SMTP protocol, you know, email, is transmitted in clear text. So why does it matter if POP3 would be transmitted clear or not? The password doesn't need to be transmitted in clear text, just a hash.
Oh man, you've made my day. I thought I saw dumb replies but this got to top the rest of the ignorance. What do you think they researchers will do?? Grab them all and drain them of blood??
Here's what will happen,
1. they go to a zoo or similar controller place and get some blood samples. Or grab a few specimens for their own little "zoo" 2. work on the blood samples for weeks/months 3. go back to step #1 for as long as necessary for #4 to be available 4. get some result
This is not "wearing alligator shoes prevents cancer" or other claim. What do you think people will do? Inject themselves with alligator blood? Go ahead! I dare you!!
In Canada capital gains are taxed at 50%. So, if you make $10,000 capital gains, $5,000 is taxable income. In the past I think it was more, like 75% but I'm not sure.
China is more "liberal" regarding capital gains taxes - there is none. All you do is pay a 1 or 2% fee based on transaction amount. So I guess China is more capitalistic than even US.
I do agree that capital gains should be counted as income taxes, though the lower inclusion rate (as in Canada) in important to keep people in investing money instead of just putting it in a savings account with high interest rate. I guess there is a fine balance there..
I think I was replying to someone else in the other reply!:) Sorry about that.
Regarding validation of email, that is not really the issue here. There are many ways for people to validate if the source is who they say they are. These include SPF or DomainKeys or even GPG/PGP in the message body. Thankfully forgeries are still not really the bulk of the problem.
The most critical issue is lost mail. I know it is the simplest solution to just drop mail, but it is not an acceptable solution. I believe it is better to shut down SMPT all together than use/dev/null with 2xx codes.
Here's what happens. On SMTP level. << is for what server sends. Rest is what is sent to server.
<< This is your great SMTP server. Yo! << 220 super.server.net ESMTP HELO srv.my_super_subnet.server.net << 250 srv.my_super_subnet.server.net MAIL FROM: <handle@server.net> << 250 2.1.0 Ok RCPT TO: <handle2@server.net> << 250 2.1.5 Ok DATA << End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF> Subject: Yo From: Bob Superman <handle@server.net> To: My Buddy <handle2@server.net>
See?? No backscatter. The pre-queue filter runs *before* the message is accepted after the . is on the new line indicated end of message.
What happens now is they get,
<< 250 2.6.0 Ok, id=fsffs FROM blah Ok: queued as foo
or similar response. Then the filter runs and junks the mail! *That* runs email. I send out email, and it get junked. It gets delivered 50% of the time because some wise guy runs some new magic filter - no spam gets through, and 50% real messages get binned. Then people that should get mail complain that they never get mail (and not just from me).
If you reply to message from a post queue filter you get backscatter. This is wrong way of doing things. If you reject mail in pre-queue, there is NO backscatter.
The *only* reason to run after queue and drop silently is for mail marked as Bulk, like mailing list software marks mail as Bulk precedence. Any other mail should be treated as a *no* mail lost priority. Otherwise we may just abandon SMTP altogether.
Just to add something, the problem with 5xx replies is filter is *before* queue so some mail may be delayed and servers need to be contacted a few times before they get a delivery slot. For example, say gmail can filter 1 million messages at a time. That means 1 million open connections. So, if you are connection 1,000,040 you get 4xx response - temporary failure due to no available resources. So try again later.
This is not a problem, really. You can wait a few days until you can deliver the message as long as it is *delivered* eventually./dev/nulling spam while accepting it with 2xx code is like burning unopened envelope at post office because it was typed instead of handwritten indicating possible spam.
Pre-queue filter with only 1 unique IP connection at a time to mail server. Problem solved.
Huge email servers get reasonably constant and predictable amount of mail per day and per hour and even per minute. They can plan pre-queue filtering with some margin for any spikes. And if there is a huge bomb and your mail doesn't get there for 7 days and your server gives up, hey, at least you get a "Could not deliver the message because destination was not available". Much better than "err, never got any mail from you" from the destination party.
There were number of times where my emails are silently deleted from Hotmail or even gmail, so hey. Welcome to the world of screwed up SMTP protocol. And all thanks to spammers.
Today email is less reliable message delivery medium than regular mail which is quite sad considering all transactions in SMTP were considered to be, well, transactions. An acceptance of email by destination means it is delivered, not going to/dev/null. Want to filter spam? Reply with 5xx codes instead - not accept with 2xx and then bin it (unless mailing list headers found in mail, there you can drop spam)
If no host is present on a network, ISPs should not only cache that, they really should block all connections to non-existent networks. It is just *common sense*.
For example, you send a packet to host A that then gets a return ICMP that the network doesn't exist. It is only in ISP's interest to cache that for few seconds and block all traffic to that host. After that, if you still get ICMP notice that there is no route, you continue to block that destination. This reduces the noise on the backbone.
Secondly, ISPs *must* (or at least any sane ones do) block all traffic with forged IP addresses. Packet cannot originate on their network, it should not go out on the backbone.
Regarding what comcast is doing for legitimate connections, maybe they are limiting number of active TCP connections? There is nothing in TFA about number of active connections established and whether that number remained the same. If number connections is set at some flat value, it may be that COMCAST is doing throttling based on destination connection but their queue can only manage so many buckets? Anyway, just guessing here. TFA was not clear if COMCAST was throttling bandwidth, number of TCP connections, SYN packets, stray networks, etc.
Given the number of their customers being members of bot nets, I'm not surprised about the complaints if COMCAST is cutting off TCP connections after some amount:)
Are you sure you are just not just maxing out your upstream connection thus blocking your own SYN/ACK packets from going out? That would cause extremely noticeable lag with any network application. Throttle your own upstream to below your max and give SYN/ACK priority, and downstream speed is fixed.
To figure out if your connections are getting screwed, you need to watch your network interface speed (UL/DL) and be able to throttle it to 50% (not SYN/ACK). Then if your DL is still messed up, then ISP is screwing with you. If DL is returns to normal, then it is your own traffic that is interfering and has nothing to do with ISP.
A lot of people bitch about ISPs, but I wander how many actually know what is actually going on.
As to Comcast, they may be using a proxy for internet connections. And the proxy may be limited to "normal user" browsing, not necessarily 100 connection attempts per second.
It took her a moment or two and then she realized that I as a male cannot easily show emotion to children... There is a barrier that I have to erect, as I don't want people to ever think the wrong thing. Why? Because of the reason you said, Guilty first, innocent later.
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Copyright is also an "IP law", a very old one. I guess lots of people wouldn't write books if they couldn't get any money for those. Why would companies write software if they can't copyright it?
Anyway, one set of extremists believes that software patents are next thing to 'sliced bread' (a bad 'invention' in first place). The other set of extremists, like yourself, would throw all protections away and give free rain for all bootleggers, scammers and thieves (eg. bring a book to a publisher, but he just pays you $20 for 1 copy, then copies and sells the rest).
IP laws are not all bad. Just like not all laws in general are bad because there are a few that are really fsked up. Laws give order to otherwise chaotic world.
Except if you are not in US, then you are screwed. Apple doesn't even "offer" ability to buy non-DRM, so they are out. Amazon.com is for US only too. Essentially, you get screwed over up here in Canakistan. Instead of having DRM-free, they want to introduce a tax on all network connections so Britney can have more money as reported here before. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/28/2043259
Where can I buy legal DRM-free online music in Canada? Yes, RIAA and similar, some people want to pay for good, DRM-free music for their non-iPod "iPods" (aka. mp3 players) and similar devices.
What? You use phrases like "how will it render" without understanding its meaning. At least you cannot as you wouldn't write it.
How do you think the browser version of a word processor will "render" on a Mac with Safari vs. Vista with IE 7 vs. XP with IE 6 vs. Linux with Firefox 2 or Firefox 3?? Is that enough problems already?
You want it to "render" properly, you use a medium to do that. It is NOT some word processing document. Some example of things that *should* "render" properly would be PDF, or PostScript.
Regardless, I do agree with the GP. You are much better off with regular word processor like OpenOffice than something like Google or Microsoft online offerings. But hey, that's just me.
I'm not sure.gov sites joke too much, and that may be a good thing. What would be next?
Anyway, from their site, the cause of the suspenstion is,
Cause
Suspension by any Federal agency pursuant to Executive Order 12549 and the agency implementing regulations based on an indictment or other adequate evidence (a) to suspect the commission of an offense that is a cause for debarment or (b) that other causes for debarment under the agency regulations may exist.
Treatment
Same as Code R, except that suspensions are temporary actions and the period of suspension is indefinite. Therefore, the termination date will be listed as "Indefinite (Indef.). NOTE Debarments and suspensions taken in accordance with agency regulations issued pursuant to Executive Order 12549, which become effective on October 1, 1988, are effective throughout the Executive Branch.
And Core R is,
Cause
Debarment by any Federal agency pursuant to Executive Order 12549 and the agency implementing regulations for one or more 153 of the following causes: (a) conviction or a civil judgment for fraud, violation of antitrust laws, embezzlement, theft, forgery, bribery, false statements, false claims, or other offense indicating a lack of business integrity or honesty; (b) violation of the terms of a public agreement or transaction so serious as to affect the integrity of an agency program; or (c) other causes specified in the agency implementing regulations, or such other cause of a serious or compelling nature affecting responsibility.
Treatment
Listed persons are excluded as participants or principals in all primary and lower tier covered transactions of all agencies and may not receive contracts under Federal procurement programs (see Treatment A). Further, agencies and participants shall not renew or otherwise extend the duration of covered transactions or consent to lower tier covered transactions with such persons. Exceptions to this treatment require a written determination by the head of the Federal agency or designee stating the reasons for entering the transaction. Debarments are for a specified term as determined by the debarring agency and as indicated in the listing.
So, telcos are backward enough not to implement fair-queuing per customer or per their subnet? That's the only thing I can think of if it is so much "unlimited". Disrupting other users is not an issue if you just have basic, neutral queuing on your network.
OpenSSH server, unless its developers are on crack, doesn't poll network connection. It *listens* to a socket until someone tries to connect to it. CPU usage = 0.
It is very unlikely OpenSSH will drain your battery. It is very likely either a poor network implementation of the network layer by Apple or another application is using the juice.
For example, here's the CPU usage statistics for my OpenSSH service that doesn't do much (maybe 10 logins in last year). For 250 day update, the CPU usage on a P3 450MHz machine is,
0:00/usr/sbin/sshd
uptime - 253 days
In this time the IRQ interrupt handler used up 13 minutes and 9 seconds CPU time. So, blame Apple. Blame another application, but not OpenSSH for having bad network implementation that uses lots of CPU or other resources.
BTW, here's what OpenSSH does all the time,
#strace -p12603 Process 12603 attached - interrupt to quit select(6, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL
Exactly. Software moves way too fast to allow BS like patents in a way. Copyright works. Use of trade secrets works as well. But patents are BS wrt. software.
See blackboard software and their patent trolling vs. others. See all the patent trolls vs. Microsoft (like that DirectX patent troll posted last year on slashdot). See RIM vs. patent trolls. Instead of innovation, patents breed FUD in the software world.
If you can patent software bytes, why can't mathematicians patent their theorem? Why is an implementation of a theorem more valued than the theorem in the first place? In many cases where current patents are concerned, the former is much more difficult to arrive at then the latter.
People, more FUD here (first say where are nVidia crashes then go on to say nVidia caused 100% of your crashes, ha). nVidia linux user for years, and almost never had a system crash due to nVidia. Had crashes from KVM module. Had crashes from even xfs in the earlier days. nVidia didn't crash the system yet, though it did *once* crash X during restart of X. Oh, and there was this hardware memory issue one time that caused 2 or 3 crashes in a row accounting for 50% of all my crashes in 7 years. So, we need "free RAM chips" now?
I also have Intel graphics. Tried EVE Online with it. Crashed X last summer repeatedly every single time after maybe, 10 seconds runtime. Couldn't get past the EULA screen. That was the Intel free graphics system at the time, maybe it changed.
So, please stop the bullshit about nVidia or non-free is "the evil" in people's boxes. It is not. Just because something is free or non-free does NOT imply its level of stability.
Now, getting back on topic with Vista, the problem with Vista is Vista. The entire "trusted picture path bullshit" and the way they *completely* changed the drivers was the source of the problem. If you have a few MB worth of legacy source code to overhaul, I don't care if it is free or non-free, you'll screw it up. There is a good old saying, "don't fix it if it ain't broke". It especially applies to ALL software out there. It applies to nVidia former drivers that grew out organically as the hardware changed. You can't change its core and think it will magically work. Heck, nVidia's XP drivers port to Linux is *much* more straightforward than its XP => Vista port.
nVidia uses same driver code on Linux as they use on a Mac as they use on Windows. Hence, if you make one completely different from the rest, well, expect some problems. Thank the "Vista Trusted Computing" for all these trusted crashes;)
SxS binding fixes that problem, for almost a decade now. Vista and vs2005/8 now force SxS down developer throats, whether you like it or not. DLL hell is virtually over.
For people that are clueless why they would take *active* measures to make people turn off using their address to keep checking for spams, it is because of IPv4 has run out of addresses. Yes, that is the reason. Here's the scenario.
1. Open ORDB
2. Get thousands and thousands of requests per minute.
3. A year later, no more resources for ORDB. So shut it down.
4. The packets keep coming! Can't just stop using the IP address though, but can't keep the bandwidth costs.
5. Active attempt to reclaim the IP address - force everyone to stop attempting to use the obsolete ORBD
The moral of the story.
1. Software should always use DNS to find the destination box, not hardcode IP addresses, *ever*
2. IPv4 address space is exhausted. Service providers can't turn off DDoS (this is what it is, against the old ORDB) because IP address space is precious. In IPv6 world, you could just route all packets to null at ISP level. Not with IPv4.
No, not at war. Also UN does not recognize Taiwan as a nation, but as a "Province of China". And China is too stubborn to let Taiwan go as a separate nation and *threaten* war (invasion) if they do declare independence.
And don't even start with Chinese that "Taiwan is a country" or they'll treat you as enemy of state. But then saying that Quebec is an independent nation from Canada would be similar. Though in Canada a lot of people would just ignore you;)
Now, if you state that Tibet should be an independent nation since it almost always was, that would be true. But China doesn't listen to history. More nationalistic than US. China annexing Tibet is like Poland annexing its southern and eastern neighbors because in 1600s they were part of Poland. That just wouldn't fly. China and Tibet case is similar.
Seriously, I have not met a successful mathematician that wasn't a little "out there". Physics people tend to be more grounded - problems that they are involved with are always based in reality. It is very rare to see someone that is successful in both physics and mathematics, though to a layman the two fields are quite similar.
Thanks to all the high profile religious people in the world, Atheism is the fastest growing set of beliefs in the Western World, if I can say it that way.
No, that is thanks to learning history, science, math, and should I say history? Not repeating mistakes of the past is probably something that creates sceptics to mass dilusions.
Egyptian gods (Pharaohs)
Greek Gods (Zeus, etc.)
Roman gods (Jupiter, etc)
North American native gods (spirit world, animal spirits, etc)
Hindu gods
Japanese emperor gods
voodoo
wicans and other "Pegans"
scientology
Christians (from Roman Cathlic to polygamous weirdos in Utah)
Muslims (from "kill the rape victim" in Sudan to "martyrs" in Iraq)
group that lobbed their testicles off and "went to meet aliens behind the comet"
.... too many others to list
Sorry, but indoctrinating a 3 year old into any one of these groups is a lot easier than trying to show the reality to them and let them decide for themselves. Reality of the above True Believers (don't say that any of them are not!) is enough to say "I'll just live my life according to human morality and laws. And when I die, I'll see if there is anything there". Any real "merciful god", if any, would not have problems with that. If they do have a problem, they can go and fsck themselves.
Remember people, when you see the light, run. It is a trick!:) [like a spider that lures their prey in for the feeding;-]
Or burns witches at the stake, Or kills in name of god (well, I guess almost all do that, maybe except for Buddhism and look where the peace/love got them in popularity contest).
Don't pick on Muslims - not much different from Christians before reformation. Maybe Muslims are going through their own reformation atm, hint, hint.
Religions are screwed up, and as Mr. Ventura said (regarding organized religions) "for weak minded people". Why not believe anymore in Aphrodite or Zeus? You got killed in name of god back then too if you didn't believe in Zeus.
How "unsafe"? Uranium is the worst thing you could use short of using chemical weapons or plutonium. Regular high density stuff is: lead. Much less toxic and much easier to clean up than uranium.
And as for kinetic energy, that is (1/2)*m*v**2, so increasing your density by 60% or so is the same as increasing your velocity 25%. But whom are we kidding here? Uranium was used vs. targets that would have been destroyed with regular shells. But then who cares about the wealthfare of people we are suppose to "liberate". If they live reset of their lives with crappy kidney function and mutated kids (Uranium is also a reproductive toxin, not because of its radiation), they at least will be grateful for something.
If you want density, look at Iridium or Tungsten. Former much better than Uranium, but expensive. The latter just a little better than Uranium, but a lot cheaper than Iridium. But then that would make the bullets too expensive? And yet there is this pile of Uranium sitting right there from the nuclear weapon program. Cheapest way to deal with it is call it "depleted safe uranium" and dump it on some other people.
I bet if terrorists used DU shells in US, the "homeland security" people would call that a "radiological attack".... Sad that people buy this propaganda.
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SMTP protocol, you know, email, is transmitted in clear text. So why does it matter if POP3 would be transmitted clear or not? The password doesn't need to be transmitted in clear text, just a hash.
You want secure email you GPG to encrypt it.
HAHAHA!!
Oh man, you've made my day. I thought I saw dumb replies but this got to top the rest of the ignorance. What do you think they researchers will do?? Grab them all and drain them of blood??
Here's what will happen,
1. they go to a zoo or similar controller place and get some blood samples. Or grab a few specimens for their own little "zoo"
2. work on the blood samples for weeks/months
3. go back to step #1 for as long as necessary for #4 to be available
4. get some result
This is not "wearing alligator shoes prevents cancer" or other claim. What do you think people will do? Inject themselves with alligator blood? Go ahead! I dare you!!
In Canada capital gains are taxed at 50%. So, if you make $10,000 capital gains, $5,000 is taxable income. In the past I think it was more, like 75% but I'm not sure.
China is more "liberal" regarding capital gains taxes - there is none. All you do is pay a 1 or 2% fee based on transaction amount. So I guess China is more capitalistic than even US.
I do agree that capital gains should be counted as income taxes, though the lower inclusion rate (as in Canada) in important to keep people in investing money instead of just putting it in a savings account with high interest rate. I guess there is a fine balance there..
I think I was replying to someone else in the other reply! :) Sorry about that.
/dev/null with 2xx codes.
Regarding validation of email, that is not really the issue here. There are many ways for people to validate if the source is who they say they are. These include SPF or DomainKeys or even GPG/PGP in the message body. Thankfully forgeries are still not really the bulk of the problem.
The most critical issue is lost mail. I know it is the simplest solution to just drop mail, but it is not an acceptable solution. I believe it is better to shut down SMPT all together than use
Here's what happens. On SMTP level. << is for what server sends. Rest is what is sent to server.
<< This is your great SMTP server. Yo!
<< 220 super.server.net ESMTP
HELO srv.my_super_subnet.server.net
<< 250 srv.my_super_subnet.server.net
MAIL FROM: <handle@server.net>
<< 250 2.1.0 Ok
RCPT TO: <handle2@server.net>
<< 250 2.1.5 Ok
DATA
<< End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
Subject: Yo
From: Bob Superman <handle@server.net>
To: My Buddy <handle2@server.net>
Want some viagra?
.
<< 554 5.7.1 Rejected, id=sdsada - SPAM
QUIT
<< 221 2.0.0 Bye
See?? No backscatter. The pre-queue filter runs *before* the message is accepted after the . is on the new line indicated end of message.
What happens now is they get,
<< 250 2.6.0 Ok, id=fsffs FROM blah Ok: queued as foo
or similar response. Then the filter runs and junks the mail! *That* runs email. I send out email, and it get junked. It gets delivered 50% of the time because some wise guy runs some new magic filter - no spam gets through, and 50% real messages get binned. Then people that should get mail complain that they never get mail (and not just from me).
If you reply to message from a post queue filter you get backscatter. This is wrong way of doing things. If you reject mail in pre-queue, there is NO backscatter.
The *only* reason to run after queue and drop silently is for mail marked as Bulk, like mailing list software marks mail as Bulk precedence. Any other mail should be treated as a *no* mail lost priority. Otherwise we may just abandon SMTP altogether.
Just to add something, the problem with 5xx replies is filter is *before* queue so some mail may be delayed and servers need to be contacted a few times before they get a delivery slot. For example, say gmail can filter 1 million messages at a time. That means 1 million open connections. So, if you are connection 1,000,040 you get 4xx response - temporary failure due to no available resources. So try again later.
/dev/nulling spam while accepting it with 2xx code is like burning unopened envelope at post office because it was typed instead of handwritten indicating possible spam.
This is not a problem, really. You can wait a few days until you can deliver the message as long as it is *delivered* eventually.
Pre-queue filter with only 1 unique IP connection at a time to mail server. Problem solved.
Huge email servers get reasonably constant and predictable amount of mail per day and per hour and even per minute. They can plan pre-queue filtering with some margin for any spikes. And if there is a huge bomb and your mail doesn't get there for 7 days and your server gives up, hey, at least you get a "Could not deliver the message because destination was not available". Much better than "err, never got any mail from you" from the destination party.
There were number of times where my emails are silently deleted from Hotmail or even gmail, so hey. Welcome to the world of screwed up SMTP protocol. And all thanks to spammers.
/dev/null. Want to filter spam? Reply with 5xx codes instead - not accept with 2xx and then bin it (unless mailing list headers found in mail, there you can drop spam)
Today email is less reliable message delivery medium than regular mail which is quite sad considering all transactions in SMTP were considered to be, well, transactions. An acceptance of email by destination means it is delivered, not going to
If no host is present on a network, ISPs should not only cache that, they really should block all connections to non-existent networks. It is just *common sense*.
:)
For example, you send a packet to host A that then gets a return ICMP that the network doesn't exist. It is only in ISP's interest to cache that for few seconds and block all traffic to that host. After that, if you still get ICMP notice that there is no route, you continue to block that destination. This reduces the noise on the backbone.
Secondly, ISPs *must* (or at least any sane ones do) block all traffic with forged IP addresses. Packet cannot originate on their network, it should not go out on the backbone.
Regarding what comcast is doing for legitimate connections, maybe they are limiting number of active TCP connections? There is nothing in TFA about number of active connections established and whether that number remained the same. If number connections is set at some flat value, it may be that COMCAST is doing throttling based on destination connection but their queue can only manage so many buckets? Anyway, just guessing here. TFA was not clear if COMCAST was throttling bandwidth, number of TCP connections, SYN packets, stray networks, etc.
Given the number of their customers being members of bot nets, I'm not surprised about the complaints if COMCAST is cutting off TCP connections after some amount
Are you sure you are just not just maxing out your upstream connection thus blocking your own SYN/ACK packets from going out? That would cause extremely noticeable lag with any network application. Throttle your own upstream to below your max and give SYN/ACK priority, and downstream speed is fixed.
To figure out if your connections are getting screwed, you need to watch your network interface speed (UL/DL) and be able to throttle it to 50% (not SYN/ACK). Then if your DL is still messed up, then ISP is screwing with you. If DL is returns to normal, then it is your own traffic that is interfering and has nothing to do with ISP.
A lot of people bitch about ISPs, but I wander how many actually know what is actually going on.
As to Comcast, they may be using a proxy for internet connections. And the proxy may be limited to "normal user" browsing, not necessarily 100 connection attempts per second.
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Copyright is also an "IP law", a very old one. I guess lots of people wouldn't write books if they couldn't get any money for those. Why would companies write software if they can't copyright it?
Anyway, one set of extremists believes that software patents are next thing to 'sliced bread' (a bad 'invention' in first place). The other set of extremists, like yourself, would throw all protections away and give free rain for all bootleggers, scammers and thieves (eg. bring a book to a publisher, but he just pays you $20 for 1 copy, then copies and sells the rest).
IP laws are not all bad. Just like not all laws in general are bad because there are a few that are really fsked up. Laws give order to otherwise chaotic world.
Except if you are not in US, then you are screwed. Apple doesn't even "offer" ability to buy non-DRM, so they are out. Amazon.com is for US only too. Essentially, you get screwed over up here in Canakistan. Instead of having DRM-free, they want to introduce a tax on all network connections so Britney can have more money as reported here before. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/28/2043259
Where can I buy legal DRM-free online music in Canada? Yes, RIAA and similar, some people want to pay for good, DRM-free music for their non-iPod "iPods" (aka. mp3 players) and similar devices.
What? You use phrases like "how will it render" without understanding its meaning. At least you cannot as you wouldn't write it.
How do you think the browser version of a word processor will "render" on a Mac with Safari vs. Vista with IE 7 vs. XP with IE 6 vs. Linux with Firefox 2 or Firefox 3?? Is that enough problems already?
You want it to "render" properly, you use a medium to do that. It is NOT some word processing document. Some example of things that *should* "render" properly would be PDF, or PostScript.
Regardless, I do agree with the GP. You are much better off with regular word processor like OpenOffice than something like Google or Microsoft online offerings. But hey, that's just me.
Anyway, from their site, the cause of the suspenstion is,
And Core R is,
So, telcos are backward enough not to implement fair-queuing per customer or per their subnet? That's the only thing I can think of if it is so much "unlimited". Disrupting other users is not an issue if you just have basic, neutral queuing on your network.
OpenSSH server, unless its developers are on crack, doesn't poll network connection. It *listens* to a socket until someone tries to connect to it. CPU usage = 0.
/usr/sbin/sshd
It is very unlikely OpenSSH will drain your battery. It is very likely either a poor network implementation of the network layer by Apple or another application is using the juice.
For example, here's the CPU usage statistics for my OpenSSH service that doesn't do much (maybe 10 logins in last year). For 250 day update, the CPU usage on a P3 450MHz machine is,
0:00
uptime - 253 days
In this time the IRQ interrupt handler used up 13 minutes and 9 seconds CPU time. So, blame Apple. Blame another application, but not OpenSSH for having bad network implementation that uses lots of CPU or other resources.
BTW, here's what OpenSSH does all the time,
#strace -p12603
Process 12603 attached - interrupt to quit
select(6, [3], NULL, NULL, NULL
ie. *nothing*
Exactly. Software moves way too fast to allow BS like patents in a way. Copyright works. Use of trade secrets works as well. But patents are BS wrt. software.
See blackboard software and their patent trolling vs. others. See all the patent trolls vs. Microsoft (like that DirectX patent troll posted last year on slashdot). See RIM vs. patent trolls. Instead of innovation, patents breed FUD in the software world.
If you can patent software bytes, why can't mathematicians patent their theorem? Why is an implementation of a theorem more valued than the theorem in the first place? In many cases where current patents are concerned, the former is much more difficult to arrive at then the latter.
Oh, really?
;)
People, more FUD here (first say where are nVidia crashes then go on to say nVidia caused 100% of your crashes, ha). nVidia linux user for years, and almost never had a system crash due to nVidia. Had crashes from KVM module. Had crashes from even xfs in the earlier days. nVidia didn't crash the system yet, though it did *once* crash X during restart of X. Oh, and there was this hardware memory issue one time that caused 2 or 3 crashes in a row accounting for 50% of all my crashes in 7 years. So, we need "free RAM chips" now?
I also have Intel graphics. Tried EVE Online with it. Crashed X last summer repeatedly every single time after maybe, 10 seconds runtime. Couldn't get past the EULA screen. That was the Intel free graphics system at the time, maybe it changed.
So, please stop the bullshit about nVidia or non-free is "the evil" in people's boxes. It is not. Just because something is free or non-free does NOT imply its level of stability.
Now, getting back on topic with Vista, the problem with Vista is Vista. The entire "trusted picture path bullshit" and the way they *completely* changed the drivers was the source of the problem. If you have a few MB worth of legacy source code to overhaul, I don't care if it is free or non-free, you'll screw it up. There is a good old saying, "don't fix it if it ain't broke". It especially applies to ALL software out there. It applies to nVidia former drivers that grew out organically as the hardware changed. You can't change its core and think it will magically work. Heck, nVidia's XP drivers port to Linux is *much* more straightforward than its XP => Vista port.
nVidia uses same driver code on Linux as they use on a Mac as they use on Windows. Hence, if you make one completely different from the rest, well, expect some problems. Thank the "Vista Trusted Computing" for all these trusted crashes
SxS binding fixes that problem, for almost a decade now. Vista and vs2005/8 now force SxS down developer throats, whether you like it or not. DLL hell is virtually over.
For people that are clueless why they would take *active* measures to make people turn off using their address to keep checking for spams, it is because of IPv4 has run out of addresses. Yes, that is the reason. Here's the scenario.
1. Open ORDB
2. Get thousands and thousands of requests per minute.
3. A year later, no more resources for ORDB. So shut it down.
4. The packets keep coming! Can't just stop using the IP address though, but can't keep the bandwidth costs.
5. Active attempt to reclaim the IP address - force everyone to stop attempting to use the obsolete ORBD
The moral of the story.
1. Software should always use DNS to find the destination box, not hardcode IP addresses, *ever*
2. IPv4 address space is exhausted. Service providers can't turn off DDoS (this is what it is, against the old ORDB) because IP address space is precious. In IPv6 world, you could just route all packets to null at ISP level. Not with IPv4.
No, not at war. Also UN does not recognize Taiwan as a nation, but as a "Province of China". And China is too stubborn to let Taiwan go as a separate nation and *threaten* war (invasion) if they do declare independence.
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And don't even start with Chinese that "Taiwan is a country" or they'll treat you as enemy of state. But then saying that Quebec is an independent nation from Canada would be similar. Though in Canada a lot of people would just ignore you
Now, if you state that Tibet should be an independent nation since it almost always was, that would be true. But China doesn't listen to history. More nationalistic than US. China annexing Tibet is like Poland annexing its southern and eastern neighbors because in 1600s they were part of Poland. That just wouldn't fly. China and Tibet case is similar.
No, math majors are weird :)
Seriously, I have not met a successful mathematician that wasn't a little "out there". Physics people tend to be more grounded - problems that they are involved with are always based in reality. It is very rare to see someone that is successful in both physics and mathematics, though to a layman the two fields are quite similar.
No, that is thanks to learning history, science, math, and should I say history? Not repeating mistakes of the past is probably something that creates sceptics to mass dilusions.
Sorry, but indoctrinating a 3 year old into any one of these groups is a lot easier than trying to show the reality to them and let them decide for themselves. Reality of the above True Believers (don't say that any of them are not!) is enough to say "I'll just live my life according to human morality and laws. And when I die, I'll see if there is anything there". Any real "merciful god", if any, would not have problems with that. If they do have a problem, they can go and fsck themselves.
Remember people, when you see the light, run. It is a trick!
Or burns witches at the stake,
Or kills in name of god (well, I guess almost all do that, maybe except for Buddhism and look where the peace/love got them in popularity contest).
Don't pick on Muslims - not much different from Christians before reformation. Maybe Muslims are going through their own reformation atm, hint, hint.
Religions are screwed up, and as Mr. Ventura said (regarding organized religions) "for weak minded people". Why not believe anymore in Aphrodite or Zeus? You got killed in name of god back then too if you didn't believe in Zeus.
How "unsafe"? Uranium is the worst thing you could use short of using chemical weapons or plutonium. Regular high density stuff is: lead. Much less toxic and much easier to clean up than uranium.
And as for kinetic energy, that is (1/2)*m*v**2, so increasing your density by 60% or so is the same as increasing your velocity 25%. But whom are we kidding here? Uranium was used vs. targets that would have been destroyed with regular shells. But then who cares about the wealthfare of people we are suppose to "liberate". If they live reset of their lives with crappy kidney function and mutated kids (Uranium is also a reproductive toxin, not because of its radiation), they at least will be grateful for something.
If you want density, look at Iridium or Tungsten. Former much better than Uranium, but expensive. The latter just a little better than Uranium, but a lot cheaper than Iridium. But then that would make the bullets too expensive? And yet there is this pile of Uranium sitting right there from the nuclear weapon program. Cheapest way to deal with it is call it "depleted safe uranium" and dump it on some other people.
I bet if terrorists used DU shells in US, the "homeland security" people would call that a "radiological attack".... Sad that people buy this propaganda.