Greylisting. All MTAs should be RFC compliant, so this one hurts the broken MTA's only, but some find the delay this adds to the normal mailing process unworkable.
Fortunately you can whitelist known good servers and even use an AWL.
According to some university administrators I've talked to where it is deployed, 93.6% of all mail is blocked this way. The network is around 20k computers strong. No big mail losses reported.
Do people remember the Unabomber? If we can believe that his true motivation was to create a ruse and call attention to his manifesto, as he claimed, and discounting the possibility for a second that he is batshit crazy, then I believe what the core of his manifesto is saying is that technological progress is enslaving humans.
While he might be^W^Wmost certainly is crazy, the effect of technology on society warrants at least a detailed discussion.
I do believe that technological progress is making the division between rich and poor less important. When for most of the world the struggle for getting "rich" by the standards of the age meant having food to eat, then it was much more important than in today's age when, while still huge numbers of humans are in horrible conditions, a growing number of us can be considered rich (compared to the times before), although not relatively (compared to today's wealthiest). I guess society is much happier being liveably poor than being just poor.
I also don't think that this is a natural progression of events, as in that it couldn't have happened otherwise. There is potential to change in either direction, from misusing technology to using it better. It is an open question whether we're heading towards another feudal society again, or a socialist utopia. Or anything in between. I don't think the answer is obvious.
So comparing, say, feudal Europe with modern-day Canada really is comparing Apples and Oranges.
No it isn't. I know what feudal means, which still essentially says that the lords owned everything and the rest nothing much. See, you can then take the number of lords and the rest of the population and produce a percentage.
Another poster made the critique that the wealth distribution doesn't take into account the scientific and social progress since then. Now that's talking about apples and oranges! Yes, I'm aware that those things have changed but they have no relevance here. (Unless you consider scientific knowledge wealth, which I do, but they are usually treated separately from traditional wealth because it is much harder to put into numbers, etc.) What I would be interested in is the change of wealth distribution over a long period of human history. I by no means am saying that the number produced would be indicative of progress as the other poster seems to think. It would be just interesting to see, so you know, you can have another datapoint to put current numbers and trends into context.
It is possibly very hard to create such comparison given that probably the definition of wealth changed, the definition of feudal times is loose, the overall human population was much less and the world used to be much more fragmented back then. I think that 500 years is a nice round number, so a comparison between 1500 and 2000 could be made with some difficulty. Hard, but I don't think it's impossible.
Currently my gut feeling tells me that the "wealth" used to be even more centralized in those times, but we probably made some progress in social equality since then. I'd be interested to see in the amount of progress though.
I guess I was being careless in underestimating the nationalism. If I would have known that some romanians will completely ignore what my post was about and nitpick on stupid nationalistic details then I'd have just omitted writing down that sentence.
It's way off topic here and I generally refuse to get involved in petty squabbles. I don't care about nations or countries or borders, but about humans and I would have thought europeans would have gotten tired with the infighting.
Arad is not a hungarian town and never was. That geographical area was briefly occupied by the Austro-Hungarian empire but the hungarian population in Arad is probably arround the 7% average applicable to Romania.
I'm getting pretty tired of baseless nationalism. It is pretty despicable the way people are trying to rewrite history when dealing with the consequences of WW1.
Currently you could say that the 15% hungarian minority in Arad makes it pretty "romanian", and I guess you were right, but you don't have to "romanize" the history. The fact is that after WW1 the border region of Romania/Hungary has seen a lot of forcible migration of romanians to that area to prevent any attemps by the hungarians to stake claims on Transylvania ever again.
Here is a relevant excerpt from wikipedia:
As a political entity, Transylvania proper - the lands beyonds the Apuseni Mountains - became a part of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 11th century. It then successively became an autonomous principality under Ottoman suzerainty in 1571, a part of the Habsburg Monarchy in 1711 (Austria-Hungary after 1867), and a part of the Kingdom of Romania after World War I
Arad county (in which Arad the city is in), being part of Transylvania, is one of the counties bordering today's Hungary.
I pretty much don't care how you justify that the ownership of Transylvania, which makes up around 1/3rd of current Romania, was aquired in the WW1 peacetalks* through a territory grabbing binge, as long as you stick to the facts. What would be the problem saying that "yeah, this land was not originally romanian, but we got it for being on the right side in WW1"? The USA doesn't try to justify aquiring Alaska from the Russians with any ideology and neither should you in the case of Transylvania.
*Although I'd like to add that lots of troubles would have been spared if the conclusion of WW1 wouldn't have been forcible dictatum. The result of the dictatum was Hitler's rise to power in Germany, the splitting of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the ethnic problems and wars due to that and fragmenting of Yugoslavia, and the ethnic problems surrounding Hungary with 5 million Hungarians next to it's borders.
The romanian kid is obviously a script kiddie and obviously he deserves some kind of punishment.
Another crime is commited here though, which is denying this kid a fair trial.
The previous case with the UK script kiddie was indication enough that things are terribly wrong. The FBI is banking on the general public's unawareness on computers. That Gary guy accessed some US govt. server with a default windows password or something like that, was it? Yeah fitting punishment of life in prison NOT. The FBI throws around ridicioulus numbers as to justify the harsher penalties, but the truth is, the guy is responsible for very little damage, even though the system had to be reinstalled etc, BECAUSE the system was so insecure in the first place that it should have been replaced in the first place! The wast majority of the costs are the due to their own stupidity. The equivalent case would be a car crashing into a skyscraper and the skyscraper collapsing. Yeah, sure the driver is at fault for driving badly, but he's no way responsible for the collapse of the skyscraper in any sense except direct physical!
The amount of damages is seriously overinflated aswell, others have pointed to Bruce Schneier about it. You can't claim millions of dollars of damages when "you" (the FBI) went around and handled the whole thing the wrong way! Yeah, I might expect a citizen not to have a clue about computers and buy these stories, but the FBI has a responsibility not to talk out of its ass.
Similarly, in this new case, damages are overinflated and, yeah the kid broke into the system, but the one who caused the damages which caused problems at NASA is the idiotic MORON who designed the system in the first place. These stupid hacker stories are designer/maintainer problems and the FBI should damn well recognize this, because they have the technical expertise in order to do so.
But they are not doing this. In light of this I'm a pretty serious proponent in urging the non-US countries of the world of suspending ALL extradiction treaties (which should have happened right after Guantanamo rights abuses went public) with the USA until we can be sure that justice is served, not some scaremongering directed at the domestic public of the USA.
It has to be mentioned that I'm pretty pissed about it, since it sort of hits home. Arad, where the guy is from is a historical hungarian town which now belongs to Romania. There is a good possibility that this guy has hungarian origins and as a hungarian I'm
a.) scared about the bullying the USA comes up with
b.) even if the guy extradited is an obvious moron. I would think he'd deserve something in the amount of 2 years probation judging by the cases I'm familiar with, not extradition to a foreign country and dumped in a pound-my-ass prison for life. The USA prison conditions are despicable, but that's another story.
Thing is, their success with Windows was being at the right place at the right time, utilizing ruthless business tactics and just being plain lucky.
They could get away for a decade worth of half-assed technical side and marketing because of their monopoly.
Thing is, whenever they tried to enter another market, it raised the question why. When looking at their attempts, many people drew the conclusion, that they wanted to compete at any price and that's why they threw their sometimes failing products out there. In retrospect I think we can say that they tried to perform their usual strategy, but without the backing of the monopoly they fell flat on their face. Of course, the notable exception is the Xbox 360. It might be luck, or that the Xbox division independent enough from the core MS that it can make itself work.
Microsoft is not reinventing itself, at least not yet. Zune is an utter failure and I can't think of any single successful product apart from Xbox 360, Windows and Office that was a success. The last two wells are drying up.
It's all about the profit margin, and targeting a certain demographic.
Ok, then let's flip the question. Why is that that in Europe brick/concrete construction is preferred? I don't think it's because of the profit margin...
I think housing in Europe is built to last longer, to withstand more. Most likely that's why they are more expensive and slower to build.
I was quite suprised to hear the talk about profit margins and labor costs in relation to nails for this reason. Yeah, construction is supposed to progress, but in our family business we never had to worry about using nails vs. screws to save time. I guess the general viewpoint and demand here is rather to be slower, but make it last.
There is a reason why the wooden beams making up a roof are held together by big screws, not big nails. It might be that in different countries different construction methods are used, I give you that, but any place of importance where stress and longevity matters screws are used, otherwise it's just shoddy construction.
Have you ever worked construction? No you haven't.
Don't state something when you don't know it for sure. As a matter of fact, my father owns a small construction company that specialises in building houses for families.
I have to say, they use thousands of nails in the construction of a single house. For the temporary scaffoldings, etc. The current nails just do perfectly fine for that purpose. In Hungary it is extremely rare that someone builds a wooden house. 99.9% of the residential homes are brick and tile houses. Where something is permanent (in most cases, we're talking about the roof here that needs screws), almost always screws are used.
Oh btw, construction labor is quite cheap here. Not as much though as future homeowners would like;)
If you can't be bothered to install a screw instead of a nail, then screw you.;)
Seriously, these objects usually have a very large time-to-install : time-being-in-place ratio. Why not do it right if it only takes a little longer, but most likely someone ends up living with the solution for years?
I'll most likely push a few hot buttons by this but I've been thinking about this for a while:
The overdemonization of fascist regimes like Hitler's or Mussolini's is really unhelpful in defending democracy locally, because it makes any kind of comparison between nazi Germany and other states seem very unrealistic. Branding Hitler pure evil, nazi germany pure evil and acting as if the demon just appeared there is very dangerous for our present, because we will not learn from history that way. If we would evaluate nazi germany in detail, get over the fucking holocaust (why single it out? how many of you had heard of the holodomor, the 19th century english concentration camps, etc?) then we'd be able to make objective comparisons and avoid plunging the developed world back into fascism again. Instead of that, black and white thinking dominates.
That"s one of the reasons why the holocaust-business (especially the part that involves using the sufferings of ww2 in the politics of Israel to label someone opposed to the policies of Israel antisemitic) pisses me off so much.
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Greylisting. All MTAs should be RFC compliant, so this one hurts the broken MTA's only, but some find the delay this adds to the normal mailing process unworkable.
Fortunately you can whitelist known good servers and even use an AWL.
According to some university administrators I've talked to where it is deployed, 93.6% of all mail is blocked this way. The network is around 20k computers strong. No big mail losses reported.
Let me fly off the tangent a bit.
Do people remember the Unabomber? If we can believe that his true motivation was to create a ruse and call attention to his manifesto, as he claimed, and discounting the possibility for a second that he is batshit crazy, then I believe what the core of his manifesto is saying is that technological progress is enslaving humans.
While he might be^W^Wmost certainly is crazy, the effect of technology on society warrants at least a detailed discussion.
I do believe that technological progress is making the division between rich and poor less important. When for most of the world the struggle for getting "rich" by the standards of the age meant having food to eat, then it was much more important than in today's age when, while still huge numbers of humans are in horrible conditions, a growing number of us can be considered rich (compared to the times before), although not relatively (compared to today's wealthiest). I guess society is much happier being liveably poor than being just poor.
I also don't think that this is a natural progression of events, as in that it couldn't have happened otherwise. There is potential to change in either direction, from misusing technology to using it better. It is an open question whether we're heading towards another feudal society again, or a socialist utopia. Or anything in between. I don't think the answer is obvious.
Another poster made the critique that the wealth distribution doesn't take into account the scientific and social progress since then. Now that's talking about apples and oranges! Yes, I'm aware that those things have changed but they have no relevance here. (Unless you consider scientific knowledge wealth, which I do, but they are usually treated separately from traditional wealth because it is much harder to put into numbers, etc.) What I would be interested in is the change of wealth distribution over a long period of human history. I by no means am saying that the number produced would be indicative of progress as the other poster seems to think. It would be just interesting to see, so you know, you can have another datapoint to put current numbers and trends into context.
between the current state and the feudal times.
It is possibly very hard to create such comparison given that probably the definition of wealth changed, the definition of feudal times is loose, the overall human population was much less and the world used to be much more fragmented back then. I think that 500 years is a nice round number, so a comparison between 1500 and 2000 could be made with some difficulty. Hard, but I don't think it's impossible.
Currently my gut feeling tells me that the "wealth" used to be even more centralized in those times, but we probably made some progress in social equality since then. I'd be interested to see in the amount of progress though.
The kids have suffered enough already being their dad the devil himself.
Because that's stupid. The kids don't need talking to, the silly laws need to get changed.
Hm maybe I overclocked my gpu too much because my screen only displays gibberish now...
I guess I was being careless in underestimating the nationalism. If I would have known that some romanians will completely ignore what my post was about and nitpick on stupid nationalistic details then I'd have just omitted writing down that sentence.
It's way off topic here and I generally refuse to get involved in petty squabbles. I don't care about nations or countries or borders, but about humans and I would have thought europeans would have gotten tired with the infighting.
You could tell that your phone was bugged, because you had an extra wardrobe in your room.
Didn't I say historical? Reading comprehension, zero. Check my reply to the other uninformed post.
Currently you could say that the 15% hungarian minority in Arad makes it pretty "romanian", and I guess you were right, but you don't have to "romanize" the history. The fact is that after WW1 the border region of Romania/Hungary has seen a lot of forcible migration of romanians to that area to prevent any attemps by the hungarians to stake claims on Transylvania ever again.
Here is a relevant excerpt from wikipedia: Arad county (in which Arad the city is in), being part of Transylvania, is one of the counties bordering today's Hungary.
I pretty much don't care how you justify that the ownership of Transylvania, which makes up around 1/3rd of current Romania, was aquired in the WW1 peacetalks* through a territory grabbing binge, as long as you stick to the facts. What would be the problem saying that "yeah, this land was not originally romanian, but we got it for being on the right side in WW1"? The USA doesn't try to justify aquiring Alaska from the Russians with any ideology and neither should you in the case of Transylvania.
*Although I'd like to add that lots of troubles would have been spared if the conclusion of WW1 wouldn't have been forcible dictatum. The result of the dictatum was Hitler's rise to power in Germany, the splitting of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the ethnic problems and wars due to that and fragmenting of Yugoslavia, and the ethnic problems surrounding Hungary with 5 million Hungarians next to it's borders.
The romanian kid is obviously a script kiddie and obviously he deserves some kind of punishment.
Another crime is commited here though, which is denying this kid a fair trial.
The previous case with the UK script kiddie was indication enough that things are terribly wrong. The FBI is banking on the general public's unawareness on computers. That Gary guy accessed some US govt. server with a default windows password or something like that, was it? Yeah fitting punishment of life in prison NOT. The FBI throws around ridicioulus numbers as to justify the harsher penalties, but the truth is, the guy is responsible for very little damage, even though the system had to be reinstalled etc, BECAUSE the system was so insecure in the first place that it should have been replaced in the first place! The wast majority of the costs are the due to their own stupidity. The equivalent case would be a car crashing into a skyscraper and the skyscraper collapsing. Yeah, sure the driver is at fault for driving badly, but he's no way responsible for the collapse of the skyscraper in any sense except direct physical!
The amount of damages is seriously overinflated aswell, others have pointed to Bruce Schneier about it. You can't claim millions of dollars of damages when "you" (the FBI) went around and handled the whole thing the wrong way! Yeah, I might expect a citizen not to have a clue about computers and buy these stories, but the FBI has a responsibility not to talk out of its ass.
Similarly, in this new case, damages are overinflated and, yeah the kid broke into the system, but the one who caused the damages which caused problems at NASA is the idiotic MORON who designed the system in the first place. These stupid hacker stories are designer/maintainer problems and the FBI should damn well recognize this, because they have the technical expertise in order to do so.
But they are not doing this. In light of this I'm a pretty serious proponent in urging the non-US countries of the world of suspending ALL extradiction treaties (which should have happened right after Guantanamo rights abuses went public) with the USA until we can be sure that justice is served, not some scaremongering directed at the domestic public of the USA.
It has to be mentioned that I'm pretty pissed about it, since it sort of hits home. Arad, where the guy is from is a historical hungarian town which now belongs to Romania. There is a good possibility that this guy has hungarian origins and as a hungarian I'm
a.) scared about the bullying the USA comes up with
b.) even if the guy extradited is an obvious moron. I would think he'd deserve something in the amount of 2 years probation judging by the cases I'm familiar with, not extradition to a foreign country and dumped in a pound-my-ass prison for life. The USA prison conditions are despicable, but that's another story.
You don't.
That's why you insure, to rest assured that if sued good legal defense is ensured.
Now, can anyone come up with a good haiku for this?
To be able to see the sunspots, silly.
Too bad he missed the "Germany during the 1920s/30s" part of history though.
Thing is, their success with Windows was being at the right place at the right time, utilizing ruthless business tactics and just being plain lucky.
They could get away for a decade worth of half-assed technical side and marketing because of their monopoly. Thing is, whenever they tried to enter another market, it raised the question why. When looking at their attempts, many people drew the conclusion, that they wanted to compete at any price and that's why they threw their sometimes failing products out there. In retrospect I think we can say that they tried to perform their usual strategy, but without the backing of the monopoly they fell flat on their face. Of course, the notable exception is the Xbox 360. It might be luck, or that the Xbox division independent enough from the core MS that it can make itself work.
Microsoft is not reinventing itself, at least not yet. Zune is an utter failure and I can't think of any single successful product apart from Xbox 360, Windows and Office that was a success. The last two wells are drying up.
I have to agree with what you're saying.
I think housing in Europe is built to last longer, to withstand more. Most likely that's why they are more expensive and slower to build.
I was quite suprised to hear the talk about profit margins and labor costs in relation to nails for this reason. Yeah, construction is supposed to progress, but in our family business we never had to worry about using nails vs. screws to save time. I guess the general viewpoint and demand here is rather to be slower, but make it last.
What you're saying is pure bullshit.
There is a reason why the wooden beams making up a roof are held together by big screws, not big nails. It might be that in different countries different construction methods are used, I give you that, but any place of importance where stress and longevity matters screws are used, otherwise it's just shoddy construction.
I have to say, they use thousands of nails in the construction of a single house. For the temporary scaffoldings, etc. The current nails just do perfectly fine for that purpose. In Hungary it is extremely rare that someone builds a wooden house. 99.9% of the residential homes are brick and tile houses. Where something is permanent (in most cases, we're talking about the roof here that needs screws), almost always screws are used.
Oh btw, construction labor is quite cheap here. Not as much though as future homeowners would like
If you can't be bothered to install a screw instead of a nail, then screw you. ;)
Seriously, these objects usually have a very large time-to-install : time-being-in-place ratio. Why not do it right if it only takes a little longer, but most likely someone ends up living with the solution for years?
So where do you want to go today?
I'll most likely push a few hot buttons by this but I've been thinking about this for a while:
The overdemonization of fascist regimes like Hitler's or Mussolini's is really unhelpful in defending democracy locally, because it makes any kind of comparison between nazi Germany and other states seem very unrealistic. Branding Hitler pure evil, nazi germany pure evil and acting as if the demon just appeared there is very dangerous for our present, because we will not learn from history that way. If we would evaluate nazi germany in detail, get over the fucking holocaust (why single it out? how many of you had heard of the holodomor, the 19th century english concentration camps, etc?) then we'd be able to make objective comparisons and avoid plunging the developed world back into fascism again. Instead of that, black and white thinking dominates.
That"s one of the reasons why the holocaust-business (especially the part that involves using the sufferings of ww2 in the politics of Israel to label someone opposed to the policies of Israel antisemitic) pisses me off so much.
How does a process tell the difference between two images, nonetheless two nude people, one 16 and the other 18?