it's an excellent image viewer, also lets you adjust the images (brightness, gamma correction, contrast) and resize / resample them. Supports all formats known to mankind.
Automatically? Surely if there existed a way of reporting spam automatically, then it would be trivial to apply the same technique to filter out spam automatically.
Pardon me. It's not automatic in the recognition algorithm, but it's much faster than having to do a whois and then reporting to the ISP for each SPAM that gets to your inbox.
Let me describe the Blue Frog algorithm.
Suppose your e-mail is somedude@myinbox.com . When you set up a blue frog account, you get a "honeypot" address like somedude@report.bluecommunity.com. The reports are analyzed (by whom or what, I don't know) and then your bluefrog software receives a request to report at the spammers' website asking for opt-out (the opt-out just tells the spammer how to download the "do not intrude" registry, it doesn't give out any e-mails).
The point is that this software actually gives an incentive (html form "SPAM") to spammers to stop sending e-mail to your account.
What I do is sending the SPAM that gets into my junk mail folder at the honeypot account. So, filtering is necessary as a first step, but after a while, you don't have to filter the junk mails, because they don't get to your e-mail in the first place. In my case, I use the firefox extension to send my Yahoo! junk-mail to report the SPAM to blue frog.
Then I just let my blue frog software do the dirty work.
Little problem with the extension. It needs the bluefrog software downloaded to work (All the extension does is reporting the mails to bluefrog for analysis. The massive opt-out (slashdotting) is done with your computer via the bluefrog exe.
My bank or CC company, or just *any* bank/cc company ?
Hell if I know! I'm still wondering why Citibank mailed me several times to tell me that they were going to cancel an account that I didn't open in the first place:P
Why not joining bluesecurity.com and report SPAM automatically? At 370K members, it's guaranteed to slow down the spammer's website (spam victims' slashdotting!) until they opt-out the complainers out of their lists.
They got even a Firefox extension for reporting spam with Yahoo, Hotmail and GMail.
I got a better one. When will we stop asking the obvious and actually start doing?
Well, for starters, it would be much easier if Slashdot allowed us to communicate using personal messages (and thus keep our anonimity while being able to organize ourselves).
Slashdot has the potential to form interest-based communities, why don't they do it? Frankly, I have no idea.
When people get together and say NO MORE. (Just look at the immigrants, with their marchs they're making the whitehouse sweat, aren't they?)
Where I live we have this saying: "The brave lives until the coward decides" (where brave = bully, coward = victim).
People in the US need to say STOP to lobbying, to the bipartisan system, to the electoral votes system and all that garbage that strips the rights from the people.
Remember how in US airports a person could be denied to take a flight, but due to "national security" wasn't allowed to see which law was applied? "National security". Um... yeah. Right.
Well, Google can remove your membership because of "Click fraud", but due to "trade secret" you weren't allowed to see the fraudulent traffic.
I joined an anime community a while ago, and while there is the typical mention of gaming, I don't see much interest about it. Specially when games offer you less than 8 hours of gameplay in average. Two boring weekends and you finished the game.
What I see in the forum, is lots of people talking about their problems and getting new boyfriends/girlfriends.
Perhaps there's a social implication in this - now people lose their virginity at a much younger age than before.
So I guess that nerds (who can't get a girlfriend as easily as everybody else) deviate their attention to two things: Videogames, tech stuff, and porn.
I was involved in the Landrush. Each registrar was allowed one request per second. NO round-robin/line as mentioned on the sumarry.
In any case, the author has a point. A round-robin would be a much better case, so your statement only reinforces the idea of american companies cheating.
Umm, they were. They were vindictive rebels and torturers.
Yes, but my point was that most of the time the Law supports the powerful, then the people who fight them become criminals ipso-facto. This applies to the European (British, Spanish, French, etc.) colonies equally, where the insurgents were labelled as "traitors" and executed if they lost the war.
Ok, joke aside, I was wondering if these viruses wouldn't be spread so easily if we used Linux, but that's too much "slashdot thinking". After reading the story on Open Standards, I thought of something more interesting.
Will Microsoft be able to widthstand this wave of exploits using their current software methodology? Or is Open Source programming the ONLY way?
In other words: Is Microsoft losing the war against viruses?
Slashdot Mirror
Which begs the question, Can you even have a small company in the 'Modern' game industry.
:)
Ubisoft
Just like the Atari devs split and founded Activision... I think that a small company is the best for game development.
Let's rename "Internet Explorer" to "Apache Browser". After all, it's becoming "A patchy" browser! :D
it's an excellent image viewer, also lets you adjust the images (brightness, gamma correction, contrast) and resize / resample them. Supports all formats known to mankind.
http://www.irfanview.com/
Automatically? Surely if there existed a way of reporting spam automatically, then it would be trivial to apply the same technique to filter out spam automatically.
Pardon me. It's not automatic in the recognition algorithm, but it's much faster than having to do a whois and then reporting to the ISP for each SPAM that gets to your inbox.
Let me describe the Blue Frog algorithm.
Suppose your e-mail is somedude@myinbox.com . When you set up a blue frog account, you get a "honeypot" address like somedude@report.bluecommunity.com. The reports are analyzed (by whom or what, I don't know) and then your bluefrog software receives a request to report at the spammers' website asking for opt-out (the opt-out just tells the spammer how to download the "do not intrude" registry, it doesn't give out any e-mails).
The point is that this software actually gives an incentive (html form "SPAM") to spammers to stop sending e-mail to your account.
What I do is sending the SPAM that gets into my junk mail folder at the honeypot account. So, filtering is necessary as a first step, but after a while, you don't have to filter the junk mails, because they don't get to your e-mail in the first place. In my case, I use the firefox extension to send my Yahoo! junk-mail to report the SPAM to blue frog.
Then I just let my blue frog software do the dirty work.
Little problem with the extension. It needs the bluefrog software downloaded to work (All the extension does is reporting the mails to bluefrog for analysis. The massive opt-out (slashdotting) is done with your computer via the bluefrog exe.
My bank or CC company, or just *any* bank/cc company ?
:P
Hell if I know! I'm still wondering why Citibank mailed me several times to tell me that they were going to cancel an account that I didn't open in the first place
Why not joining bluesecurity.com and report SPAM automatically? At 370K members, it's guaranteed to slow down the spammer's website (spam victims' slashdotting!) until they opt-out the complainers out of their lists.
They got even a Firefox extension for reporting spam with Yahoo, Hotmail and GMail.
Raise your hand if you've ever bought a PC game from WalMart.
Me neither.
Raise your hand if you're NOT a geek minority.
Ah-hah, I supposed.
I got a better one. When will we stop asking the obvious and actually start doing?
Well, for starters, it would be much easier if Slashdot allowed us to communicate using personal messages (and thus keep our anonimity while being able to organize ourselves).
Slashdot has the potential to form interest-based communities, why don't they do it? Frankly, I have no idea.
When will this kind of erosion of rights stop?
When people get together and say NO MORE. (Just look at the immigrants, with their marchs they're making the whitehouse sweat, aren't they?)
Where I live we have this saying: "The brave lives until the coward decides" (where brave = bully, coward = victim).
People in the US need to say STOP to lobbying, to the bipartisan system, to the electoral votes system and all that garbage that strips the rights from the people.
When will Microsoft be defeated by the EU?
* From 1 to 6 months
* From 6 months to a year
* From 1 to 2 years
* From 2 and 5 years
* More than 5 years
* When CowboyNeal says it will
Place your bets, gentlemen. Place your bets.
Just die, dammit.
The nonsense about AdSense
Remember how in US airports a person could be denied to take a flight, but due to "national security" wasn't allowed to see which law was applied? "National security". Um... yeah. Right.
Well, Google can remove your membership because of "Click fraud", but due to "trade secret" you weren't allowed to see the fraudulent traffic.
Um... yeah. Right.
Something phishy's going on here.
*ducks*
I joined an anime community a while ago, and while there is the typical mention of gaming, I don't see much interest about it. Specially when games offer you less than 8 hours of gameplay in average. Two boring weekends and you finished the game.
What I see in the forum, is lots of people talking about their problems and getting new boyfriends/girlfriends.
Perhaps there's a social implication in this - now people lose their virginity at a much younger age than before.
So I guess that nerds (who can't get a girlfriend as easily as everybody else) deviate their attention to two things: Videogames, tech stuff, and porn.
what's wrong in using something that ACTUALLY WORKS like a gun in a... *ahem* first person... *ahem* SHOOTER?
Obviously there is a market for Cybersex
Yeah, but who guarantees that D34dly's cyber-girlfriend is a girl in real life?
I was involved in the Landrush. Each registrar was allowed one request per second. NO round-robin/line as mentioned on the sumarry.
In any case, the author has a point. A round-robin would be a much better case, so your statement only reinforces the idea of american companies cheating.
Thanks for the info, btw.
Hardware encryption - bad
:(
Hardware DRM - good
Since when "homeland security" became Big Brother?
Umm, they were. They were vindictive rebels and torturers.
Yes, but my point was that most of the time the Law supports the powerful, then the people who fight them become criminals ipso-facto. This applies to the European (British, Spanish, French, etc.) colonies equally, where the insurgents were labelled as "traitors" and executed if they lost the war.
Ok, joke aside, I was wondering if these viruses wouldn't be spread so easily if we used Linux, but that's too much "slashdot thinking". After reading the story on Open Standards, I thought of something more interesting.
Will Microsoft be able to widthstand this wave of exploits using their current software methodology? Or is Open Source programming the ONLY way?
In other words: Is Microsoft losing the war against viruses?
The web mob is back! We MUST stop them!
- Quick, To the TuxCave!
(Disclaimer: This post is a joke)
:-P
wait, so 2006 ISN'T the year of the desktop linux?
Here, lemme fix it for you.
wait, so 2060 ISN'T the year of the desktop linux?
There ya go! Looks better now, doesn't it?
in the last 2 paragraphs of my reply, i said "patents", i should have said "software patents".
(There ya go - for the record, yadda yadda)