I've had mixed results with Thunderbird. in the beginning it seemed to work great, then I noticed it was junking all my legitimate email too. then I fixed that but it started letting through blatantly obvious stuff.
the newest version has been doing better so far.
I think my problem is my rate of email is quite low so it's difficult to train. I'd like it if there could be a database where if a subject header is reported as spam by one user it effects other users' scoring.
91% detection is far from impressive. AFAIK the better filters today are 99.9% successful. the benefit of this one is its low false-positive rate.
personally I'd prefer a much better set of filter tools e.g. being able to say "I only speak English, I NEVER use this account for commerce, and the people I email are professionals so score spelling mistakes much higher as probable spam".
can someone point me in the direction of such a filter?
exactly, how about making the authorities show they are capable of understanding and using regular passports before they make things 10 times more complicated with RFID ones.
You cannot argue what Communism means from the policies of the Soviet Union, which was never Communist and never claimed to be.
Even if you're factually right you still cannot equate "in practice" to original intent. Your statement of "Communists want everything in the hands of one institution: the government" is equivalent to "Free speech advocates want barely legal girls to be seduced into making pornography" just because free speech in practice leads to pornography.
Got put off after skimming and seeing "Bzzzt! Wrong answer."
Might as well as called it "What pricez0r r0x0rz j00r customorz0r and pwnz j00r revenu3!?!"
There was a symmetric curve with revenue vs. price. I don't think this is right. With popular (as in "... music") stuff piracy skews it and imo you'd get a lot more revenue shifting to cheaper.
In any case I wouldn't pay for software that cost more than 50 pounds for an application or more than 100 pounds for an OS or suite of programs.
>I wonder what a google-backbone based MMORG (with _ultimate bandwidth power_) would be like?
kinda like real life.... on the internet!?
perhaps they could rent out some bandwidth to Valve for a while to cover the launch of Half Life 2. Valve's Steam is supposed to be able to do this but is so amazingly shit it couldn't even handle the launch of a Counter-Strike: Source beta with a single map to a tiny fraction of players.
Google does become the biggest advertiser and continues a policy of clean, unobtrusive adverts. not only does this reduce the percentage of annoying adverts directly by market share, but it makes people more sensitive to annoying adverts and eventually the stupid dumbfuck marketers realise the error of their ways and also adopt unobtrusive adverts.
Google uses its money to start buying up real life billboards and dismantling them, thus improving real life too. this turns out to be one of the greatest moves in marketing history and Google continues to prosper.
"There are some applications where a well-designed Linux cluster can deliver good price/performance on a particular application; those embarrassingly parallel applications where processors spend little time exchanging data."
why is parallel "embarassing"? oh I see, facts aren't good for your bottom line.
"No, I can learn how to make a gun, plow a field, fetch water from a well from an Asian person with whom I have no common language..."
but only on a one-on-one basis, i.e. by watching and doing it together.
try teaching 1000 people to build a gun without language. not so easy.
assuming you succeed and raise an army to conquer other tribes and spread your civilisation, try teaching your 1000 man army how to spot-weld a rations tin to the side of the gun to prevent jamming while in the middle of a battle.
civilisation requires efficient and flexible communication which requires a language.
are you taking the piss? Quake 3 keys were the biggest joke ever. At uni we'd be installing it for LANs and laugh at how you only needed the first couple of letters from a legit CD, then just type randomly for the rest.
then you always get "this key appears to be valid". lol.
>If the goods are unfit for the purpose for which they were bought
this is the part that can get a bit messy. but IMO you could/should get a refund for a game that doesn't work properly (assuming you meet the "minimum specifications") just like copy-protected CDs that don't work in some players.
>Fourteen days.
I just did a quick search and a couple of links said it was only 7 days? anyway, I think 30 days I stated previously is maybe true for financial services or contracts.
>"I wouldn't buy it anyway" - doesn't matter, fact is you didn't pay for it but benefited from the labor of the publisher and developer - that's theft.
so... linux is theft!?
>"Games are crap so often I don't want to get ripped off" - try reading reviews and playing demos. Besides, good luck getting a car dealership to refund you your money after you so much as signed the contract, never mind drove the car. Not all that many goods can be used and returned for your money back.
good luck getting a demo for many modern games. good luck getting a review that hasn't been bought, if not with money then "exclusive access" deals. in the UK at least, almost ALL non-perishable goods can be returned. exceptions are things like pierced earings due to hygiene. the rest comes under STATUTORY RIGHTS. a nice but unknown one is anything you buy on the internet can be returned within 30 days ("cooling off period") for ANY REASON WHATSOEVER.
(I'm not saying reasons for piracy are valid/invalid, just that the author is factually wrong)
note: most Doom 3 piracy was fans in non-US wanting ir right away instead of delayed release, just like all the films I've downloaded are ones I've seen in the cinema but the DVD isn't out yet.
yeah right as if Canadian and Brazilian TV could even approach the levels of British TV.
no offense but that's like saying America and Mexico both pay for police so the best-trained American SWAT team should be available to go rescue Mexican cats that are stuck up trees.
bad idea imo. it's like RFIDing all the books in a library and then just putting them back on random shelves cos you can do a scan for the one you want anyway.
getting rid of directories is then like getting rid of the shelves and just throwing all the books on a big pile.
there's a problem at the other end of the scale too: our moon, the Moon, is so big that the Earth-Moon system could/should be considered a double-planet system.
there was a great article in the recent New Scientist about how the moon formed - a Mars-sized planet called Theia smashed into the Earth and the light rocks flung away formed the Moon.
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I've had mixed results with Thunderbird. in the beginning it seemed to work great, then I noticed it was junking all my legitimate email too. then I fixed that but it started letting through blatantly obvious stuff.
the newest version has been doing better so far.
I think my problem is my rate of email is quite low so it's difficult to train. I'd like it if there could be a database where if a subject header is reported as spam by one user it effects other users' scoring.
91% detection is far from impressive. AFAIK the better filters today are 99.9% successful. the benefit of this one is its low false-positive rate.
personally I'd prefer a much better set of filter tools e.g. being able to say "I only speak English, I NEVER use this account for commerce, and the people I email are professionals so score spelling mistakes much higher as probable spam".
can someone point me in the direction of such a filter?
exactly, how about making the authorities show they are capable of understanding and using regular passports before they make things 10 times more complicated with RFID ones.
You cannot argue what Communism means from the policies of the Soviet Union, which was never Communist and never claimed to be.
Even if you're factually right you still cannot equate "in practice" to original intent. Your statement of "Communists want everything in the hands of one institution: the government" is equivalent to "Free speech advocates want barely legal girls to be seduced into making pornography" just because free speech in practice leads to pornography.
Yes, please explain how workers councils (unions or "soviets") equates to centralised government control.
I don't think you know what Communism is. Your attempt to reduce the situation to a nice single line compare and contrast therefore fails.
So, you work out how safe I was after the fact?
How about if I don't crash, you assume I was completely safe and don't charge me anything?
No? Oh, I bet you just want to use this to make me pay MORE?
>So how long until everything in the home has its own IP address
when IPv6 is fully implemented.
in many states SPAM was illegal, and the laws were relatively well-written.
then they were all overiden by the CAN-SPAM piece of shit spewed from the mouths of the marketers, the fucking twats.
Got put off after skimming and seeing "Bzzzt! Wrong answer."
Might as well as called it "What pricez0r r0x0rz j00r customorz0r and pwnz j00r revenu3!?!"
There was a symmetric curve with revenue vs. price. I don't think this is right. With popular (as in "... music") stuff piracy skews it and imo you'd get a lot more revenue shifting to cheaper.
In any case I wouldn't pay for software that cost more than 50 pounds for an application or more than 100 pounds for an OS or suite of programs.
>I wonder what a google-backbone based MMORG (with _ultimate bandwidth power_) would be like?
kinda like real life.... on the internet!?
perhaps they could rent out some bandwidth to Valve for a while to cover the launch of Half Life 2. Valve's Steam is supposed to be able to do this but is so amazingly shit it couldn't even handle the launch of a Counter-Strike: Source beta with a single map to a tiny fraction of players.
> Why would Microsoft buy a company for $20 billion and then run it into the ground?
habit?
Google does become the biggest advertiser and continues a policy of clean, unobtrusive adverts. not only does this reduce the percentage of annoying adverts directly by market share, but it makes people more sensitive to annoying adverts and eventually the stupid dumbfuck marketers realise the error of their ways and also adopt unobtrusive adverts.
Google uses its money to start buying up real life billboards and dismantling them, thus improving real life too. this turns out to be one of the greatest moves in marketing history and Google continues to prosper.
"There are some applications where a well-designed Linux cluster can deliver good price/performance on a particular application; those embarrassingly parallel applications where processors spend little time exchanging data."
why is parallel "embarassing"? oh I see, facts aren't good for your bottom line.
"No, I can learn how to make a gun, plow a field, fetch water from a well from an Asian person with whom I have no common language..."
but only on a one-on-one basis, i.e. by watching and doing it together.
try teaching 1000 people to build a gun without language. not so easy.
assuming you succeed and raise an army to conquer other tribes and spread your civilisation, try teaching your 1000 man army how to spot-weld a rations tin to the side of the gun to prevent jamming while in the middle of a battle.
civilisation requires efficient and flexible communication which requires a language.
But we don't all live in shitty slums and need to bar our doors and windows to keep the crack addicts out.
er, except that everyone knows ADV but no-one else would know your signature.
let me guess, you don't use credit cards because that's no different from telling the shop "I'm John Smith" and having someone else's account billed?
I hope you don't code with those variable names... or even worse you're a fortran programmer who doesn't use "implicit none" !?!?!?
are you taking the piss? Quake 3 keys were the biggest joke ever. At uni we'd be installing it for LANs and laugh at how you only needed the first couple of letters from a legit CD, then just type randomly for the rest.
then you always get "this key appears to be valid". lol.
>If the goods are unfit for the purpose for which they were bought
this is the part that can get a bit messy. but IMO you could/should get a refund for a game that doesn't work properly (assuming you meet the "minimum specifications") just like copy-protected CDs that don't work in some players.
>Fourteen days.
I just did a quick search and a couple of links said it was only 7 days? anyway, I think 30 days I stated previously is maybe true for financial services or contracts.
>"I wouldn't buy it anyway" - doesn't matter, fact is you didn't pay for it but benefited from the labor of the publisher and developer - that's theft.
so... linux is theft!?
>"Games are crap so often I don't want to get ripped off" - try reading reviews and playing demos. Besides, good luck getting a car dealership to refund you your money after you so much as signed the contract, never mind drove the car. Not all that many goods can be used and returned for your money back.
good luck getting a demo for many modern games. good luck getting a review that hasn't been bought, if not with money then "exclusive access" deals. in the UK at least, almost ALL non-perishable goods can be returned. exceptions are things like pierced earings due to hygiene. the rest comes under STATUTORY RIGHTS. a nice but unknown one is anything you buy on the internet can be returned within 30 days ("cooling off period") for ANY REASON WHATSOEVER.
(I'm not saying reasons for piracy are valid/invalid, just that the author is factually wrong)
note: most Doom 3 piracy was fans in non-US wanting ir right away instead of delayed release, just like all the films I've downloaded are ones I've seen in the cinema but the DVD isn't out yet.
yeah right as if Canadian and Brazilian TV could even approach the levels of British TV.
no offense but that's like saying America and Mexico both pay for police so the best-trained American SWAT team should be available to go rescue Mexican cats that are stuck up trees.
bad idea imo. it's like RFIDing all the books in a library and then just putting them back on random shelves cos you can do a scan for the one you want anyway.
getting rid of directories is then like getting rid of the shelves and just throwing all the books on a big pile.
IM on your phone?
SMS has done that for years.
or if you want to go via internet, buddy list etc. then I use jMSN.
there's a problem at the other end of the scale too: our moon, the Moon, is so big that the Earth-Moon system could/should be considered a double-planet system.
there was a great article in the recent New Scientist about how the moon formed - a Mars-sized planet called Theia smashed into the Earth and the light rocks flung away formed the Moon.