Bayesian filtering works for spam because spammers speak a completely different language to human beings.
The humans on the foo project and the humans on the bar project probably speak much the same language and say much the same things, so it would be much more difficult to get any meaningful statistical analysis out of it.
Search for hotwayd - it's listed on freshmeat. Install it on your computer, and set it up as per the instructions.
You can now use your favourite pop email client to connect to hotmail. Just point it at localhost on the appropriate port, and log on with your usual hotmail username/password.
I've been on the Virgin Voyager train from Southampton to Manchester that tops out at about 10mph. To think that this thin can hit 36 times that speed is mind boggling.
No. The marginal cost of selling to a new market is virtually nil. So selling to China, at whatever price, as long as it covers duplication costs, will mean extra $$$ for the software house.
You'd probably rather pay $2.00 and get something that you can be reasonably sure will work, rather than wait a couple of days for your edonkey client to download it, and then worry about whether or not it is a fake.
For a $500 copy of MS Office, you might take the risk.
It is certainly true to say that there are potential problems with Netcraft's methods, but I don't think that looking at the top 1000 companies worldwide is a good idea either.
I had a look at the top 100 UK companies at http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=@^ftse&f=snlcv i
The question is, how many of these have web sites that you are likely to visit regularly.
yell.com who are no. 98 on the list probably has the most popular web site out of them. They are a search engine/directory service with paid for placement who list business in the UK and elsewhere. I use them sometimes, but nothing like as often as Google.
There are a few banks in there, and people may well visit their web sites to do their banking.
There are also some insurance companies, and some people will visit their site once a year or so to buy insurance. They'll go to somewhere like moneysupermarket.co.uk first to decide which one to go for.
There are a few shops in there, like Tesco and Dixons, and people will do shopping in them.
The Daily Mail group, Reters, and Pearson (newspaper/media cos) are in there, and people will visit their newspaper sites. They aren't the most popular though, that honour goes to the BBC (not a company) and the Guardian (a company, but too small to make the list).
There are a couple of phone cos in there, and if you use them for your ISP, you may well default to them for your home page.
Most of the others are only going to have brochure sites which you may visit once in a while, but it certainly isn't an important part of their business.
You don't need a licence to use software. You need a licence to copy software.
Of course, the copyright holder might ask you to agree to a licence as a condition of obtaining a copy from them, but that is another matter altogether.
The main advantage of having a screwdriver plant in Scotland is that you can put "Made in Great Britain", or "Made in Scotland" on your products, even if most of the work was done elsewhere. It can also help get round qutoas and import duties.
The thing is that nobody really cares about where it is made as long as it works, the WTO has reduced most import duties, and the cost savings from having the screwdriver work done elsewhere more than offset it anyway.
You might give music away that you have purchased to total strangers if these same total strangers were giving you music for nothing that they had purchased.
It woudn't work for the person in the car who was caught in the act, but it would work for the owner of the wireless network who's IP address would be logged at various kiddie porn sites.
They may be using open proxies in South Korea, but they are mainly US companies.
If you do get spam from the EU, you could take action there. It may be a bit difficult, and you might need to learn a new language, but it is possible.
True but it is a start. The EU has outlawed spam, and I believe Australia has as well. The next step is for these governments to start working together to deal with cross border spam.
If you receive spam from the UK, for example, you can report it to ASA http://www.asa.org.uk and they will do something about it. Not much. but something.
Around 90% of my spam comes from US companies - not necessarily from US servers, but they will fall under US law.
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Seems slashdot doesn't support the GBP sign (). Oh well.
$5 per month is 10 times $60 per year?
I don't know about USD, but in the UK, 5 per month is pretty much exactly the same as 60 per year, give or take a few pence for interest.
And most GNU/Linux distros for $0.00
Bayesian filtering works for spam because spammers speak a completely different language to human beings.
The humans on the foo project and the humans on the bar project probably speak much the same language and say much the same things, so it would be much more difficult to get any meaningful statistical analysis out of it.
Look at the x-box linux project for an example.
Search for hotwayd - it's listed on freshmeat. Install it on your computer, and set it up as per the instructions.
You can now use your favourite pop email client to connect to hotmail. Just point it at localhost on the appropriate port, and log on with your usual hotmail username/password.
I thought trains were a British invention - not that Richard Branson's attempt at a railway company is anything to boast about.
I've been on the Virgin Voyager train from Southampton to Manchester that tops out at about 10mph. To think that this thin can hit 36 times that speed is mind boggling.
Is to print each one of them on a separate sheet of paper, and tape them together?
That's quite easy. It's called BT Openwoe.
I've been riding the trains in the UK (or attempting to) for the past 26 years, or thereabouts.
No matter what day it is, there is always some really weird excuse for why they can't run the trains on time.
Of course it depends whereabouts in the UK you are. I hear the Isle of Wight line is pretty reliable, and Chiltern Railways are not bad.
I have to suffer Virgin Trains, one of the worst in the world, Thames Trains, not much better, and the Great Misery Railway aka Great Western Trains.
Others to avoid are WAGN - West Anglian Great Northern or We Are Going Nowhere, Connex, Thameslink, South West Trains and Arriva Trains.
No. The marginal cost of selling to a new market is virtually nil. So selling to China, at whatever price, as long as it covers duplication costs, will mean extra $$$ for the software house.
You'd probably rather pay $2.00 and get something that you can be reasonably sure will work, rather than wait a couple of days for your edonkey client to download it, and then worry about whether or not it is a fake.
For a $500 copy of MS Office, you might take the risk.
A US customer probably won't be too interested in a game written in Chinese. That at least will stop parallel importing from China.
It is certainly true to say that there are potential problems with Netcraft's methods, but I don't think that looking at the top 1000 companies worldwide is a good idea either.
I had a look at the top 100 UK companies at http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=@^ftse&f=snlcv i
The question is, how many of these have web sites that you are likely to visit regularly.
yell.com who are no. 98 on the list probably has the most popular web site out of them. They are a search engine/directory service with paid for placement who list business in the UK and elsewhere. I use them sometimes, but nothing like as often as Google.
There are a few banks in there, and people may well visit their web sites to do their banking.
There are also some insurance companies, and some people will visit their site once a year or so to buy insurance. They'll go to somewhere like moneysupermarket.co.uk first to decide which one to go for.
There are a few shops in there, like Tesco and Dixons, and people will do shopping in them.
The Daily Mail group, Reters, and Pearson (newspaper/media cos) are in there, and people will visit their newspaper sites. They aren't the most popular though, that honour goes to the BBC (not a company) and the Guardian (a company, but too small to make the list).
There are a couple of phone cos in there, and if you use them for your ISP, you may well default to them for your home page.
Most of the others are only going to have brochure sites which you may visit once in a while, but it certainly isn't an important part of their business.
Microsoft have licenced their Unix code from SCO, so they are in the clear.
You don't need a licence to use software. You need a licence to copy software.
Of course, the copyright holder might ask you to agree to a licence as a condition of obtaining a copy from them, but that is another matter altogether.
The main advantage of having a screwdriver plant in Scotland is that you can put "Made in Great Britain", or "Made in Scotland" on your products, even if most of the work was done elsewhere. It can also help get round qutoas and import duties.
The thing is that nobody really cares about where it is made as long as it works, the WTO has reduced most import duties, and the cost savings from having the screwdriver work done elsewhere more than offset it anyway.
And do these "hackers" care about legislation? Will it make any difference whatsoever?
You might give music away that you have purchased to total strangers if these same total strangers were giving you music for nothing that they had purchased.
There is a reason why it is called file sharing.
Presumably he gets Legal Aid, or whatever it is called in Norway, ie the government pays the lawyer's bill.
It woudn't work for the person in the car who was caught in the act, but it would work for the owner of the wireless network who's IP address would be logged at various kiddie porn sites.
In England, it has been held that having a virus / trojan on your computer which downloads child porn is a defence.
They may be using open proxies in South Korea, but they are mainly US companies.
If you do get spam from the EU, you could take action there. It may be a bit difficult, and you might need to learn a new language, but it is possible.
True but it is a start. The EU has outlawed spam, and I believe Australia has as well. The next step is for these governments to start working together to deal with cross border spam.
If you receive spam from the UK, for example, you can report it to ASA http://www.asa.org.uk and they will do something about it. Not much. but something.
Around 90% of my spam comes from US companies - not necessarily from US servers, but they will fall under US law.