"No surprise considering that applications are getting heavier and heavier... Most programmers no longer care about optimizing their code, as they used to (and had to) some yea"rs ago."
Give this man a cigar.
I've said for years there are no real programmers anymore. Everyone seems to use cut-and-paste scripts and languages so bloated with overhead that a simple PRINT function compiles to several kilobytes. And execution is so damned slow because of all the overhead.
I've often wondered what execution time would be for something like a game coded in assembly language with no OS or other outside calls.
"...lawers generally don't hover around trying to convince clients to engage in (potentially expensive) legal action."
Either you do not live in the U.S. or do not watch broadcast television, else you would be familiar with the pond scum that solicits clients for every trivial wrong you can think of, promosing big money for them.
We need tort reform and vastly improved barritry laws.
"This is why we need tort reform like Newt Gingrich was touting in his contract with America in which there'd be a loser pays system for lawsuits."
Yea, amen, and halleluja. Remove the incentive for a big win even if they lose, and the "necessary evils" we call "lawyers" will spen more time golfing than harassing over baseless claims.
Even better, make lawyers who file claims determined frivilous subject to disbarment. To make it "fair," create civil grand juries to assess case merits before it ever sees a court room.
"Just don't give your email address to people you don't trust."
Would that life was so simple.
If your job requires that people be able to email you and you address is therefore made public, you do not have a lot of options. That's one of the reasons for "paranoia over spam." Dealing with it costs business tons of time, money, and lost productivity.
Start by blocking (or treating as spam) all email from addresses with "verizon" in them. Beyond that, try using ARIN http://www.arin.net/ and IP registry lists like this http://www.cert.mil/techtips/whois_by_ipaddr.htm to identify and block IP address ranges registered to Verizon.
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"ISPs need to change first by enforcing stricter rules on them."
I agree wholeheartedly.
The TOS should state:
If you sign up with us and we learn you are spamming from our servers, you agree to pay us $10 for each spam email.
You must present proof of identity to get a broadband account (makes it it easier to find/presecute/sue spammers).
Non-commercial accounts are limited to 100 outgoing emails per 24-hour period. If you have a legitimate need to send more than 100 emails daily, contact our Commercial Accounts department.
Last, if we detect ONE email from your account bearing a virus, your account will be suspended until you demonstrate your machine is virus-free, and has a firewall and up-to-date anti-virus software in place.
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I have read repeatedly here and elsewhere that most spam comes from "spam zombie" machines "pwned" via the machinations of malicious virus writers. Ergo, a machine spewing viruses via email is (a) a spam source in training and (b) attempting to create other zombies/spam sources. It therefore seems logical that any ISP serious about fighting spam would welcome reports of subscribers spewing viruses, whereby to notify the subscriber of the infection and/or suspend the account until the problem is fixed.
On the assumption that the latter point is true (which I doubt), why do SpamCop and other spam reporting outfits refuse to report/notify ISPs about viruses spewing from their mail servers?
If the number of owned machines is as represented, it seems that a huge step toward controlling spam would be identifying and fixing said machines or suspending their ISP accounts BEFORE they start spewing spam.
(Note to trolls: Please do not start up about "lusers" not knowing how to identify the true ISP of an infected account and all that. SpamCop, for one, does this automatically based on IP address, so, the mechanism for reporting viruses to the source ISP is the same as for reporting spam.)
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If you do not receive desirable email from the U.S., that's probably a good idea. I block all email from IPs listed in LACNIC, APNIC, and RIPE. Reduces spam by up to 80 percent some days.
Code an extension for Thunderbird that parses incoming email for certain keywords (code words you provide/select to prevent false positives) and for attachments. It then collects attached photos, and ports them to a second/dedicated video card connected to the/a TV. It will cycle through the photos n times then stop, "reset," and wait for the next batch of email/images.
You think?
No flames, please. Havent't coded in about 10 years, but used to do some similar stuff for other realtime applications, so know it is possible, just not how practical.
"I guess I'm just glad that when it "finds its way home" it doesn't define "home" as "the White House Lawn" - and that the laid-off engineer who built it isn't angry with the world."
" 'The fish in Finding Nemo' by itself is vague..."
Not if you have seen the pictures, and recognized the simlarity to the anglerfish in Nemo. I "got it" on first read--having recently watched "Nemo" for the first time, the image was fresh in my mind, so perhaps that was an advantage.
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"There are currently no U.S. federal laws that address these issues." "Insightful" my elbow. RTFA
The comments just go to prove, I suppose, what it says in my user profile--I really am an *outdated* geek.
Because he could spin a ripping good tale.
"No surprise considering that applications are getting heavier and heavier... Most programmers no longer care about optimizing their code, as they used to (and had to) some yea"rs ago."
Give this man a cigar.
I've said for years there are no real programmers anymore. Everyone seems to use cut-and-paste scripts and languages so bloated with overhead that a simple PRINT function compiles to several kilobytes. And execution is so damned slow because of all the overhead.
I've often wondered what execution time would be for something like a game coded in assembly language with no OS or other outside calls.
From TFA: "NOAA officials say that the sunspot region that caused the solar storms should rotate to the far side of the Sun by 22 January..."
The Cardiff Giant! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_Giant
"...lawers generally don't hover around trying to convince clients to engage in (potentially expensive) legal action."
Either you do not live in the U.S. or do not watch broadcast television, else you would be familiar with the pond scum that solicits clients for every trivial wrong you can think of, promosing big money for them.
We need tort reform and vastly improved barritry laws.
"This is why we need tort reform like Newt Gingrich was touting in his contract with America in which there'd be a loser pays system for lawsuits."
Yea, amen, and halleluja. Remove the incentive for a big win even if they lose, and the "necessary evils" we call "lawyers" will spen more time golfing than harassing over baseless claims.
Even better, make lawyers who file claims determined frivilous subject to disbarment. To make it "fair," create civil grand juries to assess case merits before it ever sees a court room.
I do wish someone would do something about these rude children.
"Just don't give your email address to people you don't trust."
Would that life was so simple.
If your job requires that people be able to email you and you address is therefore made public, you do not have a lot of options. That's one of the reasons for "paranoia over spam." Dealing with it costs business tons of time, money, and lost productivity.
Start by blocking (or treating as spam) all email from addresses with "verizon" in them. Beyond that, try using ARIN http://www.arin.net/ and IP registry lists like this http://www.cert.mil/techtips/whois_by_ipaddr.htm to identify and block IP address ranges registered to Verizon.
"ISPs need to change first by enforcing stricter rules on them."
I agree wholeheartedly.
The TOS should state:
If you sign up with us and we learn you are spamming from our servers, you agree to pay us $10 for each spam email.
You must present proof of identity to get a broadband account (makes it it easier to find/presecute/sue spammers).
Non-commercial accounts are limited to 100 outgoing emails per 24-hour period. If you have a legitimate need to send more than 100 emails daily, contact our Commercial Accounts department.
Last, if we detect ONE email from your account bearing a virus, your account will be suspended until you demonstrate your machine is virus-free, and has a firewall and up-to-date anti-virus software in place.
I have read repeatedly here and elsewhere that most spam comes from "spam zombie" machines "pwned" via the machinations of malicious virus writers. Ergo, a machine spewing viruses via email is (a) a spam source in training and (b) attempting to create other zombies/spam sources. It therefore seems logical that any ISP serious about fighting spam would welcome reports of subscribers spewing viruses, whereby to notify the subscriber of the infection and/or suspend the account until the problem is fixed. On the assumption that the latter point is true (which I doubt), why do SpamCop and other spam reporting outfits refuse to report/notify ISPs about viruses spewing from their mail servers? If the number of owned machines is as represented, it seems that a huge step toward controlling spam would be identifying and fixing said machines or suspending their ISP accounts BEFORE they start spewing spam. (Note to trolls: Please do not start up about "lusers" not knowing how to identify the true ISP of an infected account and all that. SpamCop, for one, does this automatically based on IP address, so, the mechanism for reporting viruses to the source ISP is the same as for reporting spam.)
If you do not receive desirable email from the U.S., that's probably a good idea. I block all email from IPs listed in LACNIC, APNIC, and RIPE. Reduces spam by up to 80 percent some days.
Damn, why didn't I think of that. Simple, elegant, functional, even more so if cable boroadband is available, as the original article suggests.
Maybe setup the startup so it launches Firefox automatically at boot would make it mostly orderly-proof.
My, how the children prattle.
Okay, maybe this isn't practical, but here goes:
Code an extension for Thunderbird that parses incoming email for certain keywords (code words you provide/select to prevent false positives) and for attachments. It then collects attached photos, and ports them to a second/dedicated video card connected to the/a TV. It will cycle through the photos n times then stop, "reset," and wait for the next batch of email/images.
You think?
No flames, please. Havent't coded in about 10 years, but used to do some similar stuff for other realtime applications, so know it is possible, just not how practical.
tsk, tsk, mind your manners, boy.
"I guess I'm just glad that when it "finds its way home" it doesn't define "home" as "the White House Lawn" - and that the laid-off engineer who built it isn't angry with the world."
Only the brain-dead would mod this "Troll"
This is a superb example of "irony," oft-misapplied on Slashdot, not hypocricy.
My, my, how the children behave these days.
All billy goats gruff follow alternate route.
Maybe he no speek gud Engrish?
Jacques Cousteau enslaved Earth? No way! Oh, wait...
" 'The fish in Finding Nemo' by itself is vague..."
Not if you have seen the pictures, and recognized the simlarity to the anglerfish in Nemo. I "got it" on first read--having recently watched "Nemo" for the first time, the image was fresh in my mind, so perhaps that was an advantage.