Life may have thrived, but the life in question is several billion human beings who are heavily reliant on key agricultural zones like the North American grain belt, which, if they shift or disappear, will have severe consequences for billions of people.
Civilizations have failed before due to climactic changes. Is there some reason you think history has ended and we are now immune to major alterations in agricultural productivity? Do you think the food on the shelves of your nearest grocery store appear there due to Star Trek-like fabricators?
So if you're a mentally retarded gullible twit who posts falsehoods because you're too fucking stupid to know they're falsehoods, you can be downmodded?
At the same time, Steyn has flown awfully close at times to libel, and this comes as close to crossing the line as I've seen. Whether it crosses the line or not will be up to a court to decide, unless Steyn backs downs. My opinion is that while it is an obnoxious, immoral piece of trash piece that shows Steyn and Simberg to be dishonorable disreputable shitbags, it's not truly libelous.
If the outcry against Windows 8 is as loud as some say it will be, Redmond will be back in the position it was in 2007; either ignore the outcry, or give in and allow continued sales (directly or indirectly) of Windows 7, and if Redmond goes that route, they will undermine Windows 8 adoption. Yes, there are plenty of organizations with Windows 7 licenses sitting around that they continue to use forever, just as there are still plenty of organizations that had and still have plenty of XP licenses, but that didn't stop the crippling of Vista's sales in 2007-2008 and, if Microsoft bends again this time, the same crippling effect will be repeated.
This is why I think it's likely that Microsoft will terminate most channels for purchasing new or downgrade licenses (maybe they won't even have downgrade licenses for Windows 8) very early on.
The problem is that inexperienced mail admins seem to have a considerable amount of faith in SPF and DKIM, and a good decade or so has passed since these methods were first developed, so the debate around why they are fundamentally flawed is in the past.
The only reason I even have SPF and DKIM records on our mail servers is because some dumb-asses out there do negative weight based on an absence of those records.
I can understand using SPF and DKIM to that degree in specialized situations. But if you're running a general-use mail server, I think negative scoring based on faulty or missing SPF and DKIM records is asking for an unacceptable number of false positives. I know a lot of mail admins over the years have stood on principle over this sort of thing, and the ISP I was working for did for a while, but increased customer complaints finally lead us to the conclusion that the amount of spam SPF and DKIM scoring stopped was outweighed by the number of false positives we were seeing.
By allowing continued sale of XP licenses (via volume licensing for enterprise customers and via downgrade rights for consumers), Microsoft heavily damaged Vista's sales. Now admittedly they may have felt at the time that they had little choice, with the general noise, particularly from enterprise customers, about Vista's problems, but still, Vista's biggest competitor was XP. Microsoft does not want to repeat that, so I'm sure soon enough actually finding a legitimate copy of Windows 7 through most channels will become very hard indeed.
Oh Christ! The last thing on Earth I would ever do is give a negative score to SpamAssassin's rating based on failed or missing SPF and DKIM records. Hell, even missing reverse records, which is popular with some anti-spam folks, lead to way too many false positives.
It caused problems for the SCTV DVD releases as well, as they couldn't get permission to use some of the songs. I recall Rick Morranis doing a hilarious version of Stairway to Heaven which now only is available via Youtube as a crappy VHS sample.
How would this be applied to Eddie Murphy's Buckwheat Sings The Hits sketch? I mean, he kinda gets the words right, except in a heavily exaggerated accent.
So now copyright is the enemy of humor as well. There's not a lot to recommend IP protection any more.
So the reality is that, on top of being useless as an anti-spam mechanism, it now turns out to be even worse, and in fact vulnerable to malicious attacks. In other words, it's useless and uselesser.
I was heavily involved in a lot of the discussions surrounding SPF, DKIM and related "solutions" back in the early 2000s, and about the most that we could say about these "solutions" was that you could add a positive number to the score of an email in a weighting system if things checked out, but other than that, there was little to recommend them.
Indeed. This looks like a deliberate strategy not to repeat the Vista fiasco. I expect Windows 7 to be made unavailable through most channels very quickly after Windows 8 release.
Oh give me a break. Apple is a for-profit company. That means it will use whatever tools are its disposal to disadvantage competition. This whole notion that Apple is trying to help the industry be more innovative, that somehow it is being pragmatic in its lawsuits based on very dubious patents that are very unlikely with withstand scrutiny (as is now happening), is total bunk. The very fact that Apple must certainly know how iffy these patents are belies your claim. The whole purpose is to slow adoption of close competitors. As I said, even when Apple loses due to appeal and/or because the patent is reviewed/rejected, they still win, because they have managed to slow or outright halt adoption of competing devices.
It's irrelevant. Legal fees are simply the entry fee to the arena. That's the ticket price. The goal of the game is to hamstring your competition. Apple wins even when it loses, because it takes six to nine months for a challenge to a patent to even make a ripple, meanwhile the courts, being forced through lack of meaningful expertise, pretty much give the complainant the power of the state to shut the border to competition until such time as the patent is invalidated.
The patent system has turned the courts into pimps who sell the state's trade powers like expensive whores.
And rather too late. Apple clearly knows that it's idiotic patents won't hold up in the long run. What counts is that a competitor was hamstrung for some period of time. The object of the game isn't to ban products; Apple knows perfectly well that sooner or later the bulk of its patents are going to be rejected. The point is to cripple competition just long enough to release its own products.
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Good thing the hockey stick has been confirmed by others, then.
Life may have thrived, but the life in question is several billion human beings who are heavily reliant on key agricultural zones like the North American grain belt, which, if they shift or disappear, will have severe consequences for billions of people.
Civilizations have failed before due to climactic changes. Is there some reason you think history has ended and we are now immune to major alterations in agricultural productivity? Do you think the food on the shelves of your nearest grocery store appear there due to Star Trek-like fabricators?
So if you're a mentally retarded gullible twit who posts falsehoods because you're too fucking stupid to know they're falsehoods, you can be downmodded?
Be good enough to point out the red herring.
And yet, for all the problems, science marches on, the most successful system for gathering data and creating testable explanations ever created.
Who said anything about spoofing SPF? It's near worthless without spoofing.
First sentence is a lie.
Second sentence is a red herring that has absolutely nothing to do with first sentence.
Conclusion: Poster is likely a sociopath or retard, possibly both.
At the same time, Steyn has flown awfully close at times to libel, and this comes as close to crossing the line as I've seen. Whether it crosses the line or not will be up to a court to decide, unless Steyn backs downs. My opinion is that while it is an obnoxious, immoral piece of trash piece that shows Steyn and Simberg to be dishonorable disreputable shitbags, it's not truly libelous.
If the outcry against Windows 8 is as loud as some say it will be, Redmond will be back in the position it was in 2007; either ignore the outcry, or give in and allow continued sales (directly or indirectly) of Windows 7, and if Redmond goes that route, they will undermine Windows 8 adoption. Yes, there are plenty of organizations with Windows 7 licenses sitting around that they continue to use forever, just as there are still plenty of organizations that had and still have plenty of XP licenses, but that didn't stop the crippling of Vista's sales in 2007-2008 and, if Microsoft bends again this time, the same crippling effect will be repeated.
This is why I think it's likely that Microsoft will terminate most channels for purchasing new or downgrade licenses (maybe they won't even have downgrade licenses for Windows 8) very early on.
The problem is that inexperienced mail admins seem to have a considerable amount of faith in SPF and DKIM, and a good decade or so has passed since these methods were first developed, so the debate around why they are fundamentally flawed is in the past.
The only reason I even have SPF and DKIM records on our mail servers is because some dumb-asses out there do negative weight based on an absence of those records.
I can understand using SPF and DKIM to that degree in specialized situations. But if you're running a general-use mail server, I think negative scoring based on faulty or missing SPF and DKIM records is asking for an unacceptable number of false positives. I know a lot of mail admins over the years have stood on principle over this sort of thing, and the ISP I was working for did for a while, but increased customer complaints finally lead us to the conclusion that the amount of spam SPF and DKIM scoring stopped was outweighed by the number of false positives we were seeing.
By allowing continued sale of XP licenses (via volume licensing for enterprise customers and via downgrade rights for consumers), Microsoft heavily damaged Vista's sales. Now admittedly they may have felt at the time that they had little choice, with the general noise, particularly from enterprise customers, about Vista's problems, but still, Vista's biggest competitor was XP. Microsoft does not want to repeat that, so I'm sure soon enough actually finding a legitimate copy of Windows 7 through most channels will become very hard indeed.
DKIM has a key. Not that that makes it any more useful.
Oh Christ! The last thing on Earth I would ever do is give a negative score to SpamAssassin's rating based on failed or missing SPF and DKIM records. Hell, even missing reverse records, which is popular with some anti-spam folks, lead to way too many false positives.
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It caused problems for the SCTV DVD releases as well, as they couldn't get permission to use some of the songs. I recall Rick Morranis doing a hilarious version of Stairway to Heaven which now only is available via Youtube as a crappy VHS sample.
Well that and the fact that the band found the sketch very funny and have on a number of occasions stated their approval of it.
How would this be applied to Eddie Murphy's Buckwheat Sings The Hits sketch? I mean, he kinda gets the words right, except in a heavily exaggerated accent.
So now copyright is the enemy of humor as well. There's not a lot to recommend IP protection any more.
So the reality is that, on top of being useless as an anti-spam mechanism, it now turns out to be even worse, and in fact vulnerable to malicious attacks. In other words, it's useless and uselesser.
I was heavily involved in a lot of the discussions surrounding SPF, DKIM and related "solutions" back in the early 2000s, and about the most that we could say about these "solutions" was that you could add a positive number to the score of an email in a weighting system if things checked out, but other than that, there was little to recommend them.
All it needed was more cowbell!
Indeed. This looks like a deliberate strategy not to repeat the Vista fiasco. I expect Windows 7 to be made unavailable through most channels very quickly after Windows 8 release.
Perhaps Broadcom believed that the driver specs were the only thing standing between us and the zombie apocalypse.
Oh give me a break. Apple is a for-profit company. That means it will use whatever tools are its disposal to disadvantage competition. This whole notion that Apple is trying to help the industry be more innovative, that somehow it is being pragmatic in its lawsuits based on very dubious patents that are very unlikely with withstand scrutiny (as is now happening), is total bunk. The very fact that Apple must certainly know how iffy these patents are belies your claim. The whole purpose is to slow adoption of close competitors. As I said, even when Apple loses due to appeal and/or because the patent is reviewed/rejected, they still win, because they have managed to slow or outright halt adoption of competing devices.
It's irrelevant. Legal fees are simply the entry fee to the arena. That's the ticket price. The goal of the game is to hamstring your competition. Apple wins even when it loses, because it takes six to nine months for a challenge to a patent to even make a ripple, meanwhile the courts, being forced through lack of meaningful expertise, pretty much give the complainant the power of the state to shut the border to competition until such time as the patent is invalidated.
The patent system has turned the courts into pimps who sell the state's trade powers like expensive whores.
And rather too late. Apple clearly knows that it's idiotic patents won't hold up in the long run. What counts is that a competitor was hamstrung for some period of time. The object of the game isn't to ban products; Apple knows perfectly well that sooner or later the bulk of its patents are going to be rejected. The point is to cripple competition just long enough to release its own products.