I've introduced a number of people to a multitiered system which, for me, has almost completely solved my spam problem.
1) Do the unthinkable, actually pay for email service at a place, ideally, like www.fastmail.fm which uses spamassassin unlike the simpler less forgiving systems at yahoo/gmail/etc.
2) Use a handful of aliases (yielding unlimited email addresses) in order to sort mail to its relevant level of "attention"
e.g.
2a) john.smith@fastmail.fm would go to friends to use
2b) wellsFargo@level01.fastmail.fm would go to a site you trust like your bank and be filed in you level01 folder
2c) chineseCommerceSite@level05.fastmail.fm would go to your level05 folder and so on...
3) Beauty of the above systems is that when an address gets spammed (or the site sends too much garbage), you can easily disable it via a filter since each site should have its own email address
4) Further, you are less likely to receive obvious spam via setting a high spamassassin threshold and the fact that a site like fastmail subscribes to various RTBL's
Using this system, I've received barely anything more than 1 spam per month to any "un-aliased" address. The overwhelming majority of the time, said spams are properly flagged by spamassassin.
That could be a factor though I can receive and place calls on my verizon phone perfectly fine in the same exact spot in the building (i.e. why I kept my old verizon phone)
... and both my phone (an at&t blackberry) and my coworker's iphone cannot make or receive calls indoors (despite having an allegedly strong signal of -80 or higher)
Most of us forget that the first single-point-of-failure is probably a cell tower.
I think you're extending this concept of a "single point of failure too far". Don't get me wrong, I think blackberries are, by and large, well designed and I have a belief why they maintain their proxy system (i.e. to control their lucrative discriminatory pricing/licensing strategy).
Blackberry proxy design is deficient for end users though and represents a true "single point of failure". This is because, unlike in your examples, a problem with their proxy specifically affects large numbers of blackberry users.
A problem with a tower is not a single point of failure. It's one of thousands of points of failure for a carrier in the context of the whole network.
I'd imagine you've researched this to the hilt though have you considered some alternative strategies such as:
-low dose naltrexone (ideally of high quality ordered from a compounder such as irmat pharmacy)
-helminthic therapy (e.g. http://www.wormtherapy.com/products.html)
-alternating courses of elemental diets (e.g. vivonex), nonabsorbable antibiotics (e.g. xifaxan), strong probiotics (e.g. vsl3)
(potentially starting/coinciding any of these with a significant dose of prednisone w/taper)
without the desire of paying umpteen dollars extra per month just to download books
I'm 99% sure there is no montly data fee to use a kindle / nook / etc. --> That cost is built into the unit and/or the [proprietary] media
Otherwise I agree with your post in that ebooks are in a nascent state at the moment and are still years away from being popular primarily due to the limitations you listed.
The router could be part of it -- I have a decent router and monitor the CPU utilization under a variety of situations and found in my case, it's rarely the cause of latency...
I've found that when I saturate only the upsteam, my latency substantially increases (despite setting QoS to lowest with that).
Saturating the downstream does not significant affect latency.
i.e. I have an older cable internet connection in NYC (only thing available in this grand / advanced city...) and I download up to about 1000Kb and upload at about 40KB
if i set upload to only 10-15KB, it doesn't affect latency whereas I could be downloading at full capacity with minimal impact
(1) If noscript has an exploit (which is unlikely to be exploited anyway given the limited target population), do you really think a windows update or real time antivirus is really going to be able to catch it faster/better?
(2) Malicious jpegs (AFAIK) were patched 5 years ago (i.e. covered in service packs since)
that "magic pixie dust" of free enterprise is only as effective as the competency of said free enterprise and we all know that well-run companies are the exception and not the rule
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Perhaps, but T-Mobile is, as far I know, the only US carrier which gives any discount for unsubsidized buyers
Thank our lobbyist fueled legislature for that
definitely not a bad idea, but in my experience, the number of times my personal address has been hit by things like that is extremely rare
I'd like to think it's a function of some encryption...
e.g. any tax form you receive has a code on it which decrypts information a place like turbotax has access to
I've introduced a number of people to a multitiered system which, for me, has almost completely solved my spam problem.
1) Do the unthinkable, actually pay for email service at a place, ideally, like www.fastmail.fm which uses spamassassin unlike the simpler less forgiving systems at yahoo/gmail/etc.
2) Use a handful of aliases (yielding unlimited email addresses) in order to sort mail to its relevant level of "attention"
e.g.
2a) john.smith@fastmail.fm would go to friends to use
2b) wellsFargo@level01.fastmail.fm would go to a site you trust like your bank and be filed in you level01 folder
2c) chineseCommerceSite@level05.fastmail.fm would go to your level05 folder and so on...
3) Beauty of the above systems is that when an address gets spammed (or the site sends too much garbage), you can easily disable it via a filter since each site should have its own email address
4) Further, you are less likely to receive obvious spam via setting a high spamassassin threshold and the fact that a site like fastmail subscribes to various RTBL's
Using this system, I've received barely anything more than 1 spam per month to any "un-aliased" address. The overwhelming majority of the time, said spams are properly flagged by spamassassin.
I hope this helps
with a P 0.05 too I hope?
That could be a factor though I can receive and place calls on my verizon phone perfectly fine in the same exact spot in the building (i.e. why I kept my old verizon phone)
... and both my phone (an at&t blackberry) and my coworker's iphone cannot make or receive calls indoors (despite having an allegedly strong signal of -80 or higher)
So, essentially, you could spam the authorities and tell them where to go.
I'd like to think they could (really, would) confirm reports since the streams are almost definitely recorded
I'm sure it wasn't at&t in NY, it takes 5 minutes to even bring up a web page outside in times square
and that's on a good day
Most of us forget that the first single-point-of-failure is probably a cell tower.
I think you're extending this concept of a "single point of failure too far". Don't get me wrong, I think blackberries are, by and large, well designed and I have a belief why they maintain their proxy system (i.e. to control their lucrative discriminatory pricing/licensing strategy).
Blackberry proxy design is deficient for end users though and represents a true "single point of failure". This is because, unlike in your examples, a problem with their proxy specifically affects large numbers of blackberry users.
A problem with a tower is not a single point of failure. It's one of thousands of points of failure for a carrier in the context of the whole network.
I'd imagine you've researched this to the hilt though have you considered some alternative strategies such as:
-low dose naltrexone (ideally of high quality ordered from a compounder such as irmat pharmacy)
-helminthic therapy (e.g. http://www.wormtherapy.com/products.html)
-alternating courses of elemental diets (e.g. vivonex), nonabsorbable antibiotics (e.g. xifaxan), strong probiotics (e.g. vsl3)
(potentially starting/coinciding any of these with a significant dose of prednisone w/taper)
a few pictures are worth a million words
Especially when the accompanying text is in Japanese and I can't read it
The Kindle works on 3G -- does it require a data plan?
I don't believe it does
without the desire of paying umpteen dollars extra per month just to download books
I'm 99% sure there is no montly data fee to use a kindle / nook / etc. --> That cost is built into the unit and/or the [proprietary] media
Otherwise I agree with your post in that ebooks are in a nascent state at the moment and are still years away from being popular primarily due to the limitations you listed.
was it the prisoners on an island with a boat one? that's the only game I've ever seen like that
That's a pleasant surprise -- in my comparatively limited work with government organizations, they were woefully backwards in every sense
or that anyone in the government reads at all :)
The router could be part of it -- I have a decent router and monitor the CPU utilization under a variety of situations and found in my case, it's rarely the cause of latency...
I've found that when I saturate only the upsteam, my latency substantially increases (despite setting QoS to lowest with that).
Saturating the downstream does not significant affect latency.
i.e. I have an older cable internet connection in NYC (only thing available in this grand / advanced city...) and I download up to about 1000Kb and upload at about 40KB
if i set upload to only 10-15KB, it doesn't affect latency whereas I could be downloading at full capacity with minimal impact
fyi -- I'm using a buffalo router with tomato
What ticks me off is that you usually don't realize it is paywalled until after you have clicked through.
Haven't tested this very much, but I've noticed that at least in certain cases, the google "cache" link is missing on those articles behind a paywall
(1) If noscript has an exploit (which is unlikely to be exploited anyway given the limited target population), do you really think a windows update or real time antivirus is really going to be able to catch it faster/better?
(2) Malicious jpegs (AFAIK) were patched 5 years ago (i.e. covered in service packs since)
Mod parent up
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I only use minimal manual antivirus (mostly just with www.virustotal.com on occasional suspect files) and work behind a firewall
I've installed the service packs after they've been out for a while, but that's really it
the most dangerous activity -- web browsing -- is made nearly perfectly safe by using firefox + noscript
join the club :)
what hospital is this even?
that "magic pixie dust" of free enterprise is only as effective as the competency of said free enterprise and we all know that well-run companies are the exception and not the rule
www.myivo.com is similar to logmein -- some seem to think it's a bit faster