Can Windows users really be trusted with source code? I mean look what happened to Windows when that service pack code got out - it became a completely crappy piece of...oh wait...can Windows developers really be trusted with source code?
If anyone's research was published before this patent was filed (Dec 2002), you can request an investigation by submitting a letter and a copy of your research (and of course, when it was published) to:
US Patent Office PO BOX 1450 Alexandria VA 22313
Make sure you reference Patent 6,732,157
I was told it would be routed to the right department. The patent was filed in December 2002, and I know much of everyone's research in the anti-spam arena was published long before that.
Consumers IMO deserve printers that will last more than a year. There's a difference between a consumer product and something that's just cheap. With regards to the DVD writers, HP promised all of their customers that they'd be able to upgrade the firmware on their first generation writers to support DVD+RW when it was available. When it did become available, they erased a bunch of documentation from their website, denied they ever said it, and made people buy new writers. I've seen this same tactic used in the PocketPC market with their iPaqs as well as other hardware - they design their products to try and generate monthly residual rather than building a good product.
Hmm I tried posting some IP info but it didn't show up - maybe slashdot has a filter or something? Anyway, here is the information minus the actual IP:
% grep IP access_log | wc -l
869
% grep IP access_log | grep robot | wc -l
0
This was one of the sites that was crawled, apparently there are at least a couple different HP addresses doing this. I'm not screaming DoS, but I am ranting that they should be paying attention to robots.txt.
MySQL is practically a household name compared to Postgres.
Yeah just the other day my grandmother asked me to pass the MySQL at the dinner table. And I heard a knock at the door, and when I answered it there were three Jehova witnesses trying to convince me to upgrade to 4.x
Part of HP's plan had better include eliminating the planned obsolescence of their products. You used to have to pay $20 for a new printer for a CD to make it work with other windows versions. The open source community generally doesn't like the idea of having to buy a new printer every time there's a new kernel update (weekly?). HP's screwed us before with their DVD writers and other products...so IMO they've got to do a lot more than support open source to get my business. It would help if they built quality products that weren't designed to be replaced every 6-12 months.
I don't know if this has anything to do with HP's new plan for open source, but they seem to have a new web crawler that is beating on websites hosting open-source software and ignoring (not even requesting) the robots.txt file they're supposed to leash themselves to. I've noticed this on about 3 different websites and we've had to blackhole their address space indefinitely.
Since when did Verisign ever care about privacy? Isn't this the parent company that OK'd the sale of millions of email addresses from whois records? I'm not sure if Verisign is in my corner.
The Italian parliament yesterday voted in favour of imposing jail sentences of up to three years on anyone caught uploading or downloading unauthorised copyright material to and from the Net.
People don't download pirated music, computers download pirated music. Everybody calm down, unless you're routing packets by hand, you're safe.
Meanwhile in Jail, inmates have added him to their "My new Bitch" list. Carmak has complained repeatedly that their unsubscribe feature is both inhumane and doesn't work, which has led to arthritis in his right hand.
A landmine system would be relatively easy to implement - you set up a few hundred landmines and block any customer IP who sends a spam to a landmine. It's similar to honeypots, although you treat the accounts like mines where even a single email will get an address temporarily blacklisted. Once blacklisted, you can shut off port 25 for that IP, disconnect their session for 30 minutes, or do whatever you want. The Streamlined Blackhole List server could be used to create a landmine database with a spread of 1 to instantly identify new hosts.
I'm not sure why they were down the first time, but I'm pretty sure a/.ing would be the reason they'd be experiencing any present network difficulties.
Most good Bayesian spam filters can achieve 99%+ accuracy within a few days of training. Every time I blow my data away, I'm up to 99.x% within about 7-10 days. Seeded dictionaries only hurt accuracy over long periods of time.
Well of course you feel this way, you've probably spent upwards of $20,000 - $40,000 on your piece of paper when you could've bought your Ph.D online for only $795
Some of the biggest advances come out of people who don't succumb to the brainwashing of the formal education system. What's the point of getting schooled in the same mediocre theory everyone else is getting schooled in? College is useful for people who need it, but for the rest of us who can think for ourselves, and be imaginative on our own, it's just a system to make money by selling expensive parchment. Why do you feel you need a piece of paper to tell you who you are? It's such a crock.
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Are you telling me Microsoft didn't really invent the double click?
Can Windows users really be trusted with source code? I mean look what happened to Windows when that service pack code got out - it became a completely crappy piece of...oh wait...can Windows developers really be trusted with source code?
If anyone's research was published before this patent was filed (Dec 2002), you can request an investigation by submitting a letter and a copy of your research (and of course, when it was published) to:
US Patent Office
PO BOX 1450
Alexandria VA 22313
Make sure you reference Patent 6,732,157
I was told it would be routed to the right department. The patent was filed in December 2002, and I know much of everyone's research in the anti-spam arena was published long before that.
Consumers IMO deserve printers that will last more than a year. There's a difference between a consumer product and something that's just cheap. With regards to the DVD writers, HP promised all of their customers that they'd be able to upgrade the firmware on their first generation writers to support DVD+RW when it was available. When it did become available, they erased a bunch of documentation from their website, denied they ever said it, and made people buy new writers. I've seen this same tactic used in the PocketPC market with their iPaqs as well as other hardware - they design their products to try and generate monthly residual rather than building a good product.
Hmm I tried posting some IP info but it didn't show up - maybe slashdot has a filter or something? Anyway, here is the information minus the actual IP:
% grep IP access_log | wc -l
869
% grep IP access_log | grep robot | wc -l
0
This was one of the sites that was crawled, apparently there are at least a couple different HP addresses doing this. I'm not screaming DoS, but I am ranting that they should be paying attention to robots.txt.
15.219.201.69 is one of the IPs that started crawling our servers...
% grep 15.219.201.69 access_log | wc -l
869
% grep 15.219.201.69 access_log | grep robot | wc -l
0
MySQL is practically a household name compared to Postgres.
Yeah just the other day my grandmother asked me to pass the MySQL at the dinner table. And I heard a knock at the door, and when I answered it there were three Jehova witnesses trying to convince me to upgrade to 4.x
Part of HP's plan had better include eliminating the planned obsolescence of their products. You used to have to pay $20 for a new printer for a CD to make it work with other windows versions. The open source community generally doesn't like the idea of having to buy a new printer every time there's a new kernel update (weekly?). HP's screwed us before with their DVD writers and other products...so IMO they've got to do a lot more than support open source to get my business. It would help if they built quality products that weren't designed to be replaced every 6-12 months.
I don't know if this has anything to do with HP's new plan for open source, but they seem to have a new web crawler that is beating on websites hosting open-source software and ignoring (not even requesting) the robots.txt file they're supposed to leash themselves to. I've noticed this on about 3 different websites and we've had to blackhole their address space indefinitely.
Since when did Verisign ever care about privacy? Isn't this the parent company that OK'd the sale of millions of email addresses from whois records? I'm not sure if Verisign is in my corner.
The Italian parliament yesterday voted in favour of imposing jail sentences of up to three years on anyone caught uploading or downloading unauthorised copyright material to and from the Net.
People don't download pirated music, computers download pirated music. Everybody calm down, unless you're routing packets by hand, you're safe.
Naw, that's part of Microsoft's new Anti-Linux department.
including charges that he stole the identity of two Buffalo-area residents, which he then used to send out more than 800 million spam messages
Who would've thought there were two Buffalo-area residents with the names "Big R. Schlong" and "Haute Yung Bebes"
Meanwhile in Jail, inmates have added him to their "My new Bitch" list. Carmak has complained repeatedly that their unsubscribe feature is both inhumane and doesn't work, which has led to arthritis in his right hand.
This looks a lot like the MIT Campus.
I can see the next slashdot poll, "Favorite way to buy pr0n". Too bad nobody pays for pr0n anymore.
A landmine system would be relatively easy to implement - you set up a few hundred landmines and block any customer IP who sends a spam to a landmine. It's similar to honeypots, although you treat the accounts like mines where even a single email will get an address temporarily blacklisted. Once blacklisted, you can shut off port 25 for that IP, disconnect their session for 30 minutes, or do whatever you want. The Streamlined Blackhole List server could be used to create a landmine database with a spread of 1 to instantly identify new hosts.
I'm not sure why they were down the first time, but I'm pretty sure a /.ing would be the reason they'd be experiencing any present network difficulties.
Isn't this the part where we have a jet fighter scrambled to fry up a huge vat of popcorn in the middle of his living room?
Most good Bayesian spam filters can achieve 99%+ accuracy within a few days of training. Every time I blow my data away, I'm up to 99.x% within about 7-10 days. Seeded dictionaries only hurt accuracy over long periods of time.
Well of course you feel this way, you've probably spent upwards of $20,000 - $40,000 on your piece of paper when you could've bought your Ph.D online for only $795
well, I meant Chandra - if I had spelled it right, it would've been +2 Funny.
I dated a girl named Chanda once. Dark energy is a good way to describe her.
Some of the biggest advances come out of people who don't succumb to the brainwashing of the formal education system. What's the point of getting schooled in the same mediocre theory everyone else is getting schooled in? College is useful for people who need it, but for the rest of us who can think for ourselves, and be imaginative on our own, it's just a system to make money by selling expensive parchment. Why do you feel you need a piece of paper to tell you who you are? It's such a crock.
Andrea spoke with KernelTrap in great detail about the past, present and future of his Linux kernel efforts.
Sorry, looks like she's a he. I was really hoping it would turn out to be a chick - chicks that can rewrite Linux components are extremely sexy.