Re:Spam with trigger words in the pictures
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Spam Kings
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If you correspond with Windows/Outlook users who aren't geeks, I'd say the odds are almost 100% that you'll get HTML email from them.
Except that Outlook will send the message as multipart/alternative, with the text/html segment as well as a text/plain segment. Usually spam emails are just all text/html.
greylisting is a fine idea, but like just about everything else, it's flawed. There are still many really dumb mailservers out there, and mail clusters which send from various different IPs.
Get a different flavor of greylisting that is more flexible then. For example, the DCC greylisting implementation has various "weak" modes of operation that are less strict with respect to remote SMTP server IP address, from and to: addresses, body checksums, and so on.
I guess I should be surprised that this sort of nonsense made it to the front page, but that's nothing new. (To protest this sort of poor article choice, I encourage you to visit the Jihad.
I've never seen any evidence, in years of running my own mail server, that shutting down for several days stops any spam traffic at all. I run my email domain off my cable modem, so from time to time I will lose service for several days. After it comes back, so does the spam, every single time.
I don't think the author of this article gets it. The spam zombie software that exists on so many people's home computers is not intelligent. It's fire-and-forget. If the message bounces, they don't even issue a "QUIT" command. They just drop the connection. Same goes for 4xx "not right now" style messages. (That's why things like greylisting work so well.
So, Jesus came to take away our sins. Therefore, every baptised Christian is immortal?
Well, you're close. Baptism does not directly imply or cause that you believe in Christ as your savior. However, John 3:16, among other passages, confirms what you are saying:
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
Tell that to people in the rust belt who lost their manufacturing jobs in the 70s and haven't found a replacement in 30 years. A lot of people just struggle on through multiple low-paying, benefit-less job, service industry jobs, putting spouses and family members to work, government assistance, and just plain adopting a significantly lower standard of living.
Yeah, so? Is that my problem?
Even in your own words, you plainly stated the problem: they CHOSE to adopt a lower standard of living, rather than re-train and start a new career in a discipline that's in demand.
Essentially, the judge ruled that a number could not be copyrighted.
Additionally he ruled that a number that "made sense" (such as DX/2 for a 2x multiplier chip) could not be copyrighted either, which is why the DX4 was only 3x multiplier.
The question becomes even more convolved once we move outside the solar system, since we now know of a wide diversity of systems, of which our own solar system is only one particular instance. (And perhaps not even typical at that.) We know that there are objects extending all the way down from massive stars (around 100 Msun) to hydrogen-burning stars like our sun to brown dwarfs to planets. Clearly any definition of a planet must apply not only to our solar system, but also to these extrasolar systems. Some of these systems are much like our own (for instance, they may contain a brown dwarf orbiting a star, or a planet orbiting a star), and some (including a few systems of low enough mass to qualify as a planet) are "free-floaters" -- just sitting out there by themselves in space.
I think ultimately the question is whether there is a single continuous "initial mass function" of isolated objects or not. The best idea as to how stars acquire their initial mass is that turbulence in the interstellar medium, which exists on all scales, establishes a power-law distribution of initial masses. Every once in a while, you get a very strong shock which passes by inside a giant molecular cloud and forces the collapse of a large region which then goes on to form a massive star. But more typically, you form stars more like our sun. And just as rare as massive collapses are very small mass ones which go on to form isolated brown dwarfs and free-floating planets. If this model holds up to be true, then we are all mincing words in our definitions of isolated systems, since they are all manifestations of the same universal formation process.
However, to avoid the difficult question of formation mechanisms, an IAU working group of some of the most respected people in the field established a working definition to define by fiat what it means to be a brown dwarf, and a planet. Extrasolar "planets" are those objects orbiting a star which are beneath the deteurium-burning limit -- regardless of how they are formed. "Brown dwarfs" are defined to be those which burn deuterium but not lithium, and "sub-brown dwarfs" (NOT free-floating planets!) are defined to be those isolated objects which do not burn deuterium. Even the working group itself admitted that this definition was not satisfying to a single member of the group, and so it is likely it will be replaced at a later time with something more physically-motivated. The "planet/planetismal/KBO" distinction was pushed back to our own solar system, since it will be some time before anyone sees anything that small in another system.
Also of interest is the following link, which gives a history of previous claims for additional planetary members of our solar system :
SEDS.
Personally, I've got a video card which allows me to record to HD whatever, whenever I want without any fees. When I can do that, why should I buy a Tivo, or even Replay?
The value-add in these devices is in the user interface and scheduling capabilities, not their raw ability to capture video frames.
It's the little things....
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GTK 2.4.0 Released
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... like glib, gnet, gtk+ (hah! little! and now, brand new!) but you know what I mean - these were things that people needed, so they wrote. We all benefit, and so does linux and unix.
I guess one of the strengths of the unix development model is that my SGI and Sun boxes have all the linux libraries on them, and I don't think that's at all strange...
Unix (before linux became mainstream) didn't have as much work in the class libraries (which like it or loath it, VC++ provided quite well).... Now it does.
Kay McFadden is a respected TV show reviewer in the Seattle and had this to say, among other things:
"The stories tend to lean on loopholes -- cases and laws post-dating 2004. By any entertainment standards, the writers do a middling job of courtroom preparation and a really bad one with soap-opera histrionics.
At the end of tonight's episode, the verdict is clear: "Century City" is an argument against the kind of research that leads networks to mindless replication. Just say no to cloning."
Looks like the Interior Department has been having computer problems for a long time (December 2001!):
"Web wanderers looking for information on national parks, government mapping services or geological disasters will need to get their information from non-official websites for a while.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth issued the order late Wednesday after a report showed that the computer system which handles $500 million annually in royalties from Indian land has major security holes that make it easy to access the system, alter records and possibly divert funds."
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If you correspond with Windows/Outlook users who aren't geeks, I'd say the odds are almost 100% that you'll get HTML email from them.
Except that Outlook will send the message as multipart/alternative, with the text/html segment as well as a text/plain segment. Usually spam emails are just all text/html.
Slashdot sucks. Don'tcha know?
lolz
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Within a football field if selective-availability is on, much better if it's off.
Selective availability has been turned off, permanently, for years now.
FAG!
I modded you troll because you're a dumbass. They do read them in parallel. Do a little Google search next time before talking out your ass.
Congratulations. By posting this, you've undone your moderation!
I've been bitchslapped for reading anti-slash.org, so I'll never have karma.
Fellow Jihadi, take heart, for your rewards will be great in heaven.
If only I'd bothered to create an account earlier, I might have been able to use mod point on this.
Instead, you'll have to wait and boost your karma through mirrordot karma-whoring. Oh well.
For those of us who weren't reloading /. every 30 seconds during the few minutes it was up, could you maybe post a link to what used to be there? :)
We will be adding a detailed account of this egregious offense in the Jihad injustices section later today. Stay tuned.
http://www.coattails.net/slashdot/bootchart.pngAwe some, man. You even got Timothy to put it in the blurb on the main page.
One question: if you were going to bait-and-switch the image, why not put up Goatse?
At any rate, you are a great jihadi. Please, join us in our cause.
the people who are actually buying the crap is very small like 0.001% So that is 1 in a Thousand People who buy this stuff.
I salute you, sir.
greylisting is a fine idea, but like just about everything else, it's flawed. There are still many really dumb mailservers out there, and mail clusters which send from various different IPs.
Get a different flavor of greylisting that is more flexible then. For example, the DCC greylisting implementation has various "weak" modes of operation that are less strict with respect to remote SMTP server IP address, from and to: addresses, body checksums, and so on.
I guess I should be surprised that this sort of nonsense made it to the front page, but that's nothing new. (To protest this sort of poor article choice, I encourage you to visit the Jihad.
I've never seen any evidence, in years of running my own mail server, that shutting down for several days stops any spam traffic at all. I run my email domain off my cable modem, so from time to time I will lose service for several days. After it comes back, so does the spam, every single time.
I don't think the author of this article gets it. The spam zombie software that exists on so many people's home computers is not intelligent. It's fire-and-forget. If the message bounces, they don't even issue a "QUIT" command. They just drop the connection. Same goes for 4xx "not right now" style messages. (That's why things like greylisting work so well.
So, Jesus came to take away our sins. Therefore, every baptised Christian is immortal?
Well, you're close. Baptism does not directly imply or cause that you believe in Christ as your savior. However, John 3:16, among other passages, confirms what you are saying:
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
Tell that to people in the rust belt who lost their manufacturing jobs in the 70s and haven't found a replacement in 30 years. A lot of people just struggle on through multiple low-paying, benefit-less job, service industry jobs, putting spouses and family members to work, government assistance, and just plain adopting a significantly lower standard of living.
Yeah, so? Is that my problem?
Even in your own words, you plainly stated the problem: they CHOSE to adopt a lower standard of living, rather than re-train and start a new career in a discipline that's in demand.
Umm, what? If it takes you ten years to apply for a home loan after you graduate, then you've got bigger problems than what job you're going to have.
Just wondering, when did Motorola *donate* code to GNU/FSF? I work there now, and it seems like the last thing we would do.
I'm sure we all remember Intel's legal troubles with AMD over the use of the term "486".
Essentially, the judge ruled that a number could not be copyrighted.
Additionally he ruled that a number that "made sense" (such as DX/2 for a 2x multiplier chip) could not be copyrighted either, which is why the DX4 was only 3x multiplier.
I think ultimately the question is whether there is a single continuous "initial mass function" of isolated objects or not. The best idea as to how stars acquire their initial mass is that turbulence in the interstellar medium, which exists on all scales, establishes a power-law distribution of initial masses. Every once in a while, you get a very strong shock which passes by inside a giant molecular cloud and forces the collapse of a large region which then goes on to form a massive star. But more typically, you form stars more like our sun. And just as rare as massive collapses are very small mass ones which go on to form isolated brown dwarfs and free-floating planets. If this model holds up to be true, then we are all mincing words in our definitions of isolated systems, since they are all manifestations of the same universal formation process.
However, to avoid the difficult question of formation mechanisms, an IAU working group of some of the most respected people in the field established a working definition to define by fiat what it means to be a brown dwarf, and a planet. Extrasolar "planets" are those objects orbiting a star which are beneath the deteurium-burning limit -- regardless of how they are formed. "Brown dwarfs" are defined to be those which burn deuterium but not lithium, and "sub-brown dwarfs" (NOT free-floating planets!) are defined to be those isolated objects which do not burn deuterium. Even the working group itself admitted that this definition was not satisfying to a single member of the group, and so it is likely it will be replaced at a later time with something more physically-motivated. The "planet/planetismal/KBO" distinction was pushed back to our own solar system, since it will be some time before anyone sees anything that small in another system.
Also of interest is the following link, which gives a history of previous claims for additional planetary members of our solar system : SEDS.
Personally, I've got a video card which allows me to record to HD whatever, whenever I want without any fees. When I can do that, why should I buy a Tivo, or even Replay?
The value-add in these devices is in the user interface and scheduling capabilities, not their raw ability to capture video frames.
... like glib, gnet, gtk+ (hah! little! and now, brand new!) but you know what I mean - these were things that people needed, so they wrote. We all benefit, and so does linux and unix.
I guess one of the strengths of the unix development model is that my SGI and Sun boxes have all the linux libraries on them, and I don't think that's at all strange...
Unix (before linux became mainstream) didn't have as much work in the class libraries (which like it or loath it, VC++ provided quite well).... Now it does.
Kay McFadden is a respected TV show reviewer in the Seattle and had this to say, among other things:
"The stories tend to lean on loopholes -- cases and laws post-dating 2004. By any entertainment standards, the writers do a middling job of courtroom preparation and a really bad one with soap-opera histrionics.
At the end of tonight's episode, the verdict is clear: "Century City" is an argument against the kind of research that leads networks to mindless replication. Just say no to cloning."
Looks like the Interior Department has been having computer problems for a long time (December 2001!):
"Web wanderers looking for information on national parks, government mapping services or geological disasters will need to get their information from non-official websites for a while.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth issued the order late Wednesday after a report showed that the computer system which handles $500 million annually in royalties from Indian land has major security holes that make it easy to access the system, alter records and possibly divert funds."