Acme.com's web site is fairly popular - we get about 25,000 visitors per
day. That means our web pages are cached on a lot of people's disks. Well,
one way that spammers and viruses find addresses to send to is by looking
in those web cache files on machines they have taken over.
Hah. My corporate website averages 200,000 to 220,000 IPs per day. Total number of emails on any given day is about 20,000 emails - of which probably only a few hundred are legitimate. Not only is his statistic probably made up, but if 25,000 people per day are going to acme.com to read his incredibly insightful articles?? How many of you have heard of *evil* websites reading your email addresses?
Let's be realistic, if he really things the W3C specification is the reason why he gets "1 million spasm per day" - then why has his traffic only increased in the last few months? (he claims on the same link above that he was only getting 150,000 spams per day in mid 2004).
So the important thing to remember here is to post your shameless, made up, website with a CV to Slashdot to get a no-brain job interview.
An employee suggested to me that we buy PalmOne devices for few offices here as an evaluation. I was skeptical at first but he explained the benefits of using it for our employee's day-to-day notekeeping and organization. So I decided to let him install the handheld devices (Tungsten's I think) into 5 offices to see how the employees got on. Besides, our IT manager had been using a Palm in his office and it seemed to work fine, why not try it on the client offices?
Once he'd got the handhelds up and running with PalmOS we let the users try it out. It all seemed fine to start with: PalmOne was a pretty good replacement for pen and paper and the users could still do their work as normal.
Alas it did not stay that way. After a few days, I had lost count of the number of complaints received from users who could not find things they were used to (like solitare) or tasks they could not perform that they previously could with the pen and paper. The constant changing of batteries from the device began to make using a Palm handheld a burden on our office supplies. The final straw came when one employee lost several hours work when the Palm suddenly had an error reading from our intranet site and corrupted his calendar.
Needless to say, the PalmOne team offered no support whatsoever. I made the employee remove the handhelds from the offices and lets just say he's not with us anymore.
The worst nuclear disaster in history was Chernobyl, which has killed 30 people
Sure, only 31 people died from acute radiation exposure, but that doesn't mean only 31 people died. Although I totally agree with Nuclear power in favor of Coal (I'm an Illinois resident), something like 1800 children alone had thyroid cancer at the age of 14 in the affected area. Although maybe not all of these kids didn't die, I don't really think ignoring all of the long term affects of what happened at Chernobyl is the correct thing to do.
Anyways, if you're going to rant, at least present it in a manner such that people that are actually working on fixing these problems don't pass you off as blindly biased.
11. When will you take Google Gulp out of beta? Man, if you pressure us, you just drive us away. We'll commit when we're ready, okay? Besides, what's so great about taking things out of beta? It ruins all the romance, the challenge, the possibilities, the right to explore. Carpe diem, ya know? Maybe we're jaded, but we've seen all these other companies leap headlong into 1.0, thinking their product is exactly what they've been dreaming of all their lives, that everything is perfect and hunky-dory - and the next thing you know some vanilla copycat release from Redmond is kicking their butt, the Board is holding emergency meetings and the CEO is on CNBC blathering sweatily about "a new direction" and "getting back to basics." No thanks, man. We like our freedom.
Athlon 64 processors are not really useful because of their 64-bit addressing capability. The thing that makes Athlon64 (and Turion, and the newer Semprons) speed demons is the on board memory controller integrated into the CPU. No other x86 processors do this.
The article seemed to lean twoards, "I love the free SLI stuff that NVIDIA sent me, but don't take my word for it."
Anandtech posted such a nice article on actual retail SLI boards and their qwirks just recently. The boards featured in that review were actually modestly priced as well, contrary to XYZ's thoughts on SLI.
Fraud itself has been incredibly easy to do via obtaining fake drivers licenses. A credit card and/or passport are your portal to any sorts of "legally" obtained fake identification. Consider the following scenario:
1.) Show up to DMV with someone else's SS card.
2.) Get passport with "new" drivers license.
3.) Get credit card with new found forms of ID.
4.) Profit!
Does it suck that you need more than 2 forms of ID to get a DL? Probably. Does it curb fraud? Absolutely. Ever hear the song "Hell Yeah" by the Dead Presidents?
Do people still read The Register? I had always thought of them as some kind of British tabloid magazine, and ever since they lost BOFH, things got progressively worse. Need we just look to some of their most recent articles (from the front page even!)?
I don't know what the Hexus kid was on - but I feel safe trusting my reviews to people who have trouble writing big words!
From Page 2:
Being LGA775 CPUs, the new processors all look the same. Being press samples that I get the privilege of testing, they're also unmarked with any meaningful information bar the slightly exciting Intel Confidential. So I draw on them. Not quite the Mona Lisa in miniature, mind you, rather an idea of what it is. Any retail example you purchase will be umblemished with my scriblings.
Considering AMD and Intel's push for virtualization *in* the CPU, are projects like these really going to have a future? Why run Windows on top of Linux when in the near future I will be able to run them side by side.
As a Chicago resident I would be *real* hesistent to use the Reader as the one and only source of information. Not that it matters since every "article" (ahem.. blog) took this out of proportion anyway.
Ready? Here we go. Step 1, read article not posted in/. post: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3.
Step 2, knee jerk reaction. I am really hoping the part about bribing the police/security was something the author added for editorial flare. Now let's look at the actual permit, shall we? Permit
The first fact the author got wrong is that this permit applies outside the Chicago Park district. It doesn't, so bring the knee back a little bit.
I also don't see the BS about "journalism" anywhere on here. In fact, this permit only seems to apply to anyone who wants to *sell* the photographs. While I don't agree with it, the fact that Chicago only wants to prohibit people from selling pictures of their parks makes a little more sense to me.
I am a little upset here for some of the bad journalism. Not only did the Reader get the facts wrong, but the blogs continued to propagate these incorrect facts. Let me reiterate: the fee of $325 is only for people who intend to take commercial photographs of Chicago Parks, and it mentions nothing about a.) non-park places in Chicago or b.) journalists using the pictures for content.
The "article" is wrong, the blogs are wrong and the quotes seem plain out of context given the facts.
Slashdot Mirror
Duped For the Win:
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http://bsd.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=148927&ci
So Jef,
Are you hoping you'll get approached by some PHB that reads slashdot and needs his mail server configured?
How much of your website stats aren't made up BTW?
Hack Jandy
BS Detector is going off.
m eset.html
From http://www.acme.com/mail_filtering/background_fra
Acme.com's web site is fairly popular - we get about 25,000 visitors per day. That means our web pages are cached on a lot of people's disks. Well, one way that spammers and viruses find addresses to send to is by looking in those web cache files on machines they have taken over.
Hah. My corporate website averages 200,000 to 220,000 IPs per day. Total number of emails on any given day is about 20,000 emails - of which probably only a few hundred are legitimate. Not only is his statistic probably made up, but if 25,000 people per day are going to acme.com to read his incredibly insightful articles?? How many of you have heard of *evil* websites reading your email addresses?
Let's be realistic, if he really things the W3C specification is the reason why he gets "1 million spasm per day" - then why has his traffic only increased in the last few months? (he claims on the same link above that he was only getting 150,000 spams per day in mid 2004).
So the important thing to remember here is to post your shameless, made up, website with a CV to Slashdot to get a no-brain job interview.
You can buy them now: http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.aspx?i=2437 3
HJ
I think we need a "-1, tinfoil hat club" modifer.
Anti-slash.org already has that - it's called "False Alarm".
LOL. Yeah OK. It slowed down cause I slowed it down not Slashdot. BTW my Karma is excellent - no Captcha here!
It's just so addicting!
An employee suggested to me that we buy PalmOne devices for few offices here as an evaluation. I was skeptical at first but he explained the benefits of using it for our employee's day-to-day notekeeping and organization. So I decided to let him install the handheld devices (Tungsten's I think) into 5 offices to see how the employees got on. Besides, our IT manager had been using a Palm in his office and it seemed to work fine, why not try it on the client offices?
Once he'd got the handhelds up and running with PalmOS we let the users try it out. It all seemed fine to start with: PalmOne was a pretty good replacement for pen and paper and the users could still do their work as normal.
Alas it did not stay that way. After a few days, I had lost count of the number of complaints received from users who could not find things they were used to (like solitare) or tasks they could not perform that they previously could with the pen and paper. The constant changing of batteries from the device began to make using a Palm handheld a burden on our office supplies. The final straw came when one employee lost several hours work when the Palm suddenly had an error reading from our intranet site and corrupted his calendar.
Needless to say, the PalmOne team offered no support whatsoever. I made the employee remove the handhelds from the offices and lets just say he's not with us anymore.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/23/202 1246&tid=152&tid=164
It wasn't news then, and it isn't now. But then again, firingsquad has been going down the hill - they need all the traffic they can get.
WTF is going on here. Slashdot: News for easily offended Conservative Christian Parents. Stuff that matters?
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx? i=2397
As usual.
Give me a break.
3 Short-term_impact
The worst nuclear disaster in history was Chernobyl, which has killed 30 people
Sure, only 31 people died from acute radiation exposure, but that doesn't mean only 31 people died. Although I totally agree with Nuclear power in favor of Coal (I'm an Illinois resident), something like 1800 children alone had thyroid cancer at the age of 14 in the affected area. Although maybe not all of these kids didn't die, I don't really think ignoring all of the long term affects of what happened at Chernobyl is the correct thing to do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_accident%2
Anyways, if you're going to rant, at least present it in a manner such that people that are actually working on fixing these problems don't pass you off as blindly biased.
From http://www.google.com/googlegulp/faq.html
11. When will you take Google Gulp out of beta?
Man, if you pressure us, you just drive us away. We'll commit when we're ready, okay? Besides, what's so great about taking things out of beta? It ruins all the romance, the challenge, the possibilities, the right to explore. Carpe diem, ya know? Maybe we're jaded, but we've seen all these other companies leap headlong into 1.0, thinking their product is exactly what they've been dreaming of all their lives, that everything is perfect and hunky-dory - and the next thing you know some vanilla copycat release from Redmond is kicking their butt, the Board is holding emergency meetings and the CEO is on CNBC blathering sweatily about "a new direction" and "getting back to basics." No thanks, man. We like our freedom.
Athlon 64 processors are not really useful because of their 64-bit addressing capability. The thing that makes Athlon64 (and Turion, and the newer Semprons) speed demons is the on board memory controller integrated into the CPU. No other x86 processors do this.
OK - actually gave up my moderation points that I already used to answer this one. Haven't you heard of honeynet projects????
Anand just posted and article http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i =2364 about it.
...there is an Anandtech form post.
Linky
For everything else, there's mastercard.
The article seemed to lean twoards, "I love the free SLI stuff that NVIDIA sent me, but don't take my word for it."
Anandtech posted such a nice article on actual retail SLI boards and their qwirks just recently. The boards featured in that review were actually modestly priced as well, contrary to XYZ's thoughts on SLI.
Fraud itself has been incredibly easy to do via obtaining fake drivers licenses. A credit card and/or passport are your portal to any sorts of "legally" obtained fake identification. Consider the following scenario:
1.) Show up to DMV with someone else's SS card.
2.) Get passport with "new" drivers license.
3.) Get credit card with new found forms of ID.
4.) Profit!
Does it suck that you need more than 2 forms of ID to get a DL? Probably. Does it curb fraud? Absolutely. Ever hear the song "Hell Yeah" by the Dead Presidents?
Woe is me. Firefox 1.0.1 it was :(
Do people still read The Register? I had always thought of them as some kind of British tabloid magazine, and ever since they lost BOFH, things got progressively worse. Need we just look to some of their most recent articles (from the front page even!)?
a pe/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/25/breast_sh
WTF? Am I reading Cosmo or an IT website? Sure fooled me!
They want their headline back.
Why wait a month to post this now?
Can I interest you in an article from someone who knows WTF they are talking about?
AnandTech
I don't know what the Hexus kid was on - but I feel safe trusting my reviews to people who have trouble writing big words!
From Page 2: Being LGA775 CPUs, the new processors all look the same. Being press samples that I get the privilege of testing, they're also unmarked with any meaningful information bar the slightly exciting Intel Confidential. So I draw on them. Not quite the Mona Lisa in miniature, mind you, rather an idea of what it is. Any retail example you purchase will be umblemished with my scriblings.
Considering AMD and Intel's push for virtualization *in* the CPU, are projects like these really going to have a future? Why run Windows on top of Linux when in the near future I will be able to run them side by side.
As a Chicago resident I would be *real* hesistent to use the Reader as the one and only source of information. Not that it matters since every "article" (ahem.. blog) took this out of proportion anyway.
/. post:
Ready? Here we go. Step 1, read article not posted in
Page 1, Page 2, Page 3.
Step 2, knee jerk reaction. I am really hoping the part about bribing the police/security was something the author added for editorial flare. Now let's look at the actual permit, shall we?
Permit
The first fact the author got wrong is that this permit applies outside the Chicago Park district. It doesn't, so bring the knee back a little bit.
I also don't see the BS about "journalism" anywhere on here. In fact, this permit only seems to apply to anyone who wants to *sell* the photographs. While I don't agree with it, the fact that Chicago only wants to prohibit people from selling pictures of their parks makes a little more sense to me.
I am a little upset here for some of the bad journalism. Not only did the Reader get the facts wrong, but the blogs continued to propagate these incorrect facts.
Let me reiterate: the fee of $325 is only for people who intend to take commercial photographs of Chicago Parks, and it mentions nothing about a.) non-park places in Chicago or b.) journalists using the pictures for content.
The "article" is wrong, the blogs are wrong and the quotes seem plain out of context given the facts.