I don't see how GFS can scale as well as something like OpenAFS. With AFS, you get an entire infrastructure. I wish more people would be investing time and effort into improving filesystems like AFS, where all systems can share a common namespace without requiring the availability of a SAN. The two have slightly different uses, but it'd still be nice to see more force behind AFS now that it is opensourced.
Or you could put a captcha at the start of every few hands. Not every hand, since that'd be annoying. Instead, just do it every few random hands, such as every fifth or sixth. It won't solve it, but it'll cut down on the problem.
Have you reported these issues to Bugreporter? Even if you think somebody else did, the duplicate count will make it more obvious that people are annoyed by these things.
When I did the people search on Jeff Bezos, he was the only one to show up with a jeff@amazon.com e-mail address. Similarly, he had a Seattle, WA USA shipping address. Presumably Amazon won't let you easily make an account with his e-mail address, and the Seattle shipping narrows it down a bit as well. Also note the presence of the THE and REAL NAME badges on his member page I linked to. I'm pretty sure that is him.
Not that I'm aware of. Standard text-only Braille terminals/displays that just have several Braille cells are pretty expensive as it is. To have a medium to high resolution surface mapped with feelable dots would be damn pricy. Can you imagine what it'd take to drive all those dots so it was at a high enough resolution to be felt? Not to mention that computers haven't been black and white in a LONG time. Greyscale, sure. But not black and white. So now you're talking about a medium to high resolution surface that has a decent refresh/update rate that uses height to depict shades of grey. No thanks.
there's nothing stopping you from blindly blocking access to your own servers; however in most cases, that'd probably be just an overreaction. there are hundreds, if not thousands, of publically accessible proxys and anonymous surfing tools besides tor. you'd likely spend more time trying to keep your filter or block lists up-to-date than you would dealing with any mess left behind if you didn't bother.
I disagree. The combination of the Blitzed Open Proxy Monitor List and the TOR DNSBL do a pretty good job of weeding out abusive proxy possibilities. I agree that there are more out that these won't catch, but these do a much better job than you seem to think possible. It is sad that these have to be used, but there is little choice when abuse comes from these and there is no way to single out the bad person.
I took a sample of 6 IPs from your IP list. None of them were listed in the Tor DNSBL (tor.dnsbl.sectoor.de). However, all of the ones that were still online had open HTTP or HTTP POST proxies. I'm going to postulate that you are not being attacked by a Tor drone network but instead a standard drone network of infected machines. That said, it doesn't disprove Tor as being available and usable for abuse. I have seen it being used to cause high volumes of spam. As others have said, Tor is slower and you may have problems pumping a lot of data through it. However, nothing prevents you from having many connections into the Tor network and getting the job done with high volumes of data instead of the rate of data. If you have enough bandwidth to work with and enough different points into the Tor network (so you don't saturate it badly), you're set.
While I think Tor is a great idea, I also think it makes it way too easy to be a bad netizen. With Tor, you can flood sites and services such as IRC, web boards, instant messaging, and so forth. You could possibly use it to spam as well. All of this would be done by seemingly random IP addresses. In essence, it is an inflated case of Open Proxy Syndrome. The only remedy that the victims have is to block all Tor sites by using some of the RBLs that exist for doing just that. I'd really like to allow legit use of Tor on my services, but there are some jackasses that flood from within Tor that make it impossible. With anonymity comes a lack of recourse. I understand that this is the point of anonymity and Tor, but it isn't always good.
Forget MTV. Even sitcoms do it now. NPR's Morning Edition had a good story about advertising in TV and for movies yesterday morning. I knew about a lot of what went on, but it just got pretty disturbing at the end. Scientists changing dates on their discoveries to coincide with Jurassic Park releases? What has the world come to?
Tablet
This patch returns the current state of the tablet pointing device.
The pen position is expressed in units in the Quartz Composer coordinates system. The pen tilt on the X and Y axes is normalized to the [-1.0,1.0] range and the pen pressure is normalized to the [0,1] range.
Note that this patch does not read the tablet state directly but is dependent on the proper information being passed to the composition. This information may not always be available, depending on the environment in which Quartz Composer is running.
A tablet with a stylus is an input device that generates more accurate and detailed data than does a mouse. It enables a user to draw, write, or make selections on a touch-sensitive surface (the tablet); an application can then capture and process those movements, reflecting them in its user interface. The tablet is generally a USB device connected to a computer system and the stylus is a wireless transducer. The stylus actually can be any pointing device, such as a pen, an airbrush, or even a puck.
In addition to the stylus location at any given moment, tablet devices can report many other pieces of data, such as the tilt of a pen, the rotation of a puck, and the pressure applied to the stylus. Pressure is particularly important because, with just this small piece of data, a user can tell an application to vary the thickness of a line being drawn, or its opacity, or its color. Some stylus devices also have buttons that can furnish an application with additional information.
Mac OS X supports tablet devices from several manufacturers. Some of these tablets can respond to multiple pointing devices on their surfaces at the same time.
Now, the output parameters that the Tablet patch provides in Quartz Composer are:
X
Y
Tilt X
Tilt Y
Pressure
Tip Button
Lower Button
Upper Button
Also worth noting from the ADC Library documentation (for Cocoa) above:
Important: Tablet events are available in Mac OS X v10.4 and later versions of the operating system.
On a similar note, Quartz Composer showed up in Mac OS X 10.4 as well.
Note the pictures in the ADC document as well. They depict a tablet connected to an iMac or Apple display.
It seems to me that none of this is talking about a tablet PC. If it is, they sure went through a great deal to hide it.
I imagine that is referring to an interface to Inkwell. Inkwell is primarily useful for users of Wacomtablets. You know, those things that let you draw with a pen? Well, Inkwell will let you use it for handwriting recognition and as a mouse as well. Inkwall has existed in OS X since Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2). To sum it all up, this is nothing new and is no golden arrow pointing towards the amazing future of Apple tablets. Please be careful not to throw misguided bread crumbs out that the Mac rumor sites will try to build nests out of.
iTunes has had that forever. Whatever you have your encoding format set to under "Importing" is what it offers to convert to. You must have your import options set to MP3. Nonetheless, it will not allow you to convert files bought from the iTMS. You are told that protected files can't be converted.
Simple. Most users use Microsoft Internet Explorer. Development for IE is pretty stagnant compared to Mozilla, Firefox, and friends. So, Apple shot for the majority by providing a MSIE plugin and can safely assume that somebody will use the provided SDK to make a plugin for Mozilla and Firefox without Apple having to do it themselves. Business is about maximizing result from minimal investment.
Note that it says (widget) next to Unit conversions. Calculator is not a widget. They are not disputing the existence of the VPN feature, but rather VPN on demand. I don't exactly know what that is, but I imagine it is some sort of auto-connect dojigger. As for the HTML e-mails... I've not seen them. The only formats that are supported that I've seen are rich and text. Rich is not HTML. They are using WebCore now for composing e-mail messages in HTML, so I'm not sure how they would have supported it before in Mail.app.
And I just reread your comment. The Student ADC memberships are *not* free. ADC Student costs $99/yr and includes a one-time ADC hardware discount as well.
I am ADC Student and received copies of Panther. I received 10.3.0, and I received 10.3.6(or something around there) when they refreshed the version they shipped. I'm expecting to see 10.4.0 come in the mail as well.
This is one of the things I've come to like about Mac OS X. Most good applications are nothing but a single icon. This icon is represented by a single directory. If you drag this directory to a USB drive (and it fits), then it will run from that drive. Installing these sorts of applications consists of dragging them from an archive or disk image and dropping them into your folder of choice. I really wish more OS X applications were like this. Uninstalling is great. You just throw them away.
Slashdot Mirror
Try reading this to understand just how broken MySQL (and others) is.
I don't see how GFS can scale as well as something like OpenAFS. With AFS, you get an entire infrastructure. I wish more people would be investing time and effort into improving filesystems like AFS, where all systems can share a common namespace without requiring the availability of a SAN. The two have slightly different uses, but it'd still be nice to see more force behind AFS now that it is opensourced.
Or you could put a captcha at the start of every few hands. Not every hand, since that'd be annoying. Instead, just do it every few random hands, such as every fifth or sixth. It won't solve it, but it'll cut down on the problem.
Have you reported these issues to Bugreporter? Even if you think somebody else did, the duplicate count will make it more obvious that people are annoyed by these things.
When I did the people search on Jeff Bezos, he was the only one to show up with a jeff@amazon.com e-mail address. Similarly, he had a Seattle, WA USA shipping address. Presumably Amazon won't let you easily make an account with his e-mail address, and the Seattle shipping narrows it down a bit as well. Also note the presence of the THE and REAL NAME badges on his member page I linked to. I'm pretty sure that is him.
Yes. You can see it here.
Install SharePoints.
Not that I'm aware of. Standard text-only Braille terminals/displays that just have several Braille cells are pretty expensive as it is. To have a medium to high resolution surface mapped with feelable dots would be damn pricy. Can you imagine what it'd take to drive all those dots so it was at a high enough resolution to be felt? Not to mention that computers haven't been black and white in a LONG time. Greyscale, sure. But not black and white. So now you're talking about a medium to high resolution surface that has a decent refresh/update rate that uses height to depict shades of grey. No thanks.
Or find/use a server that listens on Submit (587/tcp).
I disagree. The combination of the Blitzed Open Proxy Monitor List and the TOR DNSBL do a pretty good job of weeding out abusive proxy possibilities. I agree that there are more out that these won't catch, but these do a much better job than you seem to think possible. It is sad that these have to be used, but there is little choice when abuse comes from these and there is no way to single out the bad person.
I took a sample of 6 IPs from your IP list. None of them were listed in the Tor DNSBL (tor.dnsbl.sectoor.de). However, all of the ones that were still online had open HTTP or HTTP POST proxies. I'm going to postulate that you are not being attacked by a Tor drone network but instead a standard drone network of infected machines.
That said, it doesn't disprove Tor as being available and usable for abuse. I have seen it being used to cause high volumes of spam. As others have said, Tor is slower and you may have problems pumping a lot of data through it. However, nothing prevents you from having many connections into the Tor network and getting the job done with high volumes of data instead of the rate of data. If you have enough bandwidth to work with and enough different points into the Tor network (so you don't saturate it badly), you're set.
While I think Tor is a great idea, I also think it makes it way too easy to be a bad netizen.
With Tor, you can flood sites and services such as IRC, web boards, instant messaging, and so forth. You could possibly use it to spam as well. All of this would be done by seemingly random IP addresses. In essence, it is an inflated case of Open Proxy Syndrome. The only remedy that the victims have is to block all Tor sites by using some of the RBLs that exist for doing just that. I'd really like to allow legit use of Tor on my services, but there are some jackasses that flood from within Tor that make it impossible.
With anonymity comes a lack of recourse. I understand that this is the point of anonymity and Tor, but it isn't always good.
Forget MTV. Even sitcoms do it now. NPR's Morning Edition had a good story about advertising in TV and for movies yesterday morning. I knew about a lot of what went on, but it just got pretty disturbing at the end. Scientists changing dates on their discoveries to coincide with Jurassic Park releases? What has the world come to?
- X
- Y
- Tilt X
- Tilt Y
- Pressure
- Tip Button
- Lower Button
- Upper Button
Also worth noting from the ADC Library documentation (for Cocoa) above:Important: Tablet events are available in Mac OS X v10.4 and later versions of the operating system.
On a similar note, Quartz Composer showed up in Mac OS X 10.4 as well. Note the pictures in the ADC document as well. They depict a tablet connected to an iMac or Apple display. It seems to me that none of this is talking about a tablet PC. If it is, they sure went through a great deal to hide it.I imagine that is referring to an interface to Inkwell. Inkwell is primarily useful for users of Wacom tablets. You know, those things that let you draw with a pen? Well, Inkwell will let you use it for handwriting recognition and as a mouse as well. Inkwall has existed in OS X since Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2). To sum it all up, this is nothing new and is no golden arrow pointing towards the amazing future of Apple tablets. Please be careful not to throw misguided bread crumbs out that the Mac rumor sites will try to build nests out of.
iTunes has had that forever. Whatever you have your encoding format set to under "Importing" is what it offers to convert to. You must have your import options set to MP3. Nonetheless, it will not allow you to convert files bought from the iTMS. You are told that protected files can't be converted.
Simple. Most users use Microsoft Internet Explorer. Development for IE is pretty stagnant compared to Mozilla, Firefox, and friends. So, Apple shot for the majority by providing a MSIE plugin and can safely assume that somebody will use the provided SDK to make a plugin for Mozilla and Firefox without Apple having to do it themselves. Business is about maximizing result from minimal investment.
The new DVD Player has zoom options. Much better approach than Universal Access zooming. You can likely AppleScript the DVD Player zoom as well.
Note that it says (widget) next to Unit conversions. Calculator is not a widget. They are not disputing the existence of the VPN feature, but rather VPN on demand. I don't exactly know what that is, but I imagine it is some sort of auto-connect dojigger. As for the HTML e-mails... I've not seen them. The only formats that are supported that I've seen are rich and text. Rich is not HTML. They are using WebCore now for composing e-mail messages in HTML, so I'm not sure how they would have supported it before in Mail.app.
Timescape.
And I just reread your comment. The Student ADC memberships are *not* free. ADC Student costs $99/yr and includes a one-time ADC hardware discount as well.
I am ADC Student and received copies of Panther. I received 10.3.0, and I received 10.3.6(or something around there) when they refreshed the version they shipped. I'm expecting to see 10.4.0 come in the mail as well.
I believe they classify that money as "shipping charges."
If they are, then AppleInsider is in on it too.
This is one of the things I've come to like about Mac OS X. Most good applications are nothing but a single icon. This icon is represented by a single directory. If you drag this directory to a USB drive (and it fits), then it will run from that drive. Installing these sorts of applications consists of dragging them from an archive or disk image and dropping them into your folder of choice. I really wish more OS X applications were like this. Uninstalling is great. You just throw them away.