WHAT THE FUCK are you talking about, you young whelp?!!!!
STOP PRESSES: TECH ENTHSUIAST MAKES GENERAL STATEMENT OF FACT; OPPONENT OFFERS SINGLE EXCEPTION.
Seriously, do you want to see a list of the hundred other (male) figures at this time in the field? The grandparent is right on.
-- Look, his email address! spam away!
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See this post on news.admin.net
Good find! Now to the nitty gritty, slashdotters--here's a whois on dduo.com...
Registrant:
Design OP
325 w 43 st
325 w 43 st
new york, New York 10036
United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com
Domain Name: DDUO.COM
Created on: 27-May-03
Expires on: 27-May-04
Last Updated on: 11-Mar-04
Administrative Contact:
Kennedy, Paula pkennedy@nyc.rr.com
Design OP
325 w 43 st
325 w 43 st
new york, New York 10036
United States
(111) 111-1111 Fax --
Technical Contact:
Kennedy, Paula pkennedy@nyc.rr.com
Design OP
325 w 43 st
325 w 43 st
new york, New York 10036
United States
(111) 111-1111 Fax --
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.RACKSHACK.NET
NS2.RACKSHACK.NET
A fellow receiver of 500-1000 spams a day, I think we should each email Paula and Mr. Soto and tell them how much we appreciate their support of the spammers.
omg... that apple death knell counter page is hysterical! thanks for sharing that--i laughed damn hard at it... it really is funny how many ppl look for every reason to reject macs and make headlines.
He made it. Why do you think they were able to make it so cheap--it's all his own IP... all they needed for the rendering studio were a bunch of stacked machines and the data to crunch on.
...had to be an excruciatingly tedious experience.
Ahh, the Apple IIci. He probably had the math co-processor version, making a world of difference for his software (that could target it). It was a little disheartening that they called didn't mention Apple anywhere in the article (just "Macintosh").
Aren't nerds people with too much time on their hands?:P
I don't think so at all... It's seems more common to see an umimpressive person doing something mindless than a "nerd"/"geek" doing something industrious and/ot enriching. Think about all the crap TV, crap film, spam, ecards, hallmark products, shoe stores, beanie babies, and talk shows--a lot of people are buying.
Mod this down, but is there no end to the "stories" that are being posted as news here? These days, over half of the main stories are a waste of time to look at. In the last day alone there's a LOTR musical, the hotmail outage, and now this. If stories like these continue to show, "News for Nerds." should be changed to "News for Nerds and people who have too much time on their hands." If it's a slow news day, then so be it! -- let's not post stories just to fill the absence of good stories.
Mod me down, i don't care, but is there no end to the cheezy stories that are being posted as "news"? These days, over half of the main stories are absurd and it's just spamming up/.
By coming to Slashdot and reading and believing in these stupid stories you are already telling us that you are ready to increase your hate without any cause.
Did you you *read* the story post or my post?? This is *real* -- what the hell are talking about... "made up story"??
If you know better than thousands of the contractors then why don't you build a business and show us how you can do it better,
If you follow that pesky URL in my tagline, you'll feel pretty dumb.
Seriously, what the hell is in ms office that the previous version didn't have that's of huge value? What more "essential" things can be added to a word processor? At the end of the day, bells an whistles don't make content. Call me when ms puts out a version of Office that makes content.
Yep... I'm in the navy and this new item hit the streets last week (I considered submitting it as a story--oh well). We had guys and civilian contractors in our building getting free copies of office. My hate for ms reached a new high--talking about caught red-handed trying to plant seeds that will secure them--argh.
Separately, as a member of the military and despiser of the pitiful quality of ms products, I've always been strongly concerned about the military's use of ms products. The military, like many parts of the government, subcontract-out most tech work and implementation. The contractors, with sealed pay rates and support plans, have no problem deploying huge ms flagships at given branch or sub branch of the military (and then forwarding all the licensing bill to uncle sam). In other words, the root concern is that senior military folks that make the money decisions, need to get the job done but don't have a technical background (ie, to them, linux, microsoft, a server, source code, hacking, and TCP/IP are all one and the same). The contractors drum up offers, the military takes one, and--wham--the US gov't is now shelling out to ms in huge numbers and there's no one who looks at and says, 'is this the best way we could be doing it?'
If you've been around the government, you know what I mean about how scary the contractors are in terms of quality and knowledge when it comes to industrial back-end technologies. I'm on shore tour now, but when I was on my sub, you'd see these people doing a software install by blindly reading out of a SPAWAR procedure. I'd ask them stuff as they went along to gain knowledge and tips, but I usually got back a sheepish "I'm not sure". Grr...
Well said and bravo--mod the parent up. I always enjoy reading a post that focuses on the issue and its nature, not on feelings or rehashing on what we already know (and what's already been posted).
Separately, I wonder about the new video CD standard. Wheather it's 1, 3, or 5 years from now, some new disc format is gonna appear. Now, for all those yahoos out there who feel it necessary to own every film they like on DVD, they're screwed in that the $18 they paid for a title won't carry over to the new disc format. And since they're dedicated movie people, they'll no doubt start to buy all their beloved titles on the new format, shelling out $$ the same publisher/distributor. (This is why I tell peolple, amoung other reasons, why netflix is the way to go).
Of course it's a resource hog, they probably have every debugging feature turned on in it. Is there a point to "reviewing" this build?
No doubt, but all the other stuff they'll add in over the next 1-2 years will offset the debugging stuff removed, easily.
Separately, wtf is up w/ the window theme (ie, brushed aluminum window look). What a sad rip-off of Mac OS 10.3's theme. Is there no end to MS's lack of creativiy and design abilities??
Sources working at the Redmond campus say that it is common knowledge on campus that Longhorn will not ship until mid 2007.
Those are some pretty big words. Too bad you can't name those sources. If you look at the development of Mac OS X, I can't wait to see where it's at by 2007--whew--or even 2006. Whatever the case is at MS, they're in serious trouble if they don't ship asap, with Linux and Mac OS X getting better and/or more widespread by the quarter. Once again, I'm starting to fantasize, thinking about a world that doesn't use MS products as a industry standard.
Separately, during my trips to MS in biz dealings, every couple offices you'd see macs and cinema displays.
Re:This idea (still) sucks!
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Gates on Spam
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The Bayesian filter in Mozilla (and other clients) *does* work.
Are you done being over-confident yet? No?
Still not done? I'll be paitent...
Ok... it *doesn't* work all time, Mr. Anonymous (why the hell did you post anonymously, anyway?). I'm a shareware developer and I get enough spam a day (500-1500) that either I have to let ~100 thru a day or turn up the thresholds and start losing real email.
The root cause is that not even the best filter in the world can figure out this is spam:
From: (any reasonable forged address) Subj: hey there
Hey there... I saw a pretty cool site... (insert a URL selling crap) Check it out when you get a chance.
(insert random name)
All a spammer has to do is constanly tweak those sub-phrases with typos, order changes, spacing, synonymns, and adjectives and there's suddenly a million possible combinations. In other words, your filter will essentally always be seeing a new email! This stuff isn't as obvious to chumps who don't get a "real" amount a spam each day.
It pains me to think that MS will have IP hooks into this stuff, but one thing, however, is clear... A system isn't far away, and when it's in place, the spam and virus f*cks will be screwed--and I can't wait to see them fold (it least, to a large degree). For once, virus authors will have to make *real* exploits (rather than take advantage of Outlooks click-and-run garbage) and spam people will have to pursue legit forms of mass mailing.
One thing's for sure, as a receiver of 500-1000 spam and virus emails a day, I welcome the not-too-distant future.
I hear ya, bro... I've been a shareware author for a couple years now and I get 500-1000 spam and virus emails a day (bounced or as the recipient, as you described). Sigh.
hey bro, hate to break this to you, but in the United States, the body that makes military policy decions is *separate* from the military. That is, the accountabilty for war falls on a nation's administration, not the armed forces (provided the armed forces *aren't* the ones making the decisions).
Ever heard of the phrase "a just (or unjust) war"? It's grounded to the notion that the accoutabilty and responsibilty to engage in conflict and certain policies falls on the bodies that make the decision (and that the arm under control of these bodies doesn't take that on unless they act outside morality/decency/integrity). Are there plenty of annoying, loud-mouth military types out there? Sure. Do I look like one? Hopefully not. In any case, it looks like your beef is w/ the administration, not with the military. Channel that hate and anger to the damn voting booth, not at me.
So, basically, you are an ignorant ass to suggest that the military somehow chooses highly questionable conflicts such as in the last couple years--there's no "choosing" about it. Get a clue, ace, and have some respect for the guys in the sand right now (ie, the guys really giving it up) that are *busting* their ass and getting shot at b/c of suit and ties in Washington.
Heh, cute, but submariners aren't kept in the know--we just run the boats and do the missions (by and large, those missions help this nation). Intel continues, of course, to be very compartmentalized and only seen by *the* top intel brass. Moreover, I'm getting out as soon as my commitment is over.
I'm in the US submarine force and I'll just suggest that the US is pretty good at getting a job done when (1) they want it done and when (2) the doors are closed to the public.
Separately, learn some of the facts surrounding JFK's assassination (and the likes who go to no end to increase their power) and you'll get a feel for what goes on behind closed doors. It's very depressing.
Microsoft has a vested interest in not having their software be perceived as being susceptible to viruses, so this might actually be a feature best provided by the OS vendors themselves -- much as I hate to admit it.
Well said. There's little hope for the future if the AV corps benefit from virus activity--MS defintely seems like the lesser of two evils here.
You're precisely correct. For example, MS has a license w/ my company's software in Windows Media Center, and our contract is all well and good, but at the end of the day, the OEMs pick and choose what they put on their machines and what they don't--it's their perception of how they differentiate their boxes. Now, mind you, they'll typically go with most bundles available, but consider this case. for example, an OEM could be partnered w/ Symantec and they would choose to turn off ms's anti-virus suite. so, at th end of the day, OEMs have the power and ability to offer partnerships, they have to be willing forgo the fact that MS's suite will be available for their distribute (at no add'l cost or trouble).
So my big question is how AV corps plan to make money as the margin gets smaller and smaller with another big player in the game. For example, in mac os x, chat clients are largely dead b/c Apple's iChat satisfies most users' needs.
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WHAT THE FUCK are you talking about, you young whelp?!!!!
STOP PRESSES: TECH ENTHSUIAST MAKES GENERAL STATEMENT OF FACT; OPPONENT OFFERS SINGLE EXCEPTION.
Seriously, do you want to see a list of the hundred other (male) figures at this time in the field? The grandparent is right on.
Good find! Now to the nitty gritty, slashdotters--here's a whois on dduo.com
A fellow receiver of 500-1000 spams a day, I think we should each email Paula and Mr. Soto and tell them how much we appreciate their support of the spammers.
Thanks Mr. Soto!
omg... that apple death knell counter page is hysterical! thanks for sharing that--i laughed damn hard at it... it really is funny how many ppl look for every reason to reject macs and make headlines.
There's no mention of which software he used,
...had to be an excruciatingly tedious experience.
He made it. Why do you think they were able to make it so cheap--it's all his own IP... all they needed for the rendering studio were a bunch of stacked machines and the data to crunch on.
Ahh, the Apple IIci. He probably had the math co-processor version, making a world of difference for his software (that could target it). It was a little disheartening that they called didn't mention Apple anywhere in the article (just "Macintosh").
Aren't nerds people with too much time on their hands? :P
I don't think so at all... It's seems more common to see an umimpressive person doing something mindless than a "nerd"/"geek" doing something industrious and/ot enriching. Think about all the crap TV, crap film, spam, ecards, hallmark products, shoe stores, beanie babies, and talk shows--a lot of people are buying.
Mod this down, but is there no end to the "stories" that are being posted as news here? These days, over half of the main stories are a waste of time to look at. In the last day alone there's a LOTR musical, the hotmail outage, and now this. If stories like these continue to show, "News for Nerds." should be changed to "News for Nerds and people who have too much time on their hands." If it's a slow news day, then so be it! -- let's not post stories just to fill the absence of good stories.
/RANT
Mod me down, i don't care, but is there no end to the cheezy stories that are being posted as "news"? These days, over half of the main stories are absurd and it's just spamming up
By coming to Slashdot and reading and believing in these stupid stories you are already telling us that you are ready to increase your hate without any cause.
Did you you *read* the story post or my post?? This is *real* -- what the hell are talking about... "made up story"??
If you know better than thousands of the contractors then why don't you build a business and show us how you can do it better,
If you follow that pesky URL in my tagline, you'll feel pretty dumb.
Andy
I wouldn't mind getting the stuff for free!
Seriously, what the hell is in ms office that the previous version didn't have that's of huge value? What more "essential" things can be added to a word processor? At the end of the day, bells an whistles don't make content. Call me when ms puts out a version of Office that makes content.
Andy
Yep... I'm in the navy and this new item hit the streets last week (I considered submitting it as a story--oh well). We had guys and civilian contractors in our building getting free copies of office. My hate for ms reached a new high--talking about caught red-handed trying to plant seeds that will secure them--argh.
Separately, as a member of the military and despiser of the pitiful quality of ms products, I've always been strongly concerned about the military's use of ms products. The military, like many parts of the government, subcontract-out most tech work and implementation. The contractors, with sealed pay rates and support plans, have no problem deploying huge ms flagships at given branch or sub branch of the military (and then forwarding all the licensing bill to uncle sam). In other words, the root concern is that senior military folks that make the money decisions, need to get the job done but don't have a technical background (ie, to them, linux, microsoft, a server, source code, hacking, and TCP/IP are all one and the same). The contractors drum up offers, the military takes one, and--wham--the US gov't is now shelling out to ms in huge numbers and there's no one who looks at and says, 'is this the best way we could be doing it?'
If you've been around the government, you know what I mean about how scary the contractors are in terms of quality and knowledge when it comes to industrial back-end technologies. I'm on shore tour now, but when I was on my sub, you'd see these people doing a software install by blindly reading out of a SPAWAR procedure. I'd ask them stuff as they went along to gain knowledge and tips, but I usually got back a sheepish "I'm not sure". Grr...
Andy
Well said and bravo--mod the parent up. I always enjoy reading a post that focuses on the issue and its nature, not on feelings or rehashing on what we already know (and what's already been posted).
Separately, I wonder about the new video CD standard. Wheather it's 1, 3, or 5 years from now, some new disc format is gonna appear. Now, for all those yahoos out there who feel it necessary to own every film they like on DVD, they're screwed in that the $18 they paid for a title won't carry over to the new disc format. And since they're dedicated movie people, they'll no doubt start to buy all their beloved titles on the new format, shelling out $$ the same publisher/distributor. (This is why I tell peolple, amoung other reasons, why netflix is the way to go).
Andy
Q: What do microsoft and RealNetworks have in common?
A: It takes a HD format to remove their software.
Of course it's a resource hog, they probably have every debugging feature turned on in it. Is there a point to "reviewing" this build?
No doubt, but all the other stuff they'll add in over the next 1-2 years will offset the debugging stuff removed, easily.
Separately, wtf is up w/ the window theme (ie, brushed aluminum window look). What a sad rip-off of Mac OS 10.3's theme. Is there no end to MS's lack of creativiy and design abilities??
Sources working at the Redmond campus say that it is common knowledge on campus that Longhorn will not ship until mid 2007.
Those are some pretty big words. Too bad you can't name those sources. If you look at the development of Mac OS X, I can't wait to see where it's at by 2007--whew--or even 2006. Whatever the case is at MS, they're in serious trouble if they don't ship asap, with Linux and Mac OS X getting better and/or more widespread by the quarter. Once again, I'm starting to fantasize, thinking about a world that doesn't use MS products as a industry standard.
Separately, during my trips to MS in biz dealings, every couple offices you'd see macs and cinema displays.
The Bayesian filter in Mozilla (and other clients) *does* work.
Are you done being over-confident yet? No?
Still not done? I'll be paitent...
Ok... it *doesn't* work all time, Mr. Anonymous (why the hell did you post anonymously, anyway?). I'm a shareware developer and I get enough spam a day (500-1500) that either I have to let ~100 thru a day or turn up the thresholds and start losing real email.
The root cause is that not even the best filter in the world can figure out this is spam:
From: (any reasonable forged address)
Subj: hey there
Hey there... I saw a pretty cool site... (insert a URL selling crap) Check it out when you get a chance.
(insert random name)
All a spammer has to do is constanly tweak those sub-phrases with typos, order changes, spacing, synonymns, and adjectives and there's suddenly a million possible combinations. In other words, your filter will essentally always be seeing a new email! This stuff isn't as obvious to chumps who don't get a "real" amount a spam each day.
It pains me to think that MS will have IP hooks into this stuff, but one thing, however, is clear... A system isn't far away, and when it's in place, the spam and virus f*cks will be screwed--and I can't wait to see them fold (it least, to a large degree). For once, virus authors will have to make *real* exploits (rather than take advantage of Outlooks click-and-run garbage) and spam people will have to pursue legit forms of mass mailing.
One thing's for sure, as a receiver of 500-1000 spam and virus emails a day, I welcome the not-too-distant future.
I hear ya, bro... I've been a shareware author for a couple years now and I get 500-1000 spam and virus emails a day (bounced or as the recipient, as you described). Sigh.
The case IS NOT ABOUT LINUX. It is about using SCO claiming that autozone are using SCO SHARED LIBRARIES IN A WAY THEY'RE NOT LICENSED TO.
STOP PRESSES--THIS JUST IN: News reporters, and articles inflate and stretch story facts to generate more interest and contraversy! More at 11!
hey bro, hate to break this to you, but in the United States, the body that makes military policy decions is *separate* from the military. That is, the accountabilty for war falls on a nation's administration, not the armed forces (provided the armed forces *aren't* the ones making the decisions).
Ever heard of the phrase "a just (or unjust) war"? It's grounded to the notion that the accoutabilty and responsibilty to engage in conflict and certain policies falls on the bodies that make the decision (and that the arm under control of these bodies doesn't take that on unless they act outside morality/decency/integrity). Are there plenty of annoying, loud-mouth military types out there? Sure. Do I look like one? Hopefully not. In any case, it looks like your beef is w/ the administration, not with the military. Channel that hate and anger to the damn voting booth, not at me.
So, basically, you are an ignorant ass to suggest that the military somehow chooses highly questionable conflicts such as in the last couple years--there's no "choosing" about it. Get a clue, ace, and have some respect for the guys in the sand right now (ie, the guys really giving it up) that are *busting* their ass and getting shot at b/c of suit and ties in Washington.
I'm a LT on shore tour from a westpac fast boat. I have a bio on my site (see tagline) if you have any interest to see more.
I hear ya, bro. btw, who the hell modded you down? wtf.
Heh, cute, but submariners aren't kept in the know--we just run the boats and do the missions (by and large, those missions help this nation). Intel continues, of course, to be very compartmentalized and only seen by *the* top intel brass. Moreover, I'm getting out as soon as my commitment is over.
I'm in the US submarine force and I'll just suggest that the US is pretty good at getting a job done when (1) they want it done and when (2) the doors are closed to the public.
Separately, learn some of the facts surrounding JFK's assassination (and the likes who go to no end to increase their power) and you'll get a feel for what goes on behind closed doors. It's very depressing.
Microsoft has a vested interest in not having their software be perceived as being susceptible to viruses, so this might actually be a feature best provided by the OS vendors themselves -- much as I hate to admit it.
Well said. There's little hope for the future if the AV corps benefit from virus activity--MS defintely seems like the lesser of two evils here.
You're precisely correct. For example, MS has a license w/ my company's software in Windows Media Center, and our contract is all well and good, but at the end of the day, the OEMs pick and choose what they put on their machines and what they don't--it's their perception of how they differentiate their boxes. Now, mind you, they'll typically go with most bundles available, but consider this case. for example, an OEM could be partnered w/ Symantec and they would choose to turn off ms's anti-virus suite. so, at th end of the day, OEMs have the power and ability to offer partnerships, they have to be willing forgo the fact that MS's suite will be available for their distribute (at no add'l cost or trouble).
So my big question is how AV corps plan to make money as the margin gets smaller and smaller with another big player in the game. For example, in mac os x, chat clients are largely dead b/c Apple's iChat satisfies most users' needs.