uhm, no. If it were true it would probably be more the source of the nt kernel alone, not the whole windows source tree including explorer and mine sweeper. I suppose that should be quite a bit smaller than 1 gig.
Hm, when looking at google for sites linking i get... 86! Maybe it _is_ some trustworthy elite windows site, but i would really love to see confirmation by at least 2 major tech sites.
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mod my posting offtopic....
but i really got a problem here with moderation. I really had a hard time deciding if i just use my mod points here or better go for a posting myself. The parent has some controversial (or in some eyes misled, excentric, you-name-the-crime) view on the sco issue. He expresses this view in a more or less sensible fashion and really, really did not deserve getting moderated as troll. Modding someone down as troll simply because you dislike his views isnt good, mkay?
Nothing really new. Mozilla used to do this in its early days as well. AFAIR it was related to some technology which would show you sites other people used who were visiting your current site. Cant really remember what it was, maybe alexa. Since these days i always check if there is some setting in the browser options which would send your visited urls to some site...
Of course these urls get sent somehow to the crawlers as well, so you always have to be careful which browser to use when working with an unsecured staging area for webdev.
huh? how come some people always seem to find some weird relation between anything on/. and ms/sco here? msnbc is a news site, so they cover more or less interesting stories. I really, really doubt that some minion of the evil empire (as you would probably put it) is making up some story to diffame google via msnbc. Come on, what is supposed to happen? "uh, i dont use google anymore. Somebody could find confidential info on _me_ there..." Or: "we must shut down google because it can be used by terrorists." I clearly dont see any FUD here. Just another news story.
I once submitted the whole bouncing/ faked header thing and what fellwow dotters do against it as "ask slashdot", though Taco didnt think its worth discussing this issue...
I have seen my domains getting abused for forged headers several times over the last years, and i _really_ feel with you. From one day to the other your whole domain becomes useless from bounces and morons asking to unsubscribe them;) The only solution for me was to disable the catch-all feature offered by my hoster and wait. After some time you can try to enable it again and see if the domain still gets abused. The good thing about this is that you will actually get the bounces from your own mails. Wont work of course if Mr. Spammer is using some existing address of yours in his forged headers...
btw: the funniest thing i have seen was getting spam to one mail address at one of my domains which had forged headers refering to another one of my domains. This really gives you a weird feeling...
yes, sure. Stuff like stored procedures or views are just toy features nobody really needs for database development... Better do all those things in you application code, makes it so much easier;)
Come on, if you really need some ultra-fast small reduced-to-the-max sql database you might look at sqlite, if going for some bigger real life application you might discover that those bloated features actually do make sense... and one day you might find yourself posting things like "foreign key constraints would be so cool to have in mysql" as some of us did ages ago...
well... its not about a general delete function, but a delete function that gets executed when it receives a message from the network. You would expect streaming to work more like telling the client that it finally got the whole file and then have the client handle the clean-up instead of telling the client to delete some file.
Well, the conclusion simply says that they dont know what the use for some special "delete file" command could be and add the MPAA/RIAA story as a theory.
I dont think that its simply something like a missing chroot() bug, i cant think of any good reason why you would have "delete file" command implemented in a P2P client... Fellow slashdotters, anyone got an idea why one would implement this?
Seen those ideas several times before, i think some people actually do use them for some time now...
A Tarpit will work if the spammer tries to send mail directly to the tarpit box. Dont think they do this very often these days, since they (as i assume) either use open proxies or minions from their trojaned box zombie army.
The open proxies black lists are imho a good thing to use but suffer from the typical disease: black list hosts get ddosed (afair 3 lists gave up over the last few weeks becaus of ddos), so this theatre of war might be lost soon. And of course there are probably millions of open proxies out there, unlikely to find them all before some spammer got the chance to send several million mails through them.
I dont think spammers care very much about poisoning - else they wouldnt have tried 4-5 dictionary attacks on my domains this year. They will send spam to any string having an @ and on . in it, bounces go to innocent third parties...
One approach i really, really like is greylisting.
(Ill probably end up putting it in my sig since i love to post this url;))
Its always the same story: follow the money. We always wondered who might be so stupid to buy from a spammer... well, we found out 2 months ago.
I havent really checked all problems and implication but this might work: make a clear statement that credit card companies will not consider it fraud if some moron gives his credit card number to some spamvertized herbal viagra vendor and the cc gets abused. If people would start thinking again who they actually give their data to spammers and fraud-shops would generate less revenue in the long run.
I know that this is not as simple as i laid it out, but i really think this is a starting point: have people buying spamvertized products become aware that they are doing something awfully stupid and its up to them to deal with all the mess that may come out of buying spamvertized goods. What happened to the whole "i am not sure if buying something from the internet" attitude? Have people really become so desperate because of their penis size that they will send money to just anyone?
Have 2-3 stories on the news about people who got completely ripped off after buying spamvertized products might help as well. I guess its more about educating people than to humiliate them.
I already had an idea quite like this after reading the story on that spammer from.nz who left the industry after getting harassed because his real identity was made public in some local newspaper... Set up some fund which will pay bounty for accurate and valid information on proven spammers, and set up a directory just like rokso at spamhaus.org. Dont really harass them, just give them the bad feeling that we know who they really are...
hum... usually you go back the whole route of an email until you find the point where the ip doesnt match the host given... usually i find that some ip which resolves to some adsl or dialin address claims to be compuserve.com, aol.com, microsoft.com or hotmail.com. Its rather likely that this is the machine the spam came from, so even though headers can be forged it is not that easy to completely cover the trail. If you really think massive amounts of spam originate from hotmail.com youre pretty naive...
There are some really nice proposals to get rid of spam, i believe that the first thing would be to use the greylisting approach. Next thing we need is to get rid of SMTP, remember the AMTP idea we just saw recently. For some time (probably years) we could have two mail protocols (SMTP and the new, safe one) while more and more mail servers would be switching to the new protocol. During this period i would use whitelisting for SMTP mails where every unknown sender would receive a message to either use the new protocol or undergo some painful procedure to get whitelisted.
Too bad youre wrong. Virus is not the same stem as e.g. servus, virii is definitely wrong. Perseus suggests
vira as plural, sounds weird though. Keep it simple, us the english form viruses.
3) Isn't it a little premature for "Is Mandrake Light a GPL Violation?" HP isn't shipping source CDs. (What does anyone do with those things, anyway? What would you possibly want them for -- to run some sort of homebrew Gentoo Hat?) There's nothing unusual or inappropriate about that.
afair gpl only requires that the sources need to be made available on request, not that you need to ship the sources with every binary.
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uhm, no. If it were true it would probably be more the source of the nt kernel alone, not the whole windows source tree including explorer and mine sweeper. I suppose that should be quite a bit smaller than 1 gig.
Hm, when looking at google for sites linking i get... 86! Maybe it _is_ some trustworthy elite windows site, but i would really love to see confirmation by at least 2 major tech sites.
mod my posting offtopic....
but i really got a problem here with moderation. I really had a hard time deciding if i just use my mod points here or better go for a posting myself. The parent has some controversial (or in some eyes misled, excentric, you-name-the-crime) view on the sco issue. He expresses this view in a more or less sensible fashion and really, really did not deserve getting moderated as troll. Modding someone down as troll simply because you dislike his views isnt good, mkay?
Of course these urls get sent somehow to the crawlers as well, so you always have to be careful which browser to use when working with an unsecured staging area for webdev.
huh? how come some people always seem to find some weird relation between anything on /. and ms/sco here? msnbc is a news site, so they cover more or less interesting stories. I really, really doubt that some minion of the evil empire (as you would probably put it) is making up some story to diffame google via msnbc. Come on, what is supposed to happen? "uh, i dont use google anymore. Somebody could find confidential info on _me_ there..." Or: "we must shut down google because it can be used by terrorists." I clearly dont see any FUD here. Just another news story.
duh, must be the worst troll ever.
I have seen my domains getting abused for forged headers several times over the last years, and i _really_ feel with you. From one day to the other your whole domain becomes useless from bounces and morons asking to unsubscribe them;) The only solution for me was to disable the catch-all feature offered by my hoster and wait. After some time you can try to enable it again and see if the domain still gets abused. The good thing about this is that you will actually get the bounces from your own mails. Wont work of course if Mr. Spammer is using some existing address of yours in his forged headers...
btw: the funniest thing i have seen was getting spam to one mail address at one of my domains which had forged headers refering to another one of my domains. This really gives you a weird feeling...
yes, sure. Stuff like stored procedures or views are just toy features nobody really needs for database development... Better do all those things in you application code, makes it so much easier;) Come on, if you really need some ultra-fast small reduced-to-the-max sql database you might look at sqlite, if going for some bigger real life application you might discover that those bloated features actually do make sense... and one day you might find yourself posting things like "foreign key constraints would be so cool to have in mysql" as some of us did ages ago...
well... its not about a general delete function, but a delete function that gets executed when it receives a message from the network. You would expect streaming to work more like telling the client that it finally got the whole file and then have the client handle the clean-up instead of telling the client to delete some file.
I dont think that its simply something like a missing chroot() bug, i cant think of any good reason why you would have "delete file" command implemented in a P2P client... Fellow slashdotters, anyone got an idea why one would implement this?
A Tarpit will work if the spammer tries to send mail directly to the tarpit box. Dont think they do this very often these days, since they (as i assume) either use open proxies or minions from their trojaned box zombie army.
The open proxies black lists are imho a good thing to use but suffer from the typical disease: black list hosts get ddosed (afair 3 lists gave up over the last few weeks becaus of ddos), so this theatre of war might be lost soon. And of course there are probably millions of open proxies out there, unlikely to find them all before some spammer got the chance to send several million mails through them.
I dont think spammers care very much about poisoning - else they wouldnt have tried 4-5 dictionary attacks on my domains this year. They will send spam to any string having an @ and on . in it, bounces go to innocent third parties...
One approach i really, really like is greylisting. (Ill probably end up putting it in my sig since i love to post this url;))
I havent really checked all problems and implication but this might work: make a clear statement that credit card companies will not consider it fraud if some moron gives his credit card number to some spamvertized herbal viagra vendor and the cc gets abused. If people would start thinking again who they actually give their data to spammers and fraud-shops would generate less revenue in the long run.
I know that this is not as simple as i laid it out, but i really think this is a starting point: have people buying spamvertized products become aware that they are doing something awfully stupid and its up to them to deal with all the mess that may come out of buying spamvertized goods. What happened to the whole "i am not sure if buying something from the internet" attitude? Have people really become so desperate because of their penis size that they will send money to just anyone?
Have 2-3 stories on the news about people who got completely ripped off after buying spamvertized products might help as well. I guess its more about educating people than to humiliate them.
I already had an idea quite like this after reading the story on that spammer from .nz who left the industry after getting harassed because his real identity was made public in some local newspaper... Set up some fund which will pay bounty for accurate and valid information on proven spammers, and set up a directory just like rokso at spamhaus.org. Dont really harass them, just give them the bad feeling that we know who they really are...
omg, now we will have hordes of MS Comic Chat users pouring into irc channels... (and tons of kickbans i guess;))
There are some really nice proposals to get rid of spam, i believe that the first thing would be to use the greylisting approach. Next thing we need is to get rid of SMTP, remember the AMTP idea we just saw recently. For some time (probably years) we could have two mail protocols (SMTP and the new, safe one) while more and more mail servers would be switching to the new protocol. During this period i would use whitelisting for SMTP mails where every unknown sender would receive a message to either use the new protocol or undergo some painful procedure to get whitelisted.
Actually no, take a look at the url. Not all latin words have a regular stem, and virus might have greek origin.
Too bad youre wrong. Virus is not the same stem as e.g. servus, virii is definitely wrong. Perseus suggests vira as plural, sounds weird though. Keep it simple, us the english form viruses.
*yawn* Is it really time for another troll category? After the goatse-trolls now the sco-trolls?
3) Isn't it a little premature for "Is Mandrake Light a GPL Violation?" HP isn't shipping source CDs. (What does anyone do with those things, anyway? What would you possibly want them for -- to run some sort of homebrew Gentoo Hat?) There's nothing unusual or inappropriate about that.
afair gpl only requires that the sources need to be made available on request, not that you need to ship the sources with every binary.
Sony support once asked me to reinstall Windows from CD when i complained about a broken CD drive...
Humm... i wouldnt call the relationship between hp and compaq "partner"...;)