I never said increase bandwidth, I said increase costs.
Spammers using botnets, the cost is time and CPU cycles. A CPU cycle dealing with a bounce is not sending an offer they might make money from. Also, if the bounce happens to fall back to the mail admin of the zombie's ISP, and they are paying attention, they might be able to correct the issue (although, ISP permission-based SMTP outbound on dynamic address zones would most likely reduce SPAM as well).
Spammers with their own mailing farms, the cost is bandwidth and CPU cycles.
The interesting thing about the solution is that it will increase costs for the spammer. Their MTA's will either dump the original mail, as it is not configured to handle secondary MX records (non-RFC compliant sender) or it will spend the cycles that would normally be used sending other messages.
While the bounces could be shuffled off to servers designed specifically for the purpose of fighting this approach, it is still a win against spammers, in the short term.
I had been looking at the Lenovo tablet for some time, and one found an offering from Emperor Linux that supported several different distros on the Lenovo hardware (named "Raven"):
They also have a new "Wasp" tablet using the Panasonic Toughbook series. The pricing on these models is a little higher (especially with upgrades), but the warm fuzzy of not running proprietary software should be worth it.
PHP has absolutely nothing to do with GNU/Linux. It is a OS-independent, web-platform scripting language. You cannot compare PHP/Ruby to C/C++ and hope to sound mentally competent.
But then, this would hardly be/. and not have an blathering troll running around.
Am I the only person here who is tired of Jakob Nielsen being lauded as THE usability guru of the Internet?
Anyone can squawk about this technology or that programming language, but that doesn't make them the Gospel of anything. Usability to him is basically going back to HTML 1.0.
Exactly...this announcement will have all the PgSQL punters gabbing on about how now is the time to switch...but what they fail to realize is that SCO could have included MySQL (or PgSQL) at any time in their releases (see Apache, Samba, etc). They aren't selling MySQL (or Apache or Samba). They are selling OpenServer, with a companion CD of applications that make OpenServer better (doesn't take much to make that happen).
Now, MySQL has a contract and (probably) a check to compile binaries on OpenServer. I am sure it took them about 30 minutes to make it all work.
Yeah, Grandma Martha really is up-to-date with GPG!
The main problem with key-based solutions is usability for the [l]users (ie. AOL, etc.) that haven't the faintest clue about how basic concepts of security work. They figure they are paying their ISP to protect them, when most couldn't care less.
If you develop web sites, NS8 has a nice feature of switching between Firefox/IE rendering engines with just a mouseclick.
So you don't have to ever run IE. This was a big selling point in my book (ps. I use Firefox for everything and anything...if it made toast, I'd do that too!)
> But most businesses tend to stick with micro$oft not because they want to, but because.net is designed to work with mssql and ie a lot better.
This is so flawed as to be laughable. What does the browser have to do with the coding? And more to the point, why should it? Cross-browser compatibility is easy and lack-there-of is one of the reasons crappy code continues to flood the internet in our little PHB-MS world.
And as to working with MS-SQL, FreeTDS (sybase library extensions) and PHP can do anything that ASP can do with MS-SQL. And that solution is cross-platform as well.
in case you haven't been reading the news lately, the music companies are getting greedy...again...and are going to jack the price from 0.99 to somewhere between 1.50 and 2.50 per song.
Not to mention, an iPod holds around 4k tracks. At the current rate, would you spend $4,000 on music for your iPod? now multiply that by 2.5 and answer the same question.
the RIAA cares absolutely nothing about music fans, artists or stores. only filling their pockets that their monopoly has allowed all these years. they continue to produce the same swill year after year, and it is only getting worse. "Music Television" has become a thing of the past as Real World/Road Rules/Punk'd and all the other reality tv clones continue to push music away, till all we are left with is candy coated bubblegum pop and gang central over the airwaves.
that after-hours service calls, should be placed to an employer-owned device (ie. pager/phone) so that it is unnecessary for you to use your personal electronics for work related practices.
if they are unwilling to supply such a device, tell them they can call your desk phone and leave a message and you will attend to their call first thing the next business day.
many employers are technologically "retarded", and do not understand the signifigance between their admins using PDA's and cellphones for work related monitoring, and their receptionist gabbing to their S.O. about why they hate their job.
attempt to educate...failing that, update your resume.
it would be very simple for [insert ISP here] to simply block outbound SMTP in their DSL pool from their core routers, except from their designated mail server ip(s).
then, if a user required outbound SMTP (like a business), they would simply need to ask for it, having met certain requirements set by the ISP, including that the port will be terminated upon location of an open relay.
No one in OSS has ever made a living making free software.
Those guys at Apache, Samba, and the ISC must be "giving handjobs for cash"* to sustain their miserable little lives.
And I am sure that Linus is just squeking by on foodstamps and cat food.
* obligatory South Park quote, so don't do drugs mmm-kay
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...a measely $23.50 per license.
Hard to justify $250-$500 upgrade cost of Vista using those numbers.
This is a prime example of Representational State Transfer (REST) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REST, which was thought up by Roy Fielding in 2000.
The students didn't make the ads disappear...adding the AdBlock plugin to Firefox did that.
I never said increase bandwidth, I said increase costs. Spammers using botnets, the cost is time and CPU cycles. A CPU cycle dealing with a bounce is not sending an offer they might make money from. Also, if the bounce happens to fall back to the mail admin of the zombie's ISP, and they are paying attention, they might be able to correct the issue (although, ISP permission-based SMTP outbound on dynamic address zones would most likely reduce SPAM as well). Spammers with their own mailing farms, the cost is bandwidth and CPU cycles.
The interesting thing about the solution is that it will increase costs for the spammer. Their MTA's will either dump the original mail, as it is not configured to handle secondary MX records (non-RFC compliant sender) or it will spend the cycles that would normally be used sending other messages. While the bounces could be shuffled off to servers designed specifically for the purpose of fighting this approach, it is still a win against spammers, in the short term.
I had been looking at the Lenovo tablet for some time, and one found an offering from Emperor Linux that supported several different distros on the Lenovo hardware (named "Raven"):
http://www.emperorlinux.com/systems/tablet/
They also have a new "Wasp" tablet using the Panasonic Toughbook series.
The pricing on these models is a little higher (especially with upgrades), but the warm fuzzy of not running proprietary software should be worth it.
PHP has absolutely nothing to do with GNU/Linux. It is a OS-independent, web-platform scripting language. You cannot compare PHP/Ruby to C/C++ and hope to sound mentally competent. But then, this would hardly be /. and not have an blathering troll running around.
Am I the only person here who is tired of Jakob Nielsen being lauded as THE usability guru of the Internet? Anyone can squawk about this technology or that programming language, but that doesn't make them the Gospel of anything. Usability to him is basically going back to HTML 1.0.
Exactly...this announcement will have all the PgSQL punters gabbing on about how now is the time to switch...but what they fail to realize is that SCO could have included MySQL (or PgSQL) at any time in their releases (see Apache, Samba, etc). They aren't selling MySQL (or Apache or Samba). They are selling OpenServer, with a companion CD of applications that make OpenServer better (doesn't take much to make that happen).
Now, MySQL has a contract and (probably) a check to compile binaries on OpenServer. I am sure it took them about 30 minutes to make it all work.
The main problem with key-based solutions is usability for the [l]users (ie. AOL, etc.) that haven't the faintest clue about how basic concepts of security work. They figure they are paying their ISP to protect them, when most couldn't care less.
If you develop web sites, NS8 has a nice feature of switching between Firefox/IE rendering engines with just a mouseclick. So you don't have to ever run IE. This was a big selling point in my book (ps. I use Firefox for everything and anything...if it made toast, I'd do that too!)
You read too far if you got to the 3rd paragraph. The first three words of the second sentence were sufficient. "According to SCO, ..."
You can now stop reading, as the whole article premises off that assumption.
"According to SCO, it is the legal successor to AT&T with respect to licensing of the AT&T Unix source code and its derivatives."
According to me, I am the legal successor to the English thrown. But that doesn't necessarily make it fucking so.
Airline: Sorry sir...we can't let you board this plane.
Senator: It's Kennedy...not K.A.Z.I.N.S.K.Y. How many times do I have to spell this out for you people?
VB was not part of the argument. This was an ASP vs PHP troll.
However, there currently exists a PHP compiler (from Zend with a hefty price tag) that can create stand-alone, compiled PHP applications/executables.
> But most businesses tend to stick with micro$oft not because they want to, but because .net is designed to work with mssql and ie a lot better.
This is so flawed as to be laughable.
What does the browser have to do with the coding? And more to the point, why should it? Cross-browser compatibility is easy and lack-there-of is one of the reasons crappy code continues to flood the internet in our little PHB-MS world.
And as to working with MS-SQL, FreeTDS (sybase library extensions) and PHP can do anything that ASP can do with MS-SQL. And that solution is cross-platform as well.
and this comes from the company that "pink contracts" spammers to solicit their hotmail userbase?
saying they are serious about spam is like saying Bush Jr. is serious about sobriety.
in case you haven't been reading the news lately, the music companies are getting greedy...again...and are going to jack the price from 0.99 to somewhere between 1.50 and 2.50 per song.
Not to mention, an iPod holds around 4k tracks. At the current rate, would you spend $4,000 on music for your iPod? now multiply that by 2.5 and answer the same question.
the RIAA cares absolutely nothing about music fans, artists or stores. only filling their pockets that their monopoly has allowed all these years. they continue to produce the same swill year after year, and it is only getting worse. "Music Television" has become a thing of the past as Real World/Road Rules/Punk'd and all the other reality tv clones continue to push music away, till all we are left with is candy coated bubblegum pop and gang central over the airwaves.
if they are unwilling to supply such a device, tell them they can call your desk phone and leave a message and you will attend to their call first thing the next business day.
many employers are technologically "retarded", and do not understand the signifigance between their admins using PDA's and cellphones for work related monitoring, and their receptionist gabbing to their S.O. about why they hate their job.
attempt to educate...failing that, update your resume.
I would bet that if this is successful (doubt it), spam, in its current configuration, will drop tremendously, only to rise up in some new format.
it would be very simple for [insert ISP here] to simply block outbound SMTP in their DSL pool from their core routers, except from their designated mail server ip(s). then, if a user required outbound SMTP (like a business), they would simply need to ask for it, having met certain requirements set by the ISP, including that the port will be terminated upon location of an open relay.
And you don't think that Linus gets paid to consult/speak about his "lil" OSS project?
No one in OSS has ever made a living making free software. Those guys at Apache, Samba, and the ISC must be "giving handjobs for cash"* to sustain their miserable little lives. And I am sure that Linus is just squeking by on foodstamps and cat food. * obligatory South Park quote, so don't do drugs mmm-kay