How about writing a patch for Spamassassin that will automatically spider anything with a spam score over 7? And if the spam score is over 10 (for instance), it could spider it say 10 times, just to make sure that it got everything. This seems like it would be less susceptible to the blacklist problems Graham talks about.
The article mentions that this could be turned against an innocent victim, which is the only reservation I'd have here. But when you really think about it, to effectively DDOS an innocent victim you would need to send out a ton of email and that effectively requires the same means as a DDOS itself, so why bother with the email instead of going for a DDOS directly? I suppose the Joe Job links could be to very large files. However, the crawler could be configured to only retrieve the first 50K or so, so I think this could be avoided.
Presumably, this kind of exchange happening every couple of seconds is more bandwidth-effficient than shooting off a packet for every keystroke.
Yes, but why whould you send a packet for every keystroke? You could just as easily buffer the keystrokes and send a packet every 3 seconds with the accumulated keystrokes (and when the user hits "send", the remaining keystrokes are sent immediately). There's no need to have the frequency of the buffer flush be any different from the MS "invention". The only thing you need to do is send the buffered keystrokes instead of a message saying "X is still typing".
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As far as I can see from a quick reading, the idea is not that you see what people are typing, but that you have an indicator which lets you know that they are typing.
Alrighty, if that's what you want:
talk | md5sum
Seriously, though - how would the MS implementation actually save any bandwidth (their claimed motivation) over sending the actual characters being typed? Most networks have a minimum packet size and sending a bit to indicate that someone is typing is going to take just as much bandwidth as sending the text itself as both sets of data will likely need to be padded to reach the minimum packet size.
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What about the UNIX "talk" command? That command allows you to see what the other person is typing in real time and it's been around forever. I wouldn't be surprised if there were cave paintings showing our ancestors using "talk" to tell their buddies how the wooly mammoth hunt was going.
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Wow, that was funny. I'd love to learn to become so humorous. Can you tell me what humor college you attended?
I'd love to tell you what humor college I attended, but I'm afraid that they don't consider jackasses an underrepresented minority there, so you'd have a hard time getting in.
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Their mention of McBride making some soon-to-be-published "top 5 influential executives list"...And recently Linus Torvalds made #5 on the list of most influential people. Perhaps they are saying that because he became influencial by virtue of "Their Work", that they, by proxy, have the world's most influential executive?
Hmmmm.... now that you mention it, I've never seen Linus and Darl in the same room at the same time. Have you? Could be it that Linus and Darl are secretly the same person?!
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No offense, but if I received a resume like that (with a copyright notice), I'd throw it in the trash.
That's why I would leave the copyright notice out of the copy of my resume that I would personally send to hiring managers. The copyright notice would only go on the web version of my resume, which is what recruiters would get. If I'm actively looking for a job, I always make a custom version of my resume for each position I apply for, so I would be editing it anyway at the time and so would remove the notice on the private copy then.
Everyone else on this is right about copyright notices, you don't need one to already be protected.
Yes, that is true, but half the point was that hopefully headhunters would see the notice and not forward my resume without permission in the first place. The other half of the point is that I would expect the headhunters to be liable for more damages if they actively strip a copyright notice than if there was no notice because they couldn't hide behind the excuse that they didn't know that they needed permission to redistribute my resume. In other words, ignorance of the law might not get them off the hook, but it might reduce their punishment.
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One recruiter, who I had never met or spoken to, submitted my resume...
I have seriously considered adding a copyright notice to the copy of my resume that I have posted on my website in order to prevent crap like this. Not only have recruiters submitted my resume without my permission, but a lot of them will modify the resume first to strip out my contact info (so that their client can't contact me directly) and add their company logo. With a copyright notice on there, I figure I could sue their ass. It seems like it should be an easy handful of Gs in small claims court, or more if you have the patience to go through a full trial.
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Yeah thats Millionaires, how about Billionaires? I thought we were talking about Mr.Gates, Steve Balmer, and those
guys.
That stat is for people with a net worth of $1M or more, not for people with exactly $1M. Gates and Balmer are included as millionaires.
You can pull a stat out of your ass and it means nothing if its ouut of contex and not combined with facts proving that
most rich people earned it.
The stat was neither out of context nor pulled from my ass. You said people only get rich by being born rich. That stat directly refutes your claim - 80% of people with >= $1M were self-made. You can't get any more in-context than that. I also didn't pull the stat out of my ass - I provided a direct link to a reference. If you want another reference, read the study The Millionaire Next Door. Where exactly are you references for backing up your claim that all rich people are born rich?
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So in other words, it's something like 90% luck and 10% skill.
Sure, luck plays a significant role in separating the super rich from the rich. Bill Gates, for instance, is a viscous, cut-throat bastard who probably would have done OK starting a wide range of businesses. He just so happened to luck out and be starting out at the right time to seize a massive new industry at birth (i.e., the software industry).
Who cares, though? With hard work and smart money management, it's not too hard to become a millionaire. 80% of millionaires are first generation millionaires. Good for Bill Gates for being lucky, I could care less that my hard work won't have the same pay-off so long as there is a substantial pay-off.
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IF you want a million dollars, have a last name with the name Bush or Kennedy, be a white male, and wait a while.
Thats all it really takes.
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For the rest of us, working hard wont get us anywhere but into an early grave
Actually, 80% of millionaires are first generation millionaires. I guess there must be an awful lot of people changing their name to Bush or Kennedy, huh? The truth is, a lifetime of hard work will pay off if you are consistent about saving ~15% of your earnings along the way. Don't be so pessimistic dude.
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It's like saying the hand on the
wheel is 100,000 times as important as the lookouts in the crow's nests or the actual tiller man in the engine room.
Sure, the captain's hand perhaps is a litle more important than the less trained hands of the kitchen boy's....but not
thousands or millions of times more as in corporations. Plenty of educated people exist who can provide these sorts of
decisions, some no doubt better than the executives we have in place. The reason they are paid more is because the
executive has name recognition in the minds of the company shareholders, not because his services are thousands,
millions of times more valuble
The people on the rich list aren't there because they are steering the boat, they are there because they risked their livlihood to build the boat and set it to sea. If the boat sinks, they are the ones that are screwed the most.
Most new businesses fail. It is a risky thing for your own personal livlihood to start your own business because if it fails, you don't have income to fall back on and you are likely deep in debt. The owners of the company absolutely deserve the right to reap the benefits of the risk they took if their business becomes valuable. Don't trivialize it by portraying it as a meer steering job - they built the boat and created jobs for the whole crew.
I think you really don't understand how the people at the top of the list got there. They did not get there because they are "paid more" as you said. Think about it for a second - the exhorbitant salaries that you hear about executives getting are in the $30M range. That's going to be somewhere under $15M after taxes. Even if an executive worked at such a job for 10 years (which is unlikely because such salaries are a very recent occurrence), that's only $150M he could have made. The people on the list are worth tens of billions of dollars. That's two orders of magnitude higher. They could not have gotten where they are because they are overpaid for name recognition. They got where they are because they built a very valuable company from the ground up. That is absolutely not something that just anybody can do, particularly not people who don't grasp that the toil and risk involved is incomparable to a regular job.
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Even though the site is perfectly fine, I CAN'T access it without hitting their stupid "finder" for some reason.
Actually, the real cause of the problem is likely not Verisign at all. As Slashdot reported a few days ago, people can read words with the letters in the wrong place so long as the first and the last letter are correct. There's a good chance that you weren't able to find the site because you typed in something like rcsll.aeseerrtingom. See - I bet you wouldn't have even noticed the typo had I not pointed it out! It's amazing how adaptable the human mind is. Please check your spelling and then try again.
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I was beginning to fear that I would have to upgrade at some point!
Preach it brother. I am so sick of all the "C64 is dying" trolls on Slashdot spreading their FUD. The C64 is alive, its development community is vibrant, and people will be flocking back to it in droves once SCO starts demanding $699 per seat for all modern operating systems.
What do you want them to do? Give up this hugely profitable and innovative business just because some company is
going to file a lawsuit? Music is practically the core of Apple's strategy lately, and they can't give it up no matter
what it costs them.
Well, they could create a subsidiary company for selling music and thereby sell music under a name other than Apple. Large companies do this all the time. They could pick something that sounds absolutely nothing like "Apple", like maybe "Beetle Computers".
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The article mentions that this could be turned against an innocent victim, which is the only reservation I'd have here. But when you really think about it, to effectively DDOS an innocent victim you would need to send out a ton of email and that effectively requires the same means as a DDOS itself, so why bother with the email instead of going for a DDOS directly? I suppose the Joe Job links could be to very large files. However, the crawler could be configured to only retrieve the first 50K or so, so I think this could be avoided.
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Who cares, though? With hard work and smart money management, it's not too hard to become a millionaire. 80% of millionaires are first generation millionaires. Good for Bill Gates for being lucky, I could care less that my hard work won't have the same pay-off so long as there is a substantial pay-off.
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Most new businesses fail. It is a risky thing for your own personal livlihood to start your own business because if it fails, you don't have income to fall back on and you are likely deep in debt. The owners of the company absolutely deserve the right to reap the benefits of the risk they took if their business becomes valuable. Don't trivialize it by portraying it as a meer steering job - they built the boat and created jobs for the whole crew.
I think you really don't understand how the people at the top of the list got there. They did not get there because they are "paid more" as you said. Think about it for a second - the exhorbitant salaries that you hear about executives getting are in the $30M range. That's going to be somewhere under $15M after taxes. Even if an executive worked at such a job for 10 years (which is unlikely because such salaries are a very recent occurrence), that's only $150M he could have made. The people on the list are worth tens of billions of dollars. That's two orders of magnitude higher. They could not have gotten where they are because they are overpaid for name recognition. They got where they are because they built a very valuable company from the ground up. That is absolutely not something that just anybody can do, particularly not people who don't grasp that the toil and risk involved is incomparable to a regular job.
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Not that he's all that bad or anything, I just don't know of any other Jobses in CS (so he would also win the "Best CS Jobs" award).