Where do you get Cell Phones from? They've been around like they are now since the pagers were popular, just more expensive. I've had them since the mid/late 80s. Then, you paid a per minute charge and it was like 22 cents off peak and 35 cents on peak. Batteries were huge and you paid roaming charges.
The ability to keep you cell number is new within 10 years and that is cool.
The concept of the iPod nano really isn't that far off either from 20 years ago. Once you got the concept of the CD and that it's all 1s and 0s, sampled data(sounds and music) was pretty much commonplace for the musically literate in the 80s. There was a Casio keyboard for $99 you could get that could record 20 seconds of audio and that was 1986/87. Take it up to the professional systhesizers with sampled data, it was everywhere.
I think the iPod would have been magic pre-Commodore computer era.
As the global warming wackos like to blame the SUV for 100% of the cooling off trend, the `oceans are dying` nuts will blame Red Lobster for the demise of the oceans.
I have about 100 sites (really) and I've evolved with different methods. This is what worked with me.
First, when I identified what the spambots read, then I figured out how to fool them. They read the form data; what the form posts to and what the form names are. They populate the form names and posts to the action.
I removed all javascript validation. It's useless. Do 100% server side validation, verify email address are valid, links are valid, dates are valid, word count for submission, check for duplicate data for multiple form elements, etc...
I added session ID checks and this cut down on 75% of spamming where the sessionID is in a hidden field and if the request doesn't match the sessionID, it doesn't post.
I then separated the form from the page by using iframes. On the initial load of the form, the proper HTTP REFERER is comitted in a session. If the form doesn't have the allowed referer, the form doesn't load and that form is blocked for the session with the IP address noted. 99% of the IP addresses are from China, Latin America, Russia, The Netherlands, and Africa.
Of the 25% of spam still coming through, I had to figure out the next step to stop it without compromising user functionaliy as in CAPTCHAS. There is no way I was going to use those nor use a `click the kitten` method either.
I rewrote the form code to change the form elements names for every load. It was pretty much a hack but it worked. I had a random 6 character word generated every load. I dismantled that word every 2 characters and put 2 characters in every other character for the form element names that had been base64 encoded. I had an empty hidden element that had to remain empty as well. Bots tend to take every element and give it a value.
That seemed to get rid of the other 20%. After a while, the spam would continue at nowhere near the level it once was but we noticed that the timing was 5 minutes between replies instead of seconds meaning that the elements had to be filled out semi mechanically instead of automatically.
After copying that format for a number of forms, the spams that were coming through were from the same pool of networks.
After data crunching and some time, I realized that the obfuscating of element names really didn't deter much as much as sessionID and allowed refering pages did.
I started to actually have a single form for all like forms and use that one form for multiple sites so that updates can happen across all sites at the same time instead of updating 80 or so forms across sites. I also am in the practice of banning IP address blocks for form access. If they really have something to say to us, they can contact us via email.
Email you say is probably the bane of existence for us that receive spam. There are tons of javascript mail obfuscators and as long as you have a single email for mail contact, obfuscate it and only use that for mailto links.
I can seriouly attest that for the past 13 months, I've never received a penis enlargement mail at that address or any other stock tip.
My forms are hosted at a single location and have strict referer checking. Any attempt to `figure it out` by looking at the iframe source is banned.
If I get a form with non-relevant data, that IP is banned and all my sites and forms benefit.
I've gone from 300-400 form requests a day to the legitimate 10 valid responses a day
Windows CE 5 also had the source code available, I wonder why in the world this made headline news..
Because everything Microsoft re-brands, re-issues, re-hashes gets headline news. It keeps mindshare alive and investors happy.
I hear that Vista Professional will include a text editor too. It was know as notepad in Windows 3.x I also heard that MS chat will have video. It's been available since Netmeeting had it in 1996. Netmeeting 3.0 was by far the best video/desktop/whiteboard sharing at the time. They killed it and re-branded as their current IM client effectively doing what they do best; f*king up a good product.
Their Windows Defender sucks when compared to Spybot S&D which wasn't the case when MS bought Giant.
Actually the future of the desktop commercial OS will be nothing but a rentware kiosk that provides a platform for iTunes like interface for media and WGA for localized apps. Similar to the current model of the boxed versions of Norton/McAfee for those products.
As consoles will continue to do more than just play games, there will likely be a convergence of the two(consoles and PC). You will be able to view data (files,pictures, etc...) on either a console or a PC that you store on a personal SAN.
One of the things that will suck about that is that proprietary lockin will overrule ease of use and features. The customer will lose except for those of us that are technically adept.
Doesn't matter if it's legal or not. If you break it, they sure can stop you from using "the software". Only someone with time and money that is married to the OS is going to challenge it. So you can spend $200 on a new license for 2 hardware changes or $200+$X for court costs.
And that we did in the 80s by first learning to POKE and PEEK inside of our 6502 processors so we could gain the understanding of registers and memory spaces. Then we learned Hexadecimal. Then we spent 2 days figuring out how to write code to change the background and border to black and have a little ball bounce around the screen. Those were the days!
It took 30 minutes in basic to get a ball to bounce around. The assembler version was hyper fast.
When, oh when, will we be able to use what we paid for for what we want, within the limits of the law, without asking permission.
Well, if you paid for a license of Vista, then you agreed to the EULA even if you read it after you bought it so you paid for it and you wanted it. The provisions laid forth in the EULA are within the limits of the law.
Use Linux of you want to put an OS on any piece of hardware or if you're not a hardware junkie, buy a Mac.
My wife has a laptop that is pretty much useless unless it's connected via VPN to the home office. Once connected, she isn't able to save anything to her local system. All she can do is print open documents to her local printer. When she'd not connected, she can save items to the desktop.
There is a BIOS password, that changes at some interval like 6 months.
I said "basically a military weapon". Something that can blow up a tank or damage it in the least or takes out dozens of people in one blast is a military grade weapon - at least in my book. That's efficient killing. Was the Oklahoma city bombing a military grade weapon by definition? Absolutely not, but the damage it caused puts it up there.
Dehumanising the enemy is very politically incorrect. They're not a bunch of thugs wanting to kill us, they're just misguided people that need compassion and understanding.
I'm guessing that you're anti-gun. If you are, what group of people would you like to have the legal right to possess guns? If you're making a list, please add the unlawful criminals to the list first as they will do whatever they please anyway.
I remember when I paid $199 for my Toshiba DVD player way back when, there was a free movie signup as well. Lost in Space, Stargate, and Six Days Seven Nights were included.
Except that XP is scheduled for EOL (or license availablity) in 2008, 12 months after Vista availablity. The SP3 will most likely be a security rollup of all the fixes up to that point if the case for any reinstalls happen after that time.
That was a JPG of a Google found image. The compression is horrible. I can't vouch for the validity of the image either. Modern Distros with Bitstream fonts are OK to use in my book.
I use Linux next to Mac and the general use fonts are pleasing to the eye. Linux pre Bitstream was horrible.
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Does the PS3 come with composite cables? If so then what's the big deal?
1st through 5th generation didn't come with cables either except for the A/B tuner switch.
IIRC, Genesis and Super Nintendo required a proprietary connector that was $25+ to get composite.
You can get component cables for under $10 and 10 feet of HDMI under $16.
Or women in skimpy and/or airbrushed outfits.
Where do you get Cell Phones from? They've been around like they are now since the pagers were popular, just more expensive. I've had them since the mid/late 80s. Then, you paid a per minute charge and it was like 22 cents off peak and 35 cents on peak. Batteries were huge and you paid roaming charges.
The ability to keep you cell number is new within 10 years and that is cool.
The concept of the iPod nano really isn't that far off either from 20 years ago.
Once you got the concept of the CD and that it's all 1s and 0s, sampled data(sounds and music) was pretty much commonplace for the musically literate in the 80s.
There was a Casio keyboard for $99 you could get that could record 20 seconds of audio and that was 1986/87. Take it up to the professional systhesizers with sampled data, it was everywhere.
I think the iPod would have been magic pre-Commodore computer era.
I can't wait until Jaws 19 and Rocky 6 either.
Forget about Rocky 6, that was a joke.
As the global warming wackos like to blame the SUV for 100% of the cooling off trend, the `oceans are dying` nuts will blame Red Lobster for the demise of the oceans.
The soviet union doesn't sound too bad anymore if it weren't for the polar bears that roam the streets.
My personal ban list is quite a lot longer than that one.
I have about 100 sites (really) and I've evolved with different methods. This is what worked with me.
First, when I identified what the spambots read, then I figured out how to fool them.
They read the form data; what the form posts to and what the form names are.
They populate the form names and posts to the action.
I removed all javascript validation. It's useless. Do 100% server side validation, verify email address are valid, links are valid, dates are valid, word count for submission, check for duplicate data for multiple form elements, etc...
I added session ID checks and this cut down on 75% of spamming where the sessionID is in a hidden field and if the request doesn't match the sessionID, it doesn't post.
I then separated the form from the page by using iframes.
On the initial load of the form, the proper HTTP REFERER is comitted in a session. If the form doesn't have the allowed referer, the form doesn't load and that form is blocked for the session with the IP address noted.
99% of the IP addresses are from China, Latin America, Russia, The Netherlands, and Africa.
Of the 25% of spam still coming through, I had to figure out the next step to stop it without compromising user functionaliy as in CAPTCHAS. There is no way I was going to use those nor use a `click the kitten` method either.
I rewrote the form code to change the form elements names for every load.
It was pretty much a hack but it worked.
I had a random 6 character word generated every load.
I dismantled that word every 2 characters and put 2 characters in every other character for the form element names that had been base64 encoded.
I had an empty hidden element that had to remain empty as well.
Bots tend to take every element and give it a value.
That seemed to get rid of the other 20%. After a while, the spam would continue at nowhere near the level it once was but we noticed that the timing was 5 minutes between replies instead of seconds meaning that the elements had to be filled out semi mechanically instead of automatically.
After copying that format for a number of forms, the spams that were coming through were from the same pool of networks.
After data crunching and some time, I realized that the obfuscating of element names really didn't deter much as much as sessionID and allowed refering pages did.
I started to actually have a single form for all like forms and use that one form for multiple sites so that updates can happen across all sites at the same time instead of updating 80 or so forms across sites.
I also am in the practice of banning IP address blocks for form access. If they really have something to say to us, they can contact us via email.
Email you say is probably the bane of existence for us that receive spam.
There are tons of javascript mail obfuscators and as long as you have a single email for mail contact, obfuscate it and only use that for mailto links.
I can seriouly attest that for the past 13 months, I've never received a penis enlargement mail at that address or any other stock tip.
My forms are hosted at a single location and have strict referer checking. Any attempt to `figure it out` by looking at the iframe source is banned.
If I get a form with non-relevant data, that IP is banned and all my sites and forms benefit.
I've gone from 300-400 form requests a day to the legitimate 10 valid responses a day
Windows CE 5 also had the source code available, I wonder why in the world this made headline news..
Because everything Microsoft re-brands, re-issues, re-hashes gets headline news. It keeps mindshare alive and investors happy.
I hear that Vista Professional will include a text editor too. It was know as notepad in Windows 3.x
I also heard that MS chat will have video. It's been available since Netmeeting had it in 1996. Netmeeting 3.0 was by far the best video/desktop/whiteboard sharing at the time. They killed it and re-branded as their current IM client effectively doing what they do best; f*king up a good product.
Their Windows Defender sucks when compared to Spybot S&D which wasn't the case when MS bought Giant.
probably enforcably illegal too with that DMCA bullshit.
Actually the future of the desktop commercial OS will be nothing but a rentware kiosk that provides a platform for iTunes like interface for media and WGA for localized apps.
Similar to the current model of the boxed versions of Norton/McAfee for those products.
As consoles will continue to do more than just play games, there will likely be a convergence of the two(consoles and PC).
You will be able to view data (files,pictures, etc...) on either a console or a PC that you store on a personal SAN.
One of the things that will suck about that is that proprietary lockin will overrule ease of use and features. The customer will lose except for those of us that are technically adept.
Doesn't matter if it's legal or not. If you break it, they sure can stop you from using "the software". Only someone with time and money that is married to the OS is going to challenge it. So you can spend $200 on a new license for 2 hardware changes or $200+$X for court costs.
...you'll have to start learning assembly
And that we did in the 80s by first learning to POKE and PEEK inside of our 6502 processors so we could gain the understanding of registers and memory spaces.
Then we learned Hexadecimal.
Then we spent 2 days figuring out how to write code to change the background and border to black and have a little ball bounce around the screen.
Those were the days!
It took 30 minutes in basic to get a ball to bounce around. The assembler version was hyper fast.
When, oh when, will we be able to use what we paid for for what we want, within the limits of the law, without asking permission.
Well, if you paid for a license of Vista, then you agreed to the EULA even if you read it after you bought it so you paid for it and you wanted it.
The provisions laid forth in the EULA are within the limits of the law.
Use Linux of you want to put an OS on any piece of hardware or if you're not a hardware junkie, buy a Mac.
My wife has a laptop that is pretty much useless unless it's connected via VPN to the home office.
Once connected, she isn't able to save anything to her local system. All she can do is print open documents to her local printer.
When she'd not connected, she can save items to the desktop.
There is a BIOS password, that changes at some interval like 6 months.
As I have replied before, "basically it is a military weapon". If it can take out military hardware, that makes it a military weapon in my book.
I said "basically a military weapon". Something that can blow up a tank or damage it in the least or takes out dozens of people in one blast is a military grade weapon - at least in my book. That's efficient killing.
Was the Oklahoma city bombing a military grade weapon by definition? Absolutely not, but the damage it caused puts it up there.
Dehumanising the enemy is very politically incorrect. They're not a bunch of thugs wanting to kill us, they're just misguided people that need compassion and understanding.
Last I read, they're not using guns and rifles, they're using RPGs, and IEDs. Basically, military weaponry.
I'm guessing that you're anti-gun. If you are, what group of people would you like to have the legal right to possess guns?
If you're making a list, please add the unlawful criminals to the list first as they will do whatever they please anyway.
Well then vote Libertarian, if anything, just to get a third party available.
Which also explains why Paul Allen is leaving Dreamworks.
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I remember when I paid $199 for my Toshiba DVD player way back when, there was a free movie signup as well.
Lost in Space, Stargate, and Six Days Seven Nights were included.
Except that XP is scheduled for EOL (or license availablity) in 2008, 12 months after Vista availablity. The SP3 will most likely be a security rollup of all the fixes up to that point if the case for any reinstalls happen after that time.
If you're a Linux user, have you not used Bitstream fonts??
They're identical to the fonts they supply to Apple.
That was a JPG of a Google found image. The compression is horrible. I can't vouch for the validity of the image either. Modern Distros with Bitstream fonts are OK to use in my book.
I use Linux next to Mac and the general use fonts are pleasing to the eye. Linux pre Bitstream was horrible.