this originated on 4chan.org's/b/ late last night (NSFW.) the shell script was a small script for uploading to a ziff-davis ftp server, it wasn't actually a fox ftp password (look at the directory name the shell script was found in, and i'm sure z-d appreciates this too.) also, there was an image directory that had directory listing turned on too. i didn't stick around long enough to see if any/b/tards found anything interesting in there, but i know an image dump was being made.
I use SpamAssassin too, and it works great. The one thing I'm worried about is some spam I've been getting lately that gets through the filtering. It has a bunch of random words, or even passages from textbooks among the spam. I'm guessing this is to fool the filters into thinking it's real. The part that concerns me is, what if I make the Bayesian filter learn that this is spam, will it degrade the quality of the filter? Since it's learning that all these ordinary words and phrases are spam, might it start missing more and more spam, and possibly creating more false positives?
According to this website, there are "736577 active Amateur licenses" as of August 8, 2003.
Why don't they move over to something more modern? Do they have to? Maybe because of the challenge of making a contact over hundreds of miles using very low watt transcievers, or experimenting with Earth-Moon-Earth communications, or slow-scan TV. Just because they can pick up a phone and call someone the same distance away isn't the point. I can easily install windoze on a computer and make it work, but that doesn't mean I have to. I prefer a challenge, which is why I started playing with Linux and use it on most of my computers. How many of you installed Linux the first time, just for the challenge? Maybe it wasn't the easiest system to use, and people might say, "why don't you just use windoze?" I'm just trying to make the slashdot audience understand where hams are coming from, although the analogy may be bad.
I'm torn about the BPL issue, though. I applied for and got my first ham license 2 months ago, and I got my first "rig" a couple weeks ago. I'm excited to start a new hobby, and I'm studying to upgrade to a General class license. On the other hand, BPL would allow my parents to have broadband. They live 3 miles from a small town, and currently use Wi-Fi which sometimes works. I'd like to see more people get broadband, but does it have to be at the cost of losing a hobby that's been around for 100 years?
i'm on waterloo's mediacom also. my DNS is still up but recently my mail server started saying that my account was inactive. luckily i never used my @home mail account.
I'm in iowa too, I was under AT&T@Home, but it switched to mediacom about a month or 2 ago. my DNS was down this morning, but it came back up a few hours ago, and that's the only problems i've had. I guess I'm lucky that I have mediacom now...
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this originated on 4chan.org's /b/ late last night (NSFW.) the shell script was a small script for uploading to a ziff-davis ftp server, it wasn't actually a fox ftp password (look at the directory name the shell script was found in, and i'm sure z-d appreciates this too.) also, there was an image directory that had directory listing turned on too. i didn't stick around long enough to see if any /b/tards found anything interesting in there, but i know an image dump was being made.
This site: http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/art icle/CA6338353.html seems to have a pretty good sized list of companies and news on this topic. My company http://www.intuit.com/ is also one of them and had a press release today http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8II3 R980.htm?sub=apn_tech_down&chan=tc saying that they have now been issued a subpoena after starting their own internal investigation over a month ago.
I use SpamAssassin too, and it works great. The one thing I'm worried about is some spam I've been getting lately that gets through the filtering. It has a bunch of random words, or even passages from textbooks among the spam. I'm guessing this is to fool the filters into thinking it's real. The part that concerns me is, what if I make the Bayesian filter learn that this is spam, will it degrade the quality of the filter? Since it's learning that all these ordinary words and phrases are spam, might it start missing more and more spam, and possibly creating more false positives?
~jason
Why don't they move over to something more modern? Do they have to? Maybe because of the challenge of making a contact over hundreds of miles using very low watt transcievers, or experimenting with Earth-Moon-Earth communications, or slow-scan TV. Just because they can pick up a phone and call someone the same distance away isn't the point. I can easily install windoze on a computer and make it work, but that doesn't mean I have to. I prefer a challenge, which is why I started playing with Linux and use it on most of my computers. How many of you installed Linux the first time, just for the challenge? Maybe it wasn't the easiest system to use, and people might say, "why don't you just use windoze?" I'm just trying to make the slashdot audience understand where hams are coming from, although the analogy may be bad.
I'm torn about the BPL issue, though. I applied for and got my first ham license 2 months ago, and I got my first "rig" a couple weeks ago. I'm excited to start a new hobby, and I'm studying to upgrade to a General class license. On the other hand, BPL would allow my parents to have broadband. They live 3 miles from a small town, and currently use Wi-Fi which sometimes works. I'd like to see more people get broadband, but does it have to be at the cost of losing a hobby that's been around for 100 years?
~jason
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i'm on waterloo's mediacom also. my DNS is still up but recently my mail server started saying that my account was inactive. luckily i never used my @home mail account.
I'm in iowa too, I was under AT&T@Home, but it switched to mediacom about a month or 2 ago. my DNS was down this morning, but it came back up a few hours ago, and that's the only problems i've had. I guess I'm lucky that I have mediacom now...