From a scientific perspective, anything that filters spam better than a human is successful at stopping spam. This includes nearly all of the popular Bayesian filters. Your argument is the same one they have about Linux - if it was more popular, it would have more exploits, but if you look at the architecture of the Linux operating system the way it has been constructed proves that this is not necessarily the case. You can speculate that if spammers focuses specifically on dspam, they could find a way to bypass it, but it's just speculation - but what I like _most_ about Bayesian spam filters is that there's not a monoculture set up like there is with heuristic filters. There are many different people using many different BCF filters, and there is no real "mainstream" filter. If the anti-spam community continues to work together as it has been, and can maintain this status quo, it won't be worth it for spammers to be able to poke a hole in a particular filter, as they still won't find a wide enough audience to push to. I don't think DSPAM or any other filter ought to be #1 for this reason...but if one should become the leading filter, it's my belief that (with the exception of some bug that could be patched for) the filter's adaptive qualities would make bypassing it computationally infeasable. And that's what we're ramping up to combat with things like Bayesian Noise Reduction and Message Inoculation.
Quite the contrary, I develop several applications using MySQL and none of them are PHP-based, but rather C. Why should PHP get any special attention? It's just another tool, one that I choose not to use, and certainly some PHP scriptkiddie doesn't deserve any better licensing than I do.
Not likely. DSPAM is not like SpamAssassin. You should spend some time researching what makes probabilistic filters different from cheezy filters like SpamAssassin. There are plenty of tricks spammers are using today to try and get past these filters, but are not succeeding. In fact, a majority of the spams I see in quarantine these days are specifically directed at Bayesian filters.
Actually DSPAM has become quite popular. It's being used on several large systems up to 150,000 mailboxes. Just because YOU haven't heard of it doesn't mean anything. The right people have heard of, are using, and are financially supporting it...and i still maintain my original claim that this "spam expert" is full of crap.
I would hardly consider this guy an expert on spam - in fact nobody I know in the spam filtering community even knows who this guy is. Ph.D from Texas A&M...wow...there's a technical college for you. Unfortunately he's very misled on the whole topic and doesn't seem to understand even the basic caveats of spam filtering. This is the kind of guy who likes to say "everything sucks" to prove his point.
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You are absolutely correct, but the fundamental support for certain functions needs to be there in order to code these things into higher-level applications. Presently it is not - when FDO did its shadowing completely software-rendered (no hardware acceleration) it was too slow to use.
If Linux is going to even have a chance at breaking through to the desktop world, it has to stop looking like crap. With a little customization, and FreeDesktop, I was able to make my desktop look like this: http://www.nuclearelephant.com/images/screenshot.j pg which could compete with a crappintosh any day...but little features and ATTENTION TO DETAIL (something that's missing in Linux) is one of the big reasons the average non-tech individual's going to want to use it. I'd love to see hover expansion and other features too....while I agree stability and functionality is more important, an aesthetically pleasing interface is critical to desktop assimilation.
I'd switch to FDO if they would write some GLX extensions and add a few more user interface features. As of now it looks awesome, is architected well, but it's a tad slow and useless without GLX. (I'm using the ATI version)
On the contrary, FreeDesktop.org is writing one, and it's A. much more promising (supports some neat things too like drop shadows and translucent menus), and B. based on the original XFree86 libraries.
You can bet if any of the companies have ties to Diebold or Symantec, that this will be a pro-censorship lobby, trying to pass laws similar to the DMCA to outlaw private citizens from having access to things like exploit code or diagnostic tools.
Oh great, now that pair of scissors in my desk is a stinking DMCA violation...and I guess that stapler is an illegal bondage device.
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Actually the TRS-80 is what popularized desktop computing. A whopping 128x48 resolution, tape deck support, and that damn orange reset button is where it all started.
Did Gates really popularize desktop computing, or capitalize on it?
People being able to communicate during an emergency = people complaining about FEMA's poor job at handling emergency = end of FEMA. It's all about dictatorship.
WASHINGTON, D.C. Sunday, December 14 2003 SADDAM'S LAPTOP SEIZED
U.S. Forces responsible for capturing the former Iraqi leader earlier Sunday morning later removed several items from a small room dug out underneath the hole Saddam reportedly buried himself in. Items seized included $3.2 million dollars in US currency, several Baghdad Priority Mail boxes, and Saddam's personal laptop computer.
In fear of the laptop battery running down, US Forces immediately brought in two computer forensic agents took photographs of the contents on the laptop's display and later performed a complete analysis of its contents.
"We figure he was making an attempt to use his computer when we raided the basement.", replied John Cooper, one of the forensic analysis, "This could explain why he hesitated and later surrendered without a fight." Initial screenshots of the data were leaked to the media shortly thereafter, and have been made available on the Internet. URLs have been posted at the end of this article.
While the forensic analysts were very certain that the entire laptop's contents could be retrieved, at least one was notably distressed about the information being leaked. "We're not sure what this means yet. There's still a lot of data to look at. Our biggest concern is that these photos do not contain secret messages for any of Saddam's agents."
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From a scientific perspective, anything that filters spam better than a human is successful at stopping spam. This includes nearly all of the popular Bayesian filters. Your argument is the same one they have about Linux - if it was more popular, it would have more exploits, but if you look at the architecture of the Linux operating system the way it has been constructed proves that this is not necessarily the case. You can speculate that if spammers focuses specifically on dspam, they could find a way to bypass it, but it's just speculation - but what I like _most_ about Bayesian spam filters is that there's not a monoculture set up like there is with heuristic filters. There are many different people using many different BCF filters, and there is no real "mainstream" filter. If the anti-spam community continues to work together as it has been, and can maintain this status quo, it won't be worth it for spammers to be able to poke a hole in a particular filter, as they still won't find a wide enough audience to push to. I don't think DSPAM or any other filter ought to be #1 for this reason...but if one should become the leading filter, it's my belief that (with the exception of some bug that could be patched for) the filter's adaptive qualities would make bypassing it computationally infeasable. And that's what we're ramping up to combat with things like Bayesian Noise Reduction and Message Inoculation.
Quite the contrary, I develop several applications using MySQL and none of them are PHP-based, but rather C. Why should PHP get any special attention? It's just another tool, one that I choose not to use, and certainly some PHP scriptkiddie doesn't deserve any better licensing than I do.
Not likely. DSPAM is not like SpamAssassin. You should spend some time researching what makes probabilistic filters different from cheezy filters like SpamAssassin. There are plenty of tricks spammers are using today to try and get past these filters, but are not succeeding. In fact, a majority of the spams I see in quarantine these days are specifically directed at Bayesian filters.
Actually DSPAM has become quite popular. It's being used on several large systems up to 150,000 mailboxes. Just because YOU haven't heard of it doesn't mean anything. The right people have heard of, are using, and are financially supporting it...and i still maintain my original claim that this "spam expert" is full of crap.
I would hardly consider this guy an expert on spam - in fact nobody I know in the spam filtering community even knows who this guy is. Ph.D from Texas A&M...wow...there's a technical college for you. Unfortunately he's very misled on the whole topic and doesn't seem to understand even the basic caveats of spam filtering. This is the kind of guy who likes to say "everything sucks" to prove his point.
You are absolutely correct, but the fundamental support for certain functions needs to be there in order to code these things into higher-level applications. Presently it is not - when FDO did its shadowing completely software-rendered (no hardware acceleration) it was too slow to use.
If Linux is going to even have a chance at breaking through to the desktop world, it has to stop looking like crap. With a little customization, and FreeDesktop, I was able to make my desktop look like this: http://www.nuclearelephant.com/images/screenshot.j pg which could compete with a crappintosh any day...but little features and ATTENTION TO DETAIL (something that's missing in Linux) is one of the big reasons the average non-tech individual's going to want to use it. I'd love to see hover expansion and other features too....while I agree stability and functionality is more important, an aesthetically pleasing interface is critical to desktop assimilation.
I'd switch to FDO if they would write some GLX extensions and add a few more user interface features. As of now it looks awesome, is architected well, but it's a tad slow and useless without GLX. (I'm using the ATI version)
No-one is going to be writing a new X-Server
On the contrary, FreeDesktop.org is writing one, and it's A. much more promising (supports some neat things too like drop shadows and translucent menus), and B. based on the original XFree86 libraries.
Dude, my mother died of radiation you insensitive clod!
You can bet if any of the companies have ties to Diebold or Symantec, that this will be a pro-censorship lobby, trying to pass laws similar to the DMCA to outlaw private citizens from having access to things like exploit code or diagnostic tools.
sendmailupdate.microsoft.com ?
Just think about the combination of sendmail with patches from Microsoft, spammers will be able to just email 31337 in the subject line to gain root.
Oh great, now that pair of scissors in my desk is a stinking DMCA violation...and I guess that stapler is an illegal bondage device.
Actually the TRS-80 is what popularized desktop computing. A whopping 128x48 resolution, tape deck support, and that damn orange reset button is where it all started.
Did Gates really popularize desktop computing, or capitalize on it?
You can have the same effect with 2.4 by increasing the mouse sensitivity.
Server Focused; e.g. runs like crap on the desktop and we had to release something by Christmas
Google will be posting a link to all of Terry Semel's kiddie porn searches next week.
It's a really clean 10 lines of code...now if they can implement something to make MySQL useful like subqueries this article will be worth reading.
And anything you can do with perl you can eventually do with an amazing and totally unreadable conglomeration of awk, sed, sh and C.
What's important though is that it remains totally unreadable, which is why I think perl really caught on. (I'm such a bofh).
People being able to communicate during an emergency = people complaining about FEMA's poor job at handling emergency = end of FEMA. It's all about dictatorship.
Troll? Gimme a break...that was funny dammit! Jeez.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
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SADDAM'S LAPTOP SEIZED
U.S. Forces responsible for capturing the former Iraqi leader earlier Sunday morning later removed several items from a small room dug out underneath the hole Saddam reportedly buried himself in. Items seized included $3.2 million dollars in US currency, several Baghdad Priority Mail boxes, and Saddam's personal laptop computer.
In fear of the laptop battery running down, US Forces immediately brought in two computer forensic agents took photographs of the contents on the laptop's display and later performed a complete analysis of its contents.
"We figure he was making an attempt to use his computer when we raided the basement.", replied John Cooper, one of the forensic analysis, "This could explain why he hesitated and later surrendered without a fight." Initial screenshots of the data were leaked to the media shortly thereafter, and have been made available on the Internet. URLs have been posted at the end of this article.
While the forensic analysts were very certain that the entire laptop's contents could be retrieved, at least one was notably distressed about the information being leaked. "We're not sure what this means yet. There's still a lot of data to look at. Our biggest concern is that these photos do not contain secret messages for any of Saddam's agents."
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Dude what are you talking about, Windows 98 and 2000 are still considered 'untested' by many.
I for one welcome our new lazy-ass overlords
So it's OK to use people as long as they're happy in their ignorance?