I get tons of spam (for reasons I cannot control), and the volume from Comcast and RoadRunner servers is so great that I filter at the server level all email from IP addreses owned by Comcast and RR. In a typical 24-hr period, 20-75 spam messages reach my inbox, and another 50-150 get filtered at the server as sourcing from Comcast/RR.
(On a side note, since I have no communications with anyone outside the U.S., all email from foreign IP addresses gets blackholed immediately.)
The Great Divorce was the best Lewis ever did, IMO (superb metaphorical imagery, philosophical illustration without being overt/pedantic, insightful and revealing). The Screwtape Letters are a close second. Whatever your tastes--including non-Christian--Lewis is a damn good thought-provoking read.
MPAs need not encompass wide areas. The scheme is primarly directed at estuaries, breeding grounds, over-wintering areas, and other areas where marine life concentrates seasonally.
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I deeply regret that the parent was modded "Funny." The post is insightfully correct, but it fails to point up the larger underlying principle: discrimination.
I was a test-engineering consultant for 20-odd years to companies such as Lockheed, Motorola and TI defense divisions, Dell, and so on. At the time, I was one of the top ten people in my (admittedly narrow/specialized) field in the U.S.
Yet, not one of those companies would have hired me as an employee to do the *exact* same work they hired me to do as a consultant because I did not have a degree. I never attended high school, but did get a GED.
(Side note: Tandy was one of my clients in the 1980s and 90s. Every Tandy computer manufactured in the U.S. was production tested with software I wrote and on apparatus I designed and built.)
When I burned out in that field, I switched careers and entered writing/journalism, eventually becomming a magazine editor (circ. ~100k)--still on a contactor/consultant basis. Yet, I'd be hard put to land even a proofreading job as an employee because I am "uneducated."
I hold that this is an unrecognized/unacknowleged form of discrimination and bigotry. Experience and ability should be the primary--if not only--criteria in hiring, not race, sex or orientation thereof--or education.
Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules: a pedantic attention to details. --American Heritage Dictionary
I used to be on the "Microsoft sucks" bandwagon, but then realized that "security vulnerabilities" would not exist if there were no dirtbags exploiting them.
No, vulnerabilities or not, it is not Microsoft's/Bill Gates' or Steve Jobs' or Linus Torvald's fauly when some criminal with a computer wreaks havoc on the internet or a private network. It is ALWAYS the criminal's fault.
An unsecured system is no more an "invitation" to exploit than a short skirt is an invitation to rape.
The point was not related to cost, but to a specialty market. We (geeks, nerds, et al) like Firefox because we can tweak it to suit our needs. The designers made it that way. Not everyone can use Firefox to its full intended potential.
You do not just jump behind the wheel of a Ferrari and drive it to its full potential. It takes an on-going investment of time and learning (dollar cost is irrelevant) that most people are unwilling or have no desire to make. Anyone (well, almost) can drive a Ford.
I suspect Firefox et al will always ride a +/- 2 percent sinewave with IE displaying a similar leading edge ripple. Rolls Royce and Ferrari do not think or speak in terms of "market share." They have a core following that will always remain, and will always be small. The masses will always drive Chevys, Toyotas, or whatever.
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"NASA administrator Michael Griffin told members of Congress when he testified before the House Science Committee February 16."
House Science Committee. Isn't that an oxymoron?
RFID, banning anonymity--what next, random searches on the street and in your home?
I hate politicians.
You can participate in this effort via mail list. Go to http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo /botnets to sign up.
Try here http://www.iana.org/ipaddress/ip-addresses.htm and here http://www.cert.mil/techtips/whois_by_ipaddr.htm as starting places.
Agreed.
I get tons of spam (for reasons I cannot control), and the volume from Comcast and RoadRunner servers is so great that I filter at the server level all email from IP addreses owned by Comcast and RR. In a typical 24-hr period, 20-75 spam messages reach my inbox, and another 50-150 get filtered at the server as sourcing from Comcast/RR.
(On a side note, since I have no communications with anyone outside the U.S., all email from foreign IP addresses gets blackholed immediately.)
Excellent observations, well presented, thoughtful. Insightful, indeed.
The Great Divorce was the best Lewis ever did, IMO (superb metaphorical imagery, philosophical illustration without being overt/pedantic, insightful and revealing). The Screwtape Letters are a close second. Whatever your tastes--including non-Christian--Lewis is a damn good thought-provoking read.
MPAs need not encompass wide areas. The scheme is primarly directed at estuaries, breeding grounds, over-wintering areas, and other areas where marine life concentrates seasonally.
...it's called a "Marine Protected Area" (MPA). See http://www.mpa.gov/
"And people can either have a life or raise children. Can't have both any more."
Give the parent a gold star, a kewpie doll http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kewpie_doll, a cigar, and a +9 Insightful.
I guess this is out, too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Titicaca
I deeply regret that the parent was modded "Funny." The post is insightfully correct, but it fails to point up the larger underlying principle: discrimination.
I was a test-engineering consultant for 20-odd years to companies such as Lockheed, Motorola and TI defense divisions, Dell, and so on. At the time, I was one of the top ten people in my (admittedly narrow/specialized) field in the U.S.
Yet, not one of those companies would have hired me as an employee to do the *exact* same work they hired me to do as a consultant because I did not have a degree. I never attended high school, but did get a GED.
(Side note: Tandy was one of my clients in the 1980s and 90s. Every Tandy computer manufactured in the U.S. was production tested with software I wrote and on apparatus I designed and built.)
When I burned out in that field, I switched careers and entered writing/journalism, eventually becomming a magazine editor (circ. ~100k)--still on a contactor/consultant basis. Yet, I'd be hard put to land even a proofreading job as an employee because I am "uneducated."
I hold that this is an unrecognized/unacknowleged form of discrimination and bigotry. Experience and ability should be the primary--if not only--criteria in hiring, not race, sex or orientation thereof--or education.
WIth Bittorrent et al firmly established, why do we need another P2P?
Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules: a pedantic attention to details. --American Heritage Dictionary
I wonder what would happen if you turned your house into a Faraday cage--or wrapped it in tinfoil? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/24/tinfoil_ho use/
Bullshit.
I used to be on the "Microsoft sucks" bandwagon, but then realized that "security vulnerabilities" would not exist if there were no dirtbags exploiting them.
No, vulnerabilities or not, it is not Microsoft's/Bill Gates' or Steve Jobs' or Linus Torvald's fauly when some criminal with a computer wreaks havoc on the internet or a private network. It is ALWAYS the criminal's fault.
An unsecured system is no more an "invitation" to exploit than a short skirt is an invitation to rape.
Ah, that would be FTC, as in Federal Trade Commission, not FCC, as in Federal Communications Commission.
How sad that the truly insightful parent post was modded "Troll."
I think the parent "gets it."
The point was not related to cost, but to a specialty market. We (geeks, nerds, et al) like Firefox because we can tweak it to suit our needs. The designers made it that way. Not everyone can use Firefox to its full intended potential.
You do not just jump behind the wheel of a Ferrari and drive it to its full potential. It takes an on-going investment of time and learning (dollar cost is irrelevant) that most people are unwilling or have no desire to make. Anyone (well, almost) can drive a Ford.
I suspect Firefox et al will always ride a +/- 2 percent sinewave with IE displaying a similar leading edge ripple. Rolls Royce and Ferrari do not think or speak in terms of "market share." They have a core following that will always remain, and will always be small. The masses will always drive Chevys, Toyotas, or whatever.
No. I misspelled it on purpose. It was a test. You passed.
Who would have thought a thechnique spammers use to beat filters would have real-world value.
Is Google's filter Baysian based?
"You have no right to damage the Earth! It's not yours."
[joke]
The hell it isn't. We paid for it.
[joke]
No, Chicken Little, the sky is not falling. That's just rain falling on your head. Acid rain, maybe, but rain just the same.
Funniest thing I have read on /. in a long time. Wish I had mod points.