Time for a Karma-flush.
On the one side, we have people scaring the hell out of everyone talking about terrorists, making you paranoid about your next-door neighbor, frightened to take public transportation, nervous in broad daylight.
On the other side, we have people wielding Orwell. Big Brother is watching you, the government is evil and corrupt, you can't take a piss off-center without a dozen people knowing about it. Here's a hypothetical story I made up, complete with a series of lottery-scale unlikely events, leading to a conclusion that mostly just serves make you scared of your own shadow. That's my evidence.
It really sucks to be caught in the middle of those camps. One of these days I'm just going to tear off into the woods and live Thoreau-style, because it seems like the radicals are the only people having fun these days.
How on earth would just using the device make you "a bad parent with a tinfoil hat"?
I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you misunderstood what I said, instead of only hearing what you wanted to hear. I said that it's a device that a bad parent with a tinfoil hat might find useful. Not that using the device makes you a bad parent with a tinfoil hat. Is the difference clear?
Read the AC's comment below mine, he/she states the point you're looking to refute: clicky.
Just pray that you haven't done anything with your mouse, moved around the cursor, formatted the text, used any weird keyboard shortcuts, or ducked out to send an IM to your girlfriend. The data on the keylogger could be a little bit munged with that bit of randomness added.:D
I can't think of anything that's terribly legal. I knew there was a reason I never do anything important on publically-accessible terminals. I guess it's a nice device to own if you're a bad parent with a tinfoil hat.
The question in the back of my mind on this article though: what would they have done if it was a software keylogger, instead of a hardware one? Do the wiretap laws still apply in the same capacity? I understand from TFA that the fact that it logged emails made him a target for it.
Since.mail wouldn't define spam, only "not spam", isn't it a fancy/expensive whitelist? Like anything else, you can choose to filter email from.mail however you like.
The only exception that comes to mind if your ISP took the decision out of your hands. However, they would ONLY do this if it became massively widespread (otherwise they'd be throwing out 99% of valid email). I'd like to think that if.mail ever reaches the kind of penetration that would make ISPs take notice, we wouldn't need to worry about it. An ISP that wants to keep its customers can't afford too many false positives.
I never get to be the one who says "but wait, this is a GOOD thing", so I'll toss it out there now, flamebait be darned.
The interesting twist is that companies that comply with the US CAN-SPAM act - which SpamHaus opposed due to the legalization of bulk unsolicited commercial e-mail - would not be eligibile to register a.mail address.
This could probably be worded a little more clearly. Complying with the CAN-SPAM act is as easy as not doing anything at all. I think what the submitter means, correct me if I'm wrong, is the "one-shot" bulk mail that a company is allowed to send you under CAN-SPAM. Obviously, SpamHaus considers this spam, still, even though it's technically legal (I would tend to agree).
This new TLD proposal, according to their FAQ, is not aimed at stopping spam, or replacing the email infrastructure from the ground up. It's more towards legitimizing non-spam email. It may not be technically possible (not my area of expertise, I remember some nay-sayers in the last article discussion who at least sounded like they knew what they were talking about), but I still think their hearts are in the right place. Am I wrong?
I'm looking forward to the whitepaper they've promised on it.
"Microsoft was kind of pushing Passport for a problem that didn't exist..."
I think that more or less hits the nail on the head. This is aside from the downtime issue, which is embarassing, and privacy issues, which are disturbing. On the privacy/downtime note, the Liberty Alliance may be vapor currently, but the idea of a "federated" system sounds much better to me. It's not a problem I have with Microsoft, rather it's a problem I have with giving all of my personal information to a single organization to put into a central respository.
So, when did it become fashionable to predict the deaths of everything from consumer eletronics to companies? There's already two links on the front page to death knell articles, I can't swing a stick on a news site without clubbing a few more. Are article writers making up for bad karma they accrued during the hypehypehype days of the dotcom boom?
And why "death"? I understand exaggeration makes for good entertainment, nobody wants to read an article titled "Man goes to work, has uneventful day, returns safely home". But even though he brings up several good points.. why? Is it impossible to consider that the market might not jump as anticipated, or the company/product can adapt to a new environment?
Well, since the reply post WAS informative, and anyone who hadn't heard of BitTorrent just got a nice quick write-up about what it does, it was a dumb troll in the first place.
HAND, AC. Or maybe FOAD is more appropriate, take your pick.
The mplayer mozilla-plugin works just fint with windows media. Mozilla is in no way a "less-capable" browser.
It's funny the way you put "less-capable" in quotes, considering the parent never said anything of the sort. Only that Mozilla, minus the plug-in for WM, will work. Not that Mozilla has no such plug-in.
I can see it already. New AOL 11.0 Super-Ultra Mega Turbo Hyper High Speed, now with pop-under ad blocker! You read it in this comment first, folks.:P
I admit I would be more excited about the advertising arms race if something interesting came out of it, besides finding exciting new ways to connive people into watching a commercial for your product.
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Makes you wonder why such a profitable company wants to expose itself to the vultures at wall street?
You know, I was wondering the same thing, but it seems they might have cause. They are getting big enough that they'll have to disclose their financials. If they have to put up with the grief, they might as well get the gravy of some new investment money, no? There's an article in ZDNet UK I found that goes into more detail. Explains quite a bit.
Doesn't FUD imply it's untrue? If you don't like AMD (I don't, they just had a convenient explanation to link to), it's a similar situation with Apple, though they have a different architecture entirely.
Good news for the average computer idiot who wants to upgrade or buy a new machine. I think it's past time to undo the damage Intel's marketing has done with the Megahertz Myth. I'm weary of explaining it to people. It will be nice to have something more helpfully descriptive to a consumer than "cache" and "bus", or at least clarify that they don't refer to paper money and vehicles that carry children to school.:P
If I was authoring that article I would have certianly done my homework. I'm commenting on the content, not throwing out any wild ideas. If you want to nitpick, I'm asserting that the author is full of it, but my evidence is the article in question.:P
XBOX and GameCube WERE failures -- In Japan, where it counts. And, as far as I know, they've lost money on those projects...
Congratulations, you have fallen into the same trap of exaggerating without supporting evidence that the author of TFA did. It was like a two-page long troll with embedded advertisements.
No kidding. I get the distinct impression, after reading this article, that the author likes to hear himself talk. I understand the points he raises, and even agree with a couple of them (online gaming is a niche market with respects to consoles), but I think the conclusions are way out in left field.
The XBOX and the Gamecube were failures? The graphical upgrades between consoles is getting narrower to the casual observer, so the game industry is going to take a nose dive? Instead of, say, the more reasonable outcome: they change to fit the new environment? We're not talking about the slow-to-move Recording Industry here, the videogame industry is in its infancy in comparison.
TFA looks more like an excuse to come up with some creative insults, and play with pictures in an attempt to be humorous. The arguments remind me of conversations I heard at lunch in junior high!
Just think, if it weren't for our baser instincts, we'd never have advanced as far technologically as we have. Who knows what the future holds...
Not to rain on your parade (I agree with the rest of your post), but that conclusion is bogus. It's akin to saying that if Charles Darwin was killed in childbirth, we wouldn't have the theory of Evolution today. Porn is the frontrunner for bleeding-edge technology, but if it didn't exist, I'll bet that second place would be happy to fill its shoes.
One thing I've learned is that there is always someone willing to take your money.;)
The kernel will get patched if it needs to, but it's up to the distro vendors to include something "idiot proof" to yell if the system needs an update.
Absolutely. It wasn't a suggestion for a solution to a problem, just a statement of fact. Obviously everyone has an update routine for patching.
In my humble opinion, it's an unavoidable part of making software. We have to be realistic: closed or open source, as a program gets more and more complex, more elaborate bugs come out, and some of them turn out to be exploitable. Having strict coding guidelines can help, having lots of eyes looking at the code helps, but ninja vulnerabilities will still stealth through.
My thinking is that Linux on the desktop is going to need a contingency plan for a widespread vulerability, similar to what Microsoft does with Automatic Updates. I know it's not perfect, but I'll be damned if I can think of anything better. It's nice to think you can make a bullet-proof kernel, but also naive.
Remember back when this story first broke, and Microsoft was set to add pop-up confirmation to IE in order to get around the EOLAS issue? That was supposed to happen earlier this year, but there was an update posted at the end of January for those of you who might have missed it.
The fact that you got modded up to +5 Insightful in a heartbeat should be answer enough for you. There are plenty of lurkers here that don't have the "damned if you do, damned if you don't" hatred for Microsoft. This site is more than just the opinions of those brave enough to post, or the crackbrained comments the editors add to the write-ups.
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Time for a Karma-flush. On the one side, we have people scaring the hell out of everyone talking about terrorists, making you paranoid about your next-door neighbor, frightened to take public transportation, nervous in broad daylight.
On the other side, we have people wielding Orwell. Big Brother is watching you, the government is evil and corrupt, you can't take a piss off-center without a dozen people knowing about it. Here's a hypothetical story I made up, complete with a series of lottery-scale unlikely events, leading to a conclusion that mostly just serves make you scared of your own shadow. That's my evidence.
It really sucks to be caught in the middle of those camps. One of these days I'm just going to tear off into the woods and live Thoreau-style, because it seems like the radicals are the only people having fun these days.
Read the AC's comment below mine, he/she states the point you're looking to refute: clicky.
Just pray that you haven't done anything with your mouse, moved around the cursor, formatted the text, used any weird keyboard shortcuts, or ducked out to send an IM to your girlfriend. The data on the keylogger could be a little bit munged with that bit of randomness added. :D
I can't think of anything that's terribly legal. I knew there was a reason I never do anything important on publically-accessible terminals. I guess it's a nice device to own if you're a bad parent with a tinfoil hat.
The question in the back of my mind on this article though: what would they have done if it was a software keylogger, instead of a hardware one? Do the wiretap laws still apply in the same capacity? I understand from TFA that the fact that it logged emails made him a target for it.
Since .mail wouldn't define spam, only "not spam", isn't it a fancy/expensive whitelist? Like anything else, you can choose to filter email from .mail however you like.
.mail ever reaches the kind of penetration that would make ISPs take notice, we wouldn't need to worry about it. An ISP that wants to keep its customers can't afford too many false positives.
The only exception that comes to mind if your ISP took the decision out of your hands. However, they would ONLY do this if it became massively widespread (otherwise they'd be throwing out 99% of valid email). I'd like to think that if
This could probably be worded a little more clearly. Complying with the CAN-SPAM act is as easy as not doing anything at all. I think what the submitter means, correct me if I'm wrong, is the "one-shot" bulk mail that a company is allowed to send you under CAN-SPAM. Obviously, SpamHaus considers this spam, still, even though it's technically legal (I would tend to agree).
This new TLD proposal, according to their FAQ, is not aimed at stopping spam, or replacing the email infrastructure from the ground up. It's more towards legitimizing non-spam email. It may not be technically possible (not my area of expertise, I remember some nay-sayers in the last article discussion who at least sounded like they knew what they were talking about), but I still think their hearts are in the right place. Am I wrong?
I'm looking forward to the whitepaper they've promised on it.
"Microsoft was kind of pushing Passport for a problem that didn't exist..."
I think that more or less hits the nail on the head. This is aside from the downtime issue, which is embarassing, and privacy issues, which are disturbing. On the privacy/downtime note, the Liberty Alliance may be vapor currently, but the idea of a "federated" system sounds much better to me. It's not a problem I have with Microsoft, rather it's a problem I have with giving all of my personal information to a single organization to put into a central respository.
No sir, that's bad sauce.
So, when did it become fashionable to predict the deaths of everything from consumer eletronics to companies? There's already two links on the front page to death knell articles, I can't swing a stick on a news site without clubbing a few more. Are article writers making up for bad karma they accrued during the hypehypehype days of the dotcom boom?
And why "death"? I understand exaggeration makes for good entertainment, nobody wants to read an article titled "Man goes to work, has uneventful day, returns safely home". But even though he brings up several good points.. why? Is it impossible to consider that the market might not jump as anticipated, or the company/product can adapt to a new environment?
Don't you mean YHBT?
Well, since the reply post WAS informative, and anyone who hadn't heard of BitTorrent just got a nice quick write-up about what it does, it was a dumb troll in the first place.
HAND, AC. Or maybe FOAD is more appropriate, take your pick.
I am still waiting for: "Law and Order: Parking Tickets".
You mean something like this?
:P
Or maybe something like this?
Loads and loads of bogus email addresses for the spam bots to eat. Eat that, Ralsky!
I can see it already. New AOL 11.0 Super-Ultra Mega Turbo Hyper High Speed, now with pop-under ad blocker! You read it in this comment first, folks. :P
I admit I would be more excited about the advertising arms race if something interesting came out of it, besides finding exciting new ways to connive people into watching a commercial for your product.
Doesn't FUD imply it's untrue? If you don't like AMD (I don't, they just had a convenient explanation to link to), it's a similar situation with Apple, though they have a different architecture entirely.
Good news for the average computer idiot who wants to upgrade or buy a new machine. I think it's past time to undo the damage Intel's marketing has done with the Megahertz Myth. I'm weary of explaining it to people. It will be nice to have something more helpfully descriptive to a consumer than "cache" and "bus", or at least clarify that they don't refer to paper money and vehicles that carry children to school. :P
If I was authoring that article I would have certianly done my homework. I'm commenting on the content, not throwing out any wild ideas. If you want to nitpick, I'm asserting that the author is full of it, but my evidence is the article in question. :P
No kidding. I get the distinct impression, after reading this article, that the author likes to hear himself talk. I understand the points he raises, and even agree with a couple of them (online gaming is a niche market with respects to consoles), but I think the conclusions are way out in left field.
The XBOX and the Gamecube were failures? The graphical upgrades between consoles is getting narrower to the casual observer, so the game industry is going to take a nose dive? Instead of, say, the more reasonable outcome: they change to fit the new environment? We're not talking about the slow-to-move Recording Industry here, the videogame industry is in its infancy in comparison.
TFA looks more like an excuse to come up with some creative insults, and play with pictures in an attempt to be humorous. The arguments remind me of conversations I heard at lunch in junior high!
One thing I've learned is that there is always someone willing to take your money.
In my humble opinion, it's an unavoidable part of making software. We have to be realistic: closed or open source, as a program gets more and more complex, more elaborate bugs come out, and some of them turn out to be exploitable. Having strict coding guidelines can help, having lots of eyes looking at the code helps, but ninja vulnerabilities will still stealth through.
My thinking is that Linux on the desktop is going to need a contingency plan for a widespread vulerability, similar to what Microsoft does with Automatic Updates. I know it's not perfect, but I'll be damned if I can think of anything better. It's nice to think you can make a bullet-proof kernel, but also naive.
Remember back when this story first broke, and Microsoft was set to add pop-up confirmation to IE in order to get around the EOLAS issue? That was supposed to happen earlier this year, but there was an update posted at the end of January for those of you who might have missed it.
The fact that you got modded up to +5 Insightful in a heartbeat should be answer enough for you. There are plenty of lurkers here that don't have the "damned if you do, damned if you don't" hatred for Microsoft. This site is more than just the opinions of those brave enough to post, or the crackbrained comments the editors add to the write-ups.
... as usual, were ahead of their time:
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