I have been firewalling China (the whole world, actually, except North American/ARIN registrants) for years on my company's servers. That alone cuts our spam load by 75-80 percent. RBLs and other measures take care of most of the rest, and server logs indicate less than 3 percent of spam gets through. That seems to be the equilibrium point between blocking spam and false positives.
Well, I think the fact that PHP and other non-MS developments are not locked into a single OS platform carries a lot of weight. Develope a website in.NET, and you are stuck with an MS OS forever. With PHP et al, you can choose a Linux, MS, or any other compatible server setup.
I recently had to revisit my former life in programming and "update" my language repertoire (from assembly language and FORTRAN) in order to maintain and update a client's website--written in.NET. I am slowly converting everything to PHP and Javascript because, basically,.NET sucks more ways than a French whorehouse.
Somewhere in the miasma of bandwidth-wasting childish prattle, someone might have answered this, but I'll go anyway.
Back in the day when print press type was set by hand, it was difficult to keep track of certain things--partly because the type was set backward. It was, for instance, difficult to distinguish between "p" an "q" when viewed backward, hence the phrase, Mind your p's and q's.
Likewise, it was difficult to discern the beginning and end of sentences, further compounded by limited font availability. Editors, too, who spent/spend all day reading/correcting manuscripts found them difficult to read after a while, so easy-to-read manuscripts received preferential treatment. Thus, doubles-spaced sentences and paragraphs became the standard.
Today, with desktop publishing and automatic text justification, extra spaces are unnecessary and actually counter productive. So, if banging out something on a typewriter, two spaces. In a word processor, one space.
(Full disclosure: I am the editor of a print magazine as well as a book author.)
Why the parent is modded "Offtopic" is beyond me. TI's draconian attempt to control what consumers do with, to, or on property that they purchased and own is reprehensible.
The human urethra imparts a spiral/twist to the urine stream to make it, well, stream instead of dribbling. MythBusters failed to recognize/account for this in the original tests. (Actually, they fail in fundamental things like this rather often.)
Wrong. Voltage in overhead power transmission lines (at least in the U.S.) is 7200 volts minimum per line. A single overhead line is 7200 volts, and a pair is 14,400 (180-degree phase). Even if the urine steam is broken into a series of droplets, 7200 is sufficient voltage to arc between droplets, and obviously enough current to melt you Indiana Jones-Nazi style.
...if a handful of AOL users flag your email as spam, AOL will not whitelist your server. This includes double-opt in email sent to verify registration for a newsletter or service. I swear to Bob, AOL use will mark these as spam then complain because they cannot register for your site.
We now simply tell potential registrants who enter an AOL address, "Sorry, get a real email service then we will talk."
FTFA: "Virtually all spam, of course, is sent from innocent computers that have been compromised by hackers," Cluley wrote.
Since when are non-sentient boxes capable of "innocence" or "guilt"? The OWNERS of those boxes are guilty of negligent vulnerability.
It should be sufficiently technologically difficult to install/allow installation of malware to make it impossible for the "average user" to do so. Anyone with sufficiently advanced knowledge to install/allow installation of malware would presumably know better.
If you are in the U.S. serving a U.S. customer base, offer (as an option) the ability to block ALL non-U.S. IP addresses. We use this on our server, and it reduces spam by 90-95 percent. Most spam that gets past this by relaying through unsecure U.S. servers gets mopped up by other methods (Baysian filtering, keyword matching, etc,) so that maybe one spam out of 500 makes it to inboxes.
Western do-gooders bringing food and medical care to third-world countries accounts for much of population growth. Having lots of kids (with multiple wives, in some cases) has been the encouraged norm for centuries because it was the only way to ensure at least one or two survived to adulthood (disease, famine, and infant mortality, you know).
Enter the Western do-gooders. Suddenly, almost all children survived to adulthood, and the average life expectancy increased dramatically. Population boom, but the available resources remained the same.
So, if you want to solve third-world overpopulation problems, cut off the foreign aid and let natural equilibrium with the environment resume.
The real value I see in this setup is in Fire/EMS service.
We have rechargeable Streamlight flashlights in al lthe apparatus on the fire department where I am a volunteer (EMS). The problem is that the lights stay on the chargers in the apparatus all the time, so the batteries really take a beating. With this ultracapacitor setup, all the problems associated with constant charging, partial discharge then recharge, etc. are resolved.
I plan to get one for evaluation, and if it makes the grade, persuading my department to outfit all of our apparatus with these.
Unfortunately, it has been my experience that this teacher is typical of public school teachers in the U.S. They are sterling examples of the axiom, "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach."
When my daughter (now an MD) was in college, all of her classmates who were going fore teacher certification had the lowest GPAs--without exception. All science majors had the highest GPAs. (My daughter graduated Magna cum Laude.)
The point is, do not expect the best and brightest among U.S. school teachers. The smart ones are in tech and biology fields, or otherwise engaged in better-paying and more rewarding pursuits.
Perhaps if teaching paid better, the situation might resolve for the better. Meanwhile, look into private schooling or home tutoring if you want your kids to get a decent education.
Killing a spam/malware friendly site or ISP is worth the collateral damage, IMO.
Anyone hosting with a spammer-friendly ISP should know better.
Meanwhile, my mail server firewalls "the world" against all connections from sources with whom we have no legitimate business. Cuts spam by 95 percent or better.
Flame on, those with Utopian delusions who do not get it.
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I have been firewalling China (the whole world, actually, except North American/ARIN registrants) for years on my company's servers. That alone cuts our spam load by 75-80 percent. RBLs and other measures take care of most of the rest, and server logs indicate less than 3 percent of spam gets through. That seems to be the equilibrium point between blocking spam and false positives.
Adding yet another (unnecessary) layer to an already bloated setup.
Well, I think the fact that PHP and other non-MS developments are not locked into a single OS platform carries a lot of weight. Develope a website in .NET, and you are stuck with an MS OS forever. With PHP et al, you can choose a Linux, MS, or any other compatible server setup.
Programming and web development are not really my main gig. I just started this more as a favor to a very good client in my "day job" consult work.
My assembly language skills were on Data General and DEC mini computers, so do not translate very well to modern processors/languages.
Very old nerd nerd here. "I knew Alan Turing. Alan Turing was a friend of mine...."
Troll? Really? For not liking .NET or liking PHP et al?
Yes, it is ASP.NET, so maybe I am painting with too broad a brush.
Nonetheless, I still prefer PHP and other open languages to the cloistered MS offerings.
I recently had to revisit my former life in programming and "update" my language repertoire (from assembly language and FORTRAN) in order to maintain and update a client's website--written in .NET. I am slowly converting everything to PHP and Javascript because, basically, .NET sucks more ways than a French whorehouse.
Septic tank technician? (a.k.a. "honey hauler")
Somewhere in the miasma of bandwidth-wasting childish prattle, someone might have answered this, but I'll go anyway.
Back in the day when print press type was set by hand, it was difficult to keep track of certain things--partly because the type was set backward. It was, for instance, difficult to distinguish between "p" an "q" when viewed backward, hence the phrase, Mind your p's and q's.
Likewise, it was difficult to discern the beginning and end of sentences, further compounded by limited font availability. Editors, too, who spent/spend all day reading/correcting manuscripts found them difficult to read after a while, so easy-to-read manuscripts received preferential treatment. Thus, doubles-spaced sentences and paragraphs became the standard.
Today, with desktop publishing and automatic text justification, extra spaces are unnecessary and actually counter productive. So, if banging out something on a typewriter, two spaces. In a word processor, one space.
(Full disclosure: I am the editor of a print magazine as well as a book author.)
Why the parent is modded "Offtopic" is beyond me. TI's draconian attempt to control what consumers do with, to, or on property that they purchased and own is reprehensible.
So, fuck you TI, indeed.
print "Hello World!"
end
REM And even "end" is optional.
The human urethra imparts a spiral/twist to the urine stream to make it, well, stream instead of dribbling. MythBusters failed to recognize/account for this in the original tests. (Actually, they fail in fundamental things like this rather often.)
Wrong. Voltage in overhead power transmission lines (at least in the U.S.) is 7200 volts minimum per line. A single overhead line is 7200 volts, and a pair is 14,400 (180-degree phase). Even if the urine steam is broken into a series of droplets, 7200 is sufficient voltage to arc between droplets, and obviously enough current to melt you Indiana Jones-Nazi style.
...if a handful of AOL users flag your email as spam, AOL will not whitelist your server. This includes double-opt in email sent to verify registration for a newsletter or service. I swear to Bob, AOL use will mark these as spam then complain because they cannot register for your site.
We now simply tell potential registrants who enter an AOL address, "Sorry, get a real email service then we will talk."
No, the summary used it exactly as the OP stated, and said use was incorrect. Pulling a lame justification out of your ass doesn't change that.
FTFA: "Virtually all spam, of course, is sent from innocent computers that have been compromised by hackers," Cluley wrote.
Since when are non-sentient boxes capable of "innocence" or "guilt"? The OWNERS of those boxes are guilty of negligent vulnerability.
It should be sufficiently technologically difficult to install/allow installation of malware to make it impossible for the "average user" to do so. Anyone with sufficiently advanced knowledge to install/allow installation of malware would presumably know better.
If you are in the U.S. serving a U.S. customer base, offer (as an option) the ability to block ALL non-U.S. IP addresses. We use this on our server, and it reduces spam by 90-95 percent. Most spam that gets past this by relaying through unsecure U.S. servers gets mopped up by other methods (Baysian filtering, keyword matching, etc,) so that maybe one spam out of 500 makes it to inboxes.
Western do-gooders bringing food and medical care to third-world countries accounts for much of population growth. Having lots of kids (with multiple wives, in some cases) has been the encouraged norm for centuries because it was the only way to ensure at least one or two survived to adulthood (disease, famine, and infant mortality, you know).
Enter the Western do-gooders. Suddenly, almost all children survived to adulthood, and the average life expectancy increased dramatically. Population boom, but the available resources remained the same.
So, if you want to solve third-world overpopulation problems, cut off the foreign aid and let natural equilibrium with the environment resume.
Harsh, but nonetheless true--and effective.
"And how come we are not talking about the shoe that almost hit George Bush instead."
Uh, because that is a topic for another thread and not relevant to this one?
To parrot/paraphrase what others have already written, lighten up and enjoy the refreshing mix of tech, freshness, and humor.
10 Print "Hello, World"
20 Loop 10
OR
10 Print "Hello World"
20 END
It doesn't get much simpler than that.
The real value I see in this setup is in Fire/EMS service.
We have rechargeable Streamlight flashlights in al lthe apparatus on the fire department where I am a volunteer (EMS). The problem is that the lights stay on the chargers in the apparatus all the time, so the batteries really take a beating. With this ultracapacitor setup, all the problems associated with constant charging, partial discharge then recharge, etc. are resolved.
I plan to get one for evaluation, and if it makes the grade, persuading my department to outfit all of our apparatus with these.
Unfortunately, it has been my experience that this teacher is typical of public school teachers in the U.S. They are sterling examples of the axiom, "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach."
When my daughter (now an MD) was in college, all of her classmates who were going fore teacher certification had the lowest GPAs--without exception. All science majors had the highest GPAs. (My daughter graduated Magna cum Laude.)
The point is, do not expect the best and brightest among U.S. school teachers. The smart ones are in tech and biology fields, or otherwise engaged in better-paying and more rewarding pursuits.
Perhaps if teaching paid better, the situation might resolve for the better. Meanwhile, look into private schooling or home tutoring if you want your kids to get a decent education.
American elections are mostly beauty contests that have little to do with the candidates' qualifications.
I despise the American electoral process--and I am an American.
Killing a spam/malware friendly site or ISP is worth the collateral damage, IMO.
Anyone hosting with a spammer-friendly ISP should know better.
Meanwhile, my mail server firewalls "the world" against all connections from sources with whom we have no legitimate business. Cuts spam by 95 percent or better.
Flame on, those with Utopian delusions who do not get it.