Last time they were accepting emails to non-existant domains too. If everyone makes sure they have lots of web pages with long lists of email addresses in nonexistant domains then the spammers will spend a significant fraction of their bandwidth DOSing verisign instead of hassling the rest of us.
In your idea, remember to get the script to follow all the paid-for links. The advertisers will have to pay for the hit, and will soon realise they're getting bad value for money. And you can still identiy site-finder DNS entries easily, so you could just mis-spell random real web sites and see if they point to site-finder.
DMCA only bans defeating 'copy protection'. If there's some obfuscation in there that's claimed to be 'copy protection', then the DMCA applies. As it is, the format is totally obscure but that's just a concequence of bad design. As a result it's legal. You can't copyright file formats. You can patent them, but MS hasn't done that with current office formats.
Just an idle question: Why?
Is it because the probe is solar powered and has no batteries, so can't do any work at night, or because we can't talk to it when it's on the wrong side of mars?
Otherwise I'd have thought there'd be work to do all the time, so there's not much point in worrying about martian daylight time. We never went over to 28-day days for moon missions.
...the free market is the solution.Yes, it's reasonable to have certification to check the product is safe, but that doesn't really apply to software. If the product is useless for its intended purpose or unreliable in a safe way, the consumer should make an informed choice and chose an alternative product. If all available products are useless the consumer should make an informed choice if they can do without or put up with the crap that's available. Any sort of certification is expensive and ineffective compared to comparitive reviews of the different options.It'll also tend to involve a fixed standard that will be hard to raise; there'll be a long time when new essential features aren't being tested for.
(Disclaimer: I don't use popfile myself. I keep meaning to set it up, but haven't got round to it)
I'm also looking for this program. Popfile comes darned close. Most people think it's a bayesian spam filter. It isn't. It's a bayesian filter that can sort into any number of categories, using normal bayesian magic. So you show it a certain number of emails in a particular category and it'll then start classifying all subsequent similar ones into the same category.
The snag is that it insists on using POP and a web front end as its interface. So you need to go to the web interface to set everything up. (There may be plughins for outlook, but what use is that?). My ideal system would automatically notice which folder you put things in and put subsequent similar messages into the same folder. Ideally it'd be an IMAP server so that it works with all email clients.
The NGage is an open system, so anyone can write games for it. That's why it costs so much*; Nokia has already got enough profit when you buy the device and they don't care if you never buy an official game. The hack simply means that cartrige games can be pirated and run on other Series 60 phones. It's always been the case that anyone can go out and write software for the NGage without paying Nokia a penny. (There's a special games SDK that comes with some games libraries or somesuch that costs money, but this won't use it)
*Actually, it's now available for free with a contract here in the UK, but the network is subsidising that, not Nokia.
That looks like what I want. That's the problem with XMMS; you need to understand all the things hidden in obscure plugins to discover it does everything you could possibly want.
I looked at the older non-Wifi SLIMP3 before deciding it was rather expensive, but the device itself is INCREDIBLY simple and all the work is done in the server software. That means that there's no fundamental reason why you (or Slim) couldn't add cross-fading to the server. But they haven't done this.
By the way, does anyone know any decent MP3 players that do crossfading on Linux. All the Windows ones seem to be getting all sorts of clever auto-mixing capability but Linux stuff just plays 1 song then the next.
It is optional.
MS is not forcing you to read the DRMed word document you've just received.
MS is not forcing you to use the only music players that drive your soundcard properly.
MS is not forcing you to read your emails after you accidentaly clicked on the nice friendly 'make my emails private' button.
If anyone else forces you to do any of these things, that's not Microsoft's problem. This is really clever. They're creating a situation in which there's a strong ecenomic incentive for people like the MPAA to write monopoly software that only runs on Windows, but if MS don't do it and don't have any relationship with the people who do it, have they leveraged a monopoly?
(IANAL)
Linux doesn't use FAT32. OK; Linux CAN use FAT32, or it can use ext2fs (usual on 2.2, very fast, no journaling), ext3fs (compatible with ext2fs, journaling, a tad slower, the default for RedHat), reiserfs (Very fast, journaling, default on lots of distros and probably the most popular), or XFS (SGI's file system) or JFS (IBM's file system). All the improvements you're looking for are there now.
The TCP stuff assumes you do a secure boot; you boot a trusted BIOS, then boot the trusted loader then boot the trusted OS. You want to boot that copy of GRUB you've just compiled then boot into Windows? Sorry mate; GRUB isn't trusted. Microsoft has decided that they don't dare make the PC a closed platform, so they do insane tricks to build the trusted world after boot time. You boot the untrusted OS (Most of Longhorn will be considered untrusted) then can get a small bit of it (called the Nexus) trusted later. Interestingly you're even allowed to write your own nexus, if you want to create your own universe of trust.This reveals something very important; Microsoft thinks there are limits to its monopoly power over the PC and we can see where they are.Microsoft will never encourage you to dual-boot but it has massively increased the complexity of Palladium to make sure you can.
PHBs might want to consider the fact that many of HP's people have been laid off and outsourced to India. The new people in India might be very clever, but they started last month and don't know what's going on yet.
Microcode upgrades. Most CPUs support this.
But seriously, IBM is clearly doing most of the work. Microsoft will decide how big the cache should be and things like this.
Industrial areas often contain things like fuel tanks, chemical plants and so on. None of which are very compatible with microwaves that narrowly miss the target.
If you can get perfect code, it's very useful for security. Back in the real world, there's a trade-off between the perfection of the code (which implies the features you want are years late) and the degree of patching. The general consensus is that Microsoft has got the trade-off wrong.
These comments are not encouraging as they imply that BillG sees the way forward to be better patching (e.g. the once-a-month idea that gives worms an average of a fortnigh to take over the world) rather than better code.
There's no defined USB filesystem-level interface. As a result, the devices that look like drives have to read and write blocks and then try and understand what's happened when they get unplugged (e.g. the Archos, which is a bit clunky) or have a special file that needs to be updated (e.g. the iPod). If there was a USB profile that talked in terms of files and directories it'd be much easier for the device to keep track of what's on the disc. Doing this would also make it easy to have a device that can play and sync at the same time. But it's up to the USB people.
For sites like mozilla.org, where most of the traffic is people who don't use mirrors downloading big binaries, how about this:
The site is split into 2 with separate servers, ISPs and so on. 1 site has the web pages, information, list of mirrors and other small stuff. The other site has the binaries BUT IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MIRROR SITES.
That way people must use the mirrors, and the mirrors can update even when everyone is trying to download.
According to their idea, you can lie about changes you've made.But you can't claim that something that was never true about your computer is true.
While this provides more compatibility with the dictionary definition of the word 'trusted', it doesn't solve all that much.
Imagine a DRMed version of CIFS that only connects to MS clients. Under the EFFs scheme, a client that runs a hacked version of Windows is OK, but a client that never ran Windows isn't. Samba is still dead.
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Last time they were accepting emails to non-existant domains too. If everyone makes sure they have lots of web pages with long lists of email addresses in nonexistant domains then the spammers will spend a significant fraction of their bandwidth DOSing verisign instead of hassling the rest of us.
In your idea, remember to get the script to follow all the paid-for links. The advertisers will have to pay for the hit, and will soon realise they're getting bad value for money. And you can still identiy site-finder DNS entries easily, so you could just mis-spell random real web sites and see if they point to site-finder.
DMCA only bans defeating 'copy protection'. If there's some obfuscation in there that's claimed to be 'copy protection', then the DMCA applies. As it is, the format is totally obscure but that's just a concequence of bad design. As a result it's legal. You can't copyright file formats. You can patent them, but MS hasn't done that with current office formats.
Just an idle question: Why?
Is it because the probe is solar powered and has no batteries, so can't do any work at night, or because we can't talk to it when it's on the wrong side of mars?
Otherwise I'd have thought there'd be work to do all the time, so there's not much point in worrying about martian daylight time. We never went over to 28-day days for moon missions.
...the free market is the solution.Yes, it's reasonable to have certification to check the product is safe, but that doesn't really apply to software. If the product is useless for its intended purpose or unreliable in a safe way, the consumer should make an informed choice and chose an alternative product. If all available products are useless the consumer should make an informed choice if they can do without or put up with the crap that's available. Any sort of certification is expensive and ineffective compared to comparitive reviews of the different options.It'll also tend to involve a fixed standard that will be hard to raise; there'll be a long time when new essential features aren't being tested for.
(Disclaimer: I don't use popfile myself. I keep meaning to set it up, but haven't got round to it)
I'm also looking for this program. Popfile comes darned close. Most people think it's a bayesian spam filter. It isn't. It's a bayesian filter that can sort into any number of categories, using normal bayesian magic. So you show it a certain number of emails in a particular category and it'll then start classifying all subsequent similar ones into the same category.
The snag is that it insists on using POP and a web front end as its interface. So you need to go to the web interface to set everything up. (There may be plughins for outlook, but what use is that?). My ideal system would automatically notice which folder you put things in and put subsequent similar messages into the same folder. Ideally it'd be an IMAP server so that it works with all email clients.
The NGage is an open system, so anyone can write games for it. That's why it costs so much*; Nokia has already got enough profit when you buy the device and they don't care if you never buy an official game. The hack simply means that cartrige games can be pirated and run on other Series 60 phones. It's always been the case that anyone can go out and write software for the NGage without paying Nokia a penny. (There's a special games SDK that comes with some games libraries or somesuch that costs money, but this won't use it)
*Actually, it's now available for free with a contract here in the UK, but the network is subsidising that, not Nokia.
That looks like what I want. That's the problem with XMMS; you need to understand all the things hidden in obscure plugins to discover it does everything you could possibly want.
I looked at the older non-Wifi SLIMP3 before deciding it was rather expensive, but the device itself is INCREDIBLY simple and all the work is done in the server software. That means that there's no fundamental reason why you (or Slim) couldn't add cross-fading to the server. But they haven't done this.
By the way, does anyone know any decent MP3 players that do crossfading on Linux. All the Windows ones seem to be getting all sorts of clever auto-mixing capability but Linux stuff just plays 1 song then the next.
It is optional.
MS is not forcing you to read the DRMed word document you've just received.
MS is not forcing you to use the only music players that drive your soundcard properly.
MS is not forcing you to read your emails after you accidentaly clicked on the nice friendly 'make my emails private' button.
If anyone else forces you to do any of these things, that's not Microsoft's problem. This is really clever. They're creating a situation in which there's a strong ecenomic incentive for people like the MPAA to write monopoly software that only runs on Windows, but if MS don't do it and don't have any relationship with the people who do it, have they leveraged a monopoly?
(IANAL)
Linux doesn't use FAT32. OK; Linux CAN use FAT32, or it can use ext2fs (usual on 2.2, very fast, no journaling), ext3fs (compatible with ext2fs, journaling, a tad slower, the default for RedHat), reiserfs (Very fast, journaling, default on lots of distros and probably the most popular), or XFS (SGI's file system) or JFS (IBM's file system). All the improvements you're looking for are there now.
The TCP stuff assumes you do a secure boot; you boot a trusted BIOS, then boot the trusted loader then boot the trusted OS. You want to boot that copy of GRUB you've just compiled then boot into Windows? Sorry mate; GRUB isn't trusted. Microsoft has decided that they don't dare make the PC a closed platform, so they do insane tricks to build the trusted world after boot time. You boot the untrusted OS (Most of Longhorn will be considered untrusted) then can get a small bit of it (called the Nexus) trusted later. Interestingly you're even allowed to write your own nexus, if you want to create your own universe of trust.This reveals something very important; Microsoft thinks there are limits to its monopoly power over the PC and we can see where they are.Microsoft will never encourage you to dual-boot but it has massively increased the complexity of Palladium to make sure you can.
PHBs might want to consider the fact that many of HP's people have been laid off and outsourced to India. The new people in India might be very clever, but they started last month and don't know what's going on yet.
It's probably less frustrating if you're being paid by the hour.
Microcode upgrades. Most CPUs support this.
But seriously, IBM is clearly doing most of the work. Microsoft will decide how big the cache should be and things like this.
Industrial areas often contain things like fuel tanks, chemical plants and so on. None of which are very compatible with microwaves that narrowly miss the target.
These comments are not encouraging as they imply that BillG sees the way forward to be better patching (e.g. the once-a-month idea that gives worms an average of a fortnigh to take over the world) rather than better code.
There's no defined USB filesystem-level interface. As a result, the devices that look like drives have to read and write blocks and then try and understand what's happened when they get unplugged (e.g. the Archos, which is a bit clunky) or have a special file that needs to be updated (e.g. the iPod). If there was a USB profile that talked in terms of files and directories it'd be much easier for the device to keep track of what's on the disc. Doing this would also make it easy to have a device that can play and sync at the same time. But it's up to the USB people.
The site is split into 2 with separate servers, ISPs and so on. 1 site has the web pages, information, list of mirrors and other small stuff. The other site has the binaries BUT IS ONLY ACCESSIBLE TO MIRROR SITES.
That way people must use the mirrors, and the mirrors can update even when everyone is trying to download.
mozilla.org is totally slashdotted already. Anyone got a mirror of the list of mirrors!
According to their idea, you can lie about changes you've made.But you can't claim that something that was never true about your computer is true. While this provides more compatibility with the dictionary definition of the word 'trusted', it doesn't solve all that much. Imagine a DRMed version of CIFS that only connects to MS clients. Under the EFFs scheme, a client that runs a hacked version of Windows is OK, but a client that never ran Windows isn't. Samba is still dead.