Another very sleek distro, based on solid technology and polished to look great for the average user as well. Plus it seems to pack everything you need to get going. Good work!
One gripe, though. Why, oh why do you keep copying the MS "start button/bar" look and functionality? Please get someone who knows about UI design on board and kill it. It is the worst-ever design in that category.
Look at NeXT, or MacOS - those are people who knew what they were doing.
Please copy the best, not the worst. You've done it everywhere else, why not in the UI?
It just might work, you know? Here's two reasons why:
a) The provision that the spammer will forfeit his equipment and anything he gained through spamming if caught
b) The "bounty hunter" part.
See, those 20% might just turn out to be a nice new machine or two. And we already have enough people who are hunting down spammers for free. Combine these two, and the FBI might be running out of agents to make the arrests on or around January 3rd.
I very seriously doubt that this'll be fun after you've done it for a few weeks.
One: Choice is one of the most important factors for fun. If you can't choose anymore what or when or how or how long you do something, then the fun will evaporate quickly.
Two: 12 hours? In most of the western world, as a workday that'd be illegal. And spending that time in front of a screen will damage your health.
Three: One word: Managers. If there's a company involved, then there are managers involved. I don't think I need to point out that way too many managers have made an art out of removing the fun from everything.
an independent resurrection of a type of gameplay that was accidentally (bug) introduced in the first game of a franchise, was LOVED TO PEICES by the fanbase and introduced thousands of players to the game, and then was nixed in the second installment because an arrogant jackass
Actually, I'm one of about 5 Tribes players who liked the game a lot before they learned about skiing.
I also liked skiing. I was a pretty good flag runner for a while.
Point is: Many of the maps had not been designed with skiing in mind, and it showed. It would've rocked completely if it had been a server or map option ("skiing on/off"). I'd definitely have played both kinds, but if you just want to play on skiing servers, that'd be fine with me.
As to legends: From what I've seen it rocks. Also don't forget to mention that while it's based on the T2 engine, there have been quite a few improvements made to Torque.
On the other hand, non-violent crimes almost never warrant a violent response.
This is where we disagree.
I believe strongly, for example, that assaults on honour are best answered with a punch. No great violence, no blood and gore, just an immediate signal that a line was crossed that you'd better not cross again. Likewise, if you insult or make untowards moves on any lady that I happen to accompany at that time, you will receive at least the threat of physical repercussions should you continue.
Why? Because physical replies are right here, right now. That is something no fair trial can ever provide, and that sometimes is asked for.
So why do I apply this to spam? I must point out it's a borderline case. The main reasons are these:
a) Due to the "you need to learn a lesson, now" effect that a beating or the threat of one provides. Spammers need to be stopped now, not after giving them a couple months or years during which they can continue as they like.
b) Since it is the only adequate response. No amount of fine will make spammers think twice, because as we see with grandma, most of them are living comfortably in denial ("I'm not spamming, I just send out advertisement by e-mail."). There is nothing that even compares to immediate, physical threat when it comes to getting people out of denial, and fast.
c) Because the vast majority of their victims believe they deserve it. In fact, I think the entire white-collar crime is prospering exactly because some fine or other purely symbolic penalty is the worst you will face. A lot of corporate criminals who embezzled millions would think twice about it if the penalty would be being locked in a room for 10 minutes with the factory workers whose pension funds you ruined.
No, it isn't. You are making a too general assertion there. I fully agree that physical violence should not be the first reply, and somewhere close to the last option, however:
* Those advocating a "violence-free society" miss the point that many non-physical actions can hurt much more than a beating. * There are degrees everywhere. Hitting someone once or twice with the fist is not in the same league as carving them up with a knife. * There are proper responses. If you assault me on the street, don't expect me to be non-violent and talk it out. We can talk when you're down and no longer a danger.
Everyone deserves a fair trial and a fair punishment.
True to an extend. We are destroying the court system right now by bogging it down with loads of crap that don't deserve a trial. If you knock over my drink, do I really have to sue you for damages? Or can we just agree that you buy me a new one and that's that?
Don't encourage people to beat up other people. It's not civilized.
Neither is spamming. On the contrary, it's anti-social. It's a true tragedy of the commons.
You live there? What are you doing posting on/. instead of heading over and beating her up? She's a spammer, and I couldn't care less how old or fragile she is. In fact, that reduces the chances that you'll ruin a perfectly good baseball bat.
Just like busses, trains are having issues because no one wants to use them. Both Greyhound and Amtrak are unpopular forms of transportation now--no coincidence.
Yepp, the US believes in air-lifting everything, no matter if it makes sense or not.
Over here in Europe, trains are becoming better and better. In fact, I prefer train travel for short distances. It's just more relaxed, you have plenty of space, some trains offer in-travel entertainment more varied and interesting than flights, plus you have something to look at out of the window. Not to mention that you don't have to include another hour or two for getting to/from the airport, security, check-in, boarding, etc.
For longer trips, I can recommend the night trains. I went to Paris on one (~10 hour trip, I slept about 7 of those). I arrived in the morning, and I've never had such a relaxed first day of holidays.
Many comments are trying to ascertain whether it's the dumb users who can't use presentation tools right, or the dumb tools which make users stupid.
Obviously, it's both. Like a disease that spreads to the weakest first. But this particular disease has gone out of control.
The best presentations I've seen were usually those were the speaker was first and foremost a speaker. The slides were just so much background. Their sole purpose was to help you back to the words of the speaker if you got lost, or to hang on to for context.
Nowadays, I do routinely judge talks by their slides. If they have lots of colour, tons of animations, cute little icons or graphics that serve no information purpose whatsoever - then almost certainly the presentations main purpose is not to draw attention to the talk, but to keep attention away from it.
Or, in more mathematical terms: The sum of animations, colours, eyecandy and actual information content is a global constant.
The number of presentations I have seen where animation conveyed information is safely in the single-digit order of magnitude.
Unfortunatly - and that's where the disease spreads - eyecandy fools too many who should know better. In university and in virtually all companies, you get rewarded for impression, not content. So a new generation picks up what the old one should've killed long ago.
I wouldn't be surprised if the death of powerpoint coincided with the next boost in computer science.
but doesn't a possible 20 years in the clink sound a bit excessive?
Not if you take into consideration that it'll be at least 5 years before the resident rapists get over their revulsion and actually give the spammer what he deserves. 20 is just being on the safe side.
No, it's not. It is an active attack. I am currently receiving more spam or bounces from spams with my adress as the faked From: than I get actual mail. If the trend we've been seeing for the past years continues, by this time next year I'll get 5-10 spams for every legit mail.
This isn't a nuisance. It's not a fly disturbing your fishing. It's going fishing and finding yourself in a lake full of hungry crocodiles.
Which part of that sentence puzzles you? Maybe in your world e-mail is free. In the real world, it is not. It is just so cheap that you can usually ignore the cost for low volumes.
Spam is not low volume, so the cost has to be figured in. Economics is like physics: You can ignore friction in most cases. There are cases where you can't.
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Well, brainiard, why don't you go out and get several hundred million Internet users the required level of education?
See, the problem is that stupid idiots do and always will exist. In most of society, that isn't much of a problem because they are a minority and their impact is minimal.
In spam, their existence threatens the communication medium for all of us. Due to the various factors of economy valid for e-mail that the anti-spam community has been pointing out for ages, this minority has a huge impact. Educating them won't work, because by definition, this bottom part on the intelligence scale can not be educated.
Laws are the correct approach, but only if they are executed properly. When the government starts having an active interest, then spammers will go away. Don't believe me? The gov blows insane amounts of money on bringing individuals to justice already, if they are considered evil enough to warrant that (i.e. murderers, child molesters, etc.) Once spammers enter that category, they will fade into a background noise, just like crime. Sure, there will always be child molesters/spammers, but they will be so few that you can use e-mail and your child can use the playground without having them all over you/her.
Maybe the gov should start by demonstrating how serious they are. Just grab a random 5-10 spammers and prosecute them to hell and back. It won't make spam magically disappear, but it just might reduce the level as people get out of a game that's becoming too hot for them
What good can from an organization that has human rights committees comprised of brutal dictatorships?
How serious would they take an organization that only allows the nice-and-dandy in? This is a planet-wide organization, they have to give everyone a say, and that especially includes the ones that everyone else would rather see silenced.
would simply give certain [countries] a new means to bash or otherwise attempt to restrict prospering Western countries.
So far, every time I read the actual protocols, it more looked like these "certain countries" wanted something like a share of the prospering, and not a restriction. Now if you think for a second, if you take a share of something, it is in your best interest for that something to be large.
Of course, newspapers, politicians and other 2nd hand sources with an agenda usually have no trouble turning things their way.
Which is why you should check original sources if you can, instead of buying your opinions wholesale from the paper boy.
Can you imagine what these nations would want to classify as SPAM?
Sure, but this is the UN. If there is one trait that has been very constant over its existence then it is that of unbelievable levels of compromise. Everything at the UN level gets washed down to the lowest common denominator, and a bit lower just to be sure. If we need a definition for spam, then a UN-created definition is sure to be the most restrictive. In fact, I'm sure most of us here would whine how much of the spam it doesn't include.
ICANN might be annoying but at least we can lay hands on them
We can? Who exactly is "we"? Sure doesn't include me, or anyone else outside the US. Which just happens to be about 95% of mankind.
Yahoo positively should shut up when it comes to mail.
I run online games and other sites where you sign up using your e-mail. There are 2 services which suck so much that I've banned one (hotmail) and contemplate banning the other - yahoo. They just don't cooperate well. For example, you can't verify if an address actually exists at yahoo. They will accept any and all mails up front.
Yahoo should go and implement the existing standards first, before they go and invent new ones.
Sad but true: People in general don't care until the disaster is there, not just predicted.
I've been trying to get my company to do something about spam (we're an ISP). The more serious, offensive, and aggressive spammers become, the higher my chances that someone up in management will get off his lazy ass and decide that it just might be worth it to do something.
The CC have nothing to do with security in the sense you are talking about. They are all about trust and assurance, and about evaluation of security procedures. For example, documentation takes a central role, as does version management during the development process.
It's got nothing to do with stuff like default configurations, open ports, buffer overflows or what have you. It just tackles the problem on an entirely different level.
The part about this story that gets to me is that the researcher didn't alert Microsoft before posting to a public mailing list.
Guess you would've preferred that he either:
a) keep it to himself and use it to root your box b) tell M$ about it, who will as usual drag it out for a few months before even acknowledging that he found a problem.
If you were reading any of the security mailing lists, you'd know that the general experience researchers have with M$ is that it's a big waste of your unpaid time to contact them.
Frankly, if they neither pay you nor treat you with some courtesy, then why exactly should you bother?
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Another very sleek distro, based on solid technology and polished to look great for the average user as well.
Plus it seems to pack everything you need to get going. Good work!
One gripe, though. Why, oh why do you keep copying the MS "start button/bar" look and functionality? Please get someone who knows about UI design on board and kill it. It is the worst-ever design in that category.
Look at NeXT, or MacOS - those are people who knew what they were doing.
Please copy the best, not the worst. You've done it everywhere else, why not in the UI?
It just might work, you know? Here's two reasons why:
a) The provision that the spammer will forfeit his equipment and anything he gained through spamming if caught
b) The "bounty hunter" part.
See, those 20% might just turn out to be a nice new machine or two. And we already have enough people who are hunting down spammers for free. Combine these two, and the FBI might be running out of agents to make the arrests on or around January 3rd.
I very seriously doubt that this'll be fun after you've done it for a few weeks.
One: Choice is one of the most important factors for fun. If you can't choose anymore what or when or how or how long you do something, then the fun will evaporate quickly.
Two: 12 hours? In most of the western world, as a workday that'd be illegal. And spending that time in front of a screen will damage your health.
Three: One word: Managers.
If there's a company involved, then there are managers involved. I don't think I need to point out that way too many managers have made an art out of removing the fun from everything.
an independent resurrection of a type of gameplay that was accidentally (bug) introduced in the first game of a franchise, was LOVED TO PEICES by the fanbase and introduced thousands of players to the game, and then was nixed in the second installment because an arrogant jackass
Actually, I'm one of about 5 Tribes players who liked the game a lot before they learned about skiing.
I also liked skiing. I was a pretty good flag runner for a while.
Point is: Many of the maps had not been designed with skiing in mind, and it showed. It would've rocked completely if it had been a server or map option ("skiing on/off"). I'd definitely have played both kinds, but if you just want to play on skiing servers, that'd be fine with me.
As to legends: From what I've seen it rocks. Also don't forget to mention that while it's based on the T2 engine, there have been quite a few improvements made to Torque.
On the other hand, non-violent crimes almost never warrant a violent response.
This is where we disagree.
I believe strongly, for example, that assaults on honour are best answered with a punch. No great violence, no blood and gore, just an immediate signal that a line was crossed that you'd better not cross again.
Likewise, if you insult or make untowards moves on any lady that I happen to accompany at that time, you will receive at least the threat of physical repercussions should you continue.
Why? Because physical replies are right here, right now. That is something no fair trial can ever provide, and that sometimes is asked for.
So why do I apply this to spam? I must point out it's a borderline case. The main reasons are these:
a) Due to the "you need to learn a lesson, now" effect that a beating or the threat of one provides. Spammers need to be stopped now, not after giving them a couple months or years during which they can continue as they like.
b) Since it is the only adequate response. No amount of fine will make spammers think twice, because as we see with grandma, most of them are living comfortably in denial ("I'm not spamming, I just send out advertisement by e-mail."). There is nothing that even compares to immediate, physical threat when it comes to getting people out of denial, and fast.
c) Because the vast majority of their victims believe they deserve it. In fact, I think the entire white-collar crime is prospering exactly because some fine or other purely symbolic penalty is the worst you will face. A lot of corporate criminals who embezzled millions would think twice about it if the penalty would be being locked in a room for 10 minutes with the factory workers whose pension funds you ruined.
Physically assaulting other people is wrong.
No, it isn't. You are making a too general assertion there. I fully agree that physical violence should not be the first reply, and somewhere close to the last option, however:
* Those advocating a "violence-free society" miss the point that many non-physical actions can hurt much more than a beating.
* There are degrees everywhere. Hitting someone once or twice with the fist is not in the same league as carving them up with a knife.
* There are proper responses. If you assault me on the street, don't expect me to be non-violent and talk it out. We can talk when you're down and no longer a danger.
Everyone deserves a fair trial and a fair punishment.
True to an extend. We are destroying the court system right now by bogging it down with loads of crap that don't deserve a trial. If you knock over my drink, do I really have to sue you for damages? Or can we just agree that you buy me a new one and that's that?
Don't encourage people to beat up other people. It's not civilized.
Neither is spamming. On the contrary, it's anti-social. It's a true tragedy of the commons.
You live there? What are you doing posting on /. instead of heading over and beating her up? She's a spammer, and I couldn't care less how old or fragile she is. In fact, that reduces the chances that you'll ruin a perfectly good baseball bat.
Just like busses, trains are having issues because no one wants to use them. Both Greyhound and Amtrak are unpopular forms of transportation now--no coincidence.
Yepp, the US believes in air-lifting everything, no matter if it makes sense or not.
Over here in Europe, trains are becoming better and better. In fact, I prefer train travel for short distances. It's just more relaxed, you have plenty of space, some trains offer in-travel entertainment more varied and interesting than flights, plus you have something to look at out of the window.
Not to mention that you don't have to include another hour or two for getting to/from the airport, security, check-in, boarding, etc.
For longer trips, I can recommend the night trains. I went to Paris on one (~10 hour trip, I slept about 7 of those). I arrived in the morning, and I've never had such a relaxed first day of holidays.
See, trains don't have to suck.
I would imagine there are less than 20 routes in the world where maglev truly makes sense.
True. And the world market for computers is maybe 5 machines.
Ever heard about how costs decrease once new projects aren't research-heavy anymore and the entire technology becomes more common and advanced?
Many comments are trying to ascertain whether it's the dumb users who can't use presentation tools right, or the dumb tools which make users stupid.
Obviously, it's both. Like a disease that spreads to the weakest first. But this particular disease has gone out of control.
The best presentations I've seen were usually those were the speaker was first and foremost a speaker. The slides were just so much background. Their sole purpose was to help you back to the words of the speaker if you got lost, or to hang on to for context.
Nowadays, I do routinely judge talks by their slides. If they have lots of colour, tons of animations, cute little icons or graphics that serve no information purpose whatsoever - then almost certainly the presentations main purpose is not to draw attention to the talk, but to keep attention away from it.
Or, in more mathematical terms: The sum of animations, colours, eyecandy and actual information content is a global constant.
The number of presentations I have seen where animation conveyed information is safely in the single-digit order of magnitude.
Unfortunatly - and that's where the disease spreads - eyecandy fools too many who should know better. In university and in virtually all companies, you get rewarded for impression, not content. So a new generation picks up what the old one should've killed long ago.
I wouldn't be surprised if the death of powerpoint coincided with the next boost in computer science.
but doesn't a possible 20 years in the clink sound a bit excessive?
Not if you take into consideration that it'll be at least 5 years before the resident rapists get over their revulsion and actually give the spammer what he deserves.
20 is just being on the safe side.
Spam is a terrible nuisance.
No, it's not. It is an active attack. I am currently receiving more spam or bounces from spams with my adress as the faked From: than I get actual mail. If the trend we've been seeing for the past years continues, by this time next year I'll get 5-10 spams for every legit mail.
This isn't a nuisance. It's not a fly disturbing your fishing. It's going fishing and finding yourself in a lake full of hungry crocodiles.
Which part of that sentence puzzles you? Maybe in your world e-mail is free. In the real world, it is not. It is just so cheap that you can usually ignore the cost for low volumes.
Spam is not low volume, so the cost has to be figured in. Economics is like physics: You can ignore friction in most cases. There are cases where you can't.
Well, brainiard, why don't you go out and get several hundred million Internet users the required level of education?
See, the problem is that stupid idiots do and always will exist. In most of society, that isn't much of a problem because they are a minority and their impact is minimal.
In spam, their existence threatens the communication medium for all of us. Due to the various factors of economy valid for e-mail that the anti-spam community has been pointing out for ages, this minority has a huge impact. Educating them won't work, because by definition, this bottom part on the intelligence scale can not be educated.
Laws are the correct approach, but only if they are executed properly. When the government starts having an active interest, then spammers will go away.
Don't believe me? The gov blows insane amounts of money on bringing individuals to justice already, if they are considered evil enough to warrant that (i.e. murderers, child molesters, etc.)
Once spammers enter that category, they will fade into a background noise, just like crime. Sure, there will always be child molesters/spammers, but they will be so few that you can use e-mail and your child can use the playground without having them all over you/her.
Maybe the gov should start by demonstrating how serious they are. Just grab a random 5-10 spammers and prosecute them to hell and back. It won't make spam magically disappear, but it just might reduce the level as people get out of a game that's becoming too hot for them
No, you are not being "productive". You are being busy. There is a big difference.
Great quote. You put the difference between most management people and most actually working people into two lines.
Now I just have to fight with myself over whether or not to print that out and pin it on my office wall...
There are already a couple 3D mice on the market. Google for "space mouse" for an example.
They are currently used in some robotics applications.
Why do we get articles about tools that are what? 3 years old?
There is enough new and interesting (and better) stuff around. For example, rubberhose would've been much more interesting to read about.
What good can from an organization that has human rights committees comprised of brutal dictatorships?
How serious would they take an organization that only allows the nice-and-dandy in? This is a planet-wide organization, they have to give everyone a say, and that especially includes the ones that everyone else would rather see silenced.
would simply give certain [countries] a new means to bash or otherwise attempt to restrict prospering Western countries.
So far, every time I read the actual protocols, it more looked like these "certain countries" wanted something like a share of the prospering, and not a restriction. Now if you think for a second, if you take a share of something, it is in your best interest for that something to be large.
Of course, newspapers, politicians and other 2nd hand sources with an agenda usually have no trouble turning things their way.
Which is why you should check original sources if you can, instead of buying your opinions wholesale from the paper boy.
Can you imagine what these nations would want to classify as SPAM?
Sure, but this is the UN. If there is one trait that has been very constant over its existence then it is that of unbelievable levels of compromise. Everything at the UN level gets washed down to the lowest common denominator, and a bit lower just to be sure.
If we need a definition for spam, then a UN-created definition is sure to be the most restrictive. In fact, I'm sure most of us here would whine how much of the spam it doesn't include.
ICANN might be annoying but at least we can lay hands on them
We can? Who exactly is "we"? Sure doesn't include me, or anyone else outside the US. Which just happens to be about 95% of mankind.
Yahoo positively should shut up when it comes to mail.
I run online games and other sites where you sign up using your e-mail. There are 2 services which suck so much that I've banned one (hotmail) and contemplate banning the other - yahoo.
They just don't cooperate well. For example, you can't verify if an address actually exists at yahoo. They will accept any and all mails up front.
Yahoo should go and implement the existing standards first, before they go and invent new ones.
Sad but true: People in general don't care until the disaster is there, not just predicted.
I've been trying to get my company to do something about spam (we're an ISP). The more serious, offensive, and aggressive spammers become, the higher my chances that someone up in management will get off his lazy ass and decide that it just might be worth it to do something.
It might not run on windos, but if you look closely (enlarge the pic), you'll notice the machine still has windos keys on the keyboard.
Seems their "up yours" attitude doesn't go far enough to shelve out an extra 5 bucks for penguin keys or removing them (enlarge space).
It is extremely time consuming. The main problem for Linux will be the requirements of documentation and development.
For example, EAL4 requires a "Developer defined life-cycle model". That just doesn't merge well with Linus approach of "when it's done".
Security cannot be determined...
The CC have nothing to do with security in the sense you are talking about.
They are all about trust and assurance, and about evaluation of security procedures. For example, documentation takes a central role, as does version management during the development process.
It's got nothing to do with stuff like default configurations, open ports, buffer overflows or what have you. It just tackles the problem on an entirely different level.
over a holiday weekend (States side)
You did notice that the guy was from China, right?
Newflash: World does not revolve around USA.
Frankly, if it weren't for Buy Nothing Day, I wouldn't have known that it's a holiday in Bush Country, either.
The part about this story that gets to me is that the researcher didn't alert Microsoft before posting to a public mailing list.
Guess you would've preferred that he either:
a) keep it to himself and use it to root your box
b) tell M$ about it, who will as usual drag it out for a few months before even acknowledging that he found a problem.
If you were reading any of the security mailing lists, you'd know that the general experience researchers have with M$ is that it's a big waste of your unpaid time to contact them.
Frankly, if they neither pay you nor treat you with some courtesy, then why exactly should you bother?