Sure - but IMHO tarpits are only useful if you have an SMTP server with a lot of addresses.
Mine's got about four so any delay I add is going to slow down one zombie-fied (of millions) PC for a few seconds. Sigh...
On the other hand, greylisting (not what ASSP considers to be greylisting, but the "server's not ready, try again in 15 minutes, please" does a remarkably good job of reducing spam - and at negligible server processing cost.
I mean, its how the internet works, and god knows here's a lot of "noise" on the line, yet my text files sent over instant messengers are accurate:) Digital audio is self-clocking (so subject to jitter) and doesn't have an error-checking layer.
Is that true of your internet connection?
And no, I don't buy anything by monster and always try to steer friends somewhere else...
The issue with digital audio is that the signals are self-clocking. There is some point at which cables (and, more critically, cable interfaces) start to screw that self-clocking up.
Do a web-search for "jiter".
That said, the cables don't have to be better than that (but I might shy away from ones that are fifteen cents, although they might be fine).
The MIT Media Lab had a tracking system in the '80s (and may or may not still have it). It was used mostly for telephone routing - if you were in a room and the phone rang, it was for you.
Actually, I do, although my Latin was never that great and it's been nearly forty years. Means something like "against the man" (Romans could be pretty sexist). Was a reference to "You seem to have missed a course in logic" and "superstitious". Remember that this term can cover both "the person presenting the argument is bad, hence the argument is bad" and simple personal attacks on the person presenting the argument.
I could just as easily have mentioned non sequitur as you jumped from logic to definitions in "You seem to have missed a course in logic. Atheism is simply not believing in a god."
While we're on Latin, you could argue that a-theist means "without a god", whereas an-theist might be "against a god/gods". But the meanings have drifted, along with pronunciation (find me a word in Latin that uses "th").
Sometimes it seems that folks who label themselves atheists completely miss the fact there's a difference between "not believing in something" and believing that there's not something". When it comes to religion, there's actually different labels for those two things.
Want that to change? Change general usage, the dictionaries, etc. (Latin for "and additional"), will follow...
Oh - and the Romans did not care at all if you believed in the gods or not - you just had to render homage [i]in case[/i] they actually existed and might get pissed off if you didn't.
Ok, then "ad hominem" (spell checker got me).
Did you also look up "atheist"?
Anyway, you're just name calling at this point. This bolsters your argument lots...
I'm not defining your beliefs, I'm going by general usage. Look it up. If you want to make the word mean something different than general usage, then you clearly have a greater control over words than I, and I of course, defer to you, as did Alice to Humpty.
Re "Superstitious" and "course in logic", hmmm... ever heard of "ad homonym"?
Finally, what makes you think I believe anything, well, other than that dictionaries tend to represent general usage of words?
For the idiotic things that some men believe, i.e. organized religion, the burden of proof is on the atheists? WTF? You seem to have missed that Athiesim is a belief in something unprovable as well (just a belief in non-excistence, but still...). Seems like it's the agnostics alone who miss the burden of proof.
There were basically two reasons to move from W2K to WXP - better wireless - ability to run an app with reduced privileges (I'm still baffled why they didn't also set the "exposed" apps, IE and Outlook to run this way). So... not using a laptop? Don't need reduced privs? Being a Luddite is fine.
Oh - and they extended the API so folks like Adobe could use it for apps like photoshop - which meant that there'd be some winnt apps that wouldn't run on w2k - but that came much later.
It was a laudable goal to eliminate slavery, but that wasn't the reason the Civil War started; it was only a very small part of it. Of course the Civil War started over slavery.
You're looking at things backwards - why did the states of the South secede? Look at the North Carolina Declaration of Secession - they were leaving over the right to own "property" (i.e. slaves).
Look at Dred Scott, and the declarations made by several northern states not to honor the forced return of "property".
You're absolutely right that Lincoln, even though a Republican (who were the radical left at the time) was not an abolitionist, and, indeed, came late to freeing slaves. It could very easily have been a move of political expediency.
There were plenty of southern apologists who claimed (after the war) that it was for "States Rights". BS. Read the docs the southern secessionists wrote at the time of secession.
IMHO, if the South had immediately given up slavery upon secession, they could have gotten support from Britain (major cotton-textile connection). With that backing, they could have told the North to piss off - and make it stick. I semi-recollect that there was mention of this as common knowledge (meaning probably "common knowledge within the general staff)in the letters of one of Lee's generals (Longstreet?)
Actually, the original intent of Notes was to tie together "islands" of servers, across an "ocean" of un-reliable connectivity, using lazy replication.
The notion of workflow came a bit after that, and the notion of forms and views (and an API) somewhat after that.
Forms and views are still a good idea, as developers can build these forms and views and end-users can use them as a sort of end-user language to build the apps they need.
The sad thing is that the current Notes has grown by accretion, so it's a really sucky environment to develop in and debugging's worse - but there's the germ of a new generation product here...
Unless, of course, you're already running an account that doesn't have admin rights and then using "runas" when you're running something that does need admin privs
XP has "restricted tokens" - which is a way that an app can be run at lower privs than your current one. Not as secure as running as non-admin and using "runas", but if you weren't doing that. Have a look at http://weblogs.asp.net/hernandl/archive/2004/12/30/runasadmin.aspx (blog entry that lists some of the various run-as-lower "shims")
So how is this easier than using "runas"? No need to enter a password - just run whatever app with lower privs and it can't do the things you (running as admin) can do - like write to program and windows directories.
Yeah, well, who expects shotgun nerds in the IT community. Actually, I don't shoot much at all - but my dad was a national-level skeet competitor (so there were scatter guns all over the house when I was growing up). He'd recently had some of his guns appraised and I was floored as to what they were worth. Not a blue-collar sport any more, I guess...
firing five shots from a sixteen guage shotgun at it and you bleed to death, When talking about shotguns, pick from 8, 10, 12, 20, 410 - and the smaller the number the larger the gun ("gauge" (I mis-spell it all the time, too) was an old English shot measure - basically the number of balls you could make from a pound of lead). Oh, and 410's actually a different kind of measure (not gauge) but none-the-less is still smaller than 20) - and 8GA guns are really really rare (I've only seen a black powder one) Just looking to help out for the next time you make a rhetorical point involving shotguns...
The notion was that it was an emasculated multix - the "do it the simplest way" mantra came as a reaction to the endless multix meetings over what was the "best" way.
Not macabre. You're trying to do two things when you swim 1) propulsion 2) minimize drag The problem is that to get propulsion from arms or legs you screw up your streamlining and increase drag (a lot). A dolphin kick (that's what that undulation is called) isn't great for propulsion, but hardly increases drag and doesn't use lots of energy - so it's a win. Make sense? Have a look at totalimmersion.net if you'd like to get beyond the "paddler" stage. Once you understand drag, you don't have to be some sort of super athlete to move right along...
This is how my Dad got hit (WWII - he was in a recon unit, drove a 6-wheel "scout car"). He got told to "drive around and draw fire", and, as he tells it "I didn't think that was a good idea at all".
He's got fairly amazing scars. Surprising he made it home.
Something to reduce soldiers "drawing fire"? How is that not a good idea? Officers are going to send something to draw fire. I'd rather it wasn't you.
President Grant was living in a hotel in Washington (1600 under some sort of renovations) - and he found that there were always folks in the hotel lobby, hoping to talk with him, buy him a drink or a cigar, etc. So he started calling them lobby-ists - and the name stuck.
They had a great programming model, really nice scalability (the notion of each core being both a computation center for its own stuff plus a "pass it along" communications center for jobs/results that weren't for that particular core was not only elegant, but allowed additional cores to be added as needed. I was sad to see it go...
Atheism is as much a religion as not collecting stamps is a hobby.
Erm... Atheism is a belief about something that hasn't been (and maybe cannot be) proved either way.
I think maybe you're thinking about agnosticism - which is basically "Heck, I don't know - how could I?" or maybe just being a-religious.
Read north Carolina's declaration of secession. They clearly state that they are leaving the union over rights of "property" (common code word in the South of the time - meaning "slaves").
The Dred Scott decision was somewhat recent (forced northerners to hand over any escaped "property") - and many northerners were pretty vocal about not being willing to follow this Federal mandate. NC secession was a reaction to that rejection.
I think you might be a victim of the revisionism that happened primarily 1865-1890 - or secondary "history" books that were influenced by this. Try reading some of the Southern announcements of secession. They're all pretty clear it's about "property". If you read what's written (particularly by southerners) after the end of the war, remember that they then had a reason to present secession as something that the North had "forced" them into.
...interesting that my captcha to post this is "redneck"...:-)
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Sure - but IMHO tarpits are only useful if you have an SMTP server with a lot of addresses. Mine's got about four so any delay I add is going to slow down one zombie-fied (of millions) PC for a few seconds. Sigh...
On the other hand, greylisting (not what ASSP considers to be greylisting, but the "server's not ready, try again in 15 minutes, please" does a remarkably good job of reducing spam - and at negligible server processing cost.
And no, I don't buy anything by monster and always try to steer friends somewhere else...
The issue with digital audio is that the signals are self-clocking. There is some point at which cables (and, more critically, cable interfaces) start to screw that self-clocking up. Do a web-search for "jiter". That said, the cables don't have to be better than that (but I might shy away from ones that are fifteen cents, although they might be fine).
The MIT Media Lab had a tracking system in the '80s (and may or may not still have it).
It was used mostly for telephone routing - if you were in a room and the phone rang, it was for you.
I could just as easily have mentioned non sequitur as you jumped from logic to definitions in "You seem to have missed a course in logic. Atheism is simply not believing in a god."
While we're on Latin, you could argue that a-theist means "without a god", whereas an-theist might be "against a god/gods". But the meanings have drifted, along with pronunciation (find me a word in Latin that uses "th"). Sometimes it seems that folks who label themselves atheists completely miss the fact there's a difference between "not believing in something" and believing that there's not something". When it comes to religion, there's actually different labels for those two things.
Want that to change? Change general usage, the dictionaries, etc. (Latin for "and additional"), will follow...
Oh - and the Romans did not care at all if you believed in the gods or not - you just had to render homage [i]in case[/i] they actually existed and might get pissed off if you didn't.
Ok, then "ad hominem" (spell checker got me). Did you also look up "atheist"?
Anyway, you're just name calling at this point. This bolsters your argument lots...
I'm not defining your beliefs, I'm going by general usage. Look it up. If you want to make the word mean something different than general usage, then you clearly have a greater control over words than I, and I of course, defer to you, as did Alice to Humpty.
Re "Superstitious" and "course in logic", hmmm... ever heard of "ad homonym"?
Finally, what makes you think I believe anything, well, other than that dictionaries tend to represent general usage of words?
There were basically two reasons to move from W2K to WXP
- better wireless
- ability to run an app with reduced privileges (I'm still baffled why they didn't also set the "exposed" apps, IE and Outlook to run this way).
So... not using a laptop? Don't need reduced privs? Being a Luddite is fine.
Oh - and they extended the API so folks like Adobe could use it for apps like photoshop - which meant that there'd be some winnt apps that wouldn't run on w2k - but that came much later.
You're looking at things backwards - why did the states of the South secede? Look at the North Carolina Declaration of Secession - they were leaving over the right to own "property" (i.e. slaves).
Look at Dred Scott, and the declarations made by several northern states not to honor the forced return of "property".
You're absolutely right that Lincoln, even though a Republican (who were the radical left at the time) was not an abolitionist, and, indeed, came late to freeing slaves. It could very easily have been a move of political expediency.
There were plenty of southern apologists who claimed (after the war) that it was for "States Rights". BS. Read the docs the southern secessionists wrote at the time of secession. IMHO, if the South had immediately given up slavery upon secession, they could have gotten support from Britain (major cotton-textile connection). With that backing, they could have told the North to piss off - and make it stick. I semi-recollect that there was mention of this as common knowledge (meaning probably "common knowledge within the general staff)in the letters of one of Lee's generals (Longstreet?)
Actually, the original intent of Notes was to tie together "islands" of servers, across an "ocean" of un-reliable connectivity, using lazy replication. The notion of workflow came a bit after that, and the notion of forms and views (and an API) somewhat after that.
Forms and views are still a good idea, as developers can build these forms and views and end-users can use them as a sort of end-user language to build the apps they need.
The sad thing is that the current Notes has grown by accretion, so it's a really sucky environment to develop in and debugging's worse - but there's the germ of a new generation product here...
Unless, of course, you're already running an account that doesn't have admin rights and then using "runas" when you're running something that does need admin privs XP has "restricted tokens" - which is a way that an app can be run at lower privs than your current one. Not as secure as running as non-admin and using "runas", but if you weren't doing that. Have a look at http://weblogs.asp.net/hernandl/archive/2004/12/30/runasadmin.aspx (blog entry that lists some of the various run-as-lower "shims")
So how is this easier than using "runas"? No need to enter a password - just run whatever app with lower privs and it can't do the things you (running as admin) can do - like write to program and windows directories.
>No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
A reference to Wilson's "self determination"?
So... you think they're all as bad as Bush and Cheney?
Really?
I'm not saying the alternatives are great, mind you, but... really?
Yeah, well, who expects shotgun nerds in the IT community.
Actually, I don't shoot much at all - but my dad was a national-level skeet competitor (so there were scatter guns all over the house when I was growing up). He'd recently had some of his guns appraised and I was floored as to what they were worth. Not a blue-collar sport any more, I guess...
firing five shots from a sixteen guage shotgun at it and you bleed to death,
When talking about shotguns, pick from 8, 10, 12, 20, 410 - and the smaller the number the larger the gun ("gauge" (I mis-spell it all the time, too) was an old English shot measure - basically the number of balls you could make from a pound of lead). Oh, and 410's actually a different kind of measure (not gauge) but none-the-less is still smaller than 20) - and 8GA guns are really really rare (I've only seen a black powder one)
Just looking to help out for the next time you make a rhetorical point involving shotguns...
The notion was that it was an emasculated multix - the "do it the simplest way" mantra came as a reaction to the endless multix meetings over what was the "best" way.
Not macabre.
You're trying to do two things when you swim
1) propulsion
2) minimize drag
The problem is that to get propulsion from arms or legs you screw up your streamlining and increase drag (a lot). A dolphin kick (that's what that undulation is called) isn't great for propulsion, but hardly increases drag and doesn't use lots of energy - so it's a win.
Make sense?
Have a look at totalimmersion.net if you'd like to get beyond the "paddler" stage. Once you understand drag, you don't have to be some sort of super athlete to move right along...
Something to reduce soldiers "drawing fire"? How is that not a good idea? Officers are going to send something to draw fire. I'd rather it wasn't you.
Many of the folks in that DG development group later were part of a startup that I worked at. They were mostly all very interesting people
President Grant was living in a hotel in Washington (1600 under some sort of renovations) - and he found that there were always folks in the hotel lobby, hoping to talk with him, buy him a drink or a cigar, etc. So he started calling them lobby-ists - and the name stuck.
They had a great programming model, really nice scalability (the notion of each core being both a computation center for its own stuff plus a "pass it along" communications center for jobs/results that weren't for that particular core was not only elegant, but allowed additional cores to be added as needed.
I was sad to see it go...
Not a bad idea - until you consider that the population center of FL is several hours drive-time from the GA border (it's a lo-o-o-ong state)
I think maybe you're thinking about agnosticism - which is basically "Heck, I don't know - how could I?" or maybe just being a-religious.
I think you might be a victim of the revisionism that happened primarily 1865-1890 - or secondary "history" books that were influenced by this. Try reading some of the Southern announcements of secession. They're all pretty clear it's about "property". If you read what's written (particularly by southerners) after the end of the war, remember that they then had a reason to present secession as something that the North had "forced" them into.
...interesting that my captcha to post this is "redneck"...:-)