The bit I hate about hotmail is how they still sell addresses to spammers, year after year, and nobody calls them on it. Every few years I do a test, by creating an email address somewhere and letting it sit for a while. After a few weeks or months checking that it gets no spam, I send one email from a hotmail account to that email address. Within hours or days it's then receiving spam emails, and almost always the stock scam or mortgage type.
Hotmail may claim they'll never sell your email address to spammers, when you sign up, but they do distribute the email addresses of people you send email TO. This happens not with any other email provider I try yet.
This isn't entirely on topic, but it's related to my experience of having spammers use my domain in the From: field.
Dealing with the hundreds or thousands of bounces was inconvenient, but I noticed one string of bounces was coming from a regular user who had a script set up to bounce about a hundred spammy messages of their own in response to each spam they detected.
I mailed them telling them what a useless idea that was, and all I got back was the same bounce - a hundred messages all with the line "PISS OFF WITH YOUR SPAM AND TAKE IT ELSEWHERE", and my original message quoted.
Figuring it was email from my domain (now blacklisted on their server/client somehow), I emailed from another email account, telling them the same thing, and got the same bounces. Third time I tried, I emailed them without describing my domain anywhere in the email, letting them know their spam bounces weren't going to real spammers, rather to the email addresses of those that the spammer had spoofed.
The string of abuse I got back was essentially two pages of ranting, telling me a spammer couldn't fake a From: address, my domain must have been hacked, calling me an idiot who should be banned from the net. The usual teenager response.
The simple fix? Sending email to their account with my domain listed in the body so it triggered their hundred-message spam bounce, but with the From: field set to the idiot's own email address.
I only had to send one. My next message to them reminding them their From: address could indeed be faked bounced back with a mailbox full message from their ISP. Seems his spam-bounce script had seen my email to him with my domain listed in the body, sent back 100 rude messages all to the From: field address (which was himself), each of which also carried my domain in the text. those hundred emails to himself also each must have triggered his spam bounce script, making 10,000 emails to himself from himself... and so on.
Gave me some amusement to make up for having spammers using my domain:)
Intel > AMD at high end, Intel >= AMD at low end, Core 2 > A64, Intel finally has a lead in both architecture design and process (65nm).
I think what this review forgets is that AMD have the better design, and despite that they're running slower, the chips themselves are manufactured and designed right from the start to be more elegant internally.
The speed might be faster, but that's like comparing a slow BMW to a fast ratty corolla that some kid's bolted a turbo to. Technically sure the corolla is faster, but the BMW is still the better car, and that's what counts.
I notice there's no mention of ANY of the Apple viruses/worms or malware out there. You only have to search back through the last year of security news to see the exploits taken advantage of in OSX to see a few examples of this, yet there's still no "FIRST VIRUS ON MACS" headline in the mainstream press.
Especially the one released on a popular mac rumors forum earlier this year that hit a few people hard.
Guo's research team has tested the absorption capabilities for the black metal and confirmed that it can absorb virtually all the light that fall on it, making it pitch black.
Surely if it absorbed all the light, it would be completely invisible, not black?
I'd love to hear specifically what is missing, as I'm sure the devs would too.
Unfortunately the latter part of your comment has been demonstrated time and again by the developers to be a false presumption too many of us make. After gimp stories hit sites like slashdot, the comments from developers are "So, was there anything useful in the slashdot story or was it all the usual drivel?"
The devs know people want good cmyk, LAB, 16 bit color, 32 bit/channel or HDR, but are dismissive of the need and fire back with condescension when those topics are raised. They put down anyone who comments on the UI or the name. They dismiss people who say they need adjustment layers or layer styles as "liars, like windows users who say they never get a BSOD" or "just looking for a way to pick on gimp, GNU's favorite whipping boy". They criticize those who want good in-gimp text rendering, claiming there's no need for gimp to do it when other apps work just dandy, though admittedly there seems to be work on that front. They berate people who say they like a feature in photoshop that's not in gimp by telling them they'd learn more if they just learned how to do it the "correct way with scripting". Yeah, and back in my day we walked uphill both ways in the snow and liked it because it's the way it should be done. They blame known performance issues on "having the wrong graphics card" or telling people they just need to buy better hardware.
Fewer and fewer people can be bothered dealing with gimp not just for its shortcomings, but for the attitude of the majority of its supporters. It's fair enough that they don't want it to change, but it's a pity a GPL app with such potential is held back by the people with the knowledge to fix it but quite simply don't give a shit about users.
The whole idea of a patch day was to let DBAs get prepared for testing and deployment. What's the use of having a patch day when there are no patches to download?"
Well maybe there are no patches that need doing? I mean maybe the assumption after using window$ so much is that there always should be patches but what about the situation where oracle is secure from one month to the next and nothing needs patching to keep it secure?
Personally, I work on average 8 months a year and spend the rest of the time travelling - I am rarely stressed and almost never sick.
I've never needed to miss a day off work yet, and I'm still vigorously healthy! But that's not because of any shirker reason like holidays, but because I eat correctly for the human body I have, which is to eat vegetarian.
I know you'll shake your head at it like everybody does, but the typical vegetarian gets no cancer, never gets influenza (yes your flu last year could be avoided if you dumped meat) and will never have the depression, bowel disease, heart problems and overweight that inflict meat eaters!
Just think about it, food takes 4 days to go through your system and if you put meat in a body temperature container for 4 days how disgusting it's going to be when it comes out. You wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot stick! so why put it in your body? That's just insanity.
Remember it's been shown by many studies that humans are vegetarian primates, so eating meat is just going against nature, you may as well be eating steel or plastic for all the good it will do to your body!
rescue titles from their current 'Abandonware' status, and make them available for the public to play (legally) once again.
But that's what abandonware is! when a publisher hasn't done anything with their copywrited works for so long then it's legally like public domain, except they still hold the copyright, but it's legal to distribute or copy and use without notifying the original owner.
Look at all the abandonware gaming sites around, you can download so many things there from publishers that have let titles go too long without doing anything with them, like outrun and donkey kong and so on
They're not thinking about the quash of free speech, they're thinking of ways to get access to the world's largest consumer base.
What, china? Also about the world's poorest. They'd be better off concentratting on the US where people earn a hundred times as much and putting more effort into making this country even greater than it is (if that's possible!!)
The blind eyes being turned here are the eyes of Congress and the American government. So willing are we to have our cheap plastic home appliances that we refuse to stand up to government-sponsored persecution of freedom.
Actually that is rubbish as we stand up to cuba one of the greatest human rights abusers of its general populace and we have done so for decades, so to say we are blind eyes is rubbish.
Actually the A500 competed with the first Macintosh from 1984, and the Amiga 1000 was released just before it in 1982 or 1983. The Amiga, after all, is the first consumer computer to have a GUI, something it beat the Macintosh by well over a year at. I remember scoffing at the first mac when it was released because my Amiga already did all that, and in color.
The Amiga did this at the same time and better:). Amiga 500, 68000 at 8MHz could do smooth fullscreen full colour video with stereo 4 channel sound booted from floppy with 1MB RAM AND multitask like Windows and MacOS didn't know how to do until 1999 or later.
Sometimes the world forgets the technology we had yesteryear.
>> "...and where Zeframe Cochrane launched his first warp ship >> from." > No. It's where Zeframe Cochrane WILL launch his first warp > ship from. Get your facts straight.
Something I've always wondered. Cochrane went into space in a titan rocket - and warped. All cool.
This has me wondering. I understand some basics of GPL licenses, but afaik with them (including the LGPL)
if apple do internal-only builds with *GPL licensed code, they don't have to release anything to the public, do they?
if that's true, then it's possible there are many things they've put into their version of the KHTML codebase that later on they either don't want to release as *GPL (as they don't have to, being non public released code) or find later infringes on someone else's license (say, patent encumbered code) so they then revise that problematic code out.
On a project the size of Safari i imagine that would have already happened a few times, if not many. That may be part of their reasoning behind not releasing the history.
> The libraries are making their content more accessible? Can it > be bad?
I don't think so. The first thing I thought partway through reading the slashdot summary was "uhoh. these euro libraries are going to sue google". hearing that they were going to put effort into making their own service is a refreshing change to this cynical reader.
So if a task needs doing, and GPL software can't yet do it well - RMS would rather that people ignored that task and pretend it didn't need doing, than to do the task with the best available tools?
What silliness. Besides, our graphic arts department is switching away from photoshop to GIMP as we speak, based on this new revelation by RMS.
Oh not so much - I was perhaps 12 when I saw an episode (the name escapes me) with a robotic maggot thing that bit people on the arm and gave them green pulsing glowing veins until they were cured.
I remember little more than that from those episodes, and it's the reason I'm STILL apprehensive about What Might Be Under The Bed:)
Slashdot Mirror
The bit I hate about hotmail is how they still sell addresses to spammers, year after year, and nobody calls them on it. Every few years I do a test, by creating an email address somewhere and letting it sit for a while. After a few weeks or months checking that it gets no spam, I send one email from a hotmail account to that email address. Within hours or days it's then receiving spam emails, and almost always the stock scam or mortgage type.
Hotmail may claim they'll never sell your email address to spammers, when you sign up, but they do distribute the email addresses of people you send email TO. This happens not with any other email provider I try yet.
This isn't entirely on topic, but it's related to my experience of having spammers use my domain in the From: field.
:)
Dealing with the hundreds or thousands of bounces was inconvenient, but I noticed one string of bounces was coming from a regular user who had a script set up to bounce about a hundred spammy messages of their own in response to each spam they detected.
I mailed them telling them what a useless idea that was, and all I got back was the same bounce - a hundred messages all with the line "PISS OFF WITH YOUR SPAM AND TAKE IT ELSEWHERE", and my original message quoted.
Figuring it was email from my domain (now blacklisted on their server/client somehow), I emailed from another email account, telling them the same thing, and got the same bounces. Third time I tried, I emailed them without describing my domain anywhere in the email, letting them know their spam bounces weren't going to real spammers, rather to the email addresses of those that the spammer had spoofed.
The string of abuse I got back was essentially two pages of ranting, telling me a spammer couldn't fake a From: address, my domain must have been hacked, calling me an idiot who should be banned from the net. The usual teenager response.
The simple fix? Sending email to their account with my domain listed in the body so it triggered their hundred-message spam bounce, but with the From: field set to the idiot's own email address.
I only had to send one. My next message to them reminding them their From: address could indeed be faked bounced back with a mailbox full message from their ISP. Seems his spam-bounce script had seen my email to him with my domain listed in the body, sent back 100 rude messages all to the From: field address (which was himself), each of which also carried my domain in the text. those hundred emails to himself also each must have triggered his spam bounce script, making 10,000 emails to himself from himself... and so on.
Gave me some amusement to make up for having spammers using my domain
Intel > AMD at high end, Intel >= AMD at low end, Core 2 > A64, Intel finally has a lead in both architecture design and process (65nm).
I think what this review forgets is that AMD have the better design, and despite that they're running slower, the chips themselves are manufactured and designed right from the start to be more elegant internally.
The speed might be faster, but that's like comparing a slow BMW to a fast ratty corolla that some kid's bolted a turbo to. Technically sure the corolla is faster, but the BMW is still the better car, and that's what counts.
AMD is still king of the hill in my book
I notice there's no mention of ANY of the Apple viruses/worms or malware out there. You only have to search back through the last year of security news to see the exploits taken advantage of in OSX to see a few examples of this, yet there's still no "FIRST VIRUS ON MACS" headline in the mainstream press.
Especially the one released on a popular mac rumors forum earlier this year that hit a few people hard.
I'm not sure I understand the article.
Guo's research team has tested the absorption capabilities for the black metal and confirmed that it can absorb virtually all the light that fall on it, making it pitch black.
Surely if it absorbed all the light, it would be completely invisible, not black?
> Did I read that right? Did the movie studios just make a good decision?
They left out the most important bit of news - Fox and Universal have now gone to Uwe Boll to get the movie made.
Anyone who has interacted with GIMP developers (instead of flaming them), knows that parent is purebreed troll.
Thank you for so precisely demonstrating that dismissive attitude.
I'd love to hear specifically what is missing, as I'm sure the devs would too.
Unfortunately the latter part of your comment has been demonstrated time and again by the developers to be a false presumption too many of us make. After gimp stories hit sites like slashdot, the comments from developers are "So, was there anything useful in the slashdot story or was it all the usual drivel?"
The devs know people want good cmyk, LAB, 16 bit color, 32 bit/channel or HDR, but are dismissive of the need and fire back with condescension when those topics are raised. They put down anyone who comments on the UI or the name. They dismiss people who say they need adjustment layers or layer styles as "liars, like windows users who say they never get a BSOD" or "just looking for a way to pick on gimp, GNU's favorite whipping boy". They criticize those who want good in-gimp text rendering, claiming there's no need for gimp to do it when other apps work just dandy, though admittedly there seems to be work on that front. They berate people who say they like a feature in photoshop that's not in gimp by telling them they'd learn more if they just learned how to do it the "correct way with scripting". Yeah, and back in my day we walked uphill both ways in the snow and liked it because it's the way it should be done. They blame known performance issues on "having the wrong graphics card" or telling people they just need to buy better hardware.
Fewer and fewer people can be bothered dealing with gimp not just for its shortcomings, but for the attitude of the majority of its supporters. It's fair enough that they don't want it to change, but it's a pity a GPL app with such potential is held back by the people with the knowledge to fix it but quite simply don't give a shit about users.
The whole idea of a patch day was to let DBAs get prepared for testing and deployment. What's the use of having a patch day when there are no patches to download?"
Well maybe there are no patches that need doing? I mean maybe the assumption after using window$ so much is that there always should be patches but what about the situation where oracle is secure from one month to the next and nothing needs patching to keep it secure?
Why complain then?
At the expense of sounding paranoid, I even shred my baggage check tickets (Name+flight#+someID#).
I chew and eat them lol!
Personally, I work on average 8 months a year and spend the rest of the time travelling - I am rarely stressed and almost never sick.
I've never needed to miss a day off work yet, and I'm still vigorously healthy! But that's not because of any shirker reason like holidays, but because I eat correctly for the human body I have, which is to eat vegetarian.
I know you'll shake your head at it like everybody does, but the typical vegetarian gets no cancer, never gets influenza (yes your flu last year could be avoided if you dumped meat) and will never have the depression, bowel disease, heart problems and overweight that inflict meat eaters!
Just think about it, food takes 4 days to go through your system and if you put meat in a body temperature container for 4 days how disgusting it's going to be when it comes out. You wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot stick! so why put it in your body? That's just insanity.
Remember it's been shown by many studies that humans are vegetarian primates, so eating meat is just going against nature, you may as well be eating steel or plastic for all the good it will do to your body!
rescue titles from their current 'Abandonware' status, and make them available for the public to play (legally) once again.
But that's what abandonware is! when a publisher hasn't done anything with their copywrited works for so long then it's legally like public domain, except they still hold the copyright, but it's legal to distribute or copy and use without notifying the original owner.
Look at all the abandonware gaming sites around, you can download so many things there from publishers that have let titles go too long without doing anything with them, like outrun and donkey kong and so on
They're not thinking about the quash of free speech, they're thinking of ways to get access to the world's largest consumer base.
What, china? Also about the world's poorest. They'd be better off concentratting on the US where people earn a hundred times as much and putting more effort into making this country even greater than it is (if that's possible!!)
The blind eyes being turned here are the eyes of Congress and the American government. So willing are we to have our cheap plastic home appliances that we refuse to stand up to government-sponsored persecution of freedom.
Actually that is rubbish as we stand up to cuba one of the greatest human rights abusers of its general populace and we have done so for decades, so to say we are blind eyes is rubbish.
Wher eis 6.06 download to be from? I can't see from the link given in the article which is 5.10
Actually the A500 competed with the first Macintosh from 1984, and the Amiga 1000 was released just before it in 1982 or 1983. The Amiga, after all, is the first consumer computer to have a GUI, something it beat the Macintosh by well over a year at. I remember scoffing at the first mac when it was released because my Amiga already did all that, and in color.
The Amiga did this at the same time and better :). Amiga 500, 68000 at 8MHz could do smooth fullscreen full colour video with stereo 4 channel sound booted from floppy with 1MB RAM AND multitask like Windows and MacOS didn't know how to do until 1999 or later.
Sometimes the world forgets the technology we had yesteryear.
Not sure how it's ironic -- the modern handgun reflects hundreds of years of user testing
And it's one button. Apple must be onto something...
I agree. Reading this: ...the move is likely going to draw accusations that Redmond is trying to buy off bloggers to hype Longhorn.
is like saying "going out and shooting people is likely to draw accusations that you're a murderer."
Likely. Duh!
>> "...and where Zeframe Cochrane launched his first warp ship
>> from."
> No. It's where Zeframe Cochrane WILL launch his first warp
> ship from. Get your facts straight.
Something I've always wondered. Cochrane went into space in a titan rocket - and warped. All cool.
How did he get back to earth?
This has me wondering. I understand some basics of GPL licenses, but afaik with them (including the LGPL)
if apple do internal-only builds with *GPL licensed code, they don't have to release anything to the public, do they?
if that's true, then it's possible there are many things they've put into their version of the KHTML codebase that later on they either don't want to release as *GPL (as they don't have to, being non public released code) or find later infringes on someone else's license (say, patent encumbered code) so they then revise that problematic code out.
On a project the size of Safari i imagine that would have already happened a few times, if not many. That may be part of their reasoning behind not releasing the history.
> The libraries are making their content more accessible? Can it
> be bad?
I don't think so. The first thing I thought partway through reading the slashdot summary was "uhoh. these euro libraries are going to sue google". hearing that they were going to put effort into making their own service is a refreshing change to this cynical reader.
So if a task needs doing, and GPL software can't yet do it well - RMS would rather that people ignored that task and pretend it didn't need doing, than to do the task with the best available tools?
What silliness. Besides, our graphic arts department is switching away from photoshop to GIMP as we speak, based on this new revelation by RMS.
Oh not so much - I was perhaps 12 when I saw an episode (the name escapes me) with a robotic maggot thing that bit people on the arm and gave them green pulsing glowing veins until they were cured.
:)
I remember little more than that from those episodes, and it's the reason I'm STILL apprehensive about What Might Be Under The Bed
"But there were a lot of shots which had to be re-done because the Dalek got stuck in a doorway."
Well there's an enemy that has me scared.