"Gomez: We danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, we danced the Mamushka at Waterloo. We danced the Mamushka for Jack the Ripper, and now, Fester Addams, this Mamushka is for you."
From the article:
"By performing tasks within a game repetitively or very quickly, bots can easily outplay human-controlled characters, giving unscrupulous players an unfair advantage."
Automation is a force multiplier.
San Diego County Government had 12,000 workstations crash. People couldn't do ANYTHING connected to the county. They had 3,000 systems up today. Wonder if I can apply for the sysadmin job?
This is said in the context of enterprise platforms. Linux/SPARC could be sold to the PHBs only as a life-extension after SUN end-of-support for the hardware. Came close to doing that, but then the suits coughed up enough money for shiny new systems, which was the better choice, IMHO.
I've had considerable experience with Sun products. If I'm setting up a load-balanced web application or Oracle DB, I want Sun on SPARC. I've tried the x86 port in several versions and it made a nice little webserver, but did not scale well. If I want an open OS that I have to support myself, I'll go Linux - thanks. More driver support.
Undoubtedly this whole letter-writing scheme was orchestrated by one of those fund-raising, bible-thumping, "defend the family" organizations who really don't care about the sense of what folks were trying to achieve: segregate porn.
*mumbles*
But I bet they raised a lot of money in the Red States...
>Jesse Sandler said he was one of the people pushing forward, using a folding chair he had brought with him to beat back people who tried to cut in front of him.
"I took my chair here and I threw it over my shoulder and I went, 'Bam,"' the 20-year-old said nonchalantly, his eyes glued to the screen of his new iBook, as he tapped away on the keyboard at a testing station.
"They were getting in front of me and I was there a lot earlier than them, so I thought that it was just," he said.
Hmmm.
Henrico County Sheriff's Office Michael L. Wade, Sheriff sheriff@co.henrico.va.us
"ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jonathan A. Zdziarski has been fighting spam for eight years, and has spent a significant portion of the past two years working on the next generation spam filter DSPAM. His research in algorithmic theory and neural networking has led to the development of many new approaches in language classification, and he has played a key role in designing some popular algorithms in use today, including Message Inoculation, Bayesian Noise Reduction, and the first functional Neural Networking algorithm for spam filters. Zdziarski lectures widely on the topic of spam and was a speaker at the 2004 and 2005 MIT Spam Conference. "
Like most parasitic maldies
on
Ending Spam
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I'm wondering... will UCE (Spam) be like malaria... controllable in most areas but impossible to eradicate?
Or will these dedicated folks and others be able to eliminate it, perhaps by changes to the mail protocols?
The San Diego BBS scene was energetic and explosive, with hundreds of BBSes, on all topics. Users often got together in "meatspace" to argue and party furiously. Was anyone here a member of San Diego Connection or CSAIA (frantic humor BBS)?
I notice that the moderators who are modding my comments down are using the immune-from-metamod overrated mod. Nice.
FUD stands for fear, uncertainty, and doubt. I don't fear Microsoft, I am certain they are a monopoly, and I don't doubt my results. If (as I suspect from your posting history) you work for Microsoft, please work within your company to promote adherence to standards and interoperability with open source applications. Any civil response is appreciated. If you reply with "Mod down!" again, I will filter you out.
One was a Win2k user - the security updates to IE6 changed his default settings. When he had to launch IE6 to access a bank site, IE6 became his default browser again, without prompting, and his shortcuts all changed to the little E.
A few of the folks I set up with Firefox have gone back to IE because their default browser settings changed with a Windows Update, and they were not interested enough to change them back.
If you question yourself, you're probably a good person. It's the the people who blithely ignore any of their shortcomings who cause most of the problems. You're intelligent, have ambition, and want to do useful work.
I suggest doing some computer work (set-up PCs, build a small network, etc) for a church or charity, and get a letter from them when you're done. Now you have some experience on your resume.
Work at any reasonable job and study for your degree/certs part-time.
Any interviewer will see that you're good material.
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t'would be interesting to see a Google-branded Linux.
It would also allow vertical integration inside their own company...
>Finally enough bandwidth for us all to cut the cord?"
*Yells down to basement*
Kurt! You're moving OUT today!
I suggest Mamushka
"Gomez: We danced the Mamushka while Nero fiddled, we danced the Mamushka at Waterloo. We danced the Mamushka for Jack the Ripper, and now, Fester Addams, this Mamushka is for you."
Mamushka! Mamushka! Mamushka!
They'd have to pay me well, and let me lock all the suckers down, and let me wear a leather hood to work.
Or no dice.
From the article: "By performing tasks within a game repetitively or very quickly, bots can easily outplay human-controlled characters, giving unscrupulous players an unfair advantage."
Automation is a force multiplier.
San Diego County Government had 12,000 workstations crash.
People couldn't do ANYTHING connected to the county.
They had 3,000 systems up today.
Wonder if I can apply for the sysadmin job?
This is said in the context of enterprise platforms.
Linux/SPARC could be sold to the PHBs only as a life-extension after SUN end-of-support for the hardware. Came close to doing that, but then the suits coughed up enough money for shiny new systems, which was the better choice, IMHO.
I've had considerable experience with Sun products. If I'm setting up a load-balanced web application or Oracle DB, I want Sun on SPARC. I've tried the x86 port in several versions and it made a nice little webserver, but did not scale well.
If I want an open OS that I have to support myself, I'll go Linux - thanks. More driver support.
My customer doesn't want me to research this on his system and I honor that.
I will set up a test system.
>It can no more "break ranks with the regime" than your intestines can "break ranks with your body".
I guess you've never had a bad burrito, then...
Undoubtedly this whole letter-writing scheme was orchestrated by one of those fund-raising, bible-thumping, "defend the family" organizations who really don't care about the sense of what folks were trying to achieve: segregate porn.
*mumbles*
But I bet they raised a lot of money in the Red States...
Henrico is the county.
Richmond is the city.
Okay, then:
Police Chief Rodney D. Monroe
(804) 646-6842
Chief Monroe, I got one for ya!
>Jesse Sandler said he was one of the people pushing forward, using a folding chair he had brought with him to beat back people who tried to cut in front of him.
"I took my chair here and I threw it over my shoulder and I went, 'Bam,"' the 20-year-old said nonchalantly, his eyes glued to the screen of his new iBook, as he tapped away on the keyboard at a testing station.
"They were getting in front of me and I was there a lot earlier than them, so I thought that it was just," he said.
Hmmm.
Henrico County Sheriff's Office
Michael L. Wade, Sheriff
sheriff@co.henrico.va.us
Sheriff Mike?
I got one for ya!
>Well woop the freakin' doo.
That's "whoop de"...
*slides under rug*
From:
HERE
"ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jonathan A. Zdziarski has been fighting spam for eight years, and has spent a significant portion of the past two years working on the next generation spam filter DSPAM. His research in algorithmic theory and neural networking has led to the development of many new approaches in language classification, and he has played a key role in designing some popular algorithms in use today, including Message Inoculation, Bayesian Noise Reduction, and the first functional Neural Networking algorithm for spam filters. Zdziarski lectures widely on the topic of spam and was a speaker at the 2004 and 2005 MIT Spam Conference.
"
I'm wondering... will UCE (Spam) be like malaria... controllable in most areas but impossible to eradicate?
Or will these dedicated folks and others be able to eliminate it, perhaps by changes to the mail protocols?
I'll get the info from the first box that showed this behavior. It's a customer's system, so I'll have to get his permission first.
Look here this time tomorrow.
The San Diego BBS scene was energetic and explosive, with hundreds of BBSes, on all topics.
Users often got together in "meatspace" to argue and party furiously.
Was anyone here a member of San Diego Connection or CSAIA (frantic humor BBS)?
Memories... ahhh!
>Please substantiate rather than spewing FUD.
I notice that the moderators who are modding my comments down are using the immune-from-metamod overrated mod. Nice.
FUD stands for fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
I don't fear Microsoft, I am certain they are a monopoly, and I don't doubt my results. If (as I suspect from your posting history) you work for Microsoft, please work within your company to promote adherence to standards and interoperability with open source applications.
Any civil response is appreciated. If you reply with "Mod down!" again, I will filter you out.
One was a Win2k user - the security updates to IE6 changed his default settings. When he had to launch IE6 to access a bank site, IE6 became his default browser again, without prompting, and his shortcuts all changed to the little E.
I reproduced this effect on a test system.
A few of the folks I set up with Firefox have gone back to IE because their default browser settings changed with a Windows Update, and they were not interested enough to change them back.
Then the spyware came back...
As Zippy the Pinhead was once told, just sing the Almond Joy Jingle three times ("Sometimes you feel like a nut...") and the song will disappear...
:)
Don't worry, get smiley...
If you question yourself, you're probably a good person. It's the the people who blithely ignore any of their shortcomings who cause most of the problems. You're intelligent, have ambition, and want to do useful work.
I suggest doing some computer work (set-up PCs, build a small network, etc) for a church or charity, and get a letter from them when you're done. Now you have some experience on your resume.
Work at any reasonable job and study for your degree/certs part-time.
Any interviewer will see that you're good material.
Raise your kids, not mine, has always been my motto.
I am involved in what my kid plays, what he watches, who he hangs with.
I let him be exposed to more and more as his maturity level grew with him.
I showed him consequences for bad behavior.
I explained why bad was bad.
He's seventeen, and a great kid.
Not that I'm taking my hand off the switch just yet.