion, and it works a lot better. We are working towards "to the plug" techology, but we know that it is going to be for a lot harder than these articles claim.
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Right I know that, but "Darwin" is what basically runs OS X. I don't want to get into a trivial argument, but what I meant was a LARGE section of OS X is already open source...hence my statement.
Darwin's source code is freely available, as is a derivative of that code, OpenDarwin.
I'm not familiar with Ron's post actually. DO you know where I could find a copy? I work for a regional ISP and anything we can do to stop spam would be something we would be willing to do.
Excellent Analogy. If more thought were put into a system that made spamming much more difficult, as well as easier to track and punish the abusers, I don't think we would have much of a problem...
Whoa there. I'm guessing that you are just ranting in general. Considering half of the comments you "rebuffed" in my post were NOT even mentioned in my post, I'm hoping that you weren't personally attacking me, because I largely agree with you.
Good Point...
How much will legislation actually do though?
Until a method is found that kills or significantly makes spam nearly impossible to send or makes the profits significantly less than the costs of operating, all legislation will do is drive the spammers further and further underground...
You honestly think they built this machine to "stick it to the mac"
Wow, talk about zealot distorted reality. I'm amazed by your total lack of intelligent thought.
"Some might argue that powerpc and sparc64 is more scalable than x86. But ask yourself, is it really?"Last I checked, this ITANIUM2 machine isn't about proving scalabity on x86 arch machines (btw ITANIUM isn't your typical home consumer x86 boxen). In fact I think they were going for specific types of computation when this was developed, but you know...I may wrong. :rolleyes:
Its all about choosing the right hardware for the job.
Your last statement is bullshit too. x86 is the most common arch because of original ease of use and relatively cheap hardware. Just because you can get drivers for a lot of "NIC's" on Linux boxes doesn't exactly prove that x86 is more scalable.
FLAMEBAITThe data is carried via RF over the shielding on the outside of the line...not through the line itself (at least for the Wifi BPL). There are interference problems from transformer to transformer, which is why you place repeaters to change the "line" you are on. Basically, you keep finding the cleanest line and place the signal on top of that.
I work for IDACOMM. We are CURRENTLY doing testing with both Ambient (to the plug) and Amperion (wifi) and let me just say....Ambient doesn't work. The technology is just way to infant. We were lied to by their sales, president, and engineering departments about how far along their "techology trials" in New York were. We currently have about 50 people deployed on Amperion, and it works a lot better. We are working towards "to the plug" techology, but we know that it is going to be for a lot harder than these articles claim.