While this may be a step in the right direction Spam is just like Jason/Michael in the horror movies we love: it just keeps coming and coming. We may think we are going to kill it but it will get up again. When there is the ability to make money (and lots of it) from spamming, people will always think of new ways to fill our inboxes with this lovely stinking spam.
The fight has got to be taken to the source. Kill the companies paying these people to spam us. If the flow of $$ disappears, so will the notorious spammers (who will find some other way to rip folks off). What? You say many of these companies are in other countries and their law enforcement won't do anything? Place embargoes on imports from their countries....drastic step? Yes, but they will listen up fast. Problem solved...meh.
Space Elevator already! Forget this stuff....
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I really wish that the majority of global space efforts would go towards designing and constructing a space elevator already. This is really what they need in order to get things rolling in outer space. The major hurdle is getting anything we construct here on earth off the surface, past the atmosphere and out past orbit....If a successful implementation of space elevator were to exist we could simply raise our payloads out past the atmoshere and snap together prebuilt space cruisers in space. Then we could really have some serious space travelling. Unt il then we will just piddle around with the Xprize and trying to get chunks of metal off the earth's surface....we're still stuck in our sandbox with our pale and shovel...how depressing.
If only more effort and funing were to go toward space instead of missiles and chem weapons, etc...sigh.
What Japan are you in? I have been here for 3.5 years and have yet to receive a business card "Without" an email address. I don't know what your area of work is within the computer industry but I suspect you may not be in tune with the Japanese internet industry....one example: Rakuten Ichiba (rakuten.co.jp) which is an online retailer with about 14,000 registered businesses. Check this:
http://www.cpureview.com/news/20031215fast.htm
Also, you are forgetting the huge amount of i-mode internet usage (cell phone intenet access to those in the west) and PHS access...not to mention home usage. Japan is really on fire in the area of internet technology and usage. It is really becoming a core part of society at all levels. Japan has really jumped into the internet arena with both feet. To say otherwise IMO is due to unawareness.
Here in Japan we have internet connectivity options like this:
ADSL in 8/12/24/26/45Mbps (1 or 3MB upstream) ~$30-40US/month.
FTTH 100Mbps up and down ~$50US/month
PHS mobile 128kbps - mobile cards (PCMCIA/SD) that can be used in all major city areas....great for PDA's and notebooks.
Also we have Voice over IP standard with YahooBB (bb.yahoo.co.jp) and some other ISP's. This allows us to call for free to anywhere in Japan if the other party is on the same VOIP network. Also, long distance calls to the US, for example, are very inexpensive (~3yen/min). We also have TV over IP here =).
Also, ISP's DO NOT impose CAPPING or any ugliness of that sort.
Japan is of course much smaller geographically than say the US but also the infrastructure here is purely digital and allows for very robust switching and routing. In the US/Canada, even if you had Fiber to every home, the network infrastructure could not support the traffic and routing...North America needs a serious clean house at the base level....they better get on it soon! ~3-4 years ago the Internet was not a big thing in Japan, not that many people really used it compared to now...the growth here has been phenominal.
I have had ENOUGH of visiting sites with Gator pop-ups, etc and now this. While these sites do have the right to generate revenue to sustain themselves, grown and make a profit it is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE that these sites automatically push this type of content to you with your explicit permission. In fact, I would go so far as to say it is an infringement to the security of your PC. One could call this tampering with your PC...especially the adware crap that's out there now (Gator, etc). It is a CRIME or should be!
I think what really needs to be done is a filtering intitiative needs to be started just like we have for SPAM. Sites should be filtered based on the content they push to viewers. Then viewers can use these filters with a custom plug-in to their browsers and be warned in advance to opening the page as to what it is pushing to viewers.
"WARNING: this site will attempt to push Gator software to your PC" "Do you want to proceed?"
"This features full motion commercials" "Do you want to proceed?"
Something like mailwasher except for websites instead of email.
I have one machine that I use specifically for web browsing (and use Mozilla Firebird) and gaming and one for my business related matters that I do not browse the web with at all. I don't need the headaches from potential problems like this.
I really dread the thought of moving home to Canada one day when I read these kinds of things. Here in Tokyo, Japan I have ADSL to my home. It is 8MBdown/1MBup. I am about to upgrade to 45MBdown/3MBup for oh, about $35-40/month. It also has IP phone services with it so I can call overseas to the US/Canada for EXTREMELY low rates.
100MB FTTH is also quite common in most areas and many apartment complexes come with it standard with the apartment/home.
There are no qualms about download caps or bandwidth caps here. Japan (and Korea no doubt) is internet heaven.
I understand the nature of it though, both Japan and Korea are smaller countries and thus much easier to wire than say North America. Also, is the fact that North America's infrastructure is quite archaic compared to Japan's all digital switching. This allows for much more bandwidth to be handled by the internet infrastructure here. North America, however, really better get on the bandwagon FAST as they are really falling behind.
They are not the 'only' 64-bit desktop's available. What's this guys jabbering about? The Opteron is not even a desktop CPU. Try the Athlon 64 variants my friend.
Also, this really should have waited until 64-bit XP came out or for now, testing should have been performed under Linux.
Also, if this is meant to be a CPU vs CPU comparison, I am sorry but you cannot do that. There are so many factors that account for the end peformance results. All the subsystems in each computer are so different (core logic chipset, harddisks!!, video, etc, etc) that you cannot put them on a level playing field. The only real way ou could do a CPU - CPU direct comparison is if both had the same interface and could be used in the same motherboard and were clocked the same. This way you could get an accurate per clock performance comparison. This is balonga.
Now, someone please step up and let me know if this exists already but, seeing as the source of some spyware is from active x scripts that run when you visit websites why are there not blacklists for sites (just like dns blacklists for spam) that Gator and others pay to infect our machines? Just like spammers, it can all be traced back to someone paying the spammers to spam. Spyware/adware that gets installed when you visit a site to view information/photos is akin a virus infections IMO. The companies like Gator, etc pay sites to host their viruses to be put on our computers and cause us grief. Why do we visit such sites? I think that if a blacklist were set up and people used it that we would less and less instances of Gator,etc. Many sites may disappear due to lack of revenue to sustain themselves but that's fine with me. We're better off without them spewing spyware on everyone. Lepers of the internet. This does not of course account for spyware programs that people download/purchase and install on their machines. Something has really got to be done because I find it completely unacceptible and I would say illegal that companies can put their filty paws into your "PC" (personal!! computer) and handle your information. If individuals do this, it is called a 'cyber-crime'. Why is it ok for companies to do it?? Come on! Enough is enough!!!
Now, someone please step up and let me know if this exists already but, seeing as the source of some spyware is from active x scripts that run when you visit websites why are there not blacklists for sites (just like dns blacklists for spam) that Gator and others pay to infect our machines?
Just like spammers, it can all be traced back to someone paying the spammers to spam. Spyware/adware that gets installed when you visit a site to view information/photos is akin a virus infections IMO. The companies like Gator, etc pay sites to host their viruses to be put on our computers and cause us grief. Why do we visit such sites? I think that if a blacklist were set up and people used it that we would less and less instances of Gator,etc. Many sites may disappear due to lack of revenue to sustain themselves but that's fine with me. We're better off without them spewing spyware on everyone. Lepers of the internet.
This does not of course account for spyware programs that people download/purchase and install on their machines.
Something has really got to be done because I find it completely unacceptible and I would say illegal that companies can put their filty paws into your "PC" (personal!! computer) and handle your information. If individuals do this, it is called a 'cyber-crime'. Why is it ok for companies to do it?? Come on! Enough is enough!!!
-blankoboy/me swings mace
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While this may be a step in the right direction Spam is just like Jason/Michael in the horror movies we love: it just keeps coming and coming. We may think we are going to kill it but it will get up again. When there is the ability to make money (and lots of it) from spamming, people will always think of new ways to fill our inboxes with this lovely stinking spam. The fight has got to be taken to the source. Kill the companies paying these people to spam us. If the flow of $$ disappears, so will the notorious spammers (who will find some other way to rip folks off). What? You say many of these companies are in other countries and their law enforcement won't do anything? Place embargoes on imports from their countries....drastic step? Yes, but they will listen up fast. Problem solved...meh.
I really wish that the majority of global space efforts would go towards designing and constructing a space elevator already. This is really what they need in order to get things rolling in outer space. The major hurdle is getting anything we construct here on earth off the surface, past the atmosphere and out past orbit....If a successful implementation of space elevator were to exist we could simply raise our payloads out past the atmoshere and snap together prebuilt space cruisers in space. Then we could really have some serious space travelling. Unt il then we will just piddle around with the Xprize and trying to get chunks of metal off the earth's surface....we're still stuck in our sandbox with our pale and shovel...how depressing. If only more effort and funing were to go toward space instead of missiles and chem weapons, etc...sigh.
What Japan are you in? I have been here for 3.5 years and have yet to receive a business card "Without" an email address. I don't know what your area of work is within the computer industry but I suspect you may not be in tune with the Japanese internet industry....one example: Rakuten Ichiba (rakuten.co.jp) which is an online retailer with about 14,000 registered businesses. Check this: http://www.cpureview.com/news/20031215fast.htm Also, you are forgetting the huge amount of i-mode internet usage (cell phone intenet access to those in the west) and PHS access...not to mention home usage. Japan is really on fire in the area of internet technology and usage. It is really becoming a core part of society at all levels. Japan has really jumped into the internet arena with both feet. To say otherwise IMO is due to unawareness.
I disagree with this pov wholeheartedly. I live in Tokyo and work in the computer industry, I must say you are way off base.
Here in Japan we have internet connectivity options like this: ADSL in 8/12/24/26/45Mbps (1 or 3MB upstream) ~$30-40US/month. FTTH 100Mbps up and down ~$50US/month PHS mobile 128kbps - mobile cards (PCMCIA/SD) that can be used in all major city areas....great for PDA's and notebooks. Also we have Voice over IP standard with YahooBB (bb.yahoo.co.jp) and some other ISP's. This allows us to call for free to anywhere in Japan if the other party is on the same VOIP network. Also, long distance calls to the US, for example, are very inexpensive (~3yen/min). We also have TV over IP here =). Also, ISP's DO NOT impose CAPPING or any ugliness of that sort. Japan is of course much smaller geographically than say the US but also the infrastructure here is purely digital and allows for very robust switching and routing. In the US/Canada, even if you had Fiber to every home, the network infrastructure could not support the traffic and routing...North America needs a serious clean house at the base level....they better get on it soon! ~3-4 years ago the Internet was not a big thing in Japan, not that many people really used it compared to now...the growth here has been phenominal.
I have had ENOUGH of visiting sites with Gator pop-ups, etc and now this. While these sites do have the right to generate revenue to sustain themselves, grown and make a profit it is COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE that these sites automatically push this type of content to you with your explicit permission. In fact, I would go so far as to say it is an infringement to the security of your PC. One could call this tampering with your PC...especially the adware crap that's out there now (Gator, etc). It is a CRIME or should be! I think what really needs to be done is a filtering intitiative needs to be started just like we have for SPAM. Sites should be filtered based on the content they push to viewers. Then viewers can use these filters with a custom plug-in to their browsers and be warned in advance to opening the page as to what it is pushing to viewers. "WARNING: this site will attempt to push Gator software to your PC" "Do you want to proceed?" "This features full motion commercials" "Do you want to proceed?" Something like mailwasher except for websites instead of email. I have one machine that I use specifically for web browsing (and use Mozilla Firebird) and gaming and one for my business related matters that I do not browse the web with at all. I don't need the headaches from potential problems like this.
I really dread the thought of moving home to Canada one day when I read these kinds of things. Here in Tokyo, Japan I have ADSL to my home. It is 8MBdown/1MBup. I am about to upgrade to 45MBdown/3MBup for oh, about $35-40/month. It also has IP phone services with it so I can call overseas to the US/Canada for EXTREMELY low rates. 100MB FTTH is also quite common in most areas and many apartment complexes come with it standard with the apartment/home. There are no qualms about download caps or bandwidth caps here. Japan (and Korea no doubt) is internet heaven. I understand the nature of it though, both Japan and Korea are smaller countries and thus much easier to wire than say North America. Also, is the fact that North America's infrastructure is quite archaic compared to Japan's all digital switching. This allows for much more bandwidth to be handled by the internet infrastructure here. North America, however, really better get on the bandwagon FAST as they are really falling behind.
They are not the 'only' 64-bit desktop's available. What's this guys jabbering about? The Opteron is not even a desktop CPU. Try the Athlon 64 variants my friend. Also, this really should have waited until 64-bit XP came out or for now, testing should have been performed under Linux. Also, if this is meant to be a CPU vs CPU comparison, I am sorry but you cannot do that. There are so many factors that account for the end peformance results. All the subsystems in each computer are so different (core logic chipset, harddisks!!, video, etc, etc) that you cannot put them on a level playing field. The only real way ou could do a CPU - CPU direct comparison is if both had the same interface and could be used in the same motherboard and were clocked the same. This way you could get an accurate per clock performance comparison. This is balonga.
Now, someone please step up and let me know if this exists already but, seeing as the source of some spyware is from active x scripts that run when you visit websites why are there not blacklists for sites (just like dns blacklists for spam) that Gator and others pay to infect our machines? Just like spammers, it can all be traced back to someone paying the spammers to spam. Spyware/adware that gets installed when you visit a site to view information/photos is akin a virus infections IMO. The companies like Gator, etc pay sites to host their viruses to be put on our computers and cause us grief. Why do we visit such sites? I think that if a blacklist were set up and people used it that we would less and less instances of Gator,etc. Many sites may disappear due to lack of revenue to sustain themselves but that's fine with me. We're better off without them spewing spyware on everyone. Lepers of the internet. This does not of course account for spyware programs that people download/purchase and install on their machines. Something has really got to be done because I find it completely unacceptible and I would say illegal that companies can put their filty paws into your "PC" (personal!! computer) and handle your information. If individuals do this, it is called a 'cyber-crime'. Why is it ok for companies to do it?? Come on! Enough is enough!!!
-blankoboy
/me swings mace
Now, someone please step up and let me know if this exists already but, seeing as the source of some spyware is from active x scripts that run when you visit websites why are there not blacklists for sites (just like dns blacklists for spam) that Gator and others pay to infect our machines? Just like spammers, it can all be traced back to someone paying the spammers to spam. Spyware/adware that gets installed when you visit a site to view information/photos is akin a virus infections IMO. The companies like Gator, etc pay sites to host their viruses to be put on our computers and cause us grief. Why do we visit such sites? I think that if a blacklist were set up and people used it that we would less and less instances of Gator,etc. Many sites may disappear due to lack of revenue to sustain themselves but that's fine with me. We're better off without them spewing spyware on everyone. Lepers of the internet. This does not of course account for spyware programs that people download/purchase and install on their machines. Something has really got to be done because I find it completely unacceptible and I would say illegal that companies can put their filty paws into your "PC" (personal!! computer) and handle your information. If individuals do this, it is called a 'cyber-crime'. Why is it ok for companies to do it?? Come on! Enough is enough!!! -blankoboy /me swings mace