I've just been using the SPF setup wizard to generate the SPF TXT addition, and it occured to me that this isn't necessarily going to stop Joe Jobs on small companies.
My domain and mail is handled by my host, with one mail server sending mail for multiple domains (mine and other people who have an account with the host). The reverse DNS lookup for the mail server give the server's name (myhost.com) and not my domain's (mydomain.com) as it's shared, so mail from mydomain.com only has to come from myhost.com to be vailidated. It would therefore be trivial for someone to set up an account with my web host, and they would then be able to Joe Job me.
I know it's only cheapo hosting, but the small one man bands who are vulnerable to Joe Jobbing may be using this exact setup. And yes, it would cost you money to set up the account, but if you were setting out to deliberately harm a competitor it's negligible. Or have I misunderstood something somewhere?
You can keep your wi-fi and video, the main thing that puts me off buying an iPod is the lack of FM radio for listening to sport & talk radio. Seriously, how much would it cost Apple to add such a simple feature?
OK, so it's a way of sharing data across applications etc, etc, but can someone give me an actual real-life situation where I would benefit from it? Not a sarcastic comment, I'm genuinely interested.
I wonder how long until the record and film industries resign themselves to the fact they will never stop piracy. Sure, they may put on a public front, but they will have to accept that it is now too imbedded in internet culture to stop. They can sue, but it's only a matter of time until a secure p2p network becomes the standard.
I have no sympathy for the record companies - they were far too slow off the blocks with paid-for downloads and have been fleecing consumers for years. I have different feelings about the film studios - apart from DVD region encoding, at least they're trying to give consumers better value for money with extras etc, and DVDs don't feel over-priced. Unfortunately for them, if their product is in a digital format, it will always get shared.
If Google are effectively paying for Gmail with the adverts that are displayed next to email messages, how will offering POP3 benefit them? They would have to actually insert the ads in to your emails, and you can imagine the uproar if that happened.
The problem with roundabouts (and I'm from the UK by the way), is that there has to be a roughly equal traffic flow from each entry point, otherwise the system falls down. If the majority of traffic is following a particular route, say going straight across, and there is very little traffic they have to give way to (as happens during rush hour), then it's almost impossible to join if they have right of way. The only solution is to start putting traffic lights up on them, and that defeats the whole object.
Not because of some moral stand, but through my laziness.
I live within 15 minutes drive of 3 large cinema chains, including an Odeon, and browse exclusively with Firefox - my link to IE is hidden in the depths of the Start menu. Before, I would browse the copycat site and the other two's official sites, and if there was a film I wanted to see at the Odeon at a convenient time, I would fire up IE and book online on the official Odeon site. I doubt I'll open IE just to check listing times.
I use XP at work, but so far haven't seen any reason to upgrade my home w2k machine. All the software and hardware I have runs fine and there isn't yet any 'XP only' products (that I know of). It's still being security patched when necessary and is as solid as a rock - I can't remember the last time I had it freeze or a BSD. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Wikipedia and the like have shown that people are willing to give up their time for free to help other people. Rather than spend that time writing something that may or may not be read, why not spend that time actually helping someone one-to-one in a live chat?
For example, everyone who wants to be involved registers with their area of expertise, be that IT, cooking, or car mechanics, quantum mechanics etc and gets 5 credits, entitling them to ask five questions. For every 1/2 hour you spend as an 'expert' answering questions you get a credit. If you need to ask a question you get routed to the people who are online covering that area. Hey presto, instant online help without having to trawl through pages of Google results to find the answer. Just an idea, but if it existed I would certainly use it.
Oh dear. Do none of them use Firefox? You can do exactly the same from your address bar.
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The constant race between AMD & Intel and Nvidia & ATI to make their products faster has undoubtedly been good for their bottom-line, but is it promoting laziness in programmers?
In the pre-PC days (and to a certain extent games consoles today), the hardware platform remained static for the life of the product. Compare the software released at the beginning of it's life compared to the end - it's streets ahead, particularly games. Coders had no choice but to continually optimise their code, learn new tricks etc. With the advance in PC hardware there isn't the same motivation. You know that when you start a project that by the time it's released the 'average' platform will be more powerful. Won't run on smoothly on a 2.6GHZ P4 with 32MB graphics card? No problem, we'll put that as the minimum spec and recommend something higher.
Now would seem a very good time to sell any shares you have in pharmaceutical companies. If HIV could potentially be defeated with just $200,000 of research, how many other cures and treatments won't need the billions that the big companies are pumping in to research.
For me, paying 10 GBP/month and getting 8 TV channels, 5 national radio stations, the 3 local radio stations that I can receive (out of 50) and bbc.co.uk is a bargain. I can see, however, why those without digital TV or the internet resent the money spent on it.
The licence fee isn't the only source of income, there's a commercial arm that sells DVDs and CDs, plus the income from selling programmes abroad. The BBC has been providing a service free to the rest of the world for decades via the World Service. In the scheme of things, the cost to provide it to everyone vs limiting it to those in the UK is probably negligible (extra bandwidth for the internet site and repeater stations for the World Service). I would expect if they start streaming programmes at a decent bitrate though, it will be limited to those in the UK only. There is already a BBC Broadband service only available to those on certain UK ISPs.
Only if I visit after my passport has been fraudulently used. If I never visit, the US authorities would be none the wiser that they have fake details on file.
I'm British, and in October this year someone enters the US with a faked copy of my passport. Their fingerprints and photo will be added to the database as me. Unaware of this, I then visit the US some time after. As soon as they take my fingerprints it is going to be flagged up that I've visited before and the fingerprints don't match. Imagine the hassle trying to prove you are who you say you are, and that the first person was the imposter.
This just won't work unless other countries share information; as far as I know the UK government doesn't have my fingerprints, and even if they did, there is no plan to share it.
How do you know? Without anti-virus software, unless a virus is doing something really obvious, such as rebooting your machine, you're not going to.
I always find it amusing when I here people say they've been using Norton/McAfee/Whatever for 5 years and never had a virus. That's not their anti virus software, that's just luck. All they can be sure of is they've never had a virus their package can detect. Anti virus software doesn't make you immune from catching them, it just stops them spreading and (hopefully) makes cleaning up easier.
No, this is completely different. This is like Verisign buying every unused domain name, and forwarding to their site. They are getting for free what would cost a web domain speculator $millions.
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I've just been using the SPF setup wizard to generate the SPF TXT addition, and it occured to me that this isn't necessarily going to stop Joe Jobs on small companies.
My domain and mail is handled by my host, with one mail server sending mail for multiple domains (mine and other people who have an account with the host). The reverse DNS lookup for the mail server give the server's name (myhost.com) and not my domain's (mydomain.com) as it's shared, so mail from mydomain.com only has to come from myhost.com to be vailidated. It would therefore be trivial for someone to set up an account with my web host, and they would then be able to Joe Job me.
I know it's only cheapo hosting, but the small one man bands who are vulnerable to Joe Jobbing may be using this exact setup. And yes, it would cost you money to set up the account, but if you were setting out to deliberately harm a competitor it's negligible. Or have I misunderstood something somewhere?
I think we have a suspect. Mr Coward, would you mind stepping this way please.
You can keep your wi-fi and video, the main thing that puts me off buying an iPod is the lack of FM radio for listening to sport & talk radio. Seriously, how much would it cost Apple to add such a simple feature?
OK, so it's a way of sharing data across applications etc, etc, but can someone give me an actual real-life situation where I would benefit from it? Not a sarcastic comment, I'm genuinely interested.
No mod points, but that is the funniest post I've read on here this year.
I wonder how long until the record and film industries resign themselves to the fact they will never stop piracy. Sure, they may put on a public front, but they will have to accept that it is now too imbedded in internet culture to stop. They can sue, but it's only a matter of time until a secure p2p network becomes the standard.
I have no sympathy for the record companies - they were far too slow off the blocks with paid-for downloads and have been fleecing consumers for years. I have different feelings about the film studios - apart from DVD region encoding, at least they're trying to give consumers better value for money with extras etc, and DVDs don't feel over-priced. Unfortunately for them, if their product is in a digital format, it will always get shared.
If Google are effectively paying for Gmail with the adverts that are displayed next to email messages, how will offering POP3 benefit them? They would have to actually insert the ads in to your emails, and you can imagine the uproar if that happened.
See usefool and his 4 year old phone here (evula.org)
The problem with roundabouts (and I'm from the UK by the way), is that there has to be a roughly equal traffic flow from each entry point, otherwise the system falls down. If the majority of traffic is following a particular route, say going straight across, and there is very little traffic they have to give way to (as happens during rush hour), then it's almost impossible to join if they have right of way. The only solution is to start putting traffic lights up on them, and that defeats the whole object.
Not because of some moral stand, but through my laziness.
I live within 15 minutes drive of 3 large cinema chains, including an Odeon, and browse exclusively with Firefox - my link to IE is hidden in the depths of the Start menu. Before, I would browse the copycat site and the other two's official sites, and if there was a film I wanted to see at the Odeon at a convenient time, I would fire up IE and book online on the official Odeon site. I doubt I'll open IE just to check listing times.
I use XP at work, but so far haven't seen any reason to upgrade my home w2k machine. All the software and hardware I have runs fine and there isn't yet any 'XP only' products (that I know of). It's still being security patched when necessary and is as solid as a rock - I can't remember the last time I had it freeze or a BSD. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/15/124424 8&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=172
Wikipedia and the like have shown that people are willing to give up their time for free to help other people. Rather than spend that time writing something that may or may not be read, why not spend that time actually helping someone one-to-one in a live chat?
For example, everyone who wants to be involved registers with their area of expertise, be that IT, cooking, or car mechanics, quantum mechanics etc and gets 5 credits, entitling them to ask five questions. For every 1/2 hour you spend as an 'expert' answering questions you get a credit. If you need to ask a question you get routed to the people who are online covering that area. Hey presto, instant online help without having to trawl through pages of Google results to find the answer. Just an idea, but if it existed I would certainly use it.
Oh dear. Do none of them use Firefox? You can do exactly the same from your address bar.
The constant race between AMD & Intel and Nvidia & ATI to make their products faster has undoubtedly been good for their bottom-line, but is it promoting laziness in programmers?
In the pre-PC days (and to a certain extent games consoles today), the hardware platform remained static for the life of the product. Compare the software released at the beginning of it's life compared to the end - it's streets ahead, particularly games. Coders had no choice but to continually optimise their code, learn new tricks etc. With the advance in PC hardware there isn't the same motivation. You know that when you start a project that by the time it's released the 'average' platform will be more powerful. Won't run on smoothly on a 2.6GHZ P4 with 32MB graphics card? No problem, we'll put that as the minimum spec and recommend something higher.
Now would seem a very good time to sell any shares you have in pharmaceutical companies. If HIV could potentially be defeated with just $200,000 of research, how many other cures and treatments won't need the billions that the big companies are pumping in to research.
For me, paying 10 GBP/month and getting 8 TV channels, 5 national radio stations, the 3 local radio stations that I can receive (out of 50) and bbc.co.uk is a bargain. I can see, however, why those without digital TV or the internet resent the money spent on it.
The licence fee isn't the only source of income, there's a commercial arm that sells DVDs and CDs, plus the income from selling programmes abroad. The BBC has been providing a service free to the rest of the world for decades via the World Service. In the scheme of things, the cost to provide it to everyone vs limiting it to those in the UK is probably negligible (extra bandwidth for the internet site and repeater stations for the World Service). I would expect if they start streaming programmes at a decent bitrate though, it will be limited to those in the UK only. There is already a BBC Broadband service only available to those on certain UK ISPs.
Rather like our UK trains then.
Only if I visit after my passport has been fraudulently used. If I never visit, the US authorities would be none the wiser that they have fake details on file.
I'm British, and in October this year someone enters the US with a faked copy of my passport. Their fingerprints and photo will be added to the database as me. Unaware of this, I then visit the US some time after. As soon as they take my fingerprints it is going to be flagged up that I've visited before and the fingerprints don't match. Imagine the hassle trying to prove you are who you say you are, and that the first person was the imposter. This just won't work unless other countries share information; as far as I know the UK government doesn't have my fingerprints, and even if they did, there is no plan to share it.
How do you know? Without anti-virus software, unless a virus is doing something really obvious, such as rebooting your machine, you're not going to. I always find it amusing when I here people say they've been using Norton/McAfee/Whatever for 5 years and never had a virus. That's not their anti virus software, that's just luck. All they can be sure of is they've never had a virus their package can detect. Anti virus software doesn't make you immune from catching them, it just stops them spreading and (hopefully) makes cleaning up easier.
No, this is completely different. This is like Verisign buying every unused domain name, and forwarding to their site. They are getting for free what would cost a web domain speculator $millions.